Staaken-Gartenstadt Church
The Staaken-Gartenstadt Church, designed by Curt Steinberg and inaugurated on November 19, 1922 , stands on the church square in the listed garden city of Staaken in the Berlin district of Spandau . In its architectural style which acts historicism with reminiscence of the Gothic to.
history
Already in the design of the garden city was a design by Paul Schmitthenner for a three-nave church with a high bell tower and 500 seats in front. However, the project was not carried out. Material difficulties related to finances and the procurement of building materials. Finally, stones and beams from a demolished shed and an airship hangar were used to build a church with the character of a chapel .
On January 1, 1925, the Protestant parish Staaken-Gartenstadt became independent. Today it belongs to the Spandau church district and comprises 5,000 parish members. During the time of National Socialism , Pastor Johannes Stephan, pastor in the Garden City since 1931, got into trouble with his community. He was close to the opposition Confessing Church , while in the parish the pro-Nazi Germans were Christians in the majority. In 1935 and 1944 the parish council complained about the pastor's pulpit abuse, carrying out forbidden collections and breach of confidentiality, but no particular sanctions are known against him.
Building description
The hall church covered with a gable roof on a rectangular floor plan is reminiscent of simple Brandenburg village churches of the late Middle Ages . It is a masonry building faced with red clinker bricks , which has an annex as an entrance hall and a plastered annex that initially served as a closed sacristy and became a retracted choir after the wall had broken through in the 1930s . Strong buttresses are attached to the four corners and the long sides . In the middle of the long sides there are large, ogival lattice windows . The gable roof carries a ridge turret at the east end . The gable in the east is structured with pilaster strips between plastered surfaces. To the left of the entrance on the outside wall of the church there has been a bronze relief by Heinz Spilker since November 22, 1964 in memory of the victims of the two world wars.
Furnishing
The interior of the church is simple. Initially served as pews were banks of the canteen of the Spandau gun factory of German works , which were renewed in 1970 and 1991 replaced by chairs. Parts of the pulpit , which was built for the St. Nikolai Church in 1839 and stood there until 1903, have been reused. Three pictures of the four evangelists are attached to the new pulpit, the fourth found its place in the parapet of the gallery, which also comes from the Nikolaikirche. The baptismal font , which was decorated with parts of the sound cover , was created from the base of the pulpit . The altar is a simple wooden table with a picture of Jesus in the garden of Gethsemane , created in 1925. A chalice and a paten made of gold-plated silver were donated by the parish of the Staaken village church for the inauguration of the church . Since 1981 there has been a new goblet that resembles the old original.
Bells
In 1955, two large bells were inaugurated on a separate belfry . The bell that originally hung in the roof turret dates from the 15th century. Its original destination is unknown. It was donated in 1922 by the parish of the Christophoruskirche . In 1980 it fell off the roof during repair work and split into several pieces. Since 1982 there is a new bell of the same size in the roof turret. The old bell was glued together and placed in the church.
| Pouring year | Caster | material | Chime | Weight (kg) |
Diameter ( cm) |
Height (cm) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15th century | unknown | bronze | 17th | 32 | 29 | |
| 1981 | Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock | bronze | c " | 27 | 35 | 28 |
| 1955 | Franz Weeren | Chilled iron | 1250 | 136 | 101 | |
| 1955 | Franz Weeren | Chilled iron | 750 | 114 | 84 |
organ
The old organ created by Ferdinand Dinse came into the church in 1928 through the Köpenicker and Spandau teachers' seminars. Since 1959 there has been a new organ built by Friedrich Weißenborn , Braunschweig, based on measurements and calculations by experts for the nave on the gallery . This mechanical slide organ with a manual divided into bass and treble (exceptionally large range: Contra-F to D 4 ) and pedal has 9 registers and 790 pipes . The game and register action are mechanical. In 1999 the Berlin organ building workshop Karl Schuke replaced the Krummhorn with a bass flute. Thus the following disposition exists :
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literature
- Christine Goetz , Matthias Hoffmann-Tauschwitz: Churches Berlin Potsdam. Berlin 2003.
- Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin (ed.): Sacral buildings. (= Berlin and its buildings , part VI.) Ernst & Sohn, Berlin 1997.
- Klaus-Dieter Wille: The bells of Berlin (West). History and inventory. Berlin 1987.
- Werner Finkelmann: 50 years of the organ in the Garden City Church 1959–2009. Berlin 2009.
- Werner Finkelmann: Ev. Staaken-Gartenstadt Church 1922–1982. Berlin 1982.
- Günther Kühne, Elisabeth Stephanie: Evangelical churches in Berlin. Berlin 1978.
- Karl Kiem: The garden city of Staaken. Types, groups, variants. Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-7861-1885-X .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Hans-Rainer Sandvoss : Resistance in Spandau . ( Resistance in Berlin from 1933 to 1945. German Resistance Memorial Center ) Berlin 1988, ISSN 0175-3592, p. 117 ff.
Coordinates: 52 ° 32 '28.4 " N , 13 ° 8' 44" E