Grunewald Church
| Grunewald Church | |
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 Grunewald church with tower |
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| Start of building: | July 1902 |
| Inauguration: | June 1, 1904 |
| Architect : | Philipp Nitze |
| Style elements : | Neo-Gothic |
| Client: | Parish Council |
| Floor space: | 42 × 25 m |
| Space: | 750 people |
| Tower height: |
50 m |
| Location: | 52 ° 29 '6.1 " N , 13 ° 16' 25.6" E |
| Address: | Bismarckallee Berlin-Grunewald Berlin , Germany |
| Purpose: | evangelical-union ; church service |
| Local community: | Evangelical Grunewald Congregation |
| Regional Church : | EKBO |
| Website: | www.grunewaldgemeinde.de |
The Grunewald Church is a Protestant church in the Berlin district of Grunewald in the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district . The stone building , built in late Gothic form, was badly damaged in the Second World War . From 1956 to 1959 the war-damaged church was restored in several stages by the architect Georg Lichtfuß. The church is a listed building .
history
The villa colony of Grunewald was raised to an independent rural community on April 1, 1899 . In the upscale and affluent suburb of villas, the desire for their own place of worship arose. The Kurfürstendamm-Gesellschaft provided a triangular plot of land in the knee of Bismarckallee as a building site, as well as 150,000 marks for the church (adjusted for purchasing power in today's currency: around 1,042,000 euros). In 1901 an architectural competition was held in which late Gothic forms using stone made of stone were made a condition. 45 drafts were submitted; two of them, which in the opinion of the jury did justice to the rural character of the place, received prize money of 2,000 marks each. Of these two, that of the architect Philipp Nitze (1873–1946) - active at that time in Halle (Saale) , since 1903 in Berlin - was designated for execution. The groundbreaking ceremony took place in July 1902, the tower was completed in August 1903 and the actual construction work was completed in December 1903. Now the interior was fitted out. Donations from community members raised a further 54,000 marks for the organ, bells and windows. With the installation of a Sauer organ , the interior was completed so that the church could be inaugurated .
In 1921 Dietrich Bonhoeffer was confirmed here. The church was badly damaged in an air raid in World War II when an air mine tore off the roof. From 1949 the church was restored, albeit easier than before, and rededicated on April 12, 1959.
building
A rectangular, three-aisled hall church with side aisles of different widths was built on a small triangular square . The altar apse is also rectangular. The square tower is located on the side between the nave and the altar apse. The sacristy is symmetrical to the tower . In contrast to the brick that was common at the time, yellow-gray tuff and green and blue Main sandstone were used to match the villa character of the area . The church with its early Gothic forms became the center of the surrounding villa development. The artistic design was carried out by the sculptor Otto Richter , the painter Hans Seliger, the glass painter August Oetken and the art blacksmith Paul Golde. During the restoration of the church, which took place in several stages, architect Georg Lichtfuß replaced the originally Gothic entrance porch with a simple, copper-covered half - barrel on two slender supports from 1956 to 1959 .
- The Grunewald Church after its inauguration in 1904
Vestibule (destroyed)
View to the altar
View of the organ
Confirmation hall
The interior walls of the nave are lightly plastered, only the pillars, the tracery of the windows and the frame of the triumphal arch that separates the choir from the nave are made of gray sandstone. The parapets of the galleries are also stony . Today, instead of the previous three- yoke star vault, a barrel vault made of Rabitz spans the nave and was hung into the roof structure and into which the stitch caps protrude. The choir is covered by a pointed vault. Only the arcades and the side gallery have a ribbed vault .
Until its destruction in March 1943, the church had six antique glass windows with stained glass. They were initially unadorned with emergency glazing, from 1993 onwards they were replaced by newly designed windows based on designs by Johannes Schreiter . The substructure of the original pulpit , which, like the present one, stood on the right side of the choir arch, was preserved, but not the pulpit with the reliefs. The counterpart to the pulpit, the baptismal font on the opposite side, had survived the war, albeit battered.
The oil painting in the entrance hall, which Charlemagne presumably depicts Pope Leo III. and shows two bishops, comes from Julius Schrader . A portal is designed on the inside of the middle door in the nave , which consists of a relief in an upper triangular crown and two female figures, to the right and left of the portal opening. The relief depicts the scene of the resurrection of Jesus Christ .
In the 1950s and 1960s the church was also used as a recording location for records, including a. from Capitol Records or after its takeover by EMI or Deutsche Grammophon . It was here in 1956 that the first stereo recordings were made with the sound engineer Peter K. Burkowitz with the Berliner Philharmoniker under Leopold Stokowski . Other orchestras, such as that of the Deutsche Oper Berlin or the Berlin Symphony Orchestra , and conductors such as Herbert von Karajan , Giuseppe Patané or Horst Stein also used the church as a recording studio.
Bells
Four bronze bells hang in the tower:
| Chime | Casting year | Bell foundry | Weight (kg) | Diameter (cm) | Height (cm) | Crown (cm) | inscription |
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| b o | 1959 | Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock | 3000 | 164 | 135 | 27 | O COUNTRY, COUNTRY, COUNTRY, HEAR THE LORD'S WORD + |
| of' | 1900 | 135 | 120 | 22nd | LOOK FOR ME, THIS IS YOUR LIFE + | ||
| f ' | 850 | 106 | 90 | 19th | - | ||
| as' | 1934 | Franz Schilling | 430 | 82 | 68 | 17th | BELIEVE IN THE LIGHT BECAUSE YOU HAVE IT, THAT YOU WILL BE THE CHILDREN OF THE LIGHT. |
organ
The first organ , built by the Sauer company from Frankfurt (Oder) , was almost completely destroyed by the effects of the war in 1943. The organ was built in 1967 by Karl Schuke (Berlin). The instrument is arranged based on the baroque organ . It has 51 stops on three manuals and a pedal . The key actions and couplings are mechanical, the stop actions are electrical.
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- Coupling : I / II, III / II, III / I, I / P, II / P, III / P
- Playing aids: two free general combinations, two free pedal combinations, plenum, nightingale, Zimbelstern
literature
- Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin (ed.), Marcus Cante (ed.): Sacral buildings. (= Berlin and its buildings , part VI.) Ernst & Sohn, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-433-01016-1 .
- Günther Kühne, Elisabeth Stephani: Evangelical churches in Berlin. Berlin 1978, p. 305 f.
- Karl-Heinz Metzger: Churches, mosques and synagogues in Wilmersdorf. Berlin 1986, pp. 37-42.
- Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Berlin. 3rd edition, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-422-03111-1 .
- Klaus-Dieter Wille: The bells of Berlin (West). History and inventory. Berlin 1987.
- Christiane Baumgärtner: 100 years of the Grunewald Church. Berlin 2004.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Deutsche Bauzeitung , 35th year 1901, p. 316.
- ^ Emil Berliner Studios. The slightly different story of the record. A chronicle by Peter K. Burkowitz . Retrieved September 3, 2018.
- ^ Classical Net Review The Karajan Collection . Accessed September 3, 2018.
- ↑ More information on the organ of the Grunewald Church