Jeremiah Church
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The Protestant Jeremiah Church , consecrated on September 27, 1964 , is located on the corner of Burbacher Weg and Siegener Straße in the Berlin district of Falkenhagener Feld in the Spandau district . It was designed by Bodo Fleischer as part of a community center . The 1963/1964 built building wings of the building complex are in part as a reinforced concrete skeleton structures, otherwise known as masonry structures in architectural style of the post-war modern executed.
history
According to the development plans for the large housing estate on Falkenhagener Feld, which was built from 1960, the construction of a community center was necessary because the church of the Evangelical community in Klosterfelde would not be sufficient. On April 30, 1963, the foundation stone was laid for the community center. The new congregation only became independent with effect from January 1, 1967, it initially called itself the parish on Falkenhagener Feld , later it chose Jeremiah as its namesake .
The parish works closely with the Protestant refuge parish . Since 2016 there has been a joint parish council of the Ev. Refuge and the Ev. Jeremiah Congregation. On October 31, 2017, the two congregations merged to form the "Evangelical Refuge and Jeremiah Church Congregation".
Building description
The urban meaningful community center of Bodo Fleischer is at the beginning of his church construction work. The architect compares the nature of the community center with a rural homestead , in which several buildings are grouped around a central courtyard . He developed the community center on Falkenhagener Feld around a hexagonal inner courtyard, the shape of which is repeated as a leitmotif in the buildings. All the wings of the building directly around the courtyard have hexagonal floor plans . In addition to the church, a rectory and a daycare center were planned. The floor plan of the hall church has the shape of a hexagon stretched along the east-west axis , a rectangle with exposed end walls. Inside, in front of the glazed eastern front wall, there is the altar and a high cross, in front of the western one is the gallery for the organ . The walls are clad with clinker bricks on the outside and plastered on the inside . On the south side of the nave there is a side aisle separated by slender columns , on the north side there is an extension for a chapel . The upper end is formed by a high gable roof with slate covering, which rests on four pairs of pillars with diagonally arranged, slender lattice girders above . The roof structure was left visible inside. The inner surfaces of the roof are decorated with wooden boards . Below the verge of the gable and the eaves of the gable roof are ribbon windows. An arcade connects the church with the 16 meter high bell tower to the southwest of it . The tower consists of a vertical wall panel in the shape of a trapezoid , which is opened in a trapezoidal shape on the ground floor , closed except for a trapezoidal sound arcade on the bell floor and again opened in a trapezoidal shape. The cross is attached at the very top . Opposite the vertical wall disk is an inclined wall disk in the shape of an isosceles triangle that stands on the top. The bell storey between the two wall panels is clad on the sides with lamellas, and on top it is covered with a pent roof. In the bell room hangs a ring made of three bronze bells, which was cast on July 6, 1967 by Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock .
| Chime | Weight (kg) |
Diameter (cm) |
Height (cm) |
inscription |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| G' | 721 | 103 | 84 | BE MERRY IN HOPE. |
| b ' | 368 | 85 | 70 | PATIENT IN MIRACLE. |
| c " | 283 | 77 | 63 | KEEP ON PRAYER. |
The organ has two manuals , a pedal , 16 registers and 1168 organ pipes . It was developed in 1966 by the EF Walcker & Cie. built.
On December 13, 1964 was Jeremias- front of the church sculpture of bronze of Waldemar Otto set up.
literature
- Christine Goetz and Matthias Hoffmann-Tauschwitz (eds.): Churches Berlin Potsdam. Guide to the churches in Berlin and Potsdam . Wichern-Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-88981-140-X .
- Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin (ed.): Berlin and its buildings, Vol. 6: Sacral buildings. Imhoff publishing house, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-433-01016-1 .
- Klaus-Dieter Wille: The bells of Berlin (West). History and inventory (The buildings and art monuments of Berlin / supplement; 16). Mann-Verlag, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-7861-1443-9 .
- Günther Kühne, Elisabeth Stephanie: Evangelical churches in Berlin. 2nd edition CVZ-Verlag, Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-7674-0158-4 (EA Berlin 1978).
- Parish Church Council (Ed.): 10 years Evang. Parish on Falkenhagener Feld. Berlin 1974.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 32 '48 " N , 13 ° 10' 40.8" E