Trinity Church (Berlin-Friedrichshain)
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The Roman Catholic Trinity Church at Böcklinstrasse 7/8 in the Berlin district of Friedrichshain in the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg district is a listed building . The church building and parsonage integrated into the closed perimeter block development were built in 1913–1915 according to plans by Wilhelm J. Frydag (different spelling Freydag ) in the architectural style of the beginning modern with reminiscences of the neo-Romanesque .
history
In 1889 the independent rural community Boxhagen-Rummelsburg was formed with over 10,000 inhabitants. In the years that followed, the industrial revolution led to an extensive population increase with corresponding housing construction . From 1912 the rural community came to the city of Lichtenberg , which in 1920 became part of Greater Berlin . After 1938 the administrative districts were redesigned and so the area of the former rural community came to parts of Friedrichshain and Rummelsburg in the Lichtenberg district .
Church history
The parish church of St. Mauritius was inaugurated in 1892 for the Catholic residents of Boxhagen-Rummelsburg, the community of Lichtenberg and the Friedrichsberg colony (today: Frankfurter Allee Süd ) .
Soon, however, a second church was needed for the Catholic community, which had grown to 20,000 people. The parish acquired two parcels on which originally apartment houses of private builders were to be built. The classification of Catholic churches in the street house fronts was ordered by Empress Auguste Viktoria , known as "Kirchenjuste" . Because only Protestant church buildings received state financial support and greater freedom of design. The church management was able to commission the architect Frydag from Grunewald , at that time a villa colony southwest of Berlin, with the planning . His designs took into account all of the above restrictions and offered the most cost-effective maintenance of the structure. It was therefore not given a separate parsonage, but the pastor's apartment and the rooms for the community administration were relocated to a tenement house right next to the church. The tenement house, also built by the parish on the courtyard , secured income for the church treasury.
The entire construction management was in the hands of the Lichtenberg master mason Karl Eckhard. The new church building was inaugurated on June 27, 1915 during the First World War .
The first existing connection to St. Mauritius was broken in 1922, the Trinity Congregation became independent.
In 1923 the Steinmeyer company installed an organ in the church . It was not until 1924 that the three bells were raised in the tower.
During the Second World War , on February 26, 1945, the church building suffered considerable damage from a bomb hit. After the end of the war, the reconstruction began under the direction of the architect Josef Zeh and with the active help of committed community members. The previous ceiling paintings were not reapplied, and the front of the building was simplified. On September 5, 1948, a festive service marked the rededication. The Dreifaltigkeitskirche is the first church in Berlin to be rebuilt after the war.
The interior had to be largely renovated, but the stations of the cross from 1918 have been preserved.
As a result of the Second Vatican Council , a few more changes were made inside in 1968.
Benefiting from German reunification , the interior of the church was extensively renovated in 1995, warmer colors were now chosen for the walls and the Way of the Cross was carefully restored to its original state.
In 2003 the Catholic Trinity Congregation (again) merged with the Congregation of St. Mauritius and they have since formed the new Mauritius Congregation. It has around 7,000 members.
Building description
architecture
The churches facade with the integrated into the streetscape 32 meter high tower was initially competing with the opposing Community School are designed with large stone blocks. Sourcing and transportation in 1914 when Germany was in World War I were expensive and difficult to accomplish. So it was limited to a basement made of natural stone masonry . The rest of the facade was given a structural plaster. The entire facade is reminiscent of Romanesque western works . The portal is formed from a niche-like round arch over three storey heights. In the area of the central axis of the façade, there are three arched arcades in this wall niche , above three arched elongated church windows . Three two-part window groups are arranged above a frieze .
The three-axis tower, wedged into the row of tenement houses, carries the slightly recessed rectangular bell- shaped storey . This bell tower is divided by a cornice , in the upper part there are three sound openings on the long sides and two on the narrow sides. It is flanked by short octagonal turrets that grow out of the two gables of the outer axes. All three parts of the tower are closed with tent roofs .
The single-nave hall church is a plastered masonry building with a pent roof and can only be seen from the courtyard. Its structure forms a right side wing in the courtyard. The base is not quite rectangular, the wall in the courtyard, which runs parallel to the street side, forms a slope. On average, the nave is around 33 meters long and around 14 meters wide.
Interior
The interior of the church, only complete around ten years after the inauguration of the house of God, consists of a light wall pillar hall with side passages. It has a capacity of 300 seats. In 1968 the interior of the church was redesigned and partially refurbished based on designs by Alfons Bittner: The apse was given the Holy Trinity mosaic and thus refers to the community name. Bittner also created a new lectern and a modern tabernacle stele .
The statues of Mary and Joseph are by Hildegard Hendrichs . In 1974 the granite altar was erected.
The organ and bells are preserved.
literature
- Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin: Berlin and its buildings. Part VI. Sacred buildings. Berlin 1997.
- Christine Goetz and Matthias Hoffmann-Tauschwitz: Churches Berlin Potsdam. Berlin 2003.
- Hans-Jürgen Rach: The villages in Berlin. Berlin 1990.
Web links
- Entry in the Berlin State Monument List with further information
- Catholic parish of St. Mauritius
- Mass celebration in the Trinity Church with views from the interior during the COVID-19 pandemic on White Sunday 2020
- Tracking shot through the nave, starting at the tabernacle
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Institute for Monument Preservation (Ed.): The architectural and art monuments of the GDR. Capital Berlin-I . Henschelverlag, Berlin 1984, p. 460/461 .
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i Imposing hidden things. Dreifaltigkeitskirche ( Memento of the original from March 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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. on friedrichshain-magazin.de; Retrieved February 4, 2012
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 '23.4 " N , 13 ° 27' 58.7" E