Korneliuskirche (Berlin)
| Cornelius Church
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| Denomination : | Evangelical Lutheran |
| Patronage : | Cornelius (Bishop of Rome) |
| Consecration year : | 1975 |
| Parish : | Church district Berlin-Nordost |
| Address: | Dubliner Strasse 29, 13349 Berlin |
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Coordinates: 52 ° 33 ′ 33.4 " N , 13 ° 20 ′ 39.3" E
The Protestant Cornelius Church in the parish of Berlin north-east of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Oberlausitz is part of a community center , that of Hans Christian Müller in the style of post-war modernism designed was. It is located at Dubliner Straße 29 in the Berlin district of Wedding in the Mitte district .
history
After the First World War , the population and with it construction activity in Wedding increased significantly, including the African Quarter . That is why the Capernaum congregation considered as early as the 1930s to found an independent congregation for the population of this area and to build a place of worship. For this purpose the Kornelius Kirchbauverein was founded , which raised the money for the construction of a kindergarten , a church building and a parish hall through intensive fundraising . Since 1927, the evangelical believers in the Kapernaum-Nord area have used the cemetery chapel of the cathedral cemetery on Müllerstrasse for worship . Before the Second World War , the Berlin Synod had already acquired the property at Edinburger Strasse and Dubliner Strasse for construction work in the northern part of Kapernaum . In 1943 the cemetery chapel was destroyed. Until it was rebuilt, the Christians used a room on Ofener Strasse, later a room in the Lessing School on Schöningstrasse, as a church hall. When the chapel on Müllerstrasse was rededicated on May 25, 1950, it was given the name "Korneliuskirche" after St. Cornelius , Bishop of Rome in the 3rd century. On October 1, 1953, the Cornelius Congregation was formally founded. In addition to the chapel in Müllerstrasse, the community had a small shop at Glasgower Strasse 27a for its meeting points. In 1959 the community center on Edinburger Strasse was ready. The day care center was completed in 1964 and the church on Dubliner Strasse was finally consecrated in 1975 . It received the name of the previous chapel.
Building description
The building complex has several structures . The church was added to the first day-care center that was built . The parish hall stands alone. The nested cuboids of the building section form staggered storeys . Two doors lead into the low anteroom of the church. The church café is on the right, the toilets on the left. The nave is entered through another door . It has a square floor plan and offers 180 seats. The structure is highest here. If necessary, the seats can be expanded by opening two sliding doors . When the sliding doors are closed, there is a transept in front of the altar wall . This area is single-story, as is the one behind the sliding doors. The high nave is lit all around by upper aisles , and also by cross-shaped skylights on the flat roof . Directly above the simple wooden altar table, the flat roof has an attachment through which light falls on the altar .
The organ by Thomas Jann Orgelbau , consecrated in 1980, has two manuals , a pedal and 15 stops .
Due to the sharp decline in the number of believers in the area of the Cornelius Church - in 2000 there were around 5,000 parish members, the number has now decreased to 3,200 (as of 2014) - the parish council, to which the Capernaum parish also belongs, had to undertake structural renovation measures decide. In 2001 the following resolution was passed: “In the GKR's opinion, the day-care center and the church should be preserved in the Cornelius Congregation. Therefore it is applied to secure the preservation of these buildings in the future with construction funds from the church district. "
The available grants from church tax funds make up less than a third of the required maintenance and renovation costs.
literature
- Günther Kühne, Elisabeth Stephani: Evangelical churches in Berlin. Berlin 1978.
- Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin: Berlin and its buildings. Part VI. Sacred buildings. Berlin 1997.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Another step to preserve the Korneliuskirche (PDF), accessed on July 15, 2014