Heilsbronnen Church
The Evangelical Church of Heilsbronnen in the Schöneberg district of Berlin was built in 1910–1913 according to plans by the architect Ernst Deneke . After severe fire damage in 1943, it was rebuilt and re-inaugurated by 1956. The church is a listed building .
history
Between 1890 and 1914, today's Bavarian Quarter was built as a residential area for the upper classes . The church supply from the Schöneberg village church alone was no longer sufficient. First the Twelve Apostles Church was built, then the Apostle Paulus Church and finally the Paul Gerhardt Church next to the village church in 1910 .
After the Queen Luise Memorial Church on Gustav-Müller-Platz was completed, architect Ernst Deneke built the neo-Gothic Heilsbronnen Church at Heilbronner Strasse 20 after a competition . On September 26, 1911 the foundation stone for the church and parish hall was laid on the last one Free property at Heilbronner Strasse 20, on December 22, 1912 the consecration of the church. In 1913 the community became independent when it was separated from Schöneberg. The plot of land acquired for 160,000 marks was chosen because it was " closer to Viktoria-Luise-Platz for the purpose of ecclesiastical supply of the large and elegant quarter between the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church and the Apostle Paul Church ". By means of test bores it was found that “the soil is well suited for church building purposes and for the construction of new buildings”. Because there was said to have been a spring on the meadow before, this may have played a role in the naming of the new church. The construction costs for the church and the parish hall should amount to 360,000 marks (today: around 1,954,000 euros), but they were exceeded by 34 percent. From 1915 to 1925 Otto Dibelius held a pastor's position at the church, his first in Berlin. On the night of November 22nd to 23rd, 1943, the church burned down to the ground. On December 21, 1956, the new church room was inaugurated again by Bishop Dibelius in the presence of the then Federal President Theodor Heuss . During the reconstruction, a modern new building was created inside.
Building description
The T-shaped neo-Gothic complex consists of the five-storey front building in a closed development with community and living rooms, in the middle part of which there is the portal with the entrance hall to the church behind, over which the tower rises. The church and the front building adjoin each other up to the third floor. The parts of the building on both sides of the central wing have bay windows on the outer axes , which are crowned with a tower. The rear transverse building contains the single-nave hall church with a rectangular choir . The masonry is clad with red-brown bricks. The facade is symmetrical, the portal zone with the coffin cornice above is pulled forward in the middle. The upper tower front has two pillar templates and is structured with panels . The high gable roof of the tower with the gable facing the street carries a slender roof turret .
The bell ringing consists of three cast steel bells that were cast by the Bochumer Verein in 1911.
| Bell jar | Chime | Mass (kg) |
Diameter ( cm) |
Height (cm) |
inscription |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | cis' | 1570 | 157 | 146 | LOOK WHAT A LOVE THE FATHER HAS SHOWED US, THAT WE SHALL BE CHILDREN OF GOD. 1st JOH. 3.1 |
| 2. | e ' | 940 | 139 | 123 | WHO HAS THE SON OF GOD HAS LIFE. 1st JOH. 5.12 |
| 3. | G' | 520 | 117 | 103 | IT IS THE SPIRIT THAT MAKES IT ALIVE. JOH. 6.63 |
The parish hall was divided up to the first floor by the tower. The right doorway entrance formed the access via the courtyard to the first floor to the community halls and the organ . Since the organ reached up to the front of the house, there was no passage on the first floor at that time. From the second to the fourth storey there were service apartments across the entire width of the house. In the middle between the tower walls there was a hall of around 60 m² on each floor. The house was equipped with an elevator.
Interior
The porch of the church is adorned by massive columns, in which from 1922 the memorial for those who died in World War I by Georges Morin stood on the left . The church interior was relatively dark, not least because of the side galleries. They only allowed smaller windows in the upper and lower part. On the altar in the semicircle of the apse stood a crucifix and four candlesticks. The pulpit was on the right next to the sacristy .
After the destruction of the Second World War , the church was rebuilt in a different way from November 1955. The burned out galleries were torn down, so that the previous division of the windows by the galleries was omitted and twelve large, continuous Gothic ogival windows were created. The colored window scenes were made between 1957 and 1960 based on a design by Hans Joachim Burgert . The baptismal cross (1970) and the painting on the coffered ceiling of the church vestibule (1975) are also by Burgert. It tells the story of the people of Israel .
The chancel with the apse was preserved. On the first floor, the house, which was previously divided into two, was changed. In order to create a passage to the community halls, the organ area, which originally extended to the street front, was shortened. Nevertheless, it was possible to build in a large concert organ. The community halls on the first floor can be reached by elevator. A baptistery, which can be entered through a wrought-iron door, was built in the room to the left of the altar. The right side was transformed into a sacristy .
Above the altar in the form of a sarcophagus hovers a figure of Christ hammered out of copper on a cross made of brass-covered oak. The pulpit on the first northern pillar bears a brass antependium by Waldemar Otto . Hans Joachim Burgert also created a lectern and Easter candlestick and equipped the baptistery on the north side of the altar, the wall of which is adorned by the Twelve Apostles , in the middle Jesus Christ in a mandorla . In 2004, the church café leading from the vestibule was set up.
organ
The organ is a work of the organ building workshop Karl Schuke from 1958. In 2020 the organ was technically and tonally revised by the organ building workshop Bente . Some registers were added.
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- Coupling : I / II, III / II, III / I (electrical), I / P, II / P, III / P (mechanical)
- Zimbelstern, glockenspiel
literature
- Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin: Berlin and its buildings. Part VI., Sacred buildings. Berlin 1997.
- Günther Kühne, Elisabeth Stephani: Evangelical churches in Berlin. Berlin 1978.
- Klaus-Dieter Wille: The bells of Berlin (West). History and inventory. Berlin 1987.
Web links
- Entry in the Berlin State Monument List with further information
- Evangelical parish for Heilsbronnen
- Evangelical Church District Tempelhof-Schöneberg
Individual evidence
- ↑ A DOCUMENTATION OF THE HANS-JOACHIM BURGERTS WORK - especially the press prints ; a student documentation project under the responsibility of Prof. Ernst Fischer, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz , Department of Book Studies, 2006.
- ↑ Information on the organ
- ↑ The Schuke organ in Heilsbronnen. Retrieved August 7, 2020 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 29 ′ 28.6 ″ N , 13 ° 20 ′ 27.2 ″ E