Community Center St. Lambertus (Hakenfelde)

Community center St. Lambertus in
Berlin-Hakenfelde

The community center St. Lambertus is a Roman Catholic Church center in Berlin district hook field of Spandau . It includes a sacred space dedicated to Saint Lambert of Liège and several parish rooms and is located at 6 Cautiusstrasse.

history

The Margraviate of Brandenburg owes the first new building of a Catholic church after the Reformation to Friedrich Wilhelm I , known as the "Soldier King" . In order to win over the best rifle makers from Liège at the time, he had to give them permission to celebrate the Catholic service. So in 1723 a small church was built on the rifle plan near the citadel , outside the walls of Spandau, but it had to be renewed in 1742 and again in 1784 due to its dilapidation. It was dedicated to the apostles Peter and Paul , whose statues have been preserved and are in the church on Behnitz.

Since the arrival of Catholic workers and soldiers in the military town of Spandau in the 18th and 19th centuries, the number of Catholics had grown to 1,000 by 1847 and to 9,000 by 1900. This required the building of new churches. In 1848 St. Marien am Behnitz was consecrated , the first Marienkirche after the Reformation in the Mark Brandenburg, in 1910 another large church followed with Maria, Hilfe der Christisten .

In the district of Hakenfelde, a dormitory for working girls, the Elisabethheim in the Waldsiedlung , was built in 1928 - as a replacement for a dilapidated previous facility in Spandau - on the initiative of Pastor Spiritual Counselor Viktor Schiwy , which was soon converted into a senior citizens' home. It was inaugurated on June 18, 1928 by auxiliary bishop Josef Deitmer ; his house chapel with 120 seats served the Catholics in Hakenfelde as a place of worship and was a subsidiary church of St. Marien. House chaplains held the service. The parish life strengthened, and in 1953 the Curate St. Elisabeth was established, the parish became independent pastoral care. The first curate was Karl Ernst Kuhn.

In 1962, the St. Marien Congregation acquired a plot of land in the center of the city on Cautiusstrasse. In 1966 the St. Elisabeth Curate became financially independent. On October 16, 1974, the foundation stone was laid on the property for a community center with a church service room; on August 31, 1975 the altar was consecrated by Cardinal Alfred Bengsch . The day before, the former governing mayor of Berlin, Pastor Heinrich Albertz, held a keynote speech on “Christian community in the civil parish” at a ceremony. On July 1, 1975, the St. Elisabeth Curate was elevated to an independent parish of St. Lambertus and separated from St. Mary's. The first pastor of the parish was the previous curate of St. Elisabeth and planner of the parish center Dieter Augustinus Wortmann. As parish patron was St. Lambertus of Liege chosen in memory of the workers who by 1723 from Liege had been recruited for the gun factory in Spandau and those of the Prussian king had assured the Catholic chaplaincy at the new residence.

In 1993/1994, in connection with the development of the new Wasserstadt Oberhavel building area , the Archdiocese of Berlin considered building a new church with a rectory and daycare center in the Maselakepark area and, alternatively, at the previous location in Cautiusstraße, as an increase in the number of Catholics was expected. The plans were then not pursued for reasons of cost. The number of Sunday church visitors in St. Lambertus averaged 250 in 1995.

On October 31, 2003, due to financial considerations of the Archdiocese of Berlin, the parish merged again with the mother parish Maria, Hilfe der Christians. The St. Lambertus parish center continues to be a place of worship and meeting place for the Marian parish in Spandau under this name.

Construction and equipment

Altar and organ

The community center was designed by the architect Günter Maiwald . It consists of several nested cubic structures made of prefabricated parts. The centerpiece is the sacred room, which consists of an altar island and two rooms arranged at right angles to each other, one of which can be separated as an event room. The flat roofs step up three times to a narrow arc of light that illuminates the sanctuary from above. A communication area with a foyer and group rooms is connected to the event room, as well as a two-storey component with a parish office and apartments. There are workshops and youth rooms in the basement. There is no church tower and no bells.

The principal pieces of the sacred space: altar , tabernacle column , ambo and priest's seat , were designed by Egino Weinert , a Cologne artist born in Berlin-Schöneberg. They are cast in bronze and depict scenes from the Old and New Testaments . Egino Weinert also adorns the tabernacle and cross with colored enamel pictures depicting scenes from the life of Jesus. Egino Weinert also created a “ Rosary Madonna ” on the side of the altar, a bronze figure of Mary with a child in a halo of 15 medallions, which depict the secrets of the rosary . The chalice of the first pastor of St. Lambertus fits into this ensemble ; With its bronze foot in the form of a tree trunk and the inside gilded cup , which shows enamel foliage outside , it symbolizes the tree of life . It was donated to mark the 40th anniversary of the community.

A relic of the church patron Lambertus of Liège is walled in under the altar . A raw boulder from a subway construction site on Kurfürstendamm serves as a font .

organ

In 2003 the church received an organ with 23 (18) registers ; the five voices of the pedal work are transmitted from the main work . Game and stop action (with the exception of the sub and super coupling apparatus ) are mechanical. The organ was built by the organ workshop Westfälischer Orgelbau S. Sauer , Höxter-Ottbergen (Westphalia).

literature

• Pro Ecclesia Hakenfelde e. V. (Ed.): St. Lambertus Community Center. Berlin around 1978.
• Gertraud Glater, Johanna Krause, Brigitte Schmeil, Helga Zerning on behalf of Pastor Matthias Mücke and the parish council with the assistance of Werner Heusler (ed.): St. Lambertus. Chronicle 1975-2000. o. O. (Berlin) August 2000.
• Catholic parish of Maria, Help of Christians: Festschrift 100 years of Maria, Help of Christians Berlin-Spandau 1910–2010. Oranienburg / Berlin 2010.
• Gebhard Streicher, Erika Drave: Berlin city and church. More Verlag, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-87554-189-8 , p. 250 f.

Web links

• Parish website

Individual evidence

1. ^ Organ in St. Lambertus , seen May 21, 2012.

Coordinates: 52 ° 33 '43 "  N , 13 ° 11' 57.1"  E