Brother Klaus Church (Berlin)
The Catholic Church Brother Klaus is in Britz in the Berlin district of Neukölln . Church patron is Niklaus von Flüe .
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history
The Brother Klaus community was separated from its mother community, the Holy Guardian Angel. On May 25, 1960, the first Brother Klaus Church was consecrated to the Swiss peacemaker Niklaus von Flüe , who was canonized in 1947 . This church had to be demolished in 1987 because construction defects could no longer be remedied and it threatened to collapse. The new building was consecrated on December 2, 1989. On November 1st, 2003 the congregations of Brother Klaus and St. Guardian Angel were merged. Until October 2, 2011, the Holy Guardian Angel was the second place of worship. Since then, all services have only been celebrated in the Brother Klaus Church and all activities have been moved from the Guardian Angel Church and the community center to the area of the Brother Klaus community.
Building description
The church hall designed Jürgen Boker following the Upper Ranft Chapel in Flüeli-Ranft . The central building , which is symmetrical to the longitudinal axis , has a hexagonal floor plan , apart from the extensions next to the oversized three-part wooden portal . To his left is a hallway and to the right, following the Hermitage of Brother Klaus, a hermitage with the wooden statue of the saint by Paul Brandenburg . The roof ridge of the deep gable roof rises towards the altar , the eaves sloping down towards it. The two extensions are located under the roof of the nave . A roof turret is located where the gable roof meets the half- tent roof above the choir . A molded bell from Flüeli hangs in it . The walls built in the Märkischer Verband are visible inside and out. The floor rises slightly towards the dais . Under the wooden ceiling which are rafters of the roof structure visible. The slightly inwardly curved roof membrane consists of red beaver tails . Behind the altar there is a large window, above the altar the roof opens to a large, almost trapezoidal window. The baptismal font by Schaffarzyk and the Fourteen Stations of the Cross by Rudolf Heltzel come from the old church. The organ , built by Klaus Corbach in 1991, has three manuals , a pedal and 22 stops . Your disposition can be viewed here.
literature
- Christine Goetz and Matthias Hoffmann-Tauschwitz: Churches Berlin Potsdam. Berlin 2003.
- Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin: Berlin and its buildings. Part VI. Sacred buildings. Berlin 1997.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 26 '24.2 " N , 13 ° 26' 53" E