Kreuzkirche (Berlin-Mahlsdorf)

Kreuzkirche

The Kreuzkirche , built between 1934 and 1936, was designed by Otto Risse in the style of homeland security architecture, in which he incorporated Gothic and Romanesque forms. It is located on Pfarrhufenweg / corner of Albrecht-Dürer-Straße in the Berlin district of Mahlsdorf in the Marzahn-Hellersdorf district and is a listed building .

history

In 1920, which was Siedlungsgenossenschaft Lichtenberger Garden Home, founded by plans by Bruno Taut in the following years, a scattered settlement with single-family homes built in Mahlsdorf-Nord. To enable the inhabitants local participation in church life, the Old Parish Church Mahlsdorf in the center was far from the settlement, has the Protestant church Mahlsdorf, it was the builder , decided to build a church on site. The groundbreaking ceremony was on May 31, 1935, the laying of the foundation stone on June 17 of the same year and on January 26, 1936 the church was consecrated and was named Kreuzkirche.

Building description

The reissue of the Heimatschutz style in the 1930s led to the reception of the oldest prototypes of Brandenburg village churches , including the Kreuzkirche built by Risse in the style of an Old Mark settler church. With the low eaves height and the deep saddle roof of the nave , the building adapts to the urban environment. Only the west building, which is also covered with a transverse gable roof, towers above everything. The outer walls of the masonry structure are plastered, with the exception of the buttresses and the walls of the portals , they are made of field stones . The nave has four axes with small ogival windows . The west building has two ogival portals on the street corner. Its facade is adorned with a large wooden cross, above which there are small ogival sound arcades . A retracted apse adjoins the nave . The sacristy is added to the area in front of the apse . The construction of the ceiling consists of three layers of planks as trusses , the inverted formwork resulting in a wooden conical barrel for the interior .

The lead glass windows with stained glass from the time the church was built have been preserved. They were designed by Hans Uhl and executed by the Peschel art glasswork. On the south side they show the four evangelists who told us about the life of Jesus . The windows on the east side show men who stand for the basic pillars of Christian life: Martin Luther , Johann Hinrich Wichern and Paul Gerhardt . The birth and resurrection of Jesus Christ are depicted in the chancel. Between the two windows of the apse there is a crucifix above the altar . The organ with two manuals , a pedal and 14 registers was built by Karl and Hans-Joachim Schuke .

Bells

The first bells date from 1935. They were made of bronze. In 1942 they had to be given as sacrifices for the war. In 1958 there was a new chime made of chilled iron.

Bell no.	Surname	Chime	Weight	Caster	Casting year	inscription
1	Festival bell	a ¹	500 kg	Bell foundry in Apolda	1958	COUNTRY, COUNTRY, HEAR THE LORD'S WORD and BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO HEAR AND KEEP GOD'S WORD
2	Battle bell	c ²	250 kg			FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT OF FAITH and OUR FAITH IS THE VICTORY THAT OVERCOMED THE WORLD
3	Prayer bell	d ²	175 kg			YOUR REALM COME, YOUR WILL DONE and PRAY WITHOUT LEAKING

literature

Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments . Berlin. 3rd edition, reviewed and supplemented by Michael Bollé. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin a. a. 2006, ISBN 3-422-03111-1 .
Christine Goetz and Matthias Hoffmann-Tauschwitz: Churches Berlin Potsdam. Berlin 2003.
Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin: Berlin and its buildings. Part 6: Sacred buildings. Ernst, Berlin a. a. 1997, ISBN 3-433-01016-1 .
Institute for Monument Preservation: The architectural and art monuments in the GDR - capital Berlin II. Berlin 1987.
Günther Kühne, Elisabeth Stephanie: Evangelical churches in Berlin. CZV-Verlag, Berlin 1978, ISBN 3-7674-0158-4 .

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