Bethanienkirche (Berlin-Weißensee)
| Bethanienkirche | |
|---|---|
 Church tower seen from the south |
|
| Construction year: | 1900-1902 |
| Inauguration: | 1902 |
| Architect : |
Ludwig von Tiedemann , Robert Leibnitz |
| Style elements : |
Neo-Gothic , brick unplastered |
| Client: | Protestant community Berlin |
| Tower height: |
65 m |
| Location: | 52 ° 33 '10 " N , 13 ° 26' 57" E |
| Address: |
Mirbachplatz Berlin-Weißensee Berlin , Germany |
| Purpose: | Protestant church service |
| Local community: | Evangelical Church Community of Bethanien |
The Bethanienkirche standing on Mirbachplatz in Berlin-Weißensee was built between 1900 and 1902 because of the considerable increase in the number of inhabitants in Neu-Weißensee. After the major war damage to the church building, the church tower was essentially preserved, but church use had to be abandoned.
history
The church, named after Bethanien , was built according to plans by the architect and Privy Councilor Ludwig von Tiedemann and Robert Leibnitz in neo-Gothic style and opened in 1902 in the presence of Kaiser Wilhelm II and Empress Auguste Victoria . In honor of the Empress, one of the three church bells was given the name "Auguste Victoria".
The carved altar and pulpit were created by the Gustav Kuntzsch company from Wernigerode , and the stone pulpit base, master mason Otto Plöger, Berlin. Because of its height, the altar was given to the Church of Faith (Berlin-Lichtenberg) in 1905 and erected there. The Bethanienkirche received a new altar with a lower reredos, taking into account the middle choir window . The original altar is preserved in the former church of the faith (since 2005 St. Anthony and St. Shenouda Church ).
During the Second World War , the building was almost completely destroyed, only the damaged 65-meter-high tower with the original bells , which rose in the west of the church over a cross-shaped floor plan with arms of almost the same length, was preserved.
At the end of 2007, the Bethanienturm was sold to a Berlin architect and project developer for the purpose of re-use plans that had not yet been implemented (as of 2015).
Location and building description
The Mirbachplatz, named after the chief steward Ernst Freiherr von Mirbach , who did a lot to finance the church building, is the intersection of the Pistoriusstraße with the Schönstraße , the Gäblerstraße , the Behaimstraße and the Max-Steinke-Straße . The church could thus be seen from all the roads leading to it.
The dominant building was and is the mighty church tower with a square floor plan, which is clad with sand-lime brick well above the roof of the main house . The entrance area of the church is attached to it and the portal is designed as a pointed arch . The brick bell storey rises above the tower shaft and is formed by slender arched sound openings with eyelashes above. A four-sided pillar gable is arranged on the bell storey, on which a longitudinal gable roof supports a copper-plated roof turret.
A three-part chime made of cast steel bells, which had been cast by the Bochum Association at the end of the 1890s, was installed in the tower. An inventory list of the foundry contains the following information: the ensemble of bells with clapper, bearing, axes and chime lever cost 7,891 marks to manufacture .
| size | Chime | Weight (kg) | lower diameter (mm) |
Height (mm) | inscription |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| greatest | a | 3211.5 | 1988 | 1750 | unknown |
| middle | cis | 1621 | 1574 | 1380 | Auguste Victoria |
| smallest | e | 1109 | 1387 | 1225 | unknown |
The bell has been preserved (see above).
The associated town hall Bethany is south-east of the square at the corner of Max-Steinke-Straße / Pistoriusstraße. The complex, built in 1908 in the Heimat style, was hardly damaged during the war and is still used for church purposes. The portal, richly decorated with sculptures in Romanesque forms, is striking .
literature
- Günther Kühne, Elisabeth Stephani: Evangelical churches in Berlin. Christlicher Zeitschriftenverlag (CZV), Berlin 1978, ISBN 3-7674-0158-4 , p. 459.
- Ernst Badstübner , Sibylle Badstübner-Gröger: Churches in Berlin - From St. Nikolai to the community center "Am Fennpfuhl" with photos by Martin Dettloff. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt , Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-374-00171-8 , p. 219 (ill. P. 152).
- Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin (ed.): Berlin and its buildings , part VI, sacred buildings . Verlag Ernst & Sohn, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-433-01016-1 , p. 106, 382, figs. 245–246 .
Web links
- Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
- Evangelical Church Community Berlin-Weißensee
- Christian Bormann: Detailed shots of the Bethanienturm on www.youtube.de; 2016. (4:15 minutes)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Angela Beeskow: The furnishings in the churches of the Berlin Church Building Association (1890-1904). With a contribution to the iconography of Protestantism . Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 978-3-7861-1765-0 , pp. 168, 240, 253, 257, 337 f. , 425.
- ↑ The Bethanientrum. Retrieved August 9, 2019 .
- ^ A b Institute for Monument Preservation (Ed.): The architectural and art monuments of the GDR. Capital Berlin-II . Henschelverlag, Berlin 1984, p. 121 .
- ↑ Compilation of the bells delivered to Berlin and the surrounding area ; Bochum Association, around 1900. In the archive of the Köpenick Church of St. Josef, viewed on August 6, 2019.