Jerusalem Church (Berlin)
The Jerusalem Church is one of the formerly oldest churches in Berlin's Friedrichstadt and a current venue in the Berlin Stadtmitte church district .
history
From the chapel to the large church
As early as 1484, the Jerusalem Church was first mentioned as the Hierusalem Chapel . The chapel, which was still in front of the city at that time, was donated by a Berlin citizen named Müller in memory of his pilgrimage to Jerusalem and dedicated it to St. Mary as well as Sebastian and Fabian . In 1679, the electoral council of Martitz made an additional foundation for the construction of a small widow's hospital and had the chapel expanded by Giovanni Simonetti from 1687–1689 . In 1725–1731 a new building was built based on a design by Philipp Gerlach . Since the church had now become the most important place of worship for the residents of Friedrichstadt, Lutherans and Calvinists , the church was now also called "Friedrichstadt Church". In 1747, the upper, wooden but poorly executed part of the tower had to be removed and replaced with an emergency roof. 1836 there was a restoration of the building by Friedrich Wilhelm Langerhans , whose plans of Schinkel student Carl Scheppig when his site manager, followed it. It was not until 1838 that the church was given a slim spire designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel . In 1875 the church was closed due to disrepair. Edmund Knoblauch (1841–1883) gave the church its final shape from 1878 to 1879. Due to the expansion of the newspaper district and the relocation of the resident population, the number of parishioners shrank rapidly, the 1366 seats soon couldn't be filled. In 1941 the church was sold to the Romanian Orthodox parish in Berlin.
Destruction and new construction
During the Second World War , the largest air raid on the government and newspaper district took place on February 3, 1945 . In its center was the Jerusalem Church, which was almost completely destroyed. After the end of the war, the new government had little interest in a church ruin in the western part of Berlin . The publisher Axel Springer, on the other hand, had an eye on the property in order to build his publishing house on it. In 1961 the ruins of the Jerusalem Church were blown up.
A new building was built in 1968 according to plans by Sigrid Kressmann-Zschach in the acute angle of Lindenstrasse and Markgrafenstrasse. The Axel Springer House is located on part of the original location of the Jerusalem Church . On Rudi-Dutschke-Strasse , the outline of the former Jerusalem Church is traced with a double row of red stones as a souvenir. The foundation of the church is registered under the number 09031270 in the monument database of the Senate Department for Urban Development of the State of Berlin. Some stones from the old church were recovered from the rubble and are attached to the facade of the new church.
Outline of the former Jerusalem Church
Notice board at the former location
Ground plan of the previous church
Rubble stone of the former Jerusalem church
The Jerusalem Church as the venue
After the Evangelical Church in Jerusalem merged with four other parishes in 2001, there were hardly any services in the Jerusalem Church. In 2007, the Jerusalem Church was converted into an event location by the special places Umweltforum Berlin GmbH . Meetings, congresses and other events take place in their rooms and fill the church with new life.
Web links
- Website of the Umweltforum Berlin with further information about the church . Retrieved February 12, 2011.
- Entry in the Berlin State Monument List: Foundations of the Jerusalem Church
Individual evidence
- ^ Obituary in the Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung , No. 36, September 8, 1883, p. 340, accessed on December 21, 2012
- ^ Website of the Jerusalem Church. Retrieved July 2, 2011
- ↑ Jerusalemkirche - Berlin Location with event rooms for 300 people
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 13.6 ″ N , 13 ° 23 ′ 43.2 ″ E