Queen Luise Church
| Parish church of Queen Luise | |
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| address | Waidmannslust , Bondickstrasse 14 |
| builder | Architect Robert Leibnitz |
| Denomination | Evangelical Lutheran |
| local community | Huntsmanship |
| Current usage |
Parish church |
| building | |
| start of building | 1910 |
| inauguration | October 9, 1913 |
| Renewals | multiple u. a. 1960–1961, 1990s |
| style |
Neo-Gothic ( brick Gothic ) |
| Dimensions | Tower: rectangular base 5.80 m × 8.20 m Nave: length: 25 m, width: 15 m |
The Queen Luise Church ( ) in the Waidmannslust district of Berlin is a neo-Gothic church that was completed in 1913. It consists of white Rüdersdorfer limestones and red clinker stones from Rathenow and is the only landmark of the district, the parish church of the Protestant parish Waidmannslust.
location
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The church is located on a plot of land at Bondickstrasse 14. Together with the fence around the area and the jubilee fountain on the church property , all buildings are listed .
Building history
The planning of the church in the style of the north German brick Gothic began in the 100th year of death of Queen Luise of Prussia , whose name she bears. The architect was Robert Leibnitz . The imperial family took a personal part in the construction. Wilhelm II wanted the portal gable to be based on the model of the Tangermünder town hall . Empress Auguste Viktoria took over the patronage, but had apologized at the inauguration on October 9, 1913 and had Prince August Wilhelm represented.
At the end of the Second World War , the church building suffered severe damage, which was initially only temporarily removed after 1945. It was not until 1960/1961 that a thorough renovation took place, combined with a number of alterations. The work was planned and directed by the architect Walter Krüger .
Architectural
The Queen Luise Church is a hall church facing north. The high rectangular tower attached to the northwest consists of a shaft made of light-colored ashlar and an upper floor made of brick with a bell house and double stepped gable . The gable ( shield wall ) is based on the Usedomer Marienkirche . The statue of Queen Luise, a white Art Nouveau sculpture, stands in an ogival niche above the main entrance in the south . A grave stone made of red Main sandstone from the 17th or 18th century, which the construction workers had found during the construction of the church on the embankment of the northern railway, was built into the eastern outer wall. It shows Christ hanging on an incised cross over a skull.
The choir has moved in.
Bells and organ
The first organ was delivered by the organ building company Paul Voelkner in Bromberg (since 1945: Bydgoszcz in Poland).
After its completion in 1913 the church had three bells, which were cast in the bell foundry Franz Schilling & Sons in Apolda . Two bells had to be delivered as a metal donation from the German people during World War I and the third during World War II , as did the replacement bells delivered in 1925. In 1958 the church received four new bells from the bell foundry Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock in Gescher / Westphalia.
In 1966 the community had the old organ replaced by a new one from the company Eberhard Tolle from Preetz in Holstein.
literature
- Christian Gahlbeck: Queen Luise Church Berlin-Waidmannslust, ed. from the Ev. Parish Berlin-Waidmannslust. arte factum Verlag, Karlsruhe 2013, ISBN 978-3-938560-29-7 . ISSN 1863-7841 (Af-Booklet, No. 15).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The dimensions were roughly determined with the Google Earth tool .
- ↑ Info on Waidmannslust at berlin.de ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2012 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.
- ↑ Monuments of the Queen Kuise Church, enclosure and jubilee fountain
- ^ A b Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments, Berlin . Deutscher Kunstverlag 2006, p. 423.
Coordinates: 52 ° 36 '14.7 " N , 13 ° 18' 48.7" E