Johann Sebastian Bach Church (Berlin)
The evangelical Johann Sebastian Bach Church was built between 1980 and 1981 based on designs by Reinhold Barwich . It represents the architectural style of postmodern architecture and is located at Luzerner Strasse 10–12 in the Berlin district of Lichterfelde in the Steglitz-Zehlendorf district . The church belongs to the parish of Steglitz in Sprengel Berlin of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Oberlausitz and comprises about 3000 parishioners.
History of origin
The residents of the southern parish of the Johannesgemeinde in Lichterfelde held services in a gazebo after the Second World War because of the great distance to their church building . From 1954 they used the clubhouse of the Abendruh arbor colony , and from 1959 the parsonage on Carstennstrasse. They had then acquired the former emergency church of the Daniel community center and had it set up on a piece of land on Luzerner Strasse. The prefabricated wooden house designed by Erich Ruhtz was inaugurated on February 11, 1968 as a community center . The facade of the single-storey building has a continuous ribbon of windows. In front of the entrance to the building with a canopy is a portal-shaped steel bell carrier.
On April 1, 1969, the Ev. Johannes-Süd parish , which has been called Johann Sebastian Bach Parish since November 1, 1970 , has been separated from the Johannes parish and is independent. In 1971 a church building association was founded to prepare for the construction of a more solid and larger church. In 1973 the Association of the Berlin Synod carried out an architectural competition in which the congregation chose the cheapest design, the construction costs of which were given as 1.9 million marks (adjusted for purchasing power in today's currency: around 3 million euros). A general construction freeze for West Berlin church locations prevented the church from being built. In 1976 the parish council decided to erect a small prefabricated wooden church from its own resources, which would cost around 300,000 marks. The Berlin consistory , however, did not approve this construction, but agreed to a solid construction with self-financing by the municipality. The required sum of 750,000 marks was finally collected through the sale of a parish-owned property, through the money saved in the church building association, through a loan and a donation from Bishop Martin Kruse . The foundation stone was laid next to the community center on November 9, 1980 , the topping-out ceremony was celebrated on May 8, 1981, and Bishop Kruse inaugurated the new church building on November 29, 1981 .
Building description and equipment
The octagonal central building is clad with bricks and finished with a tent roof covered with tiles . Above it rises a glass lantern , under which the church hall, illuminated by a ribbon of windows, is arranged. This main room is consistently aligned with the central altar . The circumferential gallery is supported by a wreath of supports . The Zehlendorf village church is the model for this design , but the church interior is axially aligned with the altar. The designs and the execution of a total of 18 colored glass windows in the lower area of the church come from Sigmund Hahn.
In the church there is a small organ from the workshop of Karl Schuke, which was made in 1952 for the church at Heilsbronnen in Berlin-Schöneberg . After a stopover at the Hephatha Church in Berlin-Britz , she joined the Bach community in 1971. Remodeling and relocations followed until it was finally placed in the new church.
literature
- Christine Goetz , Matthias Hoffmann-Tauschwitz: Churches Berlin Potsdam. Berlin 2003.
- Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin (ed.): Berlin and its buildings. Part VI. Sacred buildings. Berlin 1997.
- Klaus-Dieter Wille: The bells of Berlin (West). History and inventory. Berlin 1987.
- Günther Kühne, Elisabeth Stephanie: Evangelical churches in Berlin. Berlin 1978.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Website of the Johann Sebastian Bach Church
- ↑ Cantor Bruno Sommhammer on the website of the J.-S-Bach Church with the organ history and the disposition ( memento of the original from August 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 52 ° 25 ′ 26.7 ″ N , 13 ° 17 ′ 51.6 ″ E