Trinity Church (Berlin-Lankwitz)

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Trinity Church Lankwitz

Dreifaltigkeitskirche Lankwitz in January 2013

Basic data
Denomination evangelical
place Berlin ( Lankwitz ), Germany
Regional church EKBO
dedication Trinity
Building history
Client Evangelical parish Lankwitz
architect Ludwig von Tiedemann (design)
construction time October 22, 1903-1906
Building description
inauguration June 11, 1906
Architectural style Märkischer Brick Building (Berlin Brick Gothic )
Construction type Kreuzkirche
Coordinates 52 ° 26 '8.3 "  N , 13 ° 20' 46.5"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 26 '8.3 "  N , 13 ° 20' 46.5"  E
Template: Infobox church building / maintenance / function and title is missing EKBO
Church front with portals (2010)
inner space

The Protestant Trinity Church in Berlin district of Lankwitz is under monument protection standing church building of the local Trinity parish. Colloquially it is also called the Lankwitz Church and gives this name to the local bus stops .

history

The population density in the independent rural community of Lankwitz, which was then part of the Teltow district , had increased so strongly around 1900 that the capacities of the Lankwitz village church were no longer sufficient and the Evangelical Church Community of Lankwitz ( branched off from the parish of Schöneberg on October 1, 1894 ) therefore decided to build one new church building. After the parish had submitted a request for a building permit to the Royal Imperial Building Inspectorate on June 7, 1903, the building authorities granted permission on August 28, 1903 to start the foundation work. On October 22, 1903, the birthday of Empress Auguste Viktoria , construction began according to a design by the Privy Councilor Ludwig von Tiedemann with the assistance of the Royal Government Builder Robert Leibnitz . The official laying of the foundation stone did not take place until June 26, 1904, with the participation of high state church dignitaries. The construction management was the responsibility of the Royal Government Builder Dähne, the construction work was carried out by the master mason Aßmann / Assmann and the Lichterfeld master mason and carpenter Hermann Dorn, who u. a. today listed villas in Zehlendorf (Ahrenshooper lines 57 and 59) designed and built. The topping-out ceremony was celebrated on March 23, 1905 with 93 guests including the craftsmen. On June 11, 1906, the church was consecrated by General Superintendent Wilhelm Faber in the presence of Prince August-Wilhelm of Prussia as a representative of the Empress. The church then offered 900 seats (today around 600) for the rapidly growing number of parishioners at the time.

The 55 meter high church tower was rammed on February 6, 1919 by a courier aircraft from the Berlin-Weimar Air Mail during an emergency landing on Kaiser-Wilhelm-Straße due to an engine failure , which damaged the spire. The parish was compensated for this damage with 3,500 marks .

After the planning process for a parish hall had been delayed for years due to disagreements and contradicting ideas within the parish, the parish celebrated the inauguration of the large parish hall built next to the church on Easter Monday in 1932. Today the parish hall at Gallwitzallee 4 and 6 in the ensemble with the church is a listed building.

In an air raid in the night of August 23rd to 24th 1943, the Lankwitz bombing night , the Trinity Church and the parish hall were badly damaged and largely unusable. During the Second World War , which lasted until 1945 , no reconstruction was possible. After the end of the war, the usable parts of the parish hall served hundreds of people every day as a people's kitchen and auxiliary hospital . There was still a lack of money and materials to rebuild the buildings. On December 17, 1948, the Berlin Currency Commission granted the parish a loan of 9,000 German marks , which enabled the architect Schluckebier to be commissioned with the first reconstruction work. On January 26, 1949, the re-roofing of the church roof began in mild weather, but sudden winter storms damaged the freshly covered roof on February 10, 1949. Because of this incident, there was a dispute between the parish, construction management, construction companies and donors Blocking of the funds and the suspension of construction work. Between December 1949 and December 1950, the parish was able to partially repair the buildings with new loans. The church was not ready for use again until 1951; the spire was missing until 1964. On May 20, 1951, the church, which continued to suffer numerous war damage, was officially rededicated by General Superintendent Gerhard Jacobi .

The parish had a commercial building with a kindergarten and daycare center built on Kaiser-Wilhelm-Strasse , which was completed in 1960. Today the day care center with a playground in the yard offers space for 65 children.

On January 1, 1963, the large congregation of the Evangelical Parish of Lankwitz was divided into four independent parishes: the Trinity Parish (three parishes), the village parish (one parish), the Paul Schneider parish (three parishes) and the Dietrich Bonhoeffer parish (one parish). Since 2010 these four parishes have been publishing a joint parish newspaper ( church window with a circulation of 6450 copies) instead of the respective parish gazettes. In December 2012, the four Protestant parishes merged to form the Lankwitz parish ; the central coast is located in the parish hall of the Trinity Church.

Building

Ludwig von Tiedemann designed the church building in the style of 15th century brick buildings in the Brandenburg region (so-called Berlin brick Gothic ) . The church is on Paul-Schneider-Strasse (1906–1961: Lutherstrasse). The massive, cross-shaped building on a slight hill between Kaiser-Wilhelm-Straße and Gallwitzallee (until 1937: Grüner Weg) with the high and striking crossing tower in the form of an octagonal pyramid , which is also adorned by four smaller round towers, dominates the newer Lankwitz center.

Externally, the architect borrowed from historical buildings. Local material was preferred as building material, such as limestone from Rüdersdorf in the lower sections of the facade, and further up, Brandenburg bricks in monastery format . The roof is covered with tiles.

The dimensions of the church building are:

  • Length: 37.46 m
  • Width in the transept: 26.15 m
  • Room height : 12.25 m
  • Tower height: 55.35 m plus cross
Sacred Heart Church in Grodzisk Wielkopolski

At the same time, the Herz-Jesu-Kirche was built according to the same design by Ludwig von Tiedemann in what was then Grätz, today's Polish town of Grodzisk Wielkopolski .

Furnishing

Gustav Kuntzsch's institute for ecclesiastical art in Wernigerode was responsible for the neo-Gothic interior decoration of the Holy Trinity Church, which supplied the altar , the pulpit , a baptismal font , a lectern , candlesticks, the stalls and all the carvings. Due to the severe destruction of the church in World War II and the later renovations, no works by the Kuntzsch company have survived.

Between November 1961 and November 1962, the interior of the church was redesigned according to plans by Ludolf von Walthausen to compensate for the damage caused by the war. The dismantling of the original high altar was controversial . The font and pulpit were also replaced with new elements elsewhere. The windows of the chancel and niches were closed and the organ loft was enlarged. As a result of the renovations, the number of seats was reduced to around 500. Walthausen's plans also envisaged the restoration of the church tower in its original form. The topping-out ceremony for the top of the tower was celebrated on August 21, 1964.

Further redesigns followed in the 1980s and 1996. The simple diamond pattern glazing of the ten lower windows in the apse was replaced in autumn 2004 with artistically designed lead glazing based on designs by Alois Plum (motifs: festive days in the church year; execution: Derix Glasstudio ).

Bells

During the First World War , on June 4, 1917, the three bronze church bells (tuned in des - f - as ) were collected as a metal donation for the construction of cannons. After the end of the war, three new ones were acquired by the Bochum Association and inaugurated on August 31, 1919 in a solemn service.

Chime Weight
(kg)		 Diameter (
cm)		 Height
(cm)		 Inscription in the shoulder Inscription on the flank
cis' 2010 165 125 FROM DEEP EMERGENCY I SCREAM TO YOU. I GIVED ORE, I RECEIVED IRON.
f ' 1000 130 100 BUT I STAY WITH YOU, MY GOD! PSALM 73.28 + I GIVED ORE, I RECEIVED IRON.
a ' 0500 110 082 HOPE IN THE LORD + AND DO GOOD + PSALM 37.3. I GIVED ORE, I RECEIVED IRON.

organ

From 1906 to 1966 the Dreifaltigkeitskirche had an organ by Wilhelm Sauer , which was unusable and in need of repair after the bombing from 1943 to at least 1951. In March 1964 it was decided to buy a new organ because the old one no longer met the requirements. The inauguration of the new organ took place on June 5, 1966. The church building has had an organ from E. F. Walcker & Cie since 1966 . , which was extended by two to 34 registers in 1987 and has since been retrofitted with a passive MIDI connection. Your disposition can be looked up at Orgel Databank . The Walcker organ also has a wind reduction system , three manuals (the middle one with MIDI pick-up) and pedal , mechanical action , electrical register and tone pulpit as well as 2128 pipes .

literature

  • Wilhelm Lütkemann: German Churches - Volume 1 - The Protestant Churches in Berlin (Old City) . Verlag für Volksliteratur, Berlin 1926, p. 119 ff .
  • Günther Kühne, Elisabeth Stephani: Evangelical churches in Berlin. CZV-Verlag, Berlin 1978, ISBN 3-7674-0158-4 , pp. 225-227.
  • Paul Hiller: Chronicle Lankwitz (= preprint . Volume No. 5/6). Word & Image Specials, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-926578-19-X , pp. 98-101.
  • 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. 109, 384, Fig. 254 .
  • Gerhard Richter: Lankwitz Church Stories - a detailed chronology. In: Community newspaper of the Dreifaltigkeitskirchengemeinde , 2006 (PDF; 3.7 MB) .
  • Gisela Kraft: 100 years of the Lankwitz Church. In: Kiez-Kontakt , No. 2/2006 (online) (also published in the community newspaper : PDF; 2.0 MB ).
  • Wolfgang Friese: 100 years of the Evangelical Trinity Church in Lankwitz. In: Steglitzer Heimat - Bulletin of the Heimatverein Steglitz e. V. , Volume 51, No. 1/2006, pp. 16-20 (online) .
  • Klaus-Dieter Wille: The bells of Berlin (West). History and inventory. Berlin 1987.

Web links

Commons : Dreifaltigkeitskirche  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Gerhard Richter: Lankwitzer Kirchengeschichten - a detailed chronology. In: Community newspaper of the Dreifaltigkeitskirchengemeinde , 2006 (PDF). Retrieved May 5, 2019.
  2. ↑ Trinity Church. Ensemble: church & parish hall . Monument database of the State of Berlin, accessed on May 5, 2019.
  3. ↑ day care center of the Ev. Dreifaltigkeits-Kirchengemeinde Lankwitz . Website of the Evangelical Church District Steglitz, as of August 14, 2018, accessed on May 5, 2019.
  4. ↑ Parish Lankwitz. Dreifaltigkeitskirchengemeinde website, as of September 22, 2017, accessed on May 4, 2019.
  5. ↑ Marcus Cante: Berlin and its buildings . Part VI: Sacred buildings . Published by the Architects and Engineers Association in Berlin . Ernst & Sohn, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-433-01016-1 , p. 109.
  6. ↑ a b story . Dreifaltigkeitskirchengemeinde website, as of September 15, 2017, accessed on May 4, 2019.
  7. ^ Soproni Múzeum, Sopron ( Hungary ), Inventory No. P. 2425 E 251 ( Storno Könyvtár): Gustav Kuntzsch folder , not paged .
  8. ^ Organ database