Church to the home
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The Protestant church Zur Heimat , designed by Peter Lehrercke with his father Wilhelm in 1956 in the architectural style of post-war modernism , is located in Heimat 24 in the Berlin district of Zehlendorf in the Steglitz-Zehlendorf district . It belongs to the under monument protection standing building complex of the former Church University , which by today Protestant University of Berlin is used. The hall church , consecrated on June 2, 1957 , is connected to the free-standing bell tower via a covered pergola .
history
In the 1920s, construction activity south of the developed Zehlendorf railway of Berlin-Potsdam-Magdeburg Railway so strong that Paul's parish was looking for a plot to it a church and a rectory to build a new community in Zehlendorf-South . In May 1928, a property of almost 14,000 m² was bought for around 96,000 marks . At the beginning of the Second World War , the property was confiscated for military purposes and nine barracks were built on it, of which two still standing barracks were secured for church use after the end of the war. The first service took place on June 17, 1945. The two rented barracks were later bought by the Berlin magistrate for 10,000 marks .
On September 7, 1948, the three daughter congregations Ernst-Moritz-Arndt , Schlachtensee and Zehlendorf-Süd were split off from the Paulus parish. But they remained under a common administration. Based on the neighboring street Heimat, the Zehlendorf-Süd parish council decided in 1951 to give the parish the name of the parish Zur Heimat . It belongs to the Evangelical Church District Teltow-Zehlendorf.
Building description
For the first time after the Second World War, the two architects tie in with the New Objectivity of the 1920s. The cubic building, which was completed in the year of Interbau , is puristic, which Peter Lehrcke describes as a “commitment to the sacred in church building”. The floor plan is, apart from the single-storey extension on the west side of the sacristy , the sexton and a prayer room , in the traditional manner along rectangular. However, the reinforced concrete structure corresponds to contemporary modern sacred architecture, both in appearance and in construction and conception, in which the wall surfaces in Berlin have increasingly been opened up since the 1950s in order to increase the effect of the church space.
The two parts of the building , the short entrance area and the long church room, are positioned horizontally and covered with pent roofs that are placed against each other and rise from the eaves of the low entrance area and the high altar wall. Where they meet at the roofs , there is a barred window made of clear glass across the entire width and height, which gives the church space a lot of light from behind, like a shed roof . In connection with the altar wall, also made of clear glass, with a view of the adjacent forest area, a bright room for worship is created. A glass painting by Hans Jaenisch hangs in front of the clear glass window at the rear . The side walls of the reinforced concrete structure are windowless. Of them are from concrete cast reliefs attached by Waldemar Otto comes, who is also the King David -relief on the organ empore created. Despite the laterally offset entrance, the church space is laid out axially. Two smaller rooms, which can be connected to the church, are next to the vestibule behind the entrance.
Peal
The covered pergola in front of the entrance area leads in a classic arrangement to the campanile , in which four cast steel bells from the Erdinger bell foundry hang.
| Pouring year | Chime | Weight (kg) |
Diameter ( cm) |
Height (cm) |
inscription |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | fis' | 464 | 102 | 80 | I'M CALLING HOME. |
| 1957 | a ' | 272 | 102 | 80 | I GREET TELTOW. |
| 1957 | H' | 193 | 76 | 60 | PAUL GERHARDT (1607-1957). |
| 1960 | cis " | 129 | 66 | 51 | CHURCH UNIVERSITY (1935-1960). |
Originally there was still a chill cast bell from the Berlin ironworks Franz Weeren, which was given to a sponsor community in South Africa .
organ
The organ with 25 registers , divided into 2 manuals and pedal , was built in 1968 by Willi Peter .
Multiple use
The church with around 360 seats is not only used for church services and events in the parish , but is also the maximum auditorium of the church university. This multiple use is made possible by the fact that the principles and the seating can be set up flexibly.
literature
- Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin: Berlin and its buildings. Part 6. Sacred buildings , Berlin 1997.
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Band Berlin, Munich / Berlin 2006.
- Christine Goetz , Matthias Hoffmann-Tauschwitz: Churches Berlin Potsdam , Berlin 2003.
- Jan Peter Grevel: With God in the green. A practical theology of the experience of nature. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2015, p. 306.
- Johannes Hünig: View into paradise. Transparency and reference to nature in modern church construction , Hamburg 2011.
- Barbara Kahle: German Church Architecture of the 20th Century , Darmstadt 1991, p. 144.
- Günther Kühne, Elisabeth Stephanie: Evangelical Churches in Berlin , Berlin 1978.
- Peter Lehrcke: A new church for Berlin-Zehlendorf and the question of the church architecture of our time . In: Bauwelt 15/1956, p. 339.
- Gerhard Langmaack: Protestant church building in the 19th and 20th centuries. History, documentation, synopsis , Kassel 1971, p. 85.
- Bernhard Schulz: … getting on in years. Church to the home in Berlin-Zehlendorf . In: Deutsche Bauzeitung , vol. 145, no. 11, 2011, pp. 52–57.
- Wolfgang Jean Stock (Ed.): European Church Building 1950–2000 , Munich 2003, p. 216.
- Wolfgang Jean Stock: Architectural Guide to Christian Sacred Buildings in Europe since 1950 , Munich 2004, p. 69.
- Klaus-Dieter Wille: The bells of Berlin (West). History and inventory , Berlin 1987.
- Kerstin Wittmann-Englert: tent, ship and apartment. Church buildings of post-war modernism , Lindenberg im Allgäu 2006, p. 119.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 25 '23.2 " N , 13 ° 15' 40.9" E