Paul Gerhardt Church (Berlin-Schöneberg)

Paul Gerhardt Church and Schöneberg Village Church in the historic Schöneberg village center

The Paul-Gerhardt-Kirche is a Protestant church building on Hauptstrasse 47 in Berlin-Schöneberg . It stands directly next to the baroque Schöneberg village church and, together with other community buildings , forms an ensemble of buildings that leads to the Catholic St. Norbert Church and thus creates a passage to Dominicusstrasse .

history

The original church was designed by the architect Richard Schultze and was one of the few pure Art Nouveau churches in Berlin. Because of its distinctive round tower, it was popularly nicknamed "Thermos flask". The sculptural work was carried out by the artist Robert Schirmer from Berlin. A spacious open staircase led from the main street to the main portal in the tower shaft. A semicircular vestibule opened the way into the single-nave interior of the church, which was closed by an apse in which the altar was located. A colonnade on the main street connected the church with the Schöneberg village church .

The church was damaged in World War II and the massive foundation walls were preserved long after the war. The tower had lost its dome , but otherwise remained intact and determined the silhouette of Schöneberg until the late 1950s.

The Paul Gerhardt Church was rebuilt between 1958 and 1962 based on designs by Hermann Fehling , Daniel Gogel and Peter Pfankuch as a reconstruction of the church that was destroyed in the war and has been a listed building since 1995 .

organ

The organ is a work by the Dutch company Flentrop Orgelbouw from 1965.

I Rückpositiv C – g 3 1. Wooden dacked 08th' 2. Reed flute 04 ′ 3. Principal 02 ′ 4th Sif flute 01' 5. Zymbel III 6th Sesquialtera II 7th Wooden shelf 08th' Tremulant

II Hauptwerk C – g 3 08th. Quintad 16 ′ 09. Principal 08th' 10. Reed flute 08th' 11. octave 04 ′ 12. flute 04 ′ 13. Nasat 02 1 ⁄ 3  ′ 14th octave 02 ′ 15th Mixture III-IV 16. Trumpet 08th'

III Upper structure (swellable) C – g 3 17th Metal dacked 08th' 18th Gemshorn 08th' 19th Principal 04 ′ 20th recorder 04 ′ 21st Forest flute 02 ′ 22nd Fifth 01 1 ⁄ 3  ′ 23. overtone 01 1 ⁄ 7  ′ 24. Sharp IV 25th Dulcian 16 ′ 26th Vox humana 08th' Tremulant

Pedal C – f 1 27. Principal 16 ′ 28. Sub bass 16 ′ 29 octave 08th' 30th Dumped 08th' 31. octave 04 ′ 32. Night horn 02 ′ 33. Mixture IV-V 34. trombone 16 ′ 35. Trumpet 08th' 36. shawm 04 ′

• Coupling : I / II, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P
• Playing aids : 5 free combinations

Web links

Commons : Paul-Gerhardt-Kirche (Berlin-Schöneberg)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
• Entry in the catalog raisonné of the architects Fehling + Gogel
• Portrait of the church as 'Monument of the Month January 2013' of the Tempelhof-Schöneberg district
• 013. Berliner Architekturwelt 13/1911, no. 11, pp. 421–462

Individual evidence

1. ^ Paul Gerhardt Church in Schöneberg near Berlin . In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung . tape 31 , no. 1/2 . Berlin January 4, 1911, p. 3-4 ( zlb.de ).

Coordinates: 52 ° 28 ′ 58.7 "  N , 13 ° 20 ′ 56"  E