Christ the King (Berlin)
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| address | Berlin-Adlershof, Nipkowstrasse 17-19 |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| local community | Christ King |
| Current usage | Parish church |
| building | |
| start of building | 1928 |
| inauguration | 1929 |
| architect | Carl Kühn |
| Renewals | |
| style | Brick expressionism |
| Dimensions | Tower: rectangular base (approx. 5 m × 11 m) nave: length: 26 m (with apse), width: 20 m |
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The Roman Catholic , listed church Christ the King , which forms a building complex with the rectory , is located at Nipkowstrasse 17-19 in the Berlin district of Adlershof in the Treptow-Köpenick district . It was built in 1928/1929 based on a design by the architect Carl Kühn in the style of brick expressionism .
history
After the construction of the Adlershof station on the Berlin-Görlitzer Railway and the Teltow Canal , large-scale industrialization took place in the south of Adlershof at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries . As a result, the number of residents who settled in the north rose sharply, and thus also the number of Catholics who had to go to the Church of St. Josef in Köpenick for Holy Mass . In 1913, founded a church building association , which a church was planning directly in Adlershof and was able to buy land. The First World War and the subsequent inflation initially destroyed all building plans and devalued the donations that had already been made. From 1921 the auditorium was used as a school for church services.
On December 1, 1927, the Curate Christ the King was established; With the choice of patronage , the idea of the kingship of Christ was taken up, which since 1925 has been the subject of a separate feast in the Catholic church year, the feast of Christ the King . The Bonifatiuswerk finally contributed financially to the construction of a church, the foundation stone of which was laid in 1928, the parish celebrated its consecration in 1929. The sacred building is one of the earliest churches with a Christian-King patronage. On November 4, 1939, the curate was elevated to a parish . The church interior was largely spared from destruction during the Second World War , so that it could temporarily also be used for Protestant services. On June 30, 2004, the parishes of Maria Hilf in Altglienicke and St. Laurentius in Bohnsdorf merged with Christ the King; they are represented in the parish council and the parish administrative council. The St. Hedwigs-Kapelle Bohnsdorf with the St. Laurentius parish hall in the Grünau / Bohnsdorf catchment area also belongs to the Christ König parish with a total of 2,650 parishioners .
On January 1, 2020, the Berlin Catholic parishes in the Treptow-Köpenick district of St. Josef , St. Antonius and Christ the King will merge to form the St. Josef parish .
Building description
The Christ the King Church, although one of the churches of the late 1920s, clearly shows medieval features on the outside , Carl Kühn had turned to the fortified church style . In front of the basilica nave he placed a 27 m high tower in the shape of a late Romanesque westwork . In the kind of large inner-city churches of the tower on either side ever a recessed section of the building as municipal and residential building construction, left home was destroyed in the Second World War and never rebuilt.
The tower, covered with a hipped roof , has a multi-layer, multi-level structure. The two lower floors facing the street appear as almost closed, solid masonry , apart from four small windows and the parabolic portal , which is framed in a star shape with different fired bricks . From the second floor onwards, the wall is enlivened by blind pilaster strips with an expressionist profile . Between the pilaster strips there are five windows on the third floor and three windows on the fourth floor, all eight made in 1943 but not installed until 1946. Community and living rooms are located on this floor. Above this there is another floor drawn in to the side. The areas between the pilaster strips are lightly plastered . The next floor, drawn in length and width, houses the bell chamber . Inside is a ring made of three bells that were consecrated in June 1929 . A high, pilaster-like frieze adorns the facade above their sound openings and below the eaves . The upper aisles of the nave, the windows in the side aisles and the strongly recessed choir with a semicircular apse emphasize the Romanesque character of the architectural style.
The central nave has a gable roof and a flat ceiling inside . There are barrel vaults under the pent roofs of the aisles .
Furnishing
Against the background of internal clinker-apse terracotta - sculptures attached, which in 1930 by Maximilian Habersetzer designed and made by Villeroy & Boch have been executed. The blessing Jesus Christ stands in the midst of the twelve apostles , who are arranged in pairs in a descending line to his side.
For the eight windows of the central nave Egbert Lammers created glass paintings in 1946 with depictions from the Old and New Testaments , including a depiction of The Prophet Isaiah's vision of the Prince of Peace .
After the liturgical reform of the Second Vatican Council , the high altar was removed from the wall of the apse in 1970 . The tabernacle is on a stele there . The new people's altar is now in the middle of the sanctuary.
An organ is installed in the gallery , which is used for public concerts in addition to purely church events. It is a work from the Rieger organ building company from Jägerndorf , Austrian Silesia; Work number Opus 2615, built in 1933. The instrument was restored in 2007 by the Eberswalde organ building company Sander & Mähnert . A church development association founded in the 1990s supports the preservation of the church building and the work of the congregation.
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Band Berlin. Munich / Berlin 2006.
- 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.
- Institute for Monument Preservation: The architectural and art monuments in the GDR - capital Berlin II. Berlin 1987.
Web links
- Entry in the Berlin State Monument List with further information
- Parish of Christ the King
- Organ description
Individual evidence
- ↑ Roughly measured building dimensions with the tool from Google Earth ; August 2019.
- ^ Pastoral area Treptow-Köpenick. Retrieved August 14, 2019 .
- ↑ Parish letter of the St. Josef Church Köpenick, No. 66, July / August 2019, p. 3.
- ↑ a b Christ the King. Parish letter September 2016, Catholic parish Berlin-Adlershof, -Altglienicke, -Grünau / Bohnsdorf.
- ↑ Parish Letter, Christ the King, July / August 2019. Retrieved on August 14, 2019 .
- ^ Organ landscape Berlin / Adlershof, Christ the King. Retrieved August 14, 2019 (The source also gives the organ disposition.).
Coordinates: 52 ° 26 '13.3 " N , 13 ° 32' 58.7" E