Mater Dolorosa (Berlin-Lankwitz)

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Mater Dolorosa in Berlin-Lankwitz

Mater Dolorosa is a Roman Catholic church with a monumental church in Berlin-Lankwitz . Mater Dolorosa is part of the Lankwitz-Marienfelde Pastoral Area in the Archdiocese of Berlin . The namesake is the painful mother Mary when her son Jesus died on the cross .

Location and urban environment

The parish church stands between single and multi-family houses on the corner of Kurfürstenstrasse and Kiesstrasse in the west of the Lankwitz district, about one kilometer south-east of the regional and S-Bahn station Lichterfelde Ost . The church faces Kurfürstenstrasse with its columned portal and steeple and is accessible from there. The parish hall is located in the adjacent property to the north and the rectory in the southern part. The latter is accessible from the gravel road. There it borders directly on the Monikastift , which in turn is connected to the Lankwitz cemetery .

Symbol of the community of Mater Dolorosa Berlin-Lankwitz

The municipality is bounded in the north by the Anhalter Bahn railroad tracks , runs over the Seydlitzstrasse , Kaiser-Wilhelm-Strasse , Dillgesstrasse , Havensteinstrasse , Mühlenstrasse , Paul-Schneider-Strasse and meets Malteserstrasse in the east . There the municipality border runs to the south and bends at the level of Friedrichrodaer Straße to the west, where it coincides with the border to Marienfelde . On the outskirts, the municipality is bounded by the city limits and also includes the district of Lichterfelde-Süd including the thermometer settlement at the Lichterfelde Süd train station .

In the north the community of St. Benedikt in Lankwitz borders, in the east the community Vom Guten Hirten in Marienfelde, in the south the community Ss. Eucharist in Teltow and in the west the Holy Family parish in Lichterfelde to the parish area of ​​Mater Dolorosa.

history

The congregation has been celebrating Sunday services in the Lankwitz area since Easter 1908 and was appointed curate on April 1, 1911 . One year after the laying of the foundation stone on August 20, 1911, when the mayor of Lankwitz, Rudolf Beyendorff and the archpriest Josef Deitmer, were present, the Catholic priest in Groß-Lichterfelde , Maximilian Beyer , with the support of the Lankwitz Catholic Church Building Collective Association, opened the Church built.

The consecration took place on September 22, 1912 by the Breslau auxiliary bishop Karl Augustin , with the later auxiliary bishop in Berlin, Josef Deitmer, also being present again. The Curate became an independent parish on May 21, 1921 .

In February 2017, the neighboring parishes of Mater Dolorosa and Vom Guten Hirten in Berlin-Marienfelde were incorporated into the pastoral area of ​​Lankwitz-Marienfelde for a development phase. On September 14, 2017, Archbishop Heiner Koch opened the three-year development phase of the pastoral room with a pontifical office .

Building history

Design drawing by the architects Carl Kühn and Christoph Hehl from 1911

The plans for the building come from the architect Carl Kühn and his teacher Christoph Hehl . In terms of shape, they chose a cruciform basilica , but Pastor Beyer did not want a building in historicizing brick Gothic , but a monumental, baroque church. After Hehl died at the start of the excavation work in 1911, Kühn took over the work on the structure and the construction supervision. Kühn also designed the interior of the church, including the liturgical objects. The altars, the pulpit and the church doors were made from chased bronze sheet metal by the Berlin metal sculptor Johann Schmidt, the confessionals were made by the carpenter August Vogt from Hanover .

  • Historical views from 1912

  • View from the northeast

  • View from the southwest

  • inside view

  • pulpit

  • confessional

Consecration

The church consecration is celebrated on the first Sunday in November together with the St. Hedwig's Cathedral in Berlin, which was consecrated to St. Hedwig von Andechs on November 1, 1773 .

Destruction and rebuilding of the church

Mater Dolorosa church floor plan since 1984
Pietà in the left transept of the Mater Dolorosa parish church in Berlin-Lankwitz, around 1400, limewood , from the Franconian - Thuringian region

On the night of August 24, 1943, the church building was badly damaged by an air raid . The nave was rebuilt in the post-war years . Until 1955, initially only the transept and the tower were expanded according to the plans of the architect Margot Weymann. The dome of the tower, which was crowned by a lantern , was not restored, but replaced by a gable roof . Palm Sunday 1950 the first service was celebrated in the transept of the destroyed church building, which was furnished with a new altar with the inscription MONS QUI CHRIST EST and a golden tabernacle , and which was set up as a service room.

Based on the model of the monastery church of the Maria Laach Abbey, the main nave remained open at the top as the forecourt of the worship room and was only modernized between 1968 and 1970 according to the plans of the diocesan councilor Hermann Jünemann. The choir was separated from the nave by a fiberboard painted white . The altar island in the crossing with the altar, ambo, priest's seat and tabernacle stele designed Paul Ohnsorge , he also designed the windows. Instead of the clerestory of arched windows shaped light tapes were confiscated. The original mansard roof of the nave was replaced by a gable roof. The nave and the choir, which were originally covered with a barrel vault , received a flat ceiling .

The originally polished labradorite pillars of the nave were also damaged in the conflagration and deliberately left in this condition. The columns were polished to a matt finish, and only the two columns between the chancel and the choir, which were temporarily hidden behind partition walls, are reminiscent of the original condition of the column surfaces.

According to the plans of the architect Raimund Szafranski, the old shape of the cross basilica was largely restored in 1983 and 1984.

Development of further places of worship in the community area

Since Großbeeren , located south of the city limits of Berlin, belonged to the municipality, services were held from August 9, 1925 to August 1933 in the lower hall of the monument for the victory at Großbeeren on August 23, 1813. Thereafter, a rental room was used for worship purposes until 1935. It was not until 1942 that masses could be held again in the Protestant cemetery chapel, which, however, was badly damaged by bombs in 1944. In April 1952, the St. Joseph Chapel was inaugurated as a place of worship by Bishop Wilhelm Weskamm , but it has since been rededicated, sold and demolished.

In 1927 a chapel for the Christ the King Sisters was consecrated in Alt-Lankwitz, where the Dominikus Monastery is located. Today this area belongs to the pastoral area Steglitz-Lankwitz-Dahlem.

The Sisters of Mary of the Immaculate Conception had been active in the parish area since 1945. In 1948 they moved from the St. Franziskusheim in Kaulbachstrasse to Gallwitzallee, where they now live in the St. Augustine monastery .

Starting from the Mater Dolorosa community, two further Catholic communities were founded in Lankwitz and a curate in Lichterfelde- Süd:

Since 2017 the parish Mater Dolorosa belongs to the pastoral area Lankwitz-Marienfelde .

Works of art

Portico

The column capitals of the portico of the church were created from drawings by Carl Kühn .

Choir room

Christ cross at the front of the choir

At the front of the choir is a Gothic Christ from the first half of the 15th century, whose arms have been lost.

Above it there are three windows with round arches that depict the Heavenly Jerusalem with colorful glass mosaics based on a design by the artist Helmut Nitzsche .

tabernacle

The gold-plated tabernacle in the right transept originally dates from 1950 and was redesigned in 1984 in the goldsmith's shop at Münsterschwarzach Abbey . The door still shows the ladder to heaven that appeared to Jacob ( Genesis 28, 10-22) with an ascending angel and another descending angel .

Sanctuary

The symbolism in the proclamation of the word of God and in the celebration of Holy Mass is worth mentioning .

The lecturer , deacon or priest stands on two white stones at the readings from the ambo , which is decorated with a bronze eagle by the artist Hildegard Domizlaff . One comes from the Acropolis in Athens and the other from the Capitol in Rome , the two pre-Christian, sacred centers of Europe in antiquity .

Dominus sit in corde tuo et in labiis tuis ('The Lord be in your heart and on your lips') is written on the wings of the bronze eagle on the ambo .

The celebrant stands at the Eucharist at the altar on a small hidden by a carpet agate -Platte, a stone from under the on a red cross Golgotha in Jerusalem is.

Way of the Cross

The Way of the Cross with an additional 15th station, representing the Emmaus disciples , was completed in 1981 by the artist Hans Wachter . The Way of the Cross runs in the left aisle from front to back and continues in the right aisle from back to front.

Church music

Späth organ in the organ gallery above the anteroom

From 1926 to December 31, 1942, the composer and Schoenberg student Max Walter was active as a church musician in the community. The organ at that time was destroyed in a bomb attack in 1943 .

The current organ with mechanical action was built in 1977 by the Freiburg organ builder Hartwig Späth , consecrated on October 23, 1977 and expanded in 1987 to include a Rückpositiv. Since then she has had a free-standing console with three manuals ( main work , swell work , Rückpositiv and, since 1995, an additional, separate pedal work ). The organ has a total of 2542 pipes in 40 registers, six paddocks , two tremulants and 8 × 8 composer combinations with registers .

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Bourdon 16 ′
2. Principal 08th'
3. Wood-covered 08th'
4th Octave 04 ′
5. recorder 04 ′
6th Octave 02 ′
7th Fifth 01 1 ⁄ 3  ′
8th. Mixture V
9. Trumpet 08th'
II Rückpositiv C – g 3
10. Principal (from G sharp) 08th'
11. Covered 08th'
12. Quintadena 08th'
13. Octave 04 ′
14th Covered 04 ′
15th Forest flute 02 ′
16. Fifth 02 2 ⁄ 3  ′
17th third 01 3 ⁄ 5  ′
18th Mixture IV
19th Cymbel III
20th Dulcian 16 ′
21st Vox Humana 08th'
Tremulant
III Swell C – g 3
22nd Singing principal 8th'
23. Reed flute 8th'
24. Viola da gamba 8th'
25th Préstant 4 ′
26th Pointed flute 4 ′
27. flute 2 ′
28. Nazard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
29 Sesquialtera II 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
30th Sifflet 1'
31. Scharff IV
32. shawm 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
33. Principal 16 ′
34. Sub bass 16 ′
35. Principal 08th'
36. Cane-covered 08th'
37. Night horn 04 ′
38. Piffaro II
39. trombone 16 ′
40. Trumpet 08th'

In the left transept there is a single manual choir organ by the organ builder Paul Ott with a pedal and three stops.

The community has a mixed choir , a children's school, a gospel choir and a choral school .

Peal

The Mater Dolorosa bronze bell with an additional outside clapper for ringing during the change
Bell sound of the parish church Mater Dolorosa

The bells of the church were both in the first and after the Second World War removed.

In 1963, the three new bronze bells of the Rudolf Perner bell foundry were consecrated with the names Maria Magdalena , Mater Dolorosa and Johannes . The church bells are like the first bells in the ringing disposition , which correspond to the starting notes of the Gregorian Te Deum (e - g - a).

Church work

From 1939 to 1954, the theologian Johannes Pinsk (1891–1957) , who is known for the liturgical renewal movement, was pastor in Mater Dolorosa, who greatly influenced the community through his work. The parish work is carried out by the Association of Friends of the Parish Mater Dolorosa e. V. and supported by the Mater Dolorosa Berlin-Lankwitz Foundation. There is a collaboration with the Don Bosco scout tribe and an ecumenical collaboration with the neighboring evangelical Dietrich Bonhoeffer congregation. Since 1979 the congregation has regularly supported the partner diocese of Chachapoyas in Peru . Mater Dolorosa is one of the few parishes in which carmets have been held regularly during Holy Week for many decades .

Chaplains (selection)

Pastor

Johannes Pinsk , 1951
  • 1912–1921: Maximilian Beyer (born April 17, 1872; † October 21, 1937, ordained a priest on June 14, 1896) as pastor of the Holy Family in Berlin-Lichterfelde
  • 1921–1939 (previously Kuratus): Monsignor Franz Nafe (* July 31, 1879; † December 7, 1942, ordained priest on June 20, 1903), clergyman , archpriest
  • 1939–1954: Johannes Pinsk (born February 4, 1891; † May 21, 1957, ordained a priest on June 13, 1915), honorary professor at the Free University of Berlin
  • 1954–1976: Werner Heltemes (born August 31, 1909; † July 25, 1976, ordained a priest on June 29, 1935)
  • 1976-2013: Honorary Prelate Michael Schlede (born May 5, 1938, ordained a priest on October 10, 1965)
  • Since August 2013: Parish administrator Harry Karcz (born June 30, 1960, ordained priest in 1989)
    • August 2013 - September 2016: Parish Vicar Frank Roland Felgner (born January 30, 1967, ordained a priest on June 24, 1995)
    • Since October 2016: Parish Vicar Sebastian Punayar, CMI (born June 13, 1950, ordained a priest on April 10, 1980)

More clergy

  • 1980–1994: Father Gerhard Poppe SJ (* May 22, 1928; † March 3, 2008, ordained a priest on June 29, 1958) as pastor of the Curate of Mary Mother of Good Advice 

Well-known parishioners

Awards

The following parishioners have been recognized for their voluntary work in the parish:

literature

  • Mater Dolorosa-Kirehe in Lankwitz b. Berlin. Architect Karl Kühn in Charlottenburg .. In:  Der Bautechniker , born 1913, No. 2, January 10, 1913 (33rd year), p. 21 f. (Online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / maintenance / construction
  • Pfarrnachrichten / Mater Dolorosa, Berlin-Lankwitz: Lankwitzer Pfarrnachrichten. Regina-Druck, Berlin-Wilmersdorf 1957, p. 5 ff.
  • Bernhard Müller-Schoenau: Mater Dolorosa. Church of our time. Berlin 1962.
  • The straight way, bulletin of the parish Mater Dolorosa in Berlin (Lankwitz) , Gloria-Verlag Glökler, Berlin 1964, p. 5 ff.
  • Ernst-Alfred Jauch : 75 years of the Church of the Holy Family 1904–1979 . Berlin 1979.
  • Gerhard Streicher, Erika Drave: Berlin. City and church. Berlin 1980.
  • Lorenz Weinrich (Ed.): Parish Church and Parish Mater Dolorosa Berlin-Lankwitz 1912–1987 . Berlin 1987.
  • Paul Hiller (founder), Lankwitz Historical Working Group (Hrsg.): Chronicle Lankwitz. Lankwitz homeland book (1239–1989). Word & Image Specials, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-926578-19-X , pp. 102-105.
  • Andreas Tacke: Churches for the Diaspora. Christoph Hehl's Berlin buildings and university activities (1894–1911). Gebrüder Mann, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-7861-1690-3 .
  • Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin (ed.): Sacral buildings. (=  Berlin and its buildings , volume 6.) Ernst & Sohn, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-433-01016-1 .
  • Matthias Brühe: Catholic Church in the west and south of Berlin. Berlin 2000.
  • Mater Dolorosa. In: Harald Schwillus, Matthias Brühe: Archdiocese of Berlin. A young diocese with a long tradition. Verlag Sadifa-Media, 2009, ISBN 978-3-88786-395-1 .
  • Markus Bautsch, Annelen Hölzner-Bautsch, Dorothea Rosenstiel, Pastor Michael Schlede, Angelika Stellert, Ursula Storck: Parish Church Mater Dolorosa Berlin-Lankwitz. accurat Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-926578-55-6 .
  • Catholic parish Mater Dolorosa (ed.), Annelen Hölzner-Bautsch: 100 years of Mater Dolorosa Church. History of the Catholic community in Berlin-Lankwitz 1912 to 2012. Self-published, Berlin 2012.

Web links

Commons : Mater Dolorosa (Berlin-Lankwitz)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Catholic Church Mater Dolorosa - Obj.-Dok.-Nr .: 09065408 , Monument database of the Senate Department for Culture and Europe - Monument Section , Berlin, accessed on March 18, 2017
  2. ↑ Certificate of laying the foundation stone
  3. ↑ Pastoral space Berlin Lankwitz-Marienfelde ( Memento of the original from March 20, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Archdiocese of Berlin, accessed on March 19, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.erzbistumberlin.de
  4. ↑ On the southern border of Berlin - the pastoral area Lankwitz-Marienfelde is opened. ( Memento of the original from September 12, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Archdiocese of Berlin , August 31, 2017, accessed on September 12, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.erzbistumberlin.de
  5. ↑ a b Ambo , Mater Dolorosa, Berlin-Lankwitz, accessed on March 17, 2017
  6. ↑ Mater Dolorosa - Organ
  7. ↑ Mater Dolorosa - Bells
  8. ↑ Mater Dolorosa - Franz Nafe
  9. ↑ Mater Dolorosa - Werner Heltemes
  10. ↑ Appointment of Pastor Schlede as Honorary Prelate , Mater Dolorosa, accessed on October 3, 2012.
  11. ↑ Mater Dolorosa - Michael Schlede
  12. ↑ a b c Pastor from Mater Dolorosa , mater-dolorosa-lankwitz.de, accessed on December 23, 2016.
  13. ↑ Mater Dolorosa - Gerhard Poppe
  14. ↑ Cornelia Klaebe: Reingelesen - Philosopher, Publicist, Editor ( Memento of the original from October 28, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Archdiocese of Berlin from November 30, 2017, accessed on October 28, 2018 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.erzbistumberlin.de
  15. ↑ Information on the financial development of the Mater Dolorosa Foundation in 2016/17 , Mater Dolorosa Foundation Berlin-Lankwitz from August 16, 2017, accessed on December 3, 2018
  16. ↑ Annelen Hölzner-Bautsch: 100 Years of Mater Dolorosa Church - History of the Catholic Community in Berlin-Lankwitz 1912 to 2012 , publisher: Katholische Pfarrgemeinde Mater Dolorosa, self-published, Berlin (2012)
  17. ^ Chronicle in bullet points 1977 , Mater Dolorosa Berlin-Lankwitz, accessed on September 29, 2014
  18. ↑ a b Archdiocese of Berlin awards Hedwigs Medal , Archdiocese of Berlin, January 9, 2014, accessed on September 29, 2014
  19. ↑ Lorenz Weinrich , Thomas Helms Verlag, accessed on September 29, 2014
  20. ↑ Pfarrnachrichten / Mater Dolorosa in the catalog of the German National Library (online)
  21. ↑ The straight path in the catalog of the German National Library (online)
  22. ↑ Selected bibliography on the history of the Archdiocese of Berlin
  23. ↑ Church Guide (online)
  24. ^ Parish church Mater Dolorosa Berlin-Lankwitz in the catalog of the German National Library (online)
  25. ↑ 100 years of Mater Dolorosa Church - history of the Catholic community in Berlin-Lankwitz. 1912 to 2012

Coordinates: 52 ° 25 ′ 25.2 ″  N , 13 ° 20 ′ 16.5 ″  E