Nordend parish hall
The Protestant parish hall in Nordend at Schönhauser Strasse 32 in today's Berlin district of Rosenthal in the Pankow district was built by Fritz Gottlob in the style of reform architecture . The parish hall with the church hall is a listed building .
history
In a letter from the citizens of Nordend dated February 18, 1908 to the parish council of Rosenthal, the purchase of a suitable piece of land in Nordend for church use is requested, because they feel neglected towards the residents of Rosenthal and Wilhelmsruh . On March 15, 1908, the decision to purchase a piece of land was made. The Berlin architects Fritz Gottlob and Georg Büttner presented their designs for the new parish hall to the parish council on February 2, 1909. According to the proposal of the architect Gottlob, his design was accepted, a community hall with a sermon hall, a station for the community nurses , a service apartment for the caretaker and a parsonage should be built on the site , at a later date a church with a church directly on the street Bell tower . There are no dates for the laying of the foundation stone and the topping-out ceremony . The decrease of the structural work was carried out on December 29, 1909 the inauguration on 17 April 1910th
Since April 1, 1950, the parish of Nordend, which until then belonged to the Parish Rosenthal, has been independent. Today the community Northrend belongs to the parish of Berlin north-east. The parishes of Nordend and Martin Luther have had a parish office together since 1998, and they formed a common parish council.
The association founded in 2004 contributed to the restoration of the Art Nouveau church hall and the badly damaged organ of the Dinse brothers .
Building description
Although Gottlob was initially considered an expert in brick Gothic, his church architecture changed from historicism to reform style. The multi-storey plastered masonry structure of the Nordend community center is a combination of neo-renaissance and geometric art nouveau . Ornaments in the Art Nouveau style can also be found in side rooms and in the stairwell .
The roofs are of different heights. The double-stepped roof turret with lantern , in which the bell cast by the Schilling brothers hung, was destroyed in the Second World War. A granite bell tower has stood on the Kirchwiese since the 1950s.
Novel materials were used in the construction of the parish hall and modern processes were applied. In the sermon hall and the hall was a low-cost Rabitz - vaulted hooked. In the hall, a mosaic parquet was glued directly onto the screed . Central heating was installed to supply heat to the entire house .
The chancel is on the west side of the hall. On the elevated by two steps Terrazzo - Estrade was originally the brick, plastered with stucco decorated altar . On the right side was the pulpit , also bricked, plastered and decorated with stucco. This arrangement recommended the Wiesbaden program , according to which the church should be a meeting house for the celebrating community. Behind the pulpit there was the sacristy . The altarpiece was painted directly on the plaster, it probably comes from Fritz Gottlob.
Next to the large church hall there is a smaller one, in which the children originally played during the service, but which is now used as a winter church.
organ
The organ by the Dinse brothers from 1910 stands on a gallery above the altar wall . Fritz Gottlob designed the prospectus . The instrument has 12 registers with the following disposition :
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Bells
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The parish hall has three bells hanging in a campanile next to the parish hall. As is still the case in a few churches, they are rung by hand. The middle bell was made in the bell foundry in Apolda in 1909 and still hung in the original roof turret. This bell cracked in 1944 and could be welded in 1951. In the same year the community procured a second (today's small) bell. In 1953, the pastor at the time procured a third (today's large) bell as a personal gift to the community. In 1955 the current bell tower was built, which has been the hallmark of the municipality since 1997. The bells rang together for the first time on Reformation Day 1955. The yoke of the big bell was renewed in 2009, the yoke of the middle bell in 2016 and the yoke of the small bell in 2017. The bells sound in the tones a ′ - cis ″ - dis ″.
literature
- Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin: Berlin and its buildings. Part VI. Sacred buildings. Berlin 1997.
- Günther Kühne, Elisabeth Stephani: Evangelical churches in Berlin. Berlin 1978.
- Kurt Ahlhelm: Gottlob - A church hall for Nordend The Protestant parish hall in Nordend (1909 - 2009). Berlin 2009.
Web links
- Entry in the Berlin State Monument List with further information
- Evangelical parishes in Berlin-Pankow Martin Luther and Nordend
Coordinates: 52 ° 35 ′ 37.5 ″ N , 13 ° 23 ′ 54.2 ″ E