Maria Frieden Church (Berlin)

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Church of Mary Peace

Maria Frieden is a Roman Catholic pilgrimage church in the Archdiocese of Berlin . It is located on Kaiserstrasse in the Mariendorf district of Berlin's Tempelhof-Schöneberg district and forms the pastoral space with the neighboring churches of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and St. Judas Thaddäus (Tempelhof), the Salvator Church (Berlin-Lichtenrade) and St. Theresia (Buckow) Berlin-Lichtenrade-Buckow-Mariendorf-Tempelhof, which is to merge into a single parish.

history

The parish has existed since August 10, 1919 with 2000 parishioners. The first services were celebrated in an emergency chapel, which was originally built as a hospital barrack. The naming of Maria Frieden was intended to tie in with the veneration of Mary in the neighboring district in Marienfelde. The church was given the name Maria, Queen of Peace . This name was not only linked to the traditional devotion to Mary since the time of the founding of the Templars, but the young Catholic community wanted to remember the end of the First World War by giving it a name in 1919.

In 1929 Mariendorf was made a curate . In 1934 an emergency church was built, a modest, but extremely appealing building based on the designs of the master builder Martin Braunstorfinger. In 1940 the rectory was built, which housed a community hall. The curate was elevated to a parish in 1940. The Second World War damaged the emergency church in part, but not destroyed it. In 1947 the church was renovated.

The day care center with youth home was inaugurated on February 10, 1961 after a long construction period.

The number of parishioners increased steadily, in 1967 there were 5060 parishioners, so that another new church was necessary. In April 1967 the foundation stone of a new church building with 335 seats was laid by Cathedral Chapter Erich Klausener on June 25, 1967 according to the designs of architect Günter Maiwald (1919-1996). The consecration took place on April 20, 1969 by Alfred Cardinal Bengsch . As a temporary solution, the organ of the emergency church was used in the new church. The old emergency church was converted into a community center in 1973.

Pilgrimage church

With the order for the diocese-wide monthly pilgrimage, Joachim Cardinal Meisner handed over the three-part picture Madonna in front of barbed wire and rubble with Paul and Peter on January 7, 1988 , which Otto Dix (1891–1969), ostracized by the Nazis as a "degenerate artist", 1945 in French Had painted prisoner of war.

On Meisner's initiative, the Berlin Senate acquired the long-lost image in 1987 for 650,000 marks (adjusted for purchasing power in today's currency: around 592,000 euros) and made it available to the church on permanent loan . The picture (1.11 m × 1.64 m) is in a glazed case designed by Paul Brandenburg and is located in the Marienkapelle.

The monthly pilgrimage service took place on the first Thursday of every month with changing clergymen, including cardinals, bishops and abbots, as pilgrimage leaders. Examples are Cardinal Barbarin from Lyon, Bishop Scheele from Würzburg, Bishop Müller from Görlitz, the Apostolic Nuncio Lajolo , Cardinal Bozanic from Zagreb, as well as bishops and pastors from Great Britain and the Czech Republic, Jean-Pierre Batut from Paris, J.-C. Akenda from the Congo, Bishop Nossol from Opole, the former Polish Bishop of Koszalin, Ignacy Jeż , a former concentration camp prisoner from Dachau (1942–1945).

Pastor

Konrad Zipper (born November 25, 1890), the first pastor of the new parish, died on November 27, 1961 at the age of 71. The parish administrator, Ulrich Weidel, managed the parish until Alfred Fiebig (1912–1994) was introduced to his office on March 4, 1962 as the second pastor. Since 1985 Carl-Heinz Mertz was the pastor of the parish Maria Frieden. On November 1, 2005, Mathias Laminski followed as pastor. At that time the community had 5875 members. Pastor Laminski was adopted on September 11, 2011 to continue his work in Brazil . On the evening of the same day, the chaplain Vinsensius Nana Ekayana Visca, who was born in Indonesia , was introduced to the congregation as the parish administrator by the dean and a certificate was read out . His successor in the office of parish administrator was Pastor Ladislao Jareño Alarcón by decree of Archbishop Heiner Koch on October 1, 2018.

Interior decoration

The altar, made of white Greek marble , whose shape is supposed to be reminiscent of a lamb prepared for slaughter , as well as the tabernacle and the side surfaces of the ambo made of aluminum , were designed by the sculptor Paul Brandenburg from Berlin.

The Way of the Cross and the organ were taken over from the old emergency church, which was only replaced by a new one in 1979. The 14 panels of the Way of the Cross contain reliefs cast from artificial stone, each of which appears monumental in its illustrative clarity and simplicity.

The bronze statue of Mary donated by parishioners in July 1970 is a work by Werner Gailis from the Berlin Art School . The statue depicts Mary as mediator of peace, pointing to the heavenly Jerusalem , symbol of eternal peace. The cast aluminum church portal panels with the theme “Maria Frieden” were designed by the artist Paul Corazolla . The statue of Saint Anthony of Padua , which was erected on April 30, 1972, is also a work by Werner Gailis.

The precious windows designed by the Berlin painter Paul Ohnsorge give the church space color and light. In the center is a motif of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ above the altar.

Peal

In 1969, the new church building also included the three-sided campanile with three bronze bells. The rectangular bell chamber shows sound openings protruding from the surface on two sides. The three bronze bells were cast in 1968 by the Rudolf Perner bell foundry in Passau . The chime disposition consists of the three starting notes of the Te Deum :

Chime Weight
(kg)		 Diameter
(cm)		 Height
(cm)		 Crown
(cm)		 Signet on the flank
d ' 1270 145 112 33 MARIA
f ' 0995 120 095 28 HOLY FAMILY
G' 0704 107 083 19th PIETA

organ

The Klais - Organ dates from 1979 and is at 34 registers and Rückpositiv on three manuals as follows scheduled :

I Rückpositiv C – g 3
Wooden dacked 8th'
Reed flute 4 ′
Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Principal 2 ′
third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
Octave 1'
Vox humana 8th'
Tremulant
II Hauptwerk C – g 3
Bourdon 16 ′
Principal 08th'
Reed flute 08th'
Octave 04 ′
Hollow flute 04 ′
Super octave 02 ′
Larigot 01 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Mixture IV 01 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Trumpet 08th'
Clairon 04 ′
III Swell C – g 3
Flute harmonique 08th'
Gamba 08th'
Vox coelestis 08 ′ from B
Fugara 04 ′
Flute douce 04 ′
Flageolet 02 ′
Sesquialter II 02 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Scharff IV 02 ⁄ 3 ′
Basson / Hautbois 16 ′
Cromorne 08th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
Sub bass 16 ′
Octave 08th'
Playing flute 08th'
Tenor octave 04 ′
Back set IV 02 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Bombard 16 ′
trombone 08th'
  • Slider chests. Mechanical action mechanism
  • electrical stop action
  • mechanical coupling : I / II; III / II; I / P; II / P; III / P
  • five general setters
  • General zero
  • Tutti

Builder: Johannes Klais, Orgelbau, Bonn; Disposition: Hans Gerd Klais , Eckhard von Garnier, Michael Klassenbach; Scale lengths: Hans Gerd Klais; Intonation: Theo Eimermacher; Project design: Josef Schäfer in collaboration with Eckhard von Garnier, Michaelstreckenbach and Günter Maiwald.

The church received this organ on the 60th anniversary on September 30, 1979.

literature

  • Sibylle Badstübner-Gröger: The Catholic parish church Maria Frieden Mariendorf . 1st edition. Schnell and Steiner, Regensburg 1994, ISBN 978-3-7954-5858-4 ( Schnell-und-steiner.de [accessed on October 14, 2010] Series: Kleine Kunstführer / Kirchen und Klöster, No. 2122. 16-page brochure ).
  • Christine Goetz, Constantin Beyer: StadtLandKirchen - sacred buildings in the Archdiocese of Berlin , Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg i. Allgäu 2018, ISBN 978-3-95976-101-7 , p. 118 f.
  • Klaus-Dieter Wille: The bells of Berlin (West). History and inventory (=  The buildings and art monuments of Berlin . Beih. 16). Gebr. Mann, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-7861-1443-9 , pp. 197 and 247.
  • W. Dittmann et al. (Ed.): Berlin. 750 years. Churches and monasteries . HB Verlags- und Vertriebs-Gesellschaft, Hamburg 1987, ISBN 3-616-06724-3 , p. 108.
  • Bonifatiuswerk (ed.): Now praise should ring out . Pilgrimage Guide, Bonifatiuswerk, 2006, pp. 17–19.
  • Gebhard Streicher, Erika Drave: Berlin - City and Church , More-Verlag, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-87554-189-8 , pp. 104 f., 163 f. and 326 f.
  • Parish council of the parish Maria Frieden (Ed.): 90 years of the Catholic parish Maria Frieden. Berlin Mariendorf . Berlin 2009.

Web links

Commons : Church Maria Frieden (Berlin-Mariendorf)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dietgard Tomczak: Pilgrimage to Mary between rubble and barbed wire. Dix's painting symbolizes devotion to Mary. In: Berliner Zeitung. April 4, 1996, accessed March 9, 2008 .
  2. ^ Parish website, accessed September 11, 2011
  3. ↑ Your Congregation, Katholische Kirchengemeinde Maria Frieden, October 2018, No. 472, pp. 4–7.
  4. ↑ See the bells ... Berlin (West) ... , 1987, p. 197; see. Badstübner-Gröger, 1994, pp. 3 and 14
  5. ↑ 90 years ... Maria Frieden ... , 2009, p. 18

Coordinates: 52 ° 26 ′ 42.2 "  N , 13 ° 23 ′ 2"  E