Gnadenkirche (Berlin-Wilhelmstadt)
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The Evangelical Church of Grace is in the Jaczostraße 52 of Berlin's local situation Pichelsdorf in the district Wilhelmstadt of Spandau . The hall church is part of a building complex that was built between 1946 and 1957 in four construction phases. The listed building complex was designed by Carl Theodor Brodführer in the architectural style of post-war modernism .
history
The parish Pichelsdorf was from the congregation of the October 1, 1942 Melanchthon Church separated. She celebrated her services in a chapel built in 1928 on Scharfen Lanke, which was destroyed on November 26, 1943. After the Second World War , the World Mission Conference initiated a building program for temporary barrack churches , which was discontinued at the beginning of 1947. These makeshift churches were too small for the fast-growing congregations in the big city . As an alternative , Otto Bartning had developed four basic types of emergency churches as prefabricated houses that could accommodate twice as many people as the barrack churches . They should be dismantled after the final building has been completed. In Pichelsdorf, however, a temporary emergency church was not built. A building was erected there on the church's own site, which was to remain in place for the long term. It was the first church building in the post-war period . The construction costs were estimated at only 12,000 marks because some of the building materials from the destroyed chapel could be used.
The foundation stone for the new chapel of the future community center was laid on June 9, 1946, and on the first Sunday in Advent, December 1, 1946, the building with the provisional church service room was inaugurated . The construction costs were exceeded by 6,000 marks. On the facade facing Roedeliusweg, next to a cross in large letters, it used to be written “Return to the Gospel - Contemplation in the fullness of grace”, fitting the name of the church. Today you can still see a large cross there. In 1951 the nave was completed. The chapel became the community hall. A youth room was added later . The rectangular altar niche was created in a further construction phase . In the 1960s the rectory and a tall free-standing bell tower were added.
In 2002 the parish united with the neighboring parish of the Laurentiuskirche to form the new vineyard parish .
Building description
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There is an anteroom behind the entrance to the building. In front of him is the youth room to the west, the community hall to the east and the church hall to the north, the largest room with a flat pitched roof . Three double doors connect the parish hall with the church hall, at the front of which is the altar niche. Each of its four yokes , which are divided by indicated pillars, has twin windows on both sides, the altar niche has a round window with a representation of the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove. Berta Katharina Lassen and Paul Loebelmann created the glass windows . The room has a flat wooden ceiling. The simple altar has two pillars made of bricks that support a simple stone slab and stands on a three-tier clinkered dais . The pulpit is also made of bricks.
Peal
The high bell tower on a square floor plan was built in 1965 based on a design by the architect Werner Scholz. It replaces the bell carrier made of profile steel , in which a bell hung, which was cast by Franz Schilling in 1949 and handed over to the newly founded Radeland municipality in 1965 . The bell in the bell room, consisting of three bronze bells , was cast in 1965 by the Rincker bell and art foundry .
| Chime | Weight (kg) |
Diameter (cm) |
Height (cm) |
inscription |
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| H' | 380 | 87 | 74 | O, COUNTRY, COUNTRY, COUNTRY, HEAR THE LORD'S WORD! + JER. 22.29. |
| cis ′ ′ | 277 | 78 | 60 | THE WORD WARD FLESH AND LIVED UNDER US AND WE SEEN ITS GLORY FULL OF GRACE AND TRUTH! + JOHAN. 1.14. |
| dis ′ ′ | 198 | 69 | 52 | YOU WILL RECEIVE THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT AND WILL BE MY Witnesses! + APOST. 1.8. |
organ
The organ , acquired in 1958, is the work of EF Walcker & Cie. It was revised in 2006 by the organ building company Klein. The disposition is as follows:
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literature
- Christine Goetz and Matthias Hoffmann-Tauschwitz: Churches Berlin Potsdam. Berlin 2003.
- Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin: Berlin and its buildings. Part VI. Sacred buildings. Berlin 1997.
- Ev. Parish Berlin-Spandau-Pichelsdorf: Here in Pichelsdorf - Festschrift for the 50th congregation anniversary. Berlin 1992
- Klaus-Dieter Wille: The bells of Berlin (West). History and inventory. Berlin 1987.
- Günther Kühne, Elisabeth Stephanie: Evangelical churches in Berlin. Berlin 1978.
- Petra Fangerow, Sabine Dunckel: Chronicle of the construction of the emergency church. Berlin.
Web links
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 42.4 ″ N , 13 ° 11 ′ 10 ″ E