Maria Gnaden (Berlin-Hermsdorf)
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The Catholic Church of Maria Gnaden , designed by Josef Bischof in the Heimatschutz style, is located at Hermsdorfer Damm 195 / corner of Olafstraße in the Berlin district of Hermsdorf in the Reinickendorf district . The hall church , consecrated on May 22, 1934, is a listed building .
history
After the opening of the Berlin Northern Railway in 1877, Hermsdorf had good transport links to the capital of Berlin . The introduction of local transport in particular made Hermsdorf attractive as a place to live for Berliners. Several private and not-for-profit developers bought land from the landlords in order to parcel it out and develop it . A large settlement of upscale country houses emerged and the population rose sharply.
On the initiative of Catholic lay people who had settled there, a parish was established. She proposed to win a religious community to settle in Hermsdorf in order to be able to celebrate Holy Mass with her . The Dominicans of the Maria Viktoria Hospital founded the Dominikus Stift as a children's home in Hermsdorf , from which the Dominikus Hospital developed. The Catholic believers in Hermsdorf could go to mass in their chapel . The congregation became a curate in 1911 and a parish in 1922 within the congregation association of Catholic parishes in Berlin. However, it was not until 1934 that it broke away from its close association with Dominikus Stift, when its own church was built for it.
In December 1929 the planning of the parish church began . In May 1930 the building site was purchased for 22,000 marks . The groundbreaking ceremony took place on September 13, 1933, and the foundation stone was laid on October 22, 1933 . The construction costs in the amount of 123,000 marks (adjusted for purchasing power in today's money: around 551,000 euros) were halfway out of reserves of the community and donations covered. In 1936 an organ was installed. In 1971 the church received a new organ built by the Karl Schuke organ building workshop . More information can be found at Orgel Databank . Of the three church bells consecrated on April 14, 1934, the two larger ones were melted down during World War II . On November 26, 1943, incendiary bombs fell into the church during Allied air raids without causing major damage. After 1965 the high altar , the communion bench , the pulpit and the side altars were removed, and in 1988 the church was redesigned again. The new popular altar dates from this time .
Building description
Different styles are reflected in the building, the bizarre world of forms of Expressionism and the simplicity of New Building . The external appearance is that of a castle . The two-winged building complex of white plastered masonry consists of the two-storey rectory and the hall church covered with a hipped roof with a retracted semicircular choir and a round tower attached to the side , the rounding of which in the interior slightly engages with a curved arcade as the entrance to the chapel with the baptismal font . The bell tower is crowned by a strongly drawn-in, slim conical roof , on the top of which sits a tower ball . The wooden beam ceilings of the nave without supports give the interior a basilica character, because the middle one is higher in the width of the choir. There is a skylight above the apse that indirectly illuminates the altar area. The nave has five window axes with only one row of windows on the left. The portal is located in an extension on the gable side .
Bells
Two bronze bells hang in the belfry :
| Caster | Pouring year | Chime | Weight (kg) |
Diameter ( cm) |
Height (cm) |
inscription |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock | 1921 | 54 | 46 | 39 | HL. MICHAEL, PLEASE FOR US. I GLORIFY THE DEEDS / 1914 + 1918 / THE FALLEN SONS OF HOME. | |
| Franz Schilling sons | 1934 | H | 267 | 77 | 64 | ST: JOSEPH GIVE US THE FURBIT INTO US, UNTIL THE HOUR OF DIE. |
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Band Berlin. Munich / Berlin 2006.
- 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.
- Klaus-Dieter Wille: The bells of Berlin (West). History and inventory. Berlin 1987.
- Gerhard Streicher and Erika Drave: Berlin - city and church. Berlin 1980.
Web links
- Entry in the Berlin State Monument List with further information
- Homepage of the Catholic Church in Berlin-Reinickendorf for the districts of Hermsdorf, Waidmannslust and Lübars
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 52 ° 37 ′ 17.1 ″ N , 13 ° 18 ′ 26.3 ″ E