Catholic Apostolic Church (Berlin-Spandau)
The Catholic Apostolic Church in Berlin-Spandau was built in 1896. It was the church of the Catholic Apostolic Congregation and is located at Ackerstraße 15. The church and the parsonage to the south are entered in the list of Berlin cultural monuments.
Since 1851 there was a Catholic-Apostolic congregation in Spandau, which initially held its services in rented rooms. In the 1890s, the community built its own church for 18,000 marks based on a design by the community's headquarters in Berlin, which was carried out by the local master mason Doubecke. The foundation stone was laid on June 4, 1896, the topping-out ceremony was on June 14, and completion on August 12, 1896.
The building has a gable front facing the street with raw brick material in a neo-Gothic style. The gable extends far beyond the church roof and has a quatrefoil frieze staggered pointed arch aperture . There is a small circular window above the ogival door, and a high ogival window to the right and left. The rectangular interior with 250 seats has a size of 11 x 28.90 m and a retracted apse . The beams of the gable roof are included in the interior design, on the left long side there are several high, round windows.
There is (as of 2013) a registered association, the Katholisch-Apostolische Gemeinde Spandau e. V. The administration of church properties and buildings is carried out by an asset company or foundation based in Frankfurt am Main .
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Individual evidence
- ^ Gunther Jahn: The buildings and art monuments of Berlin. City and district of Spandau. Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin 1971, p. 166; Jahn's information is inconsistent with regard to the year of construction: He dates the construction of a church to the year 1891, the dates for laying the foundation stone and completion to 1896.
- ↑ www.apostolische-geschichte.de: Catholic-Apostolic Congregations , accessed on March 1, 2020.
Coordinates: 52 ° 32 ′ 47.8 " N , 13 ° 11 ′ 48.2" E