Mater Dolorosa (Berlin Book)

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Mater Dolorosa in Berlin-Buch

Mater Dolorosa is a Roman Catholic church in the Berlin district of Buch .

history

Until 1920, Buch belonged to the Niederbarnim district . The Catholics of Buch and the surrounding area were looked after by the parish Herz Jesu in Bernau. In 1907 the first Catholic church service took place in Buch in the chapel of the institution (3rd insane asylum; Hufeland hospital). The desire for their own church and their own pastor led in June 1932 - supported by an application from Mr. Hübner from Karow - to an order from the Bernau church council to the architect Josef Weber from Charlottenburg to build a chapel in Buch. The cost of building the shell of the church was estimated at 45,000 Reichsmarks. In order to cover the costs of building the church, a church association was founded in Buch / Karow in November 1932 that collected donations.

The foundation stone of the church was laid on September 1, 1934. The church building was already completed in the early summer of 1935, so that the Benediction took place on June 30, 1935 by the cathedral chapter Strehler. On Ascension Day, May 21 1936 came the Berlin Bishop Konrad Graf von Preysing to book, where he and in front of the church from the hard community, many guests and 85 Firm Lingen occasion of the consecration was expected of the new Catholic Church. As early as 1933, the construction of the church in Buch had been described by the Berlin episcopal ordinariate as a very urgent matter.

building

The church was designed by the Berlin architect Josef Weber and built in the style of New Building in 1934/1935 as an elongated hall building. The masonry is faced with large-format, dark red bricks and concrete blocks. The long sides are structured by horizontal raised brick layers and profiled arched windows. On the west side, the flat stepped gable , which carries a simple metal cross, is reminiscent of the north German building tradition. The facade is loosened up by two windows above the entrance porch and small arched windows for the bells. There is a triangular gable with structural elements on the east wall of the church. The large wooden mission cross is embedded in the brick wall. In 1992 a new parish hall with a multi-purpose room, classrooms and apartments was built. The new building is connected to the church with a glass connector.

Interior design

The columnless nave construction allows an unobstructed view from the entrance to the chancel. A flat dark wooden ceiling with simple steps towards the middle enhances the simplicity of the room. The altar area is delimited on both sides by column-like plastered masonry that extends to the ceiling. There is the tabernacle stele on one side and the Pietà sculpture by the Allgäu sculptor Hans Wachter on the other . Before the redesign of the sanctuary in 1989, a communion bench closed off the area of ​​the altar from the community. The originally existing high altar was removed after the conciliation in favor of a middle altar, around which the masonry seating group for celebrants and acolytes is now arranged in a semicircle . Next to the entrance, a confessional room made of light oak was built in 1989 by the Thiede carpenter's workshop in Bötzow. Above it rises the gallery , the left side of which has been highlighted since 1991 by the new parapet organ from the Potsdam company Schuke with a wooden prospectus.

Sanctuary

From 1988 to 1989 the chancel was completely redesigned. The wall frieze of the old high altar with the relief depictions of the Seven Sorrows of Mary by the Berlin artist Felix Weber has been preserved. In the center of the back wall of the altar, the cross of Christ is attached in a medallion-like halo above the frieze . The sculptor Hans Wachter symbolically represented death and overcoming death in a unified form. On the right side of the border of the chancel is the large sculpture of the Piéta as a symbol of the Mater Dolorosa von Buch. It shows the suffering of the mother of Jesus over the death of her son. The plastic was made using the concrete casting process. The marble slab of the former high altar, which now bears the tabernacle, stands upright on the left border of the chancel. On the front side, Hans Wachter depicted the moment when bread was broken in Emmaus as a relief. This is intended to indicate the bread form of the body of Christ hidden in the tabernacle . In the middle of the chancel there is an altar made of shell limestone for the celebration of the Eucharist . A small relic of St. Francis of Assisi is set in its massive base . This is intended to refer to the history of the Catholic Church and its saints in Berlin-Buch and to symbolize the connection to the universal Church.

literature

  • Jacek Grzymala, Gerhard Jakob, Peter Jung, Dr. Rochus Winkler: 75 years of Mater Dolorosa Berlin-Buch 1936–2011 .
  • Pastor Franz Brügger, Reinhard Demps, Peter Schellmann, Bernhard Weist: Congregation on the way . Götze printing house, Berlin 1996.

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Coordinates: 52 ° 38 ′ 30.1 ″  N , 13 ° 29 ′ 47.6 ″  E