Luisenstadt church park
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The Luisenstädtische Kirchpark is located in the Berlin district of Mitte on Alte Jakobstrasse / Sebastianstrasse . It is named after the Luisenstadt church , which stood here until 1964.
history
According to the first traditions, a simple wooden church, the Sebastiankirche, was located here in the Cöllnische Vorstadt as early as 1695. It was replaced by a stone church around 1750 and a tower was added later. With the renaming of the Köpenicker quarter in Luisenstadt in honor of the wife Luise of King Friedrich Wilhelm III. the church was also renamed Luisenstadt Church . In the following years three personalities were buried in the cemetery: the Prussian lawyer and judicial reformer Carl Gottlieb Svarez , the German composer from the Bach family , Wilhelm Friedemann Bach and the German writer Christoph Friedrich Nicolai . In 1831 the cemetery was closed and the area served the residents as a recreation park.
The church was destroyed in a bombing raid on February 3, 1945 during World War II. Over 50 people who had sought refuge in the basement of the church lost their lives. When the wall was built, the ruins were blown up because they were too close to the border strip.
Redesign
After the reunification , the Bürgererverein Luisenstadt e. V. to redesign the site. According to a survey of residents, the area should be used to commemorate the church and the victims who were killed in the bombing. In addition, people wanted to remember Svarez, Bach and Nicolai, whose graves were leveled after the church was blown up. In 1997 , the sculptor Nikolaus Bode designed a stele that met these requirements. Nevertheless, it would be another five years before the stele was unveiled on September 7, 2002 for the Open Monument Day . In 2001 the first park paths were designed. The outlines of the former church were reproduced by planting a hedge. A year later, the work was completed by a training project by the Roads and Green Spaces Office. The citizens' association managed to have the stele and the foundations of the church entered in the list of monuments of the State Monuments Office of Berlin.
Web links
- Monuments in the Luisenstadt , website of the Bürgererverein Luisenstadt eV, accessed on January 27, 2013.
- Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
- Map of the park after the redevelopment , website of the Senate Department for Urban Development, accessed on January 27, 2013.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bode memorial stele ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website Sculpture in Berlin, accessed on January 27, 2013.
- ↑ Timeline of Wilhelm Friedemann Bach , website of the Freundeskreis Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, accessed on January 27, 2013.
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 32.3 " N , 13 ° 24 ′ 26.2" E