Catholic Apostolic Church (Berlin)
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The listed Catholic Apostolic Church is located at Wilmsstraße 11/12 in the Berlin district of Kreuzberg in the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg district . It is part of a community center that was built by Carl Schröder from 1899 to 1901 in the architectural style of the Italian Neo-Renaissance .
history
The original Catholic-Apostolic Congregation in Berlin was founded on March 19, 1848, the day after the revolution . That Sunday, the Apostle Carlyle held a service at his home. The services later took place in a hall on Zimmerstrasse, and from 1850 onwards in the concert hall of the C. Bechstein Pianofortefabrik on Johannisstrasse. In 1860 the congregation had around 500 members, so a new church was built in Stallschreiberstrasse 8a near Spittelmarkt . In 1871 the Catholic Apostolic Church in Berlin had grown considerably. Therefore, it was divided on July 24, 1873. The former parish of origin remained as the main parish and rose in the hierarchy to a metropolitan parish , comparable to the seat of a diocese . Despite the partitions, the space for the main parish in Stallschreiberstraße became too small. From 1898, a new building was therefore planned at Wilmsstrasse 12. The name of the community was given the addition of Berlin-Süd. The foundation stone was laid on July 7, 1899 and the opening on May 12, 1901.
Building description
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The architect , he was a priest-evangelist of the community, based his plans on the church of St. Ursula von August Thiersch in Munich , whose permission he had. The basic form associates the scheme of the Jesuit churches . The cross-shaped central building located in the building line has an urban development connection with Ludwig Hoffmann's neighboring Baerwaldbad and the former 28th and 217th community school, which is now the mayor's heart primary school. The cruciform basilica , a plastered masonry structure , has a dome over the crossing on the inside and a tambour with a conical roof on the outside , crowned by a lantern . At the side there is a tower in the style of a campanile . The baptistery is opposite to the courtyard. On the street front between the arm of the transept and the tower is a three-arched, arcade-shaped portal .
The church hall has 1,100 seats on the wooden church stalls, but can accommodate up to 2,000 people if necessary. A chapel between the choir and the street to which it has arched windows seats 60 and a meeting room 200 people. On the other side of the choir is the sacristy . The side aisles are reduced to narrow arcades. The pillars of the arcades are sober, while the pilasters at the corners of the triumphal arch between the choir and apse have Corinthian capitals . The vaults are designed as coffered ceilings , both the half dome of the apse and the barrel vault of the choir and the transept. A frieze runs below the vault . The nave has an inner flat ceiling , the outside it is provided with a saddle roof covered. On the podium of the choir stands with a canopy decorated altar , which like the rest of the equipment, the pulpit , the consoles and the choir stalls for the presbyters , dates from the time it was built. The church area receives natural light through the upper cladding and the round windows on the front sides of the transept.
See also
literature
- Christine Goetz and Matthias Hoffmann-Tauschwitz: Churches Berlin Potsdam. Berlin 2003.
- Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin: Berlin and its buildings. Part VI. Sacred buildings. Berlin 1997.
- Marina Wesner: Kreuzberg and its places of worship: churches-mosques-synagogues-temples. Berlin 2007.
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments . Band Berlin. Munich / Berlin 2006.
Web links
- Entry in the Berlin State Monument List with further information
- Catholic-Apostolic Congregation Berlin-Süd
Coordinates: 52 ° 29 ′ 41.4 " N , 13 ° 24 ′ 20.3" E