Friedenskirche (Charlottenburg)

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The Friedenskirche in the Berlin district of Charlottenburg is the community center of an Evangelical Free Church community ( Baptists ). Since its completion it has served as a house of prayer for various faiths, is a listed building and is currently used as a parish church.

Building history

Side view of the Friedenskirche from Richard-Wagner-Strasse
The church behind it cannot be seen from the street: The front building of the Friedenskirche

Between 1897 and 1898, today's Friedenskirche was built as the Catholic-Apostolic Eben-Ezer Chapel according to a design by the architect Carl Moritz in the brick Gothic style . From 1908 to 1918 it was used as a synagogue , then as a Pentecostal church .

The Baptist congregation, which had existed since 1898, acquired the church and its land in 1920 and had it redesigned according to their ideas. The church was rededicated on October 2, 1921 . After severe damage towards the end of the Second World War in 1944, the church was rebuilt from 1946 to 1949. In the following decades, numerous renovations were carried out in order to meet the respective requirements of community life.

In addition to the church building, a residential building from the same year of construction (1898) is also part of the building stock on the property. Essential measures for the renovation of the residential building and a redesign of the outdoor facilities were carried out in 2002.

Today about 130 members belong to the parish of the Friedenskirche.

location

The church is located at Bismarckstraße 40 on the B5 , the east-west axis through Berlin , behind a residential building in a backyard, which is why it is also known as the backyard church . The size of the parish property is around 50 m × 20 m. The east side of the church can be seen through a vacant lot at Richard-Wagner-Strasse 6, its western front through the backyards of the properties Wilmersdorfer Strasse 142 and 143/144.

Furnishing

Sermon dream

There is no altar in a Baptist church, the pastor conducts his services in a civil suit and often speaks to the parishioners in free speech. A wooden podium is built into the chancel, which is divided into two levels. The lower level is increased by one level, the upper level by three levels. The polygonal altar wall in the apse is designed with a three-part, 80 m² modern painting that was created by the former pastor and artist Helmut Kissel in 2009. In the middle field, it shows how Jesus , analogous to the entry into Jerusalem, rides a donkey through the Brandenburg Gate and shakes it. The central representation is flanked by characteristic motifs of Berlin's inner city. In front of the painting, the white tiled baptistery is let into the stage structure, which can be locked. It is transversely rectangular and is entered from the front via a few steps and exited to the rear via a staircase that is covered by a door. All items of equipment such as the large wooden cross, the simple desk and the white chairs can be moved so that the space can be used in many ways.

As part of the liturgy, there is a coffee drink together, where those present can share their everyday problems.

Gallery

The gallery, which was built in for female parishioners, dates from the time when the synagogue was used. It rests on square wooden posts and has a white framed parapet with coffered panels. The organ is on top of it.

organ

The organ was built in 1982 by the organ building company Späth Nachf . The instrument has 16 stops on two manuals and a pedal . The playing and stop actions are mechanical.

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Principal 8th'
2. Coupling flute 8th'
3. octave 4 ′
4th Covered 4 ′
5. Forest flute 2 ′
Principal (from No. 7) 2 ′
6th mixture 2 ′
Fifth (from No. 9) 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
7th Sesquialter II 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
II Swell C – g 3
8th. Salicional 8th'
9. Reed flute 8th'
Covered (= No. 4) 4 ′
10. Flageolet 2 ′
11. Sifflet 1'
12. oboe 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
13. Sub bass 16 ′
14th Open bass 08th'
Octave (from no.19) 04 ′
15th Piffaro II 04 ′ + 2 ′
16. bassoon 16 ′

Bells

From the pre-war bell that was cast in 1932, a bell has been preserved that came to the Evangelical Church in Treschklingen at the beginning of the 1950s .

literature

  • Evangelical Free Church Community Berlin-Charlottenburg (Ed.): Church in the courtyard - community for people. 100 years of illustrated history of the Evangelical Free Church in Berlin-Charlottenburg. 1898 to 1998 , Berlin 1998
  • Christine Goetz , Matthias Hoffmann-Tauschwitz: Churches Berlin Potsdam , Berlin 2003.

Web links

Commons : Friedenskirche (Charlottenburg)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ picture of the reconstruction
  2. ↑ Planning documents of the church building
  3. ^ History of the Friedenskirche, u. a. with building history data
  4. ↑ Image and description of the mural in the Friedenskirche
  5. ^ A b Arno Widmann: The coffee break is part of the liturgy. First Catholic apostolic, then Jewish and now Baptist clergy taught in the Charlottenburg Peace Church. In: Berliner Zeitung of August 9, 2011, p. 16.
  6. ↑ To the praise of God ... information about the organ. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 15, 2015 ; accessed on June 1, 2019 .
  7. ^ Norbert Jung: Immaculata - A contribution to the history of bells in Bad Rappenau , in connection with the Bad Rappenau town archive, ed. by Norbert Jung, Heilbronn 2010, pp. 64–71.
  8. ↑ Chronicle ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 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. , read on May 6, 2009 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.die-friedenskirche.de

Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 45.4 "  N , 13 ° 18 ′ 23.6"  E