Jesus Church (Berlin-Kreuzberg)
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The Jesus Church is a former church of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia in Kreuzbergstrasse 47 in the Berlin district of Kreuzberg in today's Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg district . It was built in 1960/1961 for the Jesus Congregation based on a design by Harald Franke and was used by this congregation until 1998 and then until 2004 by the free church Tabor congregation for church services. After a long period of vacancy, the church was de-dedicated in a service in May 2014. The church was sold and converted into apartments.
history
In 1871 the Free Evangelical Lutheran Jesus Congregation came into being , which goes back to the Association of Friends of Zion founded on December 13, 1867 . For this club one was on May 31, 1868 Chapel in the Alexandrinenstraße 11 opened , which offered 500 people. The Jesus Community was independent of the Evangelical Church in Prussia . When the chapel became too small, the Jesus Community had a larger church built in the courtyard of an ordinary tenement house at Wassertorstraße 37a, a three-aisled hall church made of yellowish brick , which was inaugurated on June 4, 1876. It had 850 seats, but could hold up to 1000 people. This building was destroyed in the Second World War on February 3, 1945. Until the completion of their new church at Kreuzbergstraße 47, the Jesusgemeinde used the hall of the Berlin City Mission on Lenaustraße in Neukölln . The foundation stone of the new Jesus Church was celebrated on 31 July 1960 its inauguration took place on 9 July 1961. In November 1960, the Jesus community, after separation from the city of Mission, by taking over parts of the territory of the Passions community to became its own congregation within the Protestant regional church. Until its merger with the Christ Church in 1998, the Jesus Church remained financially independent. Since the merger, the church building was used by the free-church Tabor parish until 2004. Since then it has been empty. On May 4, 2014, the church after decision of the Municipality Council of Churches in a Entwidmungsgottesdienst by the competent superintendent of was the church district Berlin-center Berthold hump deconsecrated and therefore abandoned as a church building. In a procession, parishioners carried the altar cross, altar Bible, sacrament implements and vestments into the Christ Church , where the tradition of the Jesus Church will continue to live. A building community plans to acquire and convert the building into condominiums.
Building description
church
The structure , a reinforced concrete - skeleton is of the construction line is reset and has a rectangular, transverse to the street layout . The nave of the hall church is on the second floor of the building . Above there are two residential floors with windows facing the street and loggias facing the courtyard , below is the youth room . The frames and beams of the supporting structure in the area of the facade of the nave are clad with small white ceramic tiles. The remaining wall surfaces between the windows are darkly plastered.
Inside there is the altar on a dais in front of the windows facing the street , next to it, on the side in front of the wall between the window groups, the pulpit , on the other side the baptismal font . The pews of the church stalls are arranged at a slight angle, facing the altar.
Bells
The bell tower , also clad with white tiles, is in front of the building on the street, but is connected to it. It contains the staircase and an elevator to the upper floors. In his belfry there was a ring made of three bronze bells, which was made in 1962 by the Rincker bell and art foundry .
| Chime | Weight (kg) |
Diameter (cm) |
Height (cm) |
inscription |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| g sharp ′ | 536 | 96 | 80 | ONLY TRUE! ONLY BLESSED! + FAITH. |
| H' | 354 | 85 | 73 | MY GOD, YOU ARE MY GOD! + HOPE. |
| cis ′ ′ | 242 | 76 | 57 | LORD, YOUR LIFE CANNOT END! + LOVE. |
After the deedication as a church building, the bell was extended on April 29, 2015.
Community hall
In the yard of the property there was a building that bordered the fire wall of the neighboring house. It used to be used as a ballroom and later as a warehouse . The architect converted this building and provided it with a shed roof . It was named after the first pastor of the parish Georg-Wilhelm-Schulze -Haus. The community hall was versatile because it has a stage . In the 1960s it was first used by the Theater am Kreuzberg , and later by the Kreuzberg Small Opera. On the side there are three inclined stairs in front of the exits. Originally, apart from the stairwell, the building only had diamond-shaped windows below the eaves . Large windows were later broken into the side facade. Now the rebuilt building is available for a kindergarten .
literature
- Christine Goetz and Matthias Hoffmann-Tauschwitz: Churches Berlin Potsdam. Berlin 2003.
- Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin: Berlin and its buildings. Part VI. Sacred buildings. Berlin 1997.
- Günther Kühne, Elisabeth Stephanie: Evangelical churches in Berlin. Berlin 1978.
- Klaus-Dieter Wille: The bells of Berlin (West). History and inventory. Berlin 1987.
- Marina Wesner: Kreuzberg and its places of worship: churches-mosques-synagogues-temples . Berlin 2007.
- Hermann Wollenberg: 100 years of Jesus Church . Berlin 1967
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Coordinates: 52 ° 29 ′ 21.1 ″ N , 13 ° 22 ′ 31.7 ″ E