Catholic Academy in Berlin
The Catholic Academy in Berlin , a company created on 27 October 1990 educational institution of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Berlin , has its headquarters on a site between the Chausseestraße 128-129 and Hannoversche Strasse 5 in the district center of the district center .
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history
The first Catholic Academy was founded in 1951 in the Rottenburg-Stuttgart diocese . The model was the Evangelical Academy Bad Boll .
According to a resolution by the bishops or the apostolic administrators of the dioceses of Berlin, Dresden-Meißen and Görlitz , the episcopal offices of Erfurt-Meiningen , Magdeburg and Schwerin , as well as the Catholic Federal Association for Adult Education , a Catholic Academy should also be established in Berlin. The property in front of the Oranienburger Tor , which was given to the Catholic cathedral community by King Friedrich II in 1777 for the first Catholic cemetery after the Reformation in Berlin, was ideal. After the cemetery was abandoned and new ones were built in Liesenstrasse in the Gesundbrunnen district of today's Mitte district and in today's Ollenhauerstrasse in the Reinickendorf district of the district of the same name , residential and commercial buildings were built on the property between 1902 and 1906.
Werner Remmers was the founding director of the Catholic Academy ; the Academy's first conference took place on October 27, 1990.
tasks
The program of the Catholic Academy is not only aimed at its own church members, but at all people in society. In conferences, lectures, colloquia and panel discussions, political and cultural issues are dealt with in addition to religious ones. The seminar and event rooms of the Catholic Academy are also available to other organizers.
building
As early as 1994, the Archdiocese of Berlin announced an architecture competition for the development of the area. A hotel , an auditorium , an office building and a building for the Catholic office in Berlin were required. The buildings should be grouped around three publicly accessible courtyards in such a way that a Catholic center is created. The St. Thomas von Aquin Church was not initially intended for the architectural competition, but it forms the heart of the building ensemble of the Catholic Center. Initially, the Catholic Academy had two large rooms for seminars with 100 participants, two smaller seminar rooms for up to 50 participants and a conference room available to the Catholic Academy since 1995, after the renovation and addition of an old building from 1905 at Hannoversche Straße 5 . The administration of the Catholic Academy was also housed here. There is a restaurant on the ground floor . The remaining buildings were completed in 1999. The old building, together with the Academy Church, the adjoining six-storey hotel with 40 comfortably furnished rooms and the building for the Catholic office in Berlin, located directly on Hannoversche Strasse, form the first of the three courtyards. Parallel to the hotel was an office building built between the two which is building the two-storey auditorium, which is aligned to Dorotheenstädtischer cemetery. The U-shaped building complex delimits the second courtyard. The third courtyard is between the office building in which the Berlin branch of the Pax-Bank is located and the old building on Chausseestrasse.
literature
- Jürgen Tietz: Catholic Academy Berlin. Berlin 2003.
Web links
Coordinates: 52 ° 31 '38.1 " N , 13 ° 23' 4.1" E