St. Gabriel Monastery and Church of the Annunciation

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St. Gabriel Monastery and Monastery Church of the Annunciation

The St. Gabriel Monastery and Church of the Annunciation in the Westend district of Berlin are a convent of the Adoration Sisters of Steyl . The entire facility is under monument protection .

General

Monastery Church of the Annunciation
The interior of the Church of the Annunciation
St. Gabriel Monastery

It is a building complex built by Martin Braunstorfinger between 1933 and 1937 at Preußenallee 27, Bayernallee 30–32 and Oldenburgallee 46–50 with an attached residential complex. The wing of the building, consisting of the church and two buildings of the monastery, forms a Z-shaped three-wing complex with an L-shaped monastery building flanged to it. In the western part of the property there are two further three-story buildings. The New Objectivity and Expressionism continue to have an impact on the masonry style .

monastery

The Congregation of the Servants of the Holy Spirit of Eternal Adoration has around 400 members in convents, including the St. Gabriel Monastery in Berlin. Because of the color of the tunic of their habit , the Adoration Sisters are popularly known as the "Pink Sisters". The task of the nuns living in cloister is the choir prayer , the eternal adoration and the promotion of missionary activity through prayer.

The wide portal of the monastery can be reached via an outside staircase. The facade has two round windows on the ground floor. On the upper floors there are three clinker-framed arched panels , each with two windows, the parapets of the lower ones are decorated with reliefs. The area of ​​the monastery is fenced in with wrought iron bars on limestone blocks.

church

The foundation stone was laid on May 27, 1937, the church consecration took place in December 1937. The exterior view of the church suggests a basilica floor plan , but behind the tower front is the nave of a hall church .

Outside

The side with red-brown bricks deluded outer walls of the church are slim in a plastic stone framed arched windows . The three-tiered church front has a white plastered, tower-like raised central part, which is flanked by red-brown clinker brick surfaces. An outside staircase leads to the wide portal framed with ashlar . Immediately above the portal are three high arched windows, which are crossed horizontally by three reliefs , the inscriptions of which read from top to bottom: VENITE ADOREMUS JESUM ( Latin: 'Come, let's adore Jesus').

Interior

Lateral, clad beams also create the impression of a three-aisled basilica in the interior of the church. The nave is illuminated by tall, narrow arched windows in the side walls. The church interior is only accessible in the first third and is separated from the choir for the nuns by a grid . The retracted, semicircular apse with high altar raised by a few steps is flanked by two wall niches at the end of the choir with side altars, which in turn open to the monastery behind. The wall of the apse and the niches are lined with marble, the upper part of the apse wall is designed as an arcade , the lower part of the openings is closed with patterned wooden grilles, as are the round windows above the niches. The altar island is illuminated by a circular skylight with the dove of the Holy Spirit .

literature

  • Christine Goetz and Matthias Hoffmann-Tauschwitz: Churches Berlin Potsdam. Berlin 2003.
  • Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin: Berlin and its buildings. Part VI. Sacred buildings. Berlin 1997.
  • Gerhard Streicher and Erika Drave: Berlin - city and church. Berlin 1980.

Web links

Commons : St. Gabriel Worship Monastery (Berlin)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 49.1 ″  N , 13 ° 15 ′ 31.1 ″  E