Chapel in the St. Theresienstift
The Roman Catholic chapel in St. Theresienstift , which is located at Altvaterstraße 8/9 in the Nikolassee district of Berlin's Steglitz-Zehlendorf district , was built in 1987–1989 by Karl-Heinz Steinebach and Friedrich Weber.
history
The Congregation of the Sisters of St. Elisabeth has its origins in the fact that several women in Neisse began doing outpatient nursing in 1842 . The Duchy of Wroclaw recognized the congregation in 1859 and Wilhelm I made it a foundation under public law in 1864 . In 1887 the Congregation was also approved by the Pope . From their provincial house in the town of Schlachtensee , the sisters have been providing outpatient nursing care since 1923. At the same time, the house served the sisters as a rest home and from 1930 also as a retirement home . After the Second World War , the seat of the Catholic Charity for St. Elisabeth (KWA) was relocated to Reinbek . The four provincial houses of the Elisabeth Sisters in Germany were merged in 2003 to form a provincial house in the Theresienstift in Berlin.
Building description
The existing St. Theresienstift home for the elderly was expanded from 1987 to 1989 into a building complex consisting of three U-shaped building wings that form a courtyard . The existing residential building , which originally contained a chapel , was supplemented by a newly constructed wing, both of which are connected by a transparently designed hall . The new chapel is in front of the hall on the side opposite the courtyard. The newly created complex is designed as a cloister courtyard , the cloister of which is open on one side. In the center of the green courtyard is a fountain .
The chapel is a central building , which consists of a reinforced concrete skeleton , the walls of which are filled with plastered masonry . The cross-shaped floor plan of the nave and the staggered elevation of the chapel commemorates the church of Santa Fosca , which in the 11th century in the style of Byzantine architecture was built. The structure above the crossing in the chapel of the St. Theresienstift is square and not circular, so there are no trumpets . The organ was built in 1988 by the Harald Rapp organ building workshop . The instrument has 18 registers spread over two manuals . The principle Alien created Paul Brandenburg .
literature
- Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin: Berlin and its buildings. Part VI. Sacred buildings. Berlin 1997.
- Falk Jäger: Back to the styles - architecture of the eighties in Berlin. Berlin 1991.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Harald Rapp ( Memento from December 18, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
Coordinates: 52 ° 26 '19.1 " N , 13 ° 12' 42.8" E