Community Center Radeland (Berlin-Hakenfelde)
The community center Radeland is a Protestant community center in the Berlin district of Hakenfelde in the Spandau district . It was inaugurated in January 1992 and is located at Schwanter Weg 3. Together with the Wichernkirche , it belongs to the Protestant parish Wichern-Radeland in the parish of Spandau , which belongs to the Berlin-Brandenburg Evangelical Church-Silesian Oberlausitz district.
history
The Radeland is a relatively narrow strip of settlement between the In den Kisseln cemetery and the Spandau Forest . The western part of the area is still characterized by arbor colonies . In the 1960s, the West Berlin Senate planned to build a new residential area with high-rise buildings here, similar to the one in Falkenhagener Feld or Gropiusstadt . These plans for the Radeland were the basis for the decision of the Evangelical Church to found a new parish there in January 1965.
The Radeland community initially received a simple, one-storey building with a flat roof made of prefabricated parts according to plans by architect Erich Ruhtz at Radelandstrasse 78 / corner of Schwanter Weg , which the community used for church services and other community work. In 1970 another house was built on the church premises in Schwanter Weg, primarily for work with children and young people. Both buildings were only intended as a temporary solution. A church was to be built with the future development area. When the plans to build a new settlement were dropped, the community stayed in the makeshift buildings. At the end of the 1980s, they were in such poor structural condition that repairs were no longer worthwhile. A new community center has now been planned - smaller in area than the two previous buildings in the community. After the completion and inauguration of today's community center, the two old buildings were demolished in the spring of 1992.
Today's community center was planned by the architect Helmut Bohr, including an initial concept by Wolfgang Noack , and built under his supervision. It was inaugurated by Bishop Martin Kruse in January 1992 .
In June 2004 the parish of Radeland was merged with the Wicherngemeinde to form the parish of Wichern-Radeland . The Radeland Church continues to be the place of worship and assembly for the “Radeland part of this parish”. Pastor Sigrid Jahr has been pastor since 2016.
Building
The community center is a one-story rectangular building made of red brick masonry in a stretcher bond with an expanded basement in which there are additional community rooms. The brickwork is interrupted by a band of Belgian granite , a relatively hard limestone with fossil inclusions, which runs around the whole building. All stairs outside and inside the building, the floors in the foyer, in the raised altar area and in parts of the church, as well as the middle part of the altar wall are made of this stone. The eastern half of the gable roof is raised above the hall; as a result, the church interior has an 80 cm high ribbon window on this side. The church interior can be opened to the garden through six double-leaf glass doors with small wooden lattice windows. The room can be divided by a soundproof sliding wall so that the rear part can also be used as a community room. The gallery on the eastern side of the church is designed as a series of balconies with small wooden railings. The ceiling of the room is clad with wood. Only local woods, mainly oak , were used throughout the building . The parquet floor is framed by Belgian granite slabs.
The front wall on the side of the altar is divided vertically into three parts by two receding ribbon windows, the middle field, which is offset to the front, is clad with panels made of Belgian granite, the side segments show brickwork. There are stained glass windows on both sides of the central wall and to the right and left of the altar wall, just like on the outer doors and the doors to the church interior. These were made according to a design by Amelie Grund .
In front of it, in the altar room, which is slightly higher than the rest of the church, are the mobile principal pieces - baptismal font , altar and lectern - adapted in style and material to the building.
Furnishing
organ
The organ with six registers on a manual and pedal was already in the first building of the community. It was built by the Walcker organ builder . In the community center, which was inaugurated in 1992, it was given its place to the side of the church interior under the gallery. The manual registers are divided and can be switched on separately in the bass and treble areas.
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Bells
Until the completion of the new building, the separately standing bell carrier stood in front of the old community building on Radelandstrasse. The suspended in bell 1949 poured from Glockengießer Franz Schilling and has a height of 46 cm, kg a diameter of 55 cm, a weight of 94 and has the percussive fis'. It was left to the Radelandgemeinde by the parish of Pichelsdorf when it was able to procure a more extensive bell. The inscription on the flank reads: SO GOD LOVED THE WORLD / MERCY CHURCH / SPANDAU-PICHELSDORF; 1949, opposite: LIBERA NOS DOMINE (“Lord, free us”), in the Wolm : FRANZ SCHILLING U. SÖHNE GOSSEN MICH IN 1949.
A second bell - the predecessor of the one that has now rung - serves as a support for a candle in the church and was cast by Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock in Gescher in 1963 . At a height of 37 cm, a diameter of 40 cm and a weight of 48 kg, it sounded with the tone b '. It bears the inscription on its flank: DONATED BY THE COUNCIL OF VLOTHO , December 22, 1963.
Pastor of the Radeland community
- 1965–1966: Pastor Gerhard Schulz
- 1966–1969: Pastor Gerhard Gensch
- 1969–1974: Pastor Hans-Jürgen Keller
- 1974–1983: Pastor Hans-Joachim Blum
- 1983–2004: Pastor Reinhard Auener
literature
- Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin (ed.): Berlin and its buildings. Part VI. Sacred buildings. Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-433-01016-1 , pp. 264 f., 427, 431 f.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Klaus-Dieter Wille: The bells of Berlin (West). History and inventory. Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-7861-1443-9 , p. 143.
Coordinates: 52 ° 33 '32.4 " N , 13 ° 10' 55.9" E