Luisenkirche (Berlin-Charlottenburg)

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The Luisenkirche, view from the west
The Luisenkirche
The bells

The Luisenkirche is a Protestant church on Gierkeplatz in the Berlin district of Charlottenburg .

Building history

The foundation stone of the church was laid in 1712. The Schlüter -Students Martin Heinrich Böhme had the plans of the upper building director Philipp Gerlach simplified to the church for 6,100  dollars could be built. The inauguration of the city ​​and parochial church of the settlement of Charlottenburg, which was only elevated to city status in 1705, was carried out on July 12, 1716 by Provost Michael Roloff of the Friedrichswerder Church in Berlin. The building with an isosceles cross as a plan in the form of a Greek cross had no tower, but a wooden roof turret at the intersection of the two hipped roofs .

The roof turret of the otherwise towerless church was so dilapidated in 1814 that it had to be torn down. In 1821, Karl Friedrich Schinkel prepared an expert opinion on the reconstruction of the church, in which he proposed the construction of a new tower on the side. In 1823 the construction was approved and carried out according to Schinkel's plans. However, he had to incorporate some simplifications, which "are the reason for the compact and unadorned appearance of the tower." On June 11, 1826, the tower was inaugurated, with three bells hanging in it.

Shortly before, the King Friedrich Wilhelm III. permission was granted to name the church after Queen Luise , who died in 1810 . The church was renovated several times over the next two centuries. During an Allied air raid in September 1943, it burned down during World War II . In November 1943, she was hit by two air mines .

Between 1950 and 1956 the Luisenkirche was rebuilt under the direction of the state curator Hinnerk Scheper and the construction management of Alfred Lagotz and Bodo Lehmann from Cologne . There were minor changes to the Schinkel version. In 1976 the outside of the church was renovated. From 1987 to 1988, Jochen Langeheinecke carried out a reconstruction of the interior that approximated the state of the Schinkel building.

Furnishing

The crucifix comes from Gerhard Schreiter. The windows of the east wing show glazing according to designs by Ludwig Peter Kowalski , one of whose founders Heinrich Mendelssohn belongs.

Peal

The tower has a three-part chime in the Te Deum motif, in detail:

Caster Pouring year material Chime Weight
(kg)		 Diameter
(cm)		 Height
(cm)		 Crown
(cm)		 inscription
JC Hackenschmidt 1823 bronze f ′ 715 113 82 18th D. LUTHER AS WELL AS IN THE TIME OF MR JCG DRESSEL, MAIN PREDIGATOR, MR JCL SCHULTZE, INT. MAYOR, MR. DA ULLRICH, CITY LEADER, MR. KASTENBEIN, CHURCH LEADER. AS SM THE KING FRIEDRICH WILHELM III. THE CHURCH HAS THIS TOWER BUILT, THIS BELL WAS CAST BY HACKENSCHMIDT IN BERLIN IN 1823.
Bochum Association 1953 Cast steel d ′ 1350 151 130 no O, LAND + LAND + LAND + LAND + HEAR THE WORD OF THE LORD
Bochum Association 1953 Cast steel G' 520 112 100 no NOW BUT FAITH + HOPE + LOVE REMAIN

Use and community life

In addition to normal worship services including the Lord's Supper, baptisms, confirmations, weddings or funeral ceremonies by the Luisenkirchen parish, one of 19 parishes in the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf parish , which belongs to the Berlin district of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia , the church serves as a Venue for church concerts. The Luisenkirche can also be rented for concerts and other cultural and church-related events. The community has a trombone choir, a children's and youth choir, a vocal ensemble and a rock band. There is also a children's, a youth and a senior group as well as various discussion and Bible groups.

literature

  • Günther Kühne, Elisabeth Stephani: Evangelical churches in Berlin . 1st edition. CZV-Verlag, Berlin 1978, ISBN 3-7674-0158-4 .
  • Henrike Hülsbergen (ed.): Charlottenburg really is a city - from the unpublished chronicles of Johann Christian Gottfried Dressel (1751–1824) . Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-925683-04-6 .
  • Klaus-Dieter Wille: The bells of Berlin (West). History and inventory . Gebr. Mann, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-7861-1443-9 .
  • Melanie Mertens and Hellmut Lorenz: Churches between 1648 and 1780 . In: Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin (ed.): Part VI: Sacred buildings (=  Berlin and its buildings ). DOM publishers, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-433-01016-1 , pp. 16 .
  • Christine Goetz , Matthias Hoffmann-Tauschwitz: Churches Berlin Potsdam . More Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-87554-368-8 .
  • Georg Dehio : Berlin (=  handbook of German art monuments ). 3rd, revised and supplemented edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 2006, ISBN 3-422-03111-1 .

Web links

Commons : Luisenkirche  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Detlef Jessen-Klingenberg: Luisenkirche 1823, Gierkeplatz. In: Schinkel in Berlin and Potsdam. 26 buildings in color photographs by Gerrit Engel. Schirmer / Mosel, Munich 2011, p. 44.
  2. ^ Evangelical Luisenkirche. In: berlin.de. District Office Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf of Berlin, accessed on February 1, 2011 .
  3. ^ Website of the Evangelical Luisen Parish for "City Church Music with Appointments
  4. ^ Website of the Evangelical Luisen Parish

Coordinates: 52 ° 31 '1.94 "  N , 13 ° 18' 9.27"  E