Thanks Church Wedding
The Protestant Church of Thanks was built by Fritz Bornemann from 1970 to 1972 on Weddingplatz in the Berlin district of Wedding in the Mitte district . The building ensemble consisting of a hall church and community center is a listed building .
history
The planning of a votive church on Weddingplatz went back to the unsuccessful assassination attempt on Wilhelm I in 1878 . The first Church of Thanksgiving with 1200 seats was built by August Orth in 1882–1884 as a subsidiary of the Elisabeth Church. With its high bell tower , also made massive in the helmet, it towered over all the surrounding houses. The consecration took place on January 3, 1884. The Dankes parish was formed in 1884 from parts of the Gnaden , Nazareth, and St. Pauls parishes. In World War IIthe monumental masonry, veneered with red clinker bricks and terracotta, was badly damaged. In 1949 the ruins were torn down.
The city authorities did not allow a reconstruction in the old dimensions in the same place. Therefore, the standardized cemetery chapel of Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof II built by Otto Bartning on Grenzstrasse between 1950 and 1951 was used by the Dankes parish as an emergency church until the new church was inaugurated on Weddingplatz. The Evangelical Churches of Dankes and Nazareth have now merged. The building has been used as a youth church since 2007 .
Building description
The facility consists of a hall church and the community rooms. The sacred building on a polygonal floor plan is a reinforced concrete - skeleton structure , the outer walls of which are made of exposed concrete . The building , with a glazed entrance hall between its components, is covered with pent roofs. The facade is staggered by staggered wall panels. Between them there are vertical ribbon windows that give the church space light from the side. In the gable with the attached metal cross facing the square, the bell chamber was integrated.
Bells
In the bell chamber hangs a bronze bell made of two bells, which were made in 1970 by Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock .
| Chime | Weight (kg) |
Diameter (cm) |
Height (cm) |
|---|---|---|---|
| f ' | 980 | 118 | 98 |
| as' | 550 | 98 | 79 |
literature
- August Orth: The Dankeskirche in Berlin. In: Zeitschrift für Bauwesen 1889, vol. 39, issue 10–12. Published by Ernst & Korn, Berlin 1890. Sp. 441–456.
- Franz Gottwald (Hrsg.): Heimatbuch vom Wedding . Kribe-Verlag, Berlin 1924, p. 192 .
- Wilhelm Lütkemann: German Churches - Volume 1 - The Protestant Churches in Berlin (Old City) . Verlag für Volksliteratur, Berlin 1926, p. 68 ff .
- Günther Kühne, Elisabeth Stephani: Evangelical churches in Berlin. Christlicher Zeitschriftenverlag (CZV), Berlin 1978, ISBN 3-7674-0158-4 , p. 284 ff.
- Klaus-Dieter Wille: The bells of Berlin (West). History and inventory. Gebr. Mann Verlag , Berlin 1987, ISBN 978-3-7861-1443-7 .
- 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. 83 ff., 369, figs. 181–183 .
- Christine Goetz and Matthias Hoffmann-Tauschwitz: Churches Berlin Potsdam. Wichern-Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 978-3-88981-140-0 .
- Christian Kopp: The Dankeskirche in Berlin-Wedding and its architects August Orth, Otto Bartning, Fritz Bornemann. Arte factum publishing house, Karlsruhe 2009, ISBN 978-3-938560-14-3 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Description of the previous building from 1884 . In: Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung , No. 1, January 5, 1884, p. 8, accessed on December 22, 2012
Coordinates: 52 ° 32 ′ 28.2 " N , 13 ° 22 ′ 10.6" E