Ernst-Moritz-Arndt community center
The Ernst-Moritz-Arndt community home (also popularly known as the onion dome church ) is located at Rosestrasse 42 in the Berlin district of Altglienicke , Falkenberg, in the Treptow-Köpenick district .
The community home, which also serves as a Protestant church, was named after Ernst Moritz Arndt , a German poet, revolutionary and member of the Frankfurt National Assembly in 1848, who also wrote numerous hymns that were included in the Protestant hymnal . The building was built in 1937 based on a design by the architect Otto Risse .
history
With the geographical expansion of Altglienicke in the direction of Falkenberg, there was a certain relocation of parts of the community in this direction before the First World War , so that in addition to the parish church in the village center as the main church, the desire for a closer preaching site for the new residential areas arose.
From 1912, church services were held every two weeks in the Altglienicke water tower on Schirnerstrasse.
In the mid-1930s, a building plot was found to enable the second preaching site to be built. Otto Risse was won as the architect, who at the same time realized the Paul-Gerhardt-Gemeindeheim in neighboring Bohnsdorf .
On December 19, 1937, on the 4th Advent, the “Ernst Moritz Arndt” community center in Rosestrasse was inaugurated after just eight months of construction.
The German Christians who were predominant in the community at that time enforced the name Arndt because they saw in him the patriot and advocate of ethnic ideas, while others saw him as a devout Christian and author of evangelical hymns.
The building consists of a large room for church services etc. as well as a small room for smaller gatherings. The church tower with an onion-shaped dome is located above the entrance area. In the rear part of the main building, the side wing, which served as an apartment (originally for the parish priest), goes off at right angles.
After the Second World War, the community center was temporarily used by the Soviet occupying forces for their purposes. After extensive renovation work, the Protestant community was able to take possession of the building again in 1951. A bell has been ringing again since 1951 , after the two originally existing bells were melted down during the Second World War.
In 1964 a small organ from the Potsdam organ building company Schuke was installed .
In the turn of time 1989/1990 the Municipal Home Served as pastor Klaus-Dieter Lydike as a meeting of the Round Table . From this later the monthly "discussion group", which took place until his death in 2003, with diverse topics also beyond religion on culture, politics and history, in which numerous celebrities acted as interlocutors (among others Ignatz Bubis , Regine Hildebrandt , Joachim Gauck , Rainer Eppelmann , Hans-Peter von Kirchbach ).
The church, which is also used for other community events, offers space for 120 to 150 visitors.
Coordinates: 52 ° 24 ′ 37.1 ″ N , 13 ° 33 ′ 33.4 ″ E