Jesus Christ Church (Berlin-Konradshöhe)
The Jesus-Christ Church is the church of the Protestant parish Konradshöhe - Tegelort in Berlin 's Reinickendorf district .
Location and surroundings
The church is located in Konradshöhe on the corner property Schwarzspechtweg 1–3 / Eichelhäserstraße. On the property at Beatestrasse 29 in Tegelort there is a Protestant kindergarten set up by the community and behind it a senior citizens' residential complex that it initiated. Both the church building and the other facilities can be reached by bus line 222 (Tegelort-Lübars).
Church history
Konradshöhe, Tegelort and Jörsfelde belonged to 1950 as Heiligensee south to the district Heiligensee . The Protestant residents first had to go to church at Heiligensee . From 1895, quarterly devotions were held in the school building of the Tegelort School, which was founded in the same year. The teacher served as sexton and lead singer. The congregation had no rooms of its own in Heiligensee-Süd, although the deacon had lived there permanently since 1927 . The Jesus Christ Church, consecrated in 1939, was initially a subsidiary church of the Heiligensee parish; the Evangelical parish Konradshöhe-Tegelort was not established until 1948.
Building history
As early as 1920, collections were made in Heiligensee for a church in Tegelort, but inflation ruined these plans. In 1929, the parish bought a forest property in Konradshöhe from the Heiligenseer farmer Lemcke, on which they wanted to build either a parish hall or a church. Only after the global economic crisis had subsided did the Heiligenseer Parish Church Council decide on June 9, 1936 to build a church.
The Evangelical Church Community Heiligensee commissioned the renowned Berlin architect Otto Kuhlmann with the design. The construction company Friedrich Seidel was commissioned with the execution. The foundation stone was laid on November 7, 1937, and the bells were lifted on August 23, 1938. The church was consecrated on February 26, 1939 in an almost finished condition - only the hands of the church tower clock were missing. This made the Jesus Christ Church the last church consecrated in Berlin before the Second World War. The dedication speech was given by Superintendent Fritsch, the festive sermon by Pastor Haack from Heiligensee and the liturgy by Pastor Thiele, who is now responsible for the church .
The complex originally consisted of the church hall and a rectory standing almost at right angles to it, as well as the connecting church tower. These components are listed as architectural monuments in the Berlin list of monuments. Serious damage from an air raid in 1943 was repaired in the first few years after the war. The first expansion took place in 1961/1962 by the architect Dietrich Römer, who planned a two-story building for apartments and youth rooms. The old and new buildings have been connected by a single-storey office building built by Wolfgang Kamisch since 1971.
Due to the increasing number of residents, a Protestant community center was built on the property at Beatestrasse 29 in Tegelort in 1965. This building, planned by the architect Ewald Bubner, was constructed using wood. Today there is a Protestant kindergarten on this property, which was opened in 2000, as well as a senior citizens' residence completed in 2004. Both were designed by the architect Hans-Jürgen Juschkus.
Interior design
Altarpiece
At the instigation of Pastor Haack from Heiligensee, the altarpiece was created that covers the entire choir wall . Here, as in the Heiligensee village church he oversees, reference was made to the Heiligensee ferry that has existed for centuries in the interior design. In the village church there is a wooden plaque with the names and terms of office of all known Heiligensee pastors. The picture shows a ferryman who puts the souls of the deceased over the water towards eternal life. In 1938 , the church painter Professor Rudolf Schäfer created a 40 m² mural in the Jesus Christ Church as his first work in Berlin, which also shows a ferry on its way to the afterlife. Seven family members of the Heiligensee farmer Lemcke can be recognized on the ferry, including his two sons who died in the First World War. As mentioned on the painting, the Lemcke family donated a considerable amount of money for its creation. The upper half of the picture shows Jesus Christ surrounded by the twelve apostles. The apostles show the facial features of twelve well-known theologians of the 1930s. The altarpiece, which was badly damaged in World War II, was restored in 1967.
Bells
The three church bells were provided with verses reminiscent of Christmas, Easter and Pentecost by the Brandenburg hymn poet Gustav Schüler . These bells melted down during the war were replaced by one in 1949 and by two more in 1958, which are now hanging in the bell chamber:
| Caster | Pouring year | Chime | Weight (kg) |
Diameter (cm) |
Height (cm) |
inscription |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| David Voltchen | 1572 | c ′ ′ | 175 | 71 | 52 | SIC DEUS MVN VT FILIV SVVM UNIGENITV DARET ANNO 0 M 0 V × / ISSUE MI DAVIDT VOLTCHEN IN GADES NAMEN DONE + LXXII ×. |
| Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock | 1958 | G' | 670 | 103 | 86 | COUNTRY, COUNTRY, COUNTRY, HEAR THE LORD'S WORD - PRAISE THE LORD EVERYDAY. |
| Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock | 1958 | b ′ | 370 | 86 | 69 | SO GOD LOVED THE WORLD THAT HE GOT HIS NATIVE SON. |
additional
The altar and pulpit, both designed by Rudolf Schäfer, disappeared in 1961 and were replaced by an altar table and a modern pulpit. Furthermore, the old baptismal font is in the church, as well as the fourth organ since 1970. This comes from the Göttingen company Ott and is not on the gallery as usual, but in the nave .
Exterior design
The church building, which is surrounded by a stone wall, is brightly plastered. On the east-facing choir wall it is provided with a Gothic -looking stepped decorative gable made of bricks. The church tower has a two-tiered wooden spire with a tower clock, the dials of which point east and north. Due to the construction based on a village or forest church, the church at the edge of the forest blends in harmoniously with the surroundings.
literature
- Günther Kühne, Elisabeth Stephani: Evangelical churches in Berlin. Christlicher Zeitschriftenverlag, Berlin 1978, ISBN 3-7674-0158-4 , p. 134.
- Jörg Müller: From the Heiligenseer Hinterfeld to the climatic health resort Konradshöhe-Tegelort. Wichern-Verlag, Berlin 1987.
- Alexander Uhlig: Otto Kuhlmann (1873-1948). Architect between tradition and modernity. Dissertation, Technical University of Hanover, 2002.
- Klaus-Dieter Wille: The bells of Berlin (West). History and inventory. Berlin 1987.
Web links
- Website of the Evangelical Church Community Konradshöhe / Tegelort
- Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Klaus Schlickeiser: Walks in Tegelort and Konradshöhe, around Lake Tegel and Tegel Airport . Osthavelland-Druck, Velten 2006, ISBN 3-927611-24-7 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 34 '53.1 " N , 13 ° 13' 35.6" E