Nikolassee Church
The Nikolassee Church is a house of worship in the Berlin district of Steglitz-Zehlendorf . It was built together with a rectory at the beginning of the 20th century. Church, rectory and the entire forecourt are under monument protection .
location
The Evangelical Church of Nikolassee is located on Kirchweg - a cross street off Potsdamer Chaussee ( Bundesstrasse 1 ) - opposite the churchyard on a hill on Rehwiese . The Zehlendorf motorway junction of the A 115 is not far away, as is the Nikolassee train station , a stop for the S1 and S7 S-Bahn lines . The church cemetery and church complex are located on a total area of 11.4906 m², owned by Heimstätten-AG. as the founder of Nikolassee.
history
The Protestant church was designed in 1909 by the architect Johannes Bartschat and the government councilor and sculptor Erich Blunck . The building blends in harmoniously with the new as a garden city in Homeland Security Architecture scale villa colony . The model showed a two-aisled nave with a wide gable roof , a cloister as a connection to the rectory, which was also to be built, and a 45-meter-high church tower with an elevated slate-covered top. The draft was fully approved by the newly founded community, so that the foundation stone could be laid on June 20, 1909 . After a short construction period, the church was consecrated on March 13, 1910. The construction finance was provided by the community members through their own donations. The construction and the entire equipment cost 172,000 marks (adjusted for purchasing power in today's currency: around 1.01 million euros). The parsonage was built at the same time and, in addition to the pastor's apartment, contains a so-called confirmation hall.
During the First World War , some of the organ's tin pipes were confiscated and were to be converted into military equipment. The bronze bells faced the same fate, but this did not come about through the evaluation of scientific relevance. In 1940, in the second year of World War II , the two larger bells had to be delivered and were to be melted down, but this did not happen. The bells were returned to the community after the war. Despite some acts of war, the parts of the church building ensemble were not significantly destroyed. The major war damage to the buildings was repaired between 1949 and 1950. Between 1958 and 1959, some renovation work was carried out inside the church, for example the paraments for the altar and pulpit were made and the chancel redesigned. Another redesign in the 1980s restored the original version of the interior to a large extent, with the bronze sculpture of Christ giving blessing from the original equipment, which was not present in the meantime, returned to the altar.
Building description
The hall church takes on elements of Art Nouveau and Baroque . The nave is covered with a coffered wooden barrel vault. The choir is rectangular. The altar is reached via several steps. The church tower is on the entrance side . There was room for three bronze bells in his belfry . They are adorned with a medallion with the date of manufacture and the name of the caster. They also have extensive inscriptions.
| Caster | Pouring year | Chime | Weight (kg) |
Diameter ( mm) |
Height (mm) |
Crown (mm) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Martin Heintz | 1688 | f ' | 415 | 950 | 720 | 160 |
| Johann Heinrich Scheel | 1755 | as' | 324 | 820 | 680 | 130 |
| Gustav Collier | 1910 | b ' | 250 | 670 | 510 | 130 |
Furnishing
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The wooden entrance hall with two angel figures leads into the interior of the church, which impresses with its wooden furnishings and gallery. The generous painting carried out by the artist Max Kutschmann gives the room a special character. Altar with a seated Christ and a globe in hand as well as pulpit, altar window and wall frieze complete the interior of the church. In the first month, the church also received a communion chalice , a goblet and a baptismal bowl.
Parish
The Nikolasse evangelical parish was established in 1909 as a spin-off from the parish of Zehlendorf and at that time comprised around 1200 members. More Christians were added in 1919 when the later Schlachtensee-Süd colony (railway settlement) was founded. In 1927 the church members of the Schwanenwerder area were parished to Nikolassee. The first pastor of the new parish was Dr. Hollmann. By purchasing a plot of land from private holdings, a kindergarten and community hall could be built on Potsdamer Chaussee in 1927 according to plans by the government master builder and architect Walter Lehweß , who in earlier years had the private school in Nikolassee and the Reichs-Reiterführer-Schule in Zehlendorf (today's Veterinary Medical Institute of the Free University ) had made a good name. The building complex was inaugurated on April 21, 1929. Engelbert Breidenbend from Berlin is named as the architect who was also involved.
In 1933 further parts of the area were parish after Nikolassee. During the reign of the National Socialists there was extensive ideological harmonization in the community. Due to the increasing persecution of church members and their use in war, the church institutions soon became a spiritual refuge for the people. Around 1940 the Wehrmacht seized the community's premises and used them as accommodation. In the spring of 1945, refugees and fleeing Berliners roamed the town and found temporary accommodation and support. After the end of the Second World War, the Soviet troops occupied the parish hall and several villas in Nikolassee. With only a few helpers, the pastor was able to encourage the residents who remained alive and those returning home, but he also had to bury the numerous dead. The American military personnel, who soon moved in, later also used the church for their services and weddings. The congregation recovered only slowly from all these war and post-war events; the number of members in particular had fallen sharply. In 1949 there was an increase through the admission of the sisters of the deaconess mother house from Königsberg .
In the 21st century the parish Nikolassee is part of the church district Teltow -Zehlendorf in Sprengel Berlin Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Oberlausitz .
Numerous prominent personalities belonged and still belong to the parish , including the writer Jochen Klepper , who lived with his family only a few minutes away from the church between 1938 and 1942. The family grave is in the churchyard across the street.
literature
- Günther Kühne, Elisabeth Stephanie: Evangelical churches in Berlin . Berlin, 1978
- Christine Goetz , Matthias Hoffmann-Tauschwitz (ed.): The churches Berlin Potsdam. Guide to the churches in Berlin and Potsdam . Berlin, 2003.
- The church with rectory in Nikolassee near Berlin . In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 31, No. 39 (May 13, 1911), pp. 238–241, urn : nbn: de: kobv: 109-opus-44847 .
- Klaus-Dieter Wille: The bells of Berlin (West). History and inventory (= The buildings and art monuments of Berlin. Supplement 16). Mann, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-7861-1443-9 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Monuments Kirchweg in Nikolassee
- ↑ a b c Community chronicle from 1959. (PDF) ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 1, 2009
- ↑ Historical data 1909. ( Memento of the original from April 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 1, 2009
- ↑ Walter Lehweß: The Reichs-Reitführer-Schule in Berlin-Zehlendorf ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.0 MB); Retrieved November 7, 2013.
- ^ Festival day in Nikolassee . In: Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung , April 22, 1929.
Coordinates: 52 ° 25 ′ 34.2 " N , 13 ° 12 ′ 11.6" E