Community center Am Fennpfuhl

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Evangelical Church Am Fennpfuhl

The Protestant community center Am Fennpfuhl is a small church complex in the Berlin district of Fennpfuhl in the Lichtenberg district . It is a single-storey building with an octagonal tent roof , which contains community rooms and apartments in addition to the worship room and was inaugurated in September 1984. The community center is a church building of the Lichtenberg Evangelical Church Community , which belongs to the Lichtenberg-Oberspree parish of the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia .

location

The structured building complex is located on the corner of Weißenseer Weg / Paul-Junius-Straße on the edge of the Fennpfuhl Park next to a historic school building from 1912. It bears the address Paul-Junius-Straße 75. Both the low buildings with their natural materials and the path-wise ones Developments in the area are fitted into the park landscape.

history

Inauguration of the community center on September 8, 1984

After a large part of the residential area around the Fennpfuhl had emerged at the beginning of the 1970s, employees of the responsible parish and religious community began active parish work in the area in 1974, mainly through visits and discussion groups in private apartments. In 1976, a separate parish, the parish Am Fennpfuhl, was spun off from the mother parish for the newly developed area around the Fennpfuhl. This met first in the rooms of the parish and religious community, the old parish church Lichtenberg on Loeperplatz and a nearby community barrack , as well as further in private apartments.

In 1972 the GDR and the Federation of Evangelical Churches in the GDR agreed a special building program for initially 45 church building projects, the financing of which was largely taken over by the Evangelical Church of the Federal Republic . After the Council of Ministers of the GDR also made it possible to build new churches in 1976, the Federation of Evangelical Churches in the GDR launched a new building program for churches for new cities in 1978 , under which the Am Fennpfuhl community center was the first in an East Berlin development area from 1981 to 1984 and one of 20 Protestant community centers in the GDR was built by 1988.

After the rejection of several unsuitable building plots by the church administration, the site on the edge of the Fennpfuhl Park was finally made available. The architect Horst Göbel from the building academy of the GDR designed a building complex consisting of an octagonal church main room with a spacious entrance area. Additional rooms are connected to this foyer , some of which can be added to the worship room through sliding partition walls. The foundation stone for the new church was laid on April 25, 1982, the construction work was carried out by VEB  Bau Schwarzenberg from the Ore Mountains . The new church building was inaugurated on September 8, 1984 after almost three years of construction. About 10 percent of the costs incurred were covered by donations from community members.

Architecture and equipment

Octagonal church with extension
Entrance to the community center

The building complex is made of clinker brickwork . The tapering roof of the main room is clad with wood on the inside and covered with sheet copper on the outside . There is no belfry or church tower . The main room of the community center, the worship or celebration room, with its octagonal floor plan and the tent roof forms the most prominent part in the northeast area of ​​the building. It is supplied with daylight through clear, uncolored windows. The eye-catcher inside is a seven-meter-high wooden cross that extends into the attic and seems to embrace the room. The walls of the celebration room are also unplastered inside. The room can be enlarged by two adjoining rooms using sliding walls and can then accommodate chairs for up to 200 visitors. The altar table , lectern and twelve candlesticks are made from the same wood as the large cross, as is the depiction of Jesus and the apostle frieze in the foyer. These items come from the workshop of the sculptor Friedrich Press , who focused on sacred art .

The community center has had an organ since 1992, which a school in Schwalbach am Taunus bought second-hand. This compact church musical instrument was made by the Hillebrand organ builder from Isernhagen; it has 422  pipes , 6  registers , a manual and a pedal .

In the foyer is performed by a pressing biblical representation, consisting of the apostles and younger Fries and Christ plastic, which according to the motto "Because the followers are happy when they saw the Lord" ( John 20,20  LUT ) in simplest forms was made. Like the cross, altar, candlestick and desk in the party room, it is made of dark-stained fluted spruce wood. The frieze roughly shows the twelve disciples in front of a white plastered wall. Although the figures are individually designed, they are not identified by the usual accessories such as halos , keys or the like. They all look in one direction - to where a picture of Jesus with four almost square pieces of wood encourages churchgoers to look closely. A friendly face, a raised hand with the mark of the crucifixion , an outstretched arm and a simplified torso all together also form a cross.

A winter garden and other community and functional rooms are grouped around the foyer , enclosing an atrium with small plants. In the southern part of the ensemble there is a residential building with two apartments. On the flat roof of the largest part of the building there is a photovoltaic system that was commissioned in 1998 and can achieve an electrical output of around 10  kW . It was financed by 72,000 euros from own donations and a grant of 32,000 euros from Bewag . In 2002, the installation of electronically controllable radiators in the premises began, and the facade of the residential building was given thermal insulation.

Separated from the structured original building complex is a single flat house, which was subsequently built in 1995. It serves as a youth and leisure center for disadvantaged young people.

Parish

Merger 2013

On September 1, 2013, the neighboring parishes of Am Fennpfuhl and Alt-Lichtenberg united to form the Evangelical Parish of Lichtenberg, after the two parishes had worked closely together for many years, almost all groups had already met and the parish councils had met. Since then, the Am Fennpfuhl community center has been one of two church buildings in the Lichtenberg Evangelical Church, along with the Lichtenberg Old Parish Church . Ecumenical contacts exist with the Catholic parishes in the districts of the Lichtenberg district, especially with the St. Mauritius parish .

Public appearance of the community

International press conference on October 23, 1989 on police attacks on October 7 and 8, 1989 in Berlin

The Fennpfuhl community interfered and interferes in politics. For example, in 1983 the community leadership sent a letter to the SED Central Committee condemning the armament of the Warsaw Pact states with medium-range missiles. At the beginning of May 1985, the “Solidarity Church” working group was founded in the community center at Fennpfuhl. At the time of the political change , the church at Fennpfuhl entered the public consciousness on October 23, 1989 with a joint press conference of opposition citizen groups in its rooms. Journalists from several countries were handed over 150 memorial records of those affected by the attacks by the State Security and People's Police against demonstrators and bystanders on October 7 and 8, 1989 in Berlin. In 1995 a list of signatures against the continuation of the French atomic bomb tests was sent to the French consulate .

Use of the community rooms

The rooms of the community center, especially the winter garden, have long been made available for all kinds of exhibitions. Once a week, the premises serve as a distribution point for the Laib und Seele campaign , an event by the Berliner Tafel , the churches and the rbb . Blood donation campaigns also take place here at regular intervals.

Community partnerships

Shortly after it was founded, the Protestant congregation at the Fennpfuhl established contacts with the Trinitatis congregation in Münster , which later became permanent partnerships. In 1987, agreements were made with the Protestantse Gemeente Borger from the Netherlands and in 1996 with St. Margaret's Church from Barming in England to cooperate. Other partnerships exist or have existed with communities in Mönchengladbach and Anröchte .

See also

literature

  • Ernst Badstübner , Sibylle Badstübner-Gröger, Martin Dettloff: Churches in Berlin: From St. Nikolai to the community center "Am Fennpfuhl" . Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-374-00171-8 .
  • 20 years of the Am Fennpfuhl Church . Ed .: Ev. Parish "Am Fennpfuhl". Berlin 2004.
  • Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin: Berlin and its buildings. Part VI. Sacred buildings. Berlin 1997.
  • Henriette von Preuschen (Ed.): Friedrich Press (1904-1990) . Church rooms in Brandenburg. Volume 20 of the workbooks of the Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum , State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum, Lukas Verlag, 2008, ISBN 9783867320283 , p. 51

Web links

Commons : Evangelisches Gemeindezentrum am Fennpfuhl  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Chronicle of Churches in the GDR 1971–1980 on the EKMD website , accessed on July 19, 2014.
  2. ↑ Manfred Stolpe: “The Evangelical Churches in the GDR and the Reconstruction of the Cathedral” , lecture at the 3rd Cathedral Colloquium in Berlin on February 4, 2000 on the Brandenburg state government website , accessed on July 19, 2014.
  3. ^ Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin: Berlin and its buildings. Part VI. Sacred buildings. Berlin 1997, p. 257 f.
  4. ↑ Helmut Wilhelm, Werner Friederich: Evangelical Church Community Am Fennpfuhl (Flyer), approx. 2000
  5. ↑ a b c d e f 20 years of the Am Fennpfuhl Church . Ev. Parish "Am Fennpfuhl", Berlin, 2004
  6. ↑ Thomas Klein: "Peace and Justice!" The politicization of the Independent Peace Movement in East Berlin during the 1980s . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne Weimar 2007, ISBN 9783412025069 , p. 288
  7. ^ Protests against the power of Krenz. In: Die Welt , accessed July 7, 2014
  8. ^ Images of the revolution - the brutality of the Stasi and the People's Police is made public . In: Berliner Zeitung , October 23, 2009
  9. ^ Report on activities “against the right” in the Fennpfuhl area on a private homepage; Retrieved October 13, 2009
  10. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Information on the exhibition of pictures by Christian de la Torre ; Retrieved October 14, 2009.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.kirche-am-fennpfuhl.de
  11. ↑ Issue points of Loaf and Soul ( Memento from January 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive )> click on the corresponding marking on the map; accessed on January 18, 2016.
  12. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: information on the partner community in Münster ; accessed October 13, 2009;@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.kirche-am-fennpfuhl.de
  13. ↑ Partnerships and Cooperation ( Memento of December 23, 2008 in the Internet Archive ); accessed October 13, 2009; renewed on July 3, 2014.

Coordinates: 52 ° 31 '44.8 "  N , 13 ° 28' 39.9"  E