Jonah Church (Berlin)
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The Protestant Jona Church , inaugurated on December 10, 1967 , its namesake is the prophet Jona from the Old Testament , is part of a building complex that is located at Roscherstrasse 6 in the Berlin district of Charlottenburg in the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district . The community center was designed from 1966–1967 as a branch church of the church on Lietzensee by Georg Lichtfuß. The congregations Jona and Hochmeister have merged into the Evangelical Parish Halensee since the beginning of January 2016, the Jonagemeinde no longer exists.
Building description
In contrast to the additive construction of a community center, which is dominated by the church building as an independent building , the architect created an integrating overall form . The three wings of the building complex stand in a vacant lot from the construction method that was closed before the Second World War . The hall church , which protrudes over the building line , lies above an open basement level across the street. The reinforced concrete skeleton structure is filled with masonry , which is plastered sand-colored. The nave and the side of the tower facing the street are covered with panels made of exposed aggregate concrete and the exterior design clearly stands out from the adjacent residential buildings . The front sides of the hall and the tower are windowless. Set back from the street so that there is a forecourt, there is a five-storey transverse wing, the top two floors of which protrudes over the hall. It has ribbon-like windows with green parapets and contains apartments and community rooms. Its roof garden has a pergola facing both the street and the rear courtyard . To the side, on the fire wall of the neighboring house, there is a six-storey wing that contains the staircase . It closes off the street with the bell tower , which protrudes like a bay window .
The juxtaposition of the altar in the rectangular, asymmetrically drawn-in choir on one side on the east and the stage , above which the gallery for the organ lies, on the west side of the hall, reflects the visual separation of ecclesiastical and secular areas.
Peal
The high, four-sided tower carries a slender cross towards the Kurfürstendamm. In the area of its bell chamber , it is divided into the street by vertical ribs. There hangs a ring made of three bronze bells , which was made in 1967 by Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock with the following data.
| Chime | Weight (kg) | Diameter (cm) | Height (cm) | Crown (cm) | inscription |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G' | 670 | 102 | 85 | 17th | OUR FAITH IS THE VICTORY THAT OVERCOMED THE WORLD - 1ST JOHN. 5.4. |
| a ′ | 450 | 90 | 73 | 15th | IF YOU DO NOT BELIEVE, YOU WILL NOT STAY - JES. 7.9. |
| c ″ | 270 | 76 | 61 | 12 | US, LORD, WILL YOU MAKE PEACE - JES. 26.12. |
literature
- Christine Goetz and Matthias Hoffmann-Tauschwitz: Churches Berlin Potsdam. Berlin 2003.
- Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin: Berlin and its buildings. Part 6: Sacred buildings. Ernst, Berlin a. a. 1997, ISBN 3-433-01016-1 .
- Klaus-Dieter Wille: The bells of Berlin (West). History and inventory. Berlin 1987.
- Günther Kühne, Elisabeth Stephanie: Evangelical churches in Berlin. CZV-Verlag, Berlin 1978, ISBN 3-7674-0158-4 .
Web links
- Jona Church on the site of the Berlin district of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 1.9 ″ N , 13 ° 18 ′ 6.6 ″ E