Herz-Jesu-Kirche (Berlin-Tempelhof)
| Herz-Jesu-Kirche (Berlin-Tempelhof) | |
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 Tower and nave |
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| Start of building: | July 17, 1898 |
| Inauguration: | December 22, 1898 |
| Architect : | Engelbert Seibertz and Hermann Bunning |
| Style elements : | Neo-romance |
| Client: | St. Hedwig's parish |
| Tower height: |
43 m |
| Location: | 52 ° 27 '30.2 " N , 13 ° 22' 48.8" E |
| Address: | Friedrich-Wilhelm-Strasse 70/71 Berlin-Tempelhof Berlin , Germany |
| Purpose: | catholic worship |
| Local community: | Catholic parish Herz Jesu und St. Jude Thaddäus |
| Diocese : | Archdiocese of Berlin |
| Website: | www.kirche-herz-jesu-tempelhof.de |
The Herz-Jesu-Kirche in the Berlin district of Tempelhof in today's Tempelhof-Schöneberg district is a small, free-standing, single-nave nave church with a square tower. The church was inaugurated in 1898 and is now a listed building . The side chapel was added later. The brightly plastered wall surfaces of the masonry building are decorated with pilaster strips and friezes made of red bricks.
history
Since the founding of the empire , especially after the opening of the Ringbahn in 1872, the village of Tempelhof has developed into an urban district through industrial settlements. The first regular service for Catholic Tempelhof citizens was held in a summer apartment of Wilhelm Rudolphi , a clergyman and member of the German Center Party in the Reichstag , since 1890 . The influx of numerous Catholics soon required a separate church. In 1896, Rudolphi bought a plot of land about one acre in size on Friedrich-Wilhelm-Strasse from the state domain away from the center of Tempelhof in order to build a church for the Catholic community he had founded. However, this could only be realized after his death. Of the building costs of 39,716 marks , 12,300 came from the assets that the deceased had left the church building fund. The remainder had been collected with great zeal by the new pastor of the community. The Herz-Jesu-Kirche, built in 1898, was not only intended for Tempelhof, but also for the Catholic residents of the villages of Mariendorf , Marienfelde , Zossen , Selchow , Blankenfelde and Mahlow . The curate was founded in 1899 and made a parish in 1904 .
The church remained largely undamaged during World War II , but almost all the windows were destroyed in air raids. In the summer of 1946, the windows, which had been renewed in the meantime, broke again after an air raid shelter close to the church was blown up.
Building description
Nave
The nave has a gable roof covered with slate . It is located behind the facade tower facing the street, whose pointed pyramid roof is also covered with slate. The side walls of the nave are structured with buttresses . The inner barrel-vaulted church has four yokes , one of the organ empore is ingested. Each yoke section contains two arched windows with a rose window above them in a flat needle cap field . The buttresses continue in the barrel vault as belt arches . The retracted, inside semicircular closed and outside polygonally encased choir is separated from the nave by a triumphal arch . It is also covered by a barrel. The figures of Mary and John, which used to be on an arch in the triumphal arch, are now placed in the anteroom of the church.
The construction of the low aisle , according to plans by August Kaufhold and Carl Kühn , began in 1913, and on September 11, 1915, it was handed over to its intended use. In 1958 the sacristy was also rebuilt, but the space remained poor. In 1964 a new building was finally built, which also had a cellar. The walls of the new sacristy were no longer as high as the old ones, so the side windows of the chancel could be extended. The windows behind the altar were bricked up and the old high altar made of sandstone from 1903, which still stood on the wall of the apse, was demolished due to the liturgical reform of the 2nd Vatican Council and replaced by a popular altar . The tabernacle was placed in a wall niche on a marble slab under the Eternal Light . The pulpit was also removed. In 1960 the old side entrance of the church on the epistle side was bricked up and new entrances were created on both sides in the area of the yoke below the organ gallery. A niche was built under the organ gallery in order to set up a confessional on the Gospel side . The old, worm-eaten church stalls were replaced by new, simple ones.
All roofs and the external facades had to be repaired in 1989. After completing the roof work, painting was carried out inside the church. The color of the ambo was matched to the altar. In the course of several restorations, the originally colorful wall and ceiling paintings in the interior were removed. This made the art treasures in the church more effective. In 1998 the interior was redesigned in terms of color. In 2003 new glass windows designed by Paul Corazolla were installed .
tower
The portal, the gable of which is decorated with ornaments made of bricks, leads to the main entrance in the tower. Above the door there is a portrait of Mary as a mosaic . Above the entrance portal is a sandstone sculpture of the blessing Jesus Christ in a wall niche in the tower . As a crowning of the tower located above the paired sound arcades four triangular pediment , three have large black dials with gold numerals and hands. The pointed pyramid roof rises above it. The tower is flanked to the west by 3/8 of an octagonal stair tower in which a spiral staircase leads to the floor above the vestibule.
In 1910 the church was so dilapidated that an iron structure had to be inserted into the roof beams. The church tower received a tower clock in 1910 , the strikes of which announce the quarter, half and full hours.
The tower of the church was repaired in 1952, the iron cross and the weathercock were reworked. Then the roof of the church had to be repaired. In 1975 the clock faces of the tower clock were overhauled and the church tower was newly plastered.
Bells
In the bell room with a square floor plan (3.60 m side lengths, inside) there is a three-part ringing made of three cast steel bells that were cast by the Bochum Association in 1897. An inventory list of the foundry contains the following information: the ensemble of bells with clapper, bearings, axes and chime lever cost 3,641 marks to manufacture .
| size | Chime | Weight (kg) |
lower diameter ( mm) |
Height (mm) |
inscription |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| greatest | it | 1258 | 1430 | 1275 | LORD, OUR RULER / HOW GORGEOUS IS YOUR NAME / PS. 8.10 |
| middle | total | 844 | 1260 | 1120 | I WANT TO SING TO THE LORD / MY LIFE / PS. 104, 33 |
| smallest | a | 458 | 1016 | 915 | PRAISE THE LORD MY SOUL / PS. 103.1 |
Furnishing
Soon after the church was built, the crucifix , two wooden sculptures on the left side wall of the nave and the altar stone for the high altar came into the church, as well as the Andreas shrine. The pastor, who was in office from 1904 to 1915, acquired other medieval and baroque works of art from the collection of the Frankfurt city pastor Ernst Franz August Münzenberger .
In 1911 painting work was carried out inside the church and the side altars were renewed at the same time. Between 1957 and 1965 the interior of the church was redesigned. The original condition of the altar shrines and sculptures was restored as best possible by removing old overpaintings.
High altar
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In the center part of the high altar shrine , which can be dated to the period around 1500, is the portrait of Mary holding the baby Jesus , to her left, the Holy Apostles James and St. Peter , to her right, the Holy Paul and St. Thomas . The side wings were probably added in the 19th century, but the figures were probably created around 1510. On the left wing you can see St. Vitus and St. Sebastian , on the right St. Laurentius and St. Barbara . The painted backs show the three of Saints Catherine and Anna . The predella below the winged shrine depicts the apostles parting from Mary against the backdrop of Jerusalem .
Altar shrine with Pietà
The shrine on the side wall of the nave contains groups of figures from different origins. The Pietà in the middle probably dates from the 19th century, it is flanked by the apostles Andrew and Barnabas , who were created around 1500. St. John the Evangelist , St. Simon and St. Philip can be seen in the left wing, while St. Jude Thaddäus , St. James the Younger and St. Matthew are shown in the right wing .
Mary Altar
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During the renovation of the church carried out in 1975, the Marian altar, which was originally in the nave, was placed on the front wall of the side chapel. The outer panels of the altar retable of the winged altar were transferred to the Sacred Heart Church in 1906. They probably come from the collegiate church of St. Simon and Judas, which was demolished in 1822 . The two Goslar altarpieces are copies of the exterior of an altar from 1499, which is in the Göttingen Municipal Museum and is attributed to the workshop of Hans von Geismar . Only the case made of oak wood with tempera paintings on the back of the altar wing, on the left the Annunciation of the Angel to Mary and on the right the birth of Christ, are part of the original inventory. They probably belonged to a Marian altar donated by a wealthy family in 1517 for the small crypt under the chapter house . The coronation of Mary in the central shrine was not added until the 19th century. It leans against the carved altar by Michael Pacher in the Catholic parish church in Sankt Wolfgang in the Salzkammergut . The figures of John the Baptist and Paul the Hermit on the left, and those of Margaret and Dorothea on the right side wing come from other late Gothic altars.
Andreas Altar
The Andreas wing shrine, which was originally located in the apse, now hangs on the outer wall of the aisle. In the middle part of the open shrine you can see St. Andrew the Apostle , on the left of him St. Margaret, on the right St. Lucia . Saint Agatha is depicted on the right side wing, and Saint Barbara on the left .
More works of art
- Crucifix , hanging to the left of the choir, made around 1729.
- Sacred Heart statue , standing on a console to the right of the door to the sacristy.
- 14 Stations of the Cross , as pictures on the right side of the nave in wall niches.
- Madonna in the manner of the Black Madonna of Czestochowa , donated around 1900 by Polish workers who were employed in the construction of the Teltow Canal , in the rear part of the church on the back wall under the organ gallery, The Child Jesus and the Mother of God are with crowns, sparkling glass stones and synthetic gemstones.
organ
As a further feature, the church received a pneumatic organ with 22 registers in 1907 , which was built by the Dinse brothers . The organ was consecrated on April 2nd, 1907. In 1968 the now electrified organ was renewed and inaugurated on October 5, 1969. Because the action had been showing considerable damage since the end of the 20th century and repairs no longer seemed worthwhile, the community bought a used organ from the Ladach company in Wuppertal in 2004 . The organ, built in 1911 by the Conacher company in Huddersfield / England , which was in a Methodist church in England until around 2003 , was renovated by the organ manufacturer Jost Truthmann in Frankfurt (Oder) , built into the church in 2005 and inaugurated in August 2005.
literature
- Catholic parish Herz Jesu: 100 years Herz-Jesu-Kirche Berlin-Tempelhof. Berlin 1998
- Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin: Berlin and its buildings. Part VI. Sacred buildings. Berlin 1997
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Band Berlin. Munich / Berlin 2006
- Gerhard Streicher and Erika Drave: Berlin - city and church. Berlin 1980.
- Klaus-Dieter Wille: The bells of Berlin (West). History and inventory. Berlin 1987
Web links
- Catalog of inscriptions: Stadt Goslar DI 45, No. 68, Berlin-Tempelhof, parish church Herz Jesu 1517?
- Entry in the Berlin State Monument List with further information
- Information about the organ