Johanneskirche (Berlin-Zehlendorf)
The St. John's Church is a Grade II listed Protestant church in the Matterhorn 37-39 in the Berlin local situation Schlachtensee the district of Zehlendorf .
The asymmetrical ensemble of buildings , with the parish hall and rectory around the tower as the center , was built according to a design by the government master builder Georg Büttner . The foundation stone was laid on June 25, 1910, and the unified St. Johannes Community Center was inaugurated on September 22, 1912 . Probably were neo-Romanesque elements used, but sounds in style already the beginnings of modernity to.
history
The Schlachtensee villa colony belonging to the municipality of Zehlendorf was created at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries as a modern suburban settlement for the wealthy bourgeoisie of the up-and-coming imperial capital . The construction of the Wannseebahn led to heavy building activity with a corresponding increase in population. The old village church of Zehlendorf and also the Paulus Church , built in 1905, were no longer sufficient for the growing Zehlendorf community. A separate parish was formed in Schlachtensee, but it was not until April 1, 1949 that the Zehlendorf parish was divided and Schlachtensee became an independent parish. The meeting place for this parish was initially a school barrack on Eitel-Fritz-Strasse. In 1909 Büttner began planning the construction of a church named after the Evangelist Johannes with 250 seats. In 1910, a church building association was formed that collected money for equipping the new church. The cost estimate for the community center consisting of the church, confirmation hall and parsonage was 144,000 marks (adjusted for purchasing power in today's currency: around 840,000 euros), of which 80,000 marks for the church. The municipality contributed half of the costs for the building plot.
Towards the end of World War II , the church roof and windows were damaged. In the following years, the organ , interior fittings and paintwork were badly affected by penetrating moisture. In 1957 the church was restored and rebuilt, and again from the ground up between 1998 and 2000.
Building description
Exterior design
The church, a plastered masonry structure , consists of a two-aisled nave over four window axes with a high pitched roof and a semicircular apse on the west side of the central nave . The side facades are structured on the outside by buttresses between the windows. To the side, in front of the north facade, stands the square tower, reminiscent of an Italian campanile , to which the confirmation hall and, in turn, the parsonage are attached. The front of the rectangular hall church are two arch - portals in front, between them three groups of windows, above the decorated with rectangular aperture gable and a rosette . The windowless tower shaft is also structured by slim rectangular panels below the clock. On the platform of the tower rises a recessed bell storey with round arch arcades and a steep pyramid roof . The intermediate building, which leads from the tower to the rectory, also has a round arch portal.
During the renovation between 1998 and 2000, decorative and design elements were restored in the outdoor area and restored to their original color. The old intermediate building of the parish hall was demolished and replaced by a modern glass architecture. All parish rooms are now in the immediate vicinity of the church, so that parish life is concentrated around the church, just as the builders planned at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Interior
The apse of the rectangular, barrel-vaulted hall church is separated from the nave by a belt arch . The side aisle on the south side has a gallery , and the parapet is provided with texts from psalms above a painted frieze .
In 1957 the interior of the church was redesigned. The original baptistery on the ground floor of the tower was incorporated into the church hall. The historicizing elements from the time the church was built have been removed and the interior furnishings have been simplified. The self-supporting crucifix from the second half of the 16th century has been preserved with its body in its old version. In 1960 a memorial was inaugurated in the anteroom instead of the traditional memorial plaques for the fallen and in 1966 the Schuke organ was inaugurated.
During the renovation between 1998 and 2000, the memorial and the tower were separated by glass doors. The anteroom with the memorial became an independent chapel. Instead of the benches there are now chairs. Pulpit and altar were renewed.
Bells
The church bells were donated in 1958. It consists of three bronze bells made by the Bachert bell foundry in 1956.
| Bell jar | Chime | Weight (kg) |
Diameter ( cm) |
Height (cm) |
inscription |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | a ′ | 484 | 91 | 77 | FROM GOD THE FATHER AND FROM THE LORD JESUS CHRIST |
| 2. | c ″ | 284 | 78 | 67 | COMPASSION |
| 3. | d ″ | 222 | 69 | 60 | PEACE |
The previous bells had been melted down in both world wars. The ringing is coordinated with the bells of the neighboring Catholic Church of the Twelve Apostles . The oldest bell in Berlin from the early 13th century, the Our Father Bell , was given to the Johanneskirche in 1912 by the mother church, the Pauluskirche in Zehlendorf , and has been installed in the memorial room of the church since 1987. It weighs 320 kilograms, has a diameter of 83 and a height of 68 centimeters, is made of bronze and sounds on the strike note c ′.
literature
- Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin: Berlin and its buildings. Part 6: Sacred buildings. Ernst, Berlin a. a. 1997, ISBN 3-433-01016-1 .
- Günther Kühne, Elisabeth Stephanie: Evangelical churches in Berlin. CZV-Verlag, Berlin 1978, ISBN 3-7674-0158-4 .
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments (volume Berlin ). Munich / Berlin 2006.
- Klaus-Dieter Wille: The bells of Berlin (West). History and inventory. Berlin 1987.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 26 ′ 15.6 ″ N , 13 ° 13 ′ 10 ″ E