Holy Family Church (Berlin-Lichterfelde)
| Holy Family Church (Berlin-Lichterfelde) | |
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.jpg) View from the street |
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| Start of building: | September 8, 1902 |
| Inauguration: | June 19, 1904 |
| Architect : | Christoph Hehl |
| Style elements : | Neo-Gothic |
| Client: | Kuratie Groß-Lichterfelde |
| Floor space: | 41 × 24 m |
| Space: | 400 people |
| Tower height: |
43 m |
| Location: | 52 ° 25 '50.6 " N , 13 ° 18' 15.5" E |
| Address: | Kornmesserstraße 2 Berlin-Lichterfelde Berlin , Germany |
| Purpose: | catholic worship |
| Local community: | Catholic parish Holy Family |
| Diocese : | Archdiocese of Berlin |
| Website: | www.heilige-familie-berlin.de |
The Holy Family Church in Berlin district of Lichterfelde , of the district of Steglitz-Zehlendorf heard was of Christoph Hehl following the example of the three-nave brick basilica of the Cistercian - Monastery Lehnin built.
history
Groß-Lichterfelde, far from the gates of the city of Berlin, was part of the Teltow district at the time. Johann Anton Wilhelm von Carstenn bought the estates of Lichterfelde and Giesensdorf with the aim of creating a colony of villas for the up-and-coming Berlin. He built the plots with houses of all styles for wealthy upper-class citizens and made sure that his terrain was easily accessible from Berlin: The Berlin- Anhalter Bahn got the Lichterfelde-Ost station , the main line the Lichterfelde West station . For the construction of the main cadet institute , he made a piece of land available on today's Finckensteinallee.
The officer nobility and the upper middle class recruited their servants from the Catholic part of Silesia, among others . Furthermore, the construction of the Teltow Canal began in 1900 , the workers came from Galicia and Poland and were Catholic. As a result, the Catholic population in Groß-Lichterfelde grew. For these newcomers, a new place of worship was necessary in the Protestant Mark Brandenburg.
The church council of the Steglitz rosary parish acquired the property on Kornmesserstrasse in 1898. In 1902, the church council of the Holy Family community decided to take out a building loan of 90,000 marks (adjusted for purchasing power in today's currency: around 617,000 euros). Christoph Hehl, who created the Rosary Basilica, was commissioned with the design for the church and with the construction . The builder was the first pastor of the parish Maximilian Beyer , the construction costs were 191,000 marks. The church is a listed building .
In 1910, Pastor Maximilian Beyer founded the Mater Dolorosa Curate in Lankwitz from the parish of the Holy Family parish, which became an independent parish in 1921.
Building
The church is a masonry building that is clad with red hand-painted bricks in the medieval monastery format from a brick factory in Torgau . Shaped stones are used for the framing of the portals and windows and for the pillars , belt arches and vault ribs inside . The side walls of the nave are structured with buttresses . The church space consists of a very wide central nave and two narrow side aisles. Outside, on the front sides of the central nave, there are stepped gables , inside the three rectangular yokes are spanned by a ribbed vault. The side aisles, separated from the central nave by pointed arches, have groin vaults . In keeping with the style of a Gothic basilica, daylight falls into the interior through pointed arched windows that are located above the pent roofs of the two low, aisle-like aisles. The central nave, separated by a stepped triumphal arch , is joined by the slightly retracted main apse , the walls of which stand on five sides of an octagon. It is spanned by five caps of a ribbed vault. The two side aisles have rectangular bulges in their middle, in which the confessionals are. The side aisles have polygonal side apses for the side altars. At the north-east corner of the church is the baptistery with five outer walls on an octagonal floor plan, an independent structure with a tent roof . In it stands the octagonal, gray sandstone baptismal font . Baptistery and side apses have ribbed vaults like the main apse. A porch with a pointed arched step portal is added to the Kornmesserstrasse . Behind it is the vestibule.
tower
The tower with a rectangular floor plan is attached to the eastern polygonal side of the main apse . At the same time, it creates the connection to the rectory and contains the vestibule to the sacristy , which is located on the south side in the corner of the tower and rectory. There is a spiral staircase on the north side inside the tower shaft . A frieze of white triangular panels separates the lower half of the tower shaft from the upper one, which is divided by pilaster strips and two elongated double-lane acoustic arcades on both broad sides and one on the narrow sides. White panels in the pointed arches of the acoustic arcades and a pointed arch frieze above them as well as an additional white triangular frieze on the narrow sides form the end under the gable roof . In addition, a large, octagonal, with similar rises ornaments decorated roof turret with a pointed tent roof.
Bells
The three bronze bells , consecrated on May 1, 1904 , which were cast by the Edelbrock brothers , had to be handed in for armaments purposes during the First World War . They were replaced by three cast steel bells that were cast by the Bochumer Verein in 1921 . These survived the Second World War .
| Bell jar | Chime | Weight (kg) |
Diameter ( cm) |
Height (cm) |
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| 1st bell | a ° | 2800 | 200 | 140 | BEATI ST. JOSEPH NOMINE EXAUDIAS NOS DOMINE |
| 2nd bell | dis' | 1400 | 160 | 118 | SP. LENDEBIT USQUES LEO ETIAM CLANGORE MEO |
| 3rd bell | e ' | 940 | 140 | 105 | CHRISTI DAPIS MUNERA IAM PIUS PIOS ATVOCATUS |
Furnishing
The original equipment of the church has been expanded over time. Part of it was lost due to the severe damage in World War II, for example new church stalls were purchased during the reconstruction . Until the Second Vatican Council , the priest celebrated Holy Mass at the high altar, with his gaze to the cross and his back to the congregation. Since the liturgical reform, mass has been celebrated at the people's altar facing the community. The cafeteria of the high altar , made of gray sandstone, is decorated on the front with Gothic quatrefoil shapes. The retable made of gilded carving rises above the predella with the tabernacle in its center . Its structure consists of a series of five niches that are gabled with eyelashes . These are flanked by pinnacles decorated with finials . The central niche contains the altar cross . In the other four niches there are two statues of saints, John the Baptist and Simon Peter , the Apostles Paul and James the Elder , the martyr Ignatius of Antioch and the Doctor of the Church Thomas Aquinas , the Church Father Augustine and the Franciscan Paschal Baylon . The pediments carry the medallions of the four evangelists Matthew , Mark , Luke and John . The predella shows the four prophets of the Old Testament , Isaiah , Ezekiel , Zechariah and Malachi, and the high priests Melchizedek , Moses and Aaron and King David . At high feasts , the main apse is decorated with two tapestries on both sides of the high altar, one depicting the apparition of Easter and the other depicting the Ascension of Christ .
The wooden pulpit is decorated with four reliefs depicting the Sermon on the Mount , the Sermon of the Lord on the Sea of Galilee , the Sermon of John the Baptist on the Jordan and the Sermon of Paul in Athens . Above it is a wooden crucifix from the 15th century. The statue of the Virgin dates from the 16th century. The wooden sculptures of Saint Elizabeth , Saint Anthony , Saint Johannes Capistranus and Saint Barbara have been on the pillars on plinths since 1969 . The Marien Altar is located in the eastern side apse. The gilded relief plate with scenes from the life of the Virgin, created by Ferdinand Hartzer and originally used as a retable , was placed in front of the cafeteria. There is now a large wooden Pietà on the cafeteria , originally placed in the vestibule.
The Joseph altar in the western side apse also shows a gilded wooden retable with relief scenes from Joseph's life, a work by Anton Mormann .
From 1966 the lower nave was re-glazed, the designs come from Helmut Nitzsche . The bronze reliefs of the Fourteen Stations of the Cross were created in memory of those who died in the First World War.
organ
A walled spiral staircase is added to the narrow western side of the vestibule, which leads to the gallery in the north nave yoke on which the organ stands. The organ from 1904 was restored and modernized in 1941, but fell victim to the war. The new organ from Orgelbau Romanus Seifert & Sohn with electro-pneumatic action and 31 stops , divided into three manuals and pedal , was put into service on October 4th, 1954 by Joseph Ahrens , who also designed the disposition .
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Link : I / P, II / P, III / P, II / I, III / I, III / II
- Super octave coupling: III / P
- Sub-octave coupling: II / I
- Playing aids : two free combinations, free pedal combinations, crescendo roller, pedal tutti, tutti, roller off, tongues off, tongue individual holder
literature
- Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin: Berlin and its buildings. Part VI. Sacred buildings. Berlin 1997.
- Christine Goetz, Constantin Beyer: StadtLandKirchen - sacred buildings in the Archdiocese of Berlin , Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg i. Allgäu 2018, ISBN 978-3-95976-101-7 , p. 54 f.
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Band Berlin. Munich / Berlin 2006.
- Annelen Hölzner-Bautsch: Holy Family , p. 17 ff. In: 100 Years of Mater Dolorosa Church - History of the Catholic Community in Berlin-Lankwitz - 1912 to 2012. Editor: Catholic Parish Mater Dolorosa, self-published, Berlin (2012)
- Klaus-Dieter Wille: The bells of Berlin (West). History and inventory. Berlin 1987.
- Nikolaus Röhmel: Art guide of the Catholic parish church Holy Family Berlin-Lichterfelde. Berlin 2004.
- Gerhard Streicher and Erika Drave: Berlin - city and church. Berlin 1980.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Brief outline of the story , www.mater-dolorosa-lankwitz.de, accessed on June 12, 2016
- ↑ 100 years of Mater Dolorosa Church - history of the Catholic community in Berlin-Lankwitz - 1912 to 2012