Johanneskirche (Berlin-Frohnau)
| Johanneskirche (Berlin-Frohnau) | |
|---|---|
 Church with outbuildings |
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| Start of building: | June 2, 1935 |
| Inauguration: | November 1, 1936 |
| Architect : | Walter and Johannes Krüger |
| Style elements : | Reminiscences of North German Gothic , Nordic Heimatstil and Expressionism , |
| Client: | Evangelical parish councilor Frohnau |
| Tower height: |
28 m |
| Location: | 52 ° 38 '2.8 " N , 13 ° 17' 30.4" E |
| Address: | Zeltinger Platz 18 Berlin , Germany |
| Purpose: | evangelical-union ; church service |
| Local community: | Evangelical parish Frohnau |
| Regional Church : | Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia |
| Website: | www.ekg-frohnau.de |
The Johanneskirche in the Berlin district of Frohnau in the Reinickendorf district is a hall church, consecrated in 1936 , with a rectangular tower, vestibule with triangular gable and outside staircase . It is a listed building .
history
In the garden city of Frohnau, which was built after an urban planning competition from 1908 , a building site for a church of the Protestant community was already planned, but not at the current location. The parish held the first church services from April 1912 in a very cramped classroom of the higher private school on what was then Bahnhofsplatz (since 1937: Ludolfingerplatz ). From the autumn of 1921, church services took place in the gym at Senheimer Strasse 35, which had been redesigned as an emergency church and which was already named Johanneskirche . Frohnau was pastor to Stolpe until 1922 , this affiliation remained in place until April 1, 1929 despite a certain degree of independence. Then the Frohnau parish separated from the Stolpe parish. The emergency church soon became too small for the rapidly growing community. In 1928 the land on which the church was built was bought. In 1930 a design competition for a church building was announced. The architects Johannes and Walter Krüger were not the winners, but their design for the church and parish hall was realized. The construction costs amounted to 439,000 marks (adjusted for inflation in today's currency: around 1,607,000 euros).
building
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Main house
Instead of a choir, the church has a small polygonal extension for the sacristy . Just like the church, the adjoining two- and three-story tracts for the parish hall and the rectory are masonry . They are layered light brown with three layers and two layers of dark brown brick , the former in Klosterformat , blinded . Below the church hall is the parish hall, which, like the church, is accessible from Zeltinger Platz. The resulting height of the church space is reached by a wide flight of stairs with an open vestibule above the upper platform. The gable of the church interior is closed with a gable roof in the longitudinal direction. It stands on four carved wooden columns dedicated to the evangelists Matthew , Mark , Luke and John .
The walls of the nave and the sacristy are divided between the windows by supporting pillars.
tower
The tower is reminiscent of Romanesque westworks of medieval fortified churches ; in the upper bell storey it has arched windows as sound openings. Below the eaves there is a three-layer round arch frieze , above which rises the high, transversely directed gable roof . The bell consists of four bronze bells .
| Caster | Pouring year | Chime | Weight (kg) |
Diameter ( cm) |
Height (cm) |
Crown (cm) |
inscription |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Franz Schilling | 1936 | g sharp ' | 431 | 92 | 70 | 15th | SEE I AM WITH YOU ALL DAYS UP TO THE WORLD'S END + MATTHEW 28.20 |
| Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock | 1957 | cis' | 2173 | 150 | 119 | 24 | I LIVE AND YOU SHOULD LIVE TOO. JOHN 14:19 |
| Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock | 1957 | e ' | 1175 | 122 | 99 | 19th | I SEE YOU PROMOTE GREAT JOY, YOU ARE BORN TODAY THE SAVIOR LUCAS 2: 10-11 + |
| Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock | 1957 | fis' | 811 | 108 | 89 | 17th | LET THE KIDS COME TO ME AND DO NOT PROTECT YOURSELF. MARK 10.14 + |
Since 2008, the nest of kestrels , which regularly nest here in the church tower, has been observed using a webcam installed by the Naturschutzbund Deutschland .
inner space
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The plain interior is by ogival binder from reinforced concrete articulated, the fields between the binders were plastered down and provided at the top with a wooden ceiling. The beam of the roof ridge is visible. In front of the altar there is a high, round-arched wall section in the manner of a triumphal arch . The gallery above the entrance carries the organ . It is an instrument from the workshop of Alexander Schuke with three manuals , 40 registers and 2742 pipes.
Each side of the interior is illuminated by six tall, narrow lead glass windows designed by Götz Loepelmann and executed in the Puhl & Wagner workshops in Berlin-Neukölln . In the sequence they represent the story of creation . They were installed around 1965. The formal design, consisting of a square and a circle and their modifications, refers to the Brandenburg port pane windows in the area, but here it is enriched and freely developed. In the apse there are two more windows, which give light and have a simpler design. Later, glass panes were placed in front of the valuable, small-scale lead glazing for protection.
Elevator system
The two high stairs to the church were difficult to negotiate for people with walking difficulties. For this reason, an elevator system was installed in the left part of the church tower for barrier-free access, in order to create a connection down from its ground floor entrance to the parish hall and up to the left anteroom of the church. The cost was around 250,000 marks , which were raised by the Fürst Donnersmarck Foundation , the regional church and other donors. The project was controversial in the community because the wall of the elevator shaft covered the war memorial and it was therefore invisible. Relocating the monument was too costly. A large part of the community was not reluctant to see the warrior, who with the swastika on the belt lock reminded too much of the time of National Socialism , disappeared. The wall hides the former “Hall of Honor” and the elevator shaft from the eyes of the churchgoers.
On the wall to the left of the entrance to the church, a new memorial in the form of a triptych was created, which not only commemorates those who died in the two world wars, but also all victims of violence.
Use and environment
The church is used regularly for all church matters such as baptisms, church services, weddings, Vespers or funerals. In addition, there are public organ concerts, concerts with the Kantorei choir as well as with guest singers and guest orchestras.
An artistically designed memorial plaque outside the church recalls with the inscription "Jewish neighbor 1933-1945, persecuted, expelled and murdered, remember?" To the Jewish pogroms in the era of National Socialism .
literature
- Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin: Berlin and its buildings. Part VI. Sacred buildings. Berlin 1997
- Parish church council of the Evangelical parish Frohnau: 75 years Johanneskirche. Berlin 2011 (PDF; 2.6 MB)
- Günther Kühne, Elisabeth Stephanie: Evangelical churches in Berlin. Berlin 1978
- Klaus-Dieter Wille: The bells of Berlin (West). History and inventory (= The buildings and art monuments of Berlin. Supplement 16). Mann, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-7861-1443-9 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Project kestrels in front of the camera , ( memento of the original from March 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 22, 2011
- ↑ Information on the organ
- ↑ Event overview of the EKG Frohnau ( Memento of the original from March 18, 2013 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.
- ↑ Frohnauer Konzert-Archiv ( Memento of the original from August 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 22, 2011
- ↑ Brief portrait of the Johanneskirche Frohnau on Stadtplandienst.de
