Bethlehem Church Square
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 Bethlehem Church Square in 2010 with the Philip Johnson House , paving mosaic and the Houseball sculpture ; Mauerstrasse on the right |
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| Basic data | |
| place | Berlin |
| District | center |
| Created | 20th century |
| Confluent streets | Mauerstrasse, Krausenstrasse |
| use | |
| User groups | pedestrian |
| Space design | 1999 |
| Technical specifications | |
| Square area | 1500 m² |
The Bethlehem church square is a 1,500 square meter main square in the Berlin district of Mitte of the district of the same within the historic district of Frederick city . He has had his name since 1999.
location
The Bethlehemkirchplatz is an almost triangular square and is delimited in the north by Krausenstrasse and in the west by Mauerstrasse .
Explanation of the name
On January 1, 1999, the square above the foundation walls of the Bethlehem Church was named Bethlehemkirchplatz. In contrast to the Bethlehem Church, the square is written without an "s" in the middle.
history
The small square has existed since 1963, when the ruins of the Bethlehem Church, which was destroyed in World War II in 1943, were blown up and the square was leveled. In the 1980s, the complex of the Bulgarian Embassy was built on the northern edge of the square with residential buildings on Krausenstrasse. In 1998, the American Business Center Quartier 200 , designed by Philip Johnson, was completed to the east , the main facade of which faces Friedrichstrasse .
A mosaic laid in the plastering in 1999 shows the floor plan and the place where the church originally stood. To the south of it is the sculpture Houseball by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen . It symbolizes a bundle of household items . There wasn't much that the refugees from Bohemia could take with them.
In 2012, the Spanish concept artist Juan Garaizabal built a replica of the church in a true-to-scale outline as a light installation as part of his international project Memorias Urbanas (city memories) with the steel sculpture Memoria Urbana Berlin . It rests on 21 steel columns and eight round arches, which were made from 120 mm × 120 mm thick steel square tubes and fixed in steel cubes on the floor. The work of art is approx. 30 meters high, weighs approx. 60 tons and is illuminated in color by approx. 400 meters of LED tubes. After the inauguration of the installation at the original site on the floor plan mosaic on June 26, 2012, it should only be visible until September 30 of the same year. The accompanying exhibition Memoria Urbana. The reconstruction of the Bethlehem Church took place from June 27 to August 19, 2012 not far from the Museum for Communication . After the service life of the installation was initially only extended until November 2013, the district council meeting decided in 2014, following the recommendation of a broad group of supporters, that the installation could be permanent.
literature
- Udo Wißwede: The Bohemian or Bethlehem Church in Berlin . In: Journal of Construction . Vol. 65 (1915), No. 1, urn : nbn: de: kobv: 109-opus-91994 , pp. 25-32. (With additional illustrations on sheet 7 in the atlas of the year 1915, urn : nbn: de: kobv: 109-opus-92068 .)
Web links
- Bethlehem Church Square. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
- Entry in the Berlin State Monument List on the foundations of the Bethlehem Church
- Memorias Urbanas Official Homepage
- Pictures to the work of art
- Sketches and construction for the artwork (PDF; 10.6 MB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bethlehem Church Square. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
- ↑ Dorothee Dubrau: Architekturführer Berlin-Mitte , Volume 1, Berlin 2009, ( ISBN 978-3-938666-07-4 ), p. 294
- ↑ Juan Garaizabal Memorias Urbanes Berlin (PDF; 11.1 MB) June 1, 2012. Archived from the original on June 27, 2012. Retrieved on June 27, 2012.
- ↑ Community gazette of the Evangelical Reformed Bethlehem Community. ( Memento of the original from January 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ; PDF; 1.1 MB) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ District disputes with the Senate over a sculpture of the Bethlehem Church. In: Berliner Morgenpost , November 19, 2013, accessed on June 29, 2014.
- ↑ berlinstory.de/blog
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 33 ″ N , 13 ° 23 ′ 19.6 ″ E