Berger Church (Düsseldorf)
The Berger Church is a Protestant church from the 17th century in the old town of Düsseldorf . It has been part of Diakonie Düsseldorf since 2003 .
history
The Berger Church was the first church that the Lutheran Church built in Düsseldorf. The construction began in 1683 and completed in 1687 and was consecrated on August 31, 1687. The Berger Church was laid out as a " court church ", that is, banished to a backyard, since Lutherans were only tolerated in re-Catholicized Düsseldorf at the time. It borders Wallstrasse on the side . After the completion of the Johanneskirche it was no longer the center of parish life, but was only used on special occasions. In 1943, the Berger Church was largely destroyed by the effects of the war. The church, which was rebuilt in the 1960s and consecrated in 1966, has been at the disposal of the Diakonie since 2003 .
architecture
The Berger Church, a hall church , was built with exposed brick masonry made of red brick. Today's exterior view corresponds to the appearance of the time it was built. It shows an extremely simple building in the late forms of the German Renaissance . The furnishings, on the other hand, were redesigned in the baroque era .
Since 2003 the Frankfurt artist Tobias Rehberger has redesigned the interior. A white acrylic glass altar is electronically connected to the Protestant Johanneskirche and the Catholic Church of St. Lambertus . Noises in these churches are recorded by sensors and cause the altar to shine brighter with lamps. A red-orange ball of light hangs above the altar. Rehberger also created wall hangings with geometric patterns and graded colors for the side walls.
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On the outside of the church, the Psychosocial Center for Refugees in Düsseldorf set up a so-called place of mourning for people who cannot go to the graves of their relatives, for immigrants and refugees , for people of all religions and cultures. The design comes from the Düsseldorf artist Anne Mommertz. Curved paths paved with natural stone swing into a spiral whose slightly recessed center forms a water bowl. Tall bamboo plants should provide privacy and noise protection. Two panels translate the term place of mourning into about thirty languages. The inauguration took place in November 2011 on the Sunday of the Dead.
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literature
- Theo Lücker: Stones speak. Small signpost through Düsseldorf's old town . Verlag T. Ewers, Düsseldorf 1977, p. 100 [No. 51 Small Church on Berger Strasse].
Web links
- Entry in the monument list of the state capital Düsseldorf at the Institute for Monument Protection and Preservation
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.diakonie-duesseldorf.de/Diakoniekirche-Bergerkirche.190.0.html
- ↑ Michael Brockerhoff: The old Berger Church shines with a modern interior . Article dated April 14, 2013, accessed April 14, 2013
- ↑ http://www.trauerort-duesseldorf.de/
Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 27.8 " N , 6 ° 46 ′ 23.8" E