Trinity Church (Berlin-Steglitz)
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The Dreieinigkeitskirche ( ) of the Evangelical Lutheran St. Mary's Congregation in the Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church is located at Südendstraße 19-21 in today's Berlin district of Steglitz in the Steglitz-Zehlendorf district . The church building , inaugurated on February 26, 1928 , was built according to plans by the architect Otto Rudolf Salvisberg in the New Objectivity architectural style.
history
→ Prehistory see: Evangelical Lutheran Free Church
The community has grown significantly since the First World War . She held her services in the Paul Gerhardt Church in Schöneberg and in 1924 was divided into three independent parishes of the Evangelical Lutheran Free Church, one of which was the "Trinity Parish Berlin-South". The Trinity Church was built for them. In the Second World War , the church burned down after being hit by bombs . Afterwards the services were celebrated first in a barrack as an emergency church and later in the community room. The church was consecrated again after its reconstruction in 1953.
In 1947 the Evangelical Lutheran Immanuel congregation in Berlin joined the Trinity congregation. The latter gave up its independence in November 2005 and joined the St. Marien parish in Zehlendorf, with which she had already worked for several years. The Trinity Church building will, however, be preserved as a place of worship. From January 1st, 2006 the pastor of the St. Mary parish took care of the Trinity parish. Due to the growth of the St. Marien parish through work with migrants since 2010, the St. Marien parish has two pastors, one of whom is responsible for the work with migrants mainly in the building of the Trinity Church. In the Dreieinigkeitskirche Iranian and Afghan asylum seekers who are obliged to leave the country are granted church asylum .
Since May 10, 2015 it has been an independent municipality again.
Building description
In view of the large expressionist new buildings of his time, it was not easy for the architect to design a church in the sober forms of modernism. The masonry is plastered, only the window sills and the eaves are made of shell limestone - artificial stone . The rectangular hall church with a length of 26 and a width of 13 m has 350 seats. Despite the roof overhang and the downpipes, the cubic two-storey structure looks like a reinforced concrete structure .
The roof tower grows flush with the facade in the west from the relatively flat hipped roof with which the nave is covered. A three-part portal under the three window slits of the tower leads into the interior of the church. The area on the portal side has been filled up. The embankment on Südendstrasse is overcome via a two - flight flight of stairs . From there another two-flight flight of stairs leads to the portal of the church room on the upper floor . The community rooms are located on the ground floor . It is plastered a little lighter than the upper floor. The five windows and the entrance door below correspond to the six windows on both long walls of the church room.
The church room has lightly plastered walls, the flooring is made of pine wood, the wooden beam ceiling is dark.
See also
literature
- Christine Goetz , Matthias Hoffmann-Tauschwitz: Churches Berlin Potsdam. Berlin 2003.
- Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin: Berlin and its buildings. Part VI. Sacred buildings. Berlin 1997.
Web links
Coordinates: 52 ° 27 ′ 20.8 " N , 13 ° 19 ′ 55.2" E
Individual evidence
- ↑ “Then I wouldn't be a good Christian.” In: Die Welt , February 14, 2015