Immanuel Church (Berlin)
The Immanuelkirche is a Protestant church in the Winsviertel of the Berlin district of Prenzlauer Berg in the Pankow district . It was inaugurated on October 21, 1893. Like many other churches in Berlin from the end of the 19th century, it is built in the neo-Romanesque style; it is a listed building . The Evangelical Church Congregation Immanuel, together with the Bartholomäus-Kirchgemeinde and the Advent-Zachäus-Kirchgemeinde, form the parish district Am Prenzlauer Berg in the parish of Berlin Stadtmitte .
location
The church named after Immanuel is located in the south of the Prenzlauer Berg district on the corner of Prenzlauer Allee and Immanuelkirchstraße, on the western edge of the Winsviertel. When it was completed, the building was in the open, but today's neighboring dense development did not take place until the 20th century.
history
At the end of the 19th century, the parish of the Bartholomäuskirche , which is located at the Königstor , had grown to such an extent that a separate church had to be built for the residential areas around Prenzlauer Allee. As with most of the new churches of this time, the building was under the patronage of the then Empress Auguste Viktoria . Construction work began in 1891 and the foundation stone was laid on June 12, 1892. The large landowners Julius Bötzow , Auguste Bötzow, Elisabeth Ahrends and Herman Bötzow donated the necessary building land to the community. The neighboring Georgen community took over the costs of around 300,000 marks for the actual construction .
The architect Bernhard Kühn designed a neo-Romanesque, rectangular veneer building made of red clinker bricks with an octagonal choir extension . He arranged the distinctive, 68-meter-high tower on a square floor plan with an octagonal pointed helmet in the northwest of the property. In the tower there are three cast steel bells, made in 1892 by the Bochum Association . The total cost of the bell was 3,081 marks . The middle bell owes its casting to a donation from the government architect Ernst Peters and bears an inscription.
The following information can be found in an inventory list of the foundry: The three-part bell came in a square bell chamber with a side length of 5.60 m. The production of all three bells including accessories such as clapper, axles, bearings and chime levers cost 3,081 marks .
| size | Chime | Weight (kg) | lower diameter (mm) |
Height (mm) | inscription |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| greatest | e | 945 | 1335 | 1185 | unknown |
| middle | G | 676 | 1175 | 1040 | “Psalm 117. Praise the Lord, all Gentiles; praise him all peoples! For his grace and truth rule over us forever. Hallelujah. " |
| smallest | b | 423 | 1335 | 1040 | unknown |
Statues of the four evangelists are enthroned on the base of the tower . For the tympanum of the entrance portal, the artist Paul Mohn designed a large, colored mosaic picture , executed by the Puhl & Wagner company , depicting a blessing Christ, which is located above the two entrance gates.
The inauguration of the building took place in the presence of Kaiser Wilhelm II and his wife Auguste Viktoria on October 21, 1893 with a sermon given by General Superintendent Wilhelm Faber . Due to some confusion, the church was owned by the state from 1893 to 1999, and only then did it become parish.
In 1906, electrical lighting was installed in the church building. In the years 1944/1945 the church tower, the roof and the ceiling of the nave as well as the windows of the choir apse and the roof of the parish hall were badly damaged by air raids and fighting. Looters made the sacrament wine and a large carpet of the church disappear. However, the structural damage was repaired soon after the end of the war. Problems from the occupation by the Red Army have not become known.
The church has been recognized as an architectural monument since 1985.
Church interior
Total interior space
The interior of the flat-ceiling hall church with a four-bay main nave , which is joined by two side aisles of different widths, is remarkable. The ceiling is decorated with tempera paintings, in whose two-dimensional ornaments four medallions show biblical scenes. The walls of the central nave are also extensively decorated with floral ornaments, which were created under the direction of the Braunschweig painter Adolf Quensen . The terracotta figures of the apostles James , Bartholomew , Peter and Paul lean against four pillars . After more than 100 years, however, all surfaces of the interior, the surfaces of the figures and the columns are heavily soiled, which can only be restored to their old beauty through careful manual restoration .
Altar, choir room, pulpit
The wooden altar stands on a sandstone table , which has already been restored, in an altar niche accessible via five steps. The altar sheet with a depiction of Christ was designed by the painter Bernhard Plockhorst , and the painting was donated in 1893 by Margarethe Bötzow. In the choir apse , to the left and right of the altar, there are figures of Moses with the tablets of the law and John the Baptist .
The windows of the choir apse burst at the end of the Second World War and could no longer be repaired. In the 1950s, the community received new, modern stained glass windows that were made to designs by the artist Herbert Mundel . The pulpit , the position of which on a pillar where the choir and church naves meet, is a faithful implementation of the Eisenach regulations for Protestant church buildings from 1861 , was donated by Superintendent Kreibig. A simple baptismal font, given by the church elder to the Bartholomew community, completes the furnishings of the choir room.
organ
The organ in the gallery comes from the Frankfurt organ builder Wilhelm Sauer and was ceremoniously handed over to the community on October 14, 1893. In 1914 the Steinmeyer company added a few registers to the organ. Despite this, the sound has hardly changed and is considered an important example of the art of organ building at the end of the 19th century.
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- Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P, Sub II / I, Super II / I
- Playing aids : 2 free combinations, 5 fixed combinations, piano pedal, tongue holder, roller, holder
Immanuel Church
In 1928 the congregation built a parish hall right next to the church based on designs by the architect Otto Werner . The house also contains apartments and offers space for numerous social clubs. In 1946 a community day care center was set up in the same building. Today the parish hall is used for parish work and in winter for church services and is also a listed building. The day care center was restructured in 2005 into a community day-care center.
The Immanuel congregation has been collecting donations for the renovation of the church building since 1999, which have already been used to repair the roof structure and skylights. However, further work is urgently needed, such as the removal of general water and weather damage, the removal of deposits and a possible installation of a heater. The total costs are estimated at around 3.6 million euros, an early closing date does not seem possible.
See also
literature
- Parish council of the Immanuelgemeinde (ed.): 100 years Immanuelkirche and Immanuelgemeinde Prenzlauer Berg 1893–1993. A historical review. Berlin 1993.
- Information sheet of the municipality , 2007
- Knut Elstermann: My Winsstrasse. be.bra verlag 2013 - contains stories about the pastor Johannes Schwartzkopff, also Jonas Herms: With strength and light against the demons of the time.
Web links
- Immanuel Congregation website
- Roof and construction images
- Immanuelkirchstraße: From club to club. In: Der Tagesspiegel from August 6, 2010.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bartholomäus in Berlin , accessed on March 30, 2017
- ↑ Compilation of the bells delivered to Berlin and the surrounding area ; Bochum Association, around 1900. In the archive of the Köpenick Church of St. Josef, viewed on August 6, 2019.
- ↑ Ensemble church & parish hall ,Church & enclosure ,Community House & Community Hall
- ^ Andreas Bäuml: Life and Work of Otto Werner (Dissertation 2005), online; Retrieved July 15, 2009
- ↑ Monument Immanuelkirchstrasse 1a, parish hall of the Ev. Immanuelkirche, 1927–1929 by Otto Werner
Coordinates: 52 ° 32 ′ 0 ″ N , 13 ° 25 ′ 16 ″ E