Johanniskirche (Berlin)

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Johanniskirche (Berlin)
Johanniskirche in Berlin-Moabit (2017)

Johanniskirche in Berlin-Moabit (2017)
Construction year: 1832-1835
Inauguration: June 24, 1835
Builder : Karl Friedrich Schinkel
Style elements : Brick building with forms of Northern Italian Romanesque
Client: Evangelical parish of St. Sophien, Berlin-Mitte
Space: 1000 people
Location: 52 ° 31 '30.3 "  N , 13 ° 20' 59.4"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 31 '30.3 "  N , 13 ° 20' 59.4"  E
Address: Alt-Moabit 25
Berlin-Moabit
Berlin , Germany
Purpose: Evangelical Lutheran parish church
Local community: Evangelical Church
Community Tiergarten Alt Moabit 25, 10559 Berlin
Regional Church : Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia ,
church district Berlin city center
Website: www.ev-gemeinde-tiergarten.de

The Johanniskirche is a church designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel and consecrated in 1835, expanded several times and renewed after war damage. It stands in the district of Berlin-Moabit of the Mitte district and is one of the four Schinkel suburban churches that originally all had a similar plan. It bears its name after John the Baptist . The Evangelical Johanniskirche belongs to the Evangelical Church Community Berlin-Tiergarten and thus to the church district Berlin Stadtmitte (KKBS) of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia (EKBO).

The Ibn Rushd Goethe Mosque has been located in an outbuilding of the church since June 2017 .

Building history

From 1832 to 1835 it was built on Spandauer Heerweg, today's Alt-Moabit road . Its inauguration took place on June 24th ( St. John's Day) 1835. Like the identical Old Nazareth Church , the church building was initially a simple brick building without a tower. Expansion plans were made very soon as the community grew rapidly. Friedrich August Stüler made the corresponding designs as early as 1844, which were implemented from the 1850s.

The vestibule of the Johanniskirche around 1861

The parish school, the rectory, the 47.60 meter high campanile to the left of the church , the vestibule and the arcade were added in several construction phases , giving the entire complex an Italian look. In 1865 the mason foreman E. Assmann built the sexton's house.

Since the church had become too small for the congregation, which had continued to grow, it had to be enlarged - although the Heilandskirche was inaugurated as a further preaching site in 1894 . Max Spitta added the transept and the new choir in 1895/1896 . Together with the seats in the gallery , the church now offered around 1,000 seats.

The Johanniskirche was badly damaged in World War II , the interior burned out completely during an air raid on November 23, 1943. In the years 1952–1957, the building ensemble was rebuilt under the direction of Otto Bartnings and Professor Werry Roth (1885–1958) . In doing so, the two architects agreed with the state curator Hinnerk Scheper that the Spittasche extension should be retained, but that the restoration should be carried out in the Schinkel's sense. The inauguration of the church - simply restored inside - took place on June 23, 1957. Instead of the choir - apse - closure, the church now has a fourth gable , behind which there are community rooms on several floors. Accordingly, the sanctuary only protrudes slightly into this fourth arm of the church. On the new Altarmensa there is a late Gothic triumphal cross group , which comes from the Franciscan monastery church that was ruined in the Second World War . The cross on which the crucified Christ hangs is modern - the figures are also closer together than originally.

The architects Hans C. Müller and Georg Heinrichs erected a new building in 1963 in place of the parish hall , which was built in 1896/1897 and burned out in 1945 , which is based on the existing buildings with its dark clinker facing .

The entire area with all outbuildings and the cemetery is under monument protection and lies in the area of ​​the church district Berlin Stadtmitte .

organ

The organ of the church was built in 1959 in the workshop of Karl Schuke . It has 36  stops on three manuals and a pedal . A fourth manual was planned as a return positive , but not carried out.

I = IV breastwork (swellable) C – g 3
1. Cash 08th'
2. recorder 04 ′
3. Principal 02 ′
4th Pipe whistle 02 ′
5. Night horn 01'
6th Terzian II
7th Cymbel III
8th. Vox Humana 08th'
Tremulant
II Hauptwerk C – g 3
9. Reed flute 16 ′
10. Principal 08th'
11. Black viola 08th'
12. octave 04 ′
13. Capstan flute 04 ′
14th Hollow fifth 02 2 ⁄ 3  ′
15th Super octave 02 ′
16. Mixture VI-VIII 02 ′
17th Trumpet 08th'
III Swell C – g 3
18th Night horn 08th'
19th Willow pipe 08th'
20th Singing principal 04 ′
21st Dolkan 04 ′
22nd Smalled up 02 ′
23. Sif flute 01 1 ⁄ 3  ′
24. Wooden laughter II
25th Krummhorn 16 ′
26th French oboe 08th'
27. Clarine 04 ′
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
28. Principal 16 ′
29 Pedestal 16 ′
30th octave 08th'
31. Coupling flute 08th'
32. Hollow flute 04 ′
33. Pipe whistle 02 ′
34. Mixture V
35. trombone 16 ′
36. Head trumpet 04 ′
  • Pair : (IV / I), IV / II, IV / III, (I / II), III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P, IV / P
  • Playing aids : 4–6 free combinations, roller, cymbal star

Bells

Bell jar material Chime Casting year Bell foundry Weight
(kg)		 Diameter (
cm)		 Height
(cm)		 inscription
1. bronze b ′ 1906 Heinrich Kurtz 0590 083 070 LOOK, THAT IS GOD'S LAMB / WEARING THE WORLD'S SINS. JOH. 1.29 / CAST BY HEINRICH KURTZ IN STUTTGART 1906.
2. Cast steel G' 1957 Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock 0670 103 088 ARE YOU THE ONE SHOULD COME / OR SHOULD WE WAIT FOR SOMEONE ELSE. / 1957.
3. Cast steel dis ′ 1957 Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock 1450 133 112 IT'S A VOICE OF A PREDICATOR IN THE DESERT + / PREPARES THE LORD THE EG + / 1957.

literature

  • Matthias Hoffmann-Tauschwitz: Old Churches in Berlin. 33 visits to the oldest churches in the western part of the city . 2nd revised edition. Wichern-Verlag, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-88981-048-9 , pp. 231-241.
  • Matthias Hoffmann-Tauschwitz: Paths to Berlin Churches. Suggestions for exploring church sites in the western part of Berlin . Wichern-Verlag, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-88981-031-4 , p. 47 f.
  • Günther Kühne, Elisabeth Stephani: Evangelical churches in Berlin . 2nd Edition. CZV-Verlag, Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-7674-0158-4 , pp. 266-268.
  • Felix Schultze: 150 years of St. Johannis Church Berlin-Moabit . Reprint from 1960 with additions. Wichern-Verlag, Berlin 1985.

Web links

Commons : Johanniskirche (Berlin)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The buildings and art monuments of Berlin: Tiergarten district, edit. by I. Wirth Hinnerk Scheper Gebr. Mann, 1955 p. 42 (restricted view)
  2. ↑ Landesdenkmalamt Berlin Monument database single-family house & residential building Schopenhauerstraße 46 Werry Roth