Paul Gerhardt pen
| Paul-Gerhardt-Stift Paul Gerhardt-Stift zu Berlin |
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 Street front of the Paul-Gerhardt-Stift in Müllerstraße - |
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| place | Berlin |
| builder |
Ernst Schwartzkopff , Heinrich Theising |
| Construction year | 1885–1888 (parent company), 1897/98 (first extension) |
| Floor space | 20,000 m² |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 33 '15.4 " N , 13 ° 20' 46.7" E |
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| Multiple extensions and conversions of individual parts of the building | |
The Paul-Gerhardt-Stift (own spelling Paul Gerhardt Stift zu Berlin ) (PGS) is a private foundation founded on June 7, 1876 by the Protestant pastor Carl Schlegel for the care of the sick, children and old people in the Christian tradition of charity . The facility is in the district Wedding of Berlin district center in the Müllerstraße a larger area, which was built in stages. The leitmotif from the founding deed of 1876 reads: "The Paul-Gerhardt-Stift desires to serve everyone, as far as strength and ability suffice, and not to exclude anyone that he is who he is and be called whatever he wants", it still applies .
The buildings - a Diakonissenmutterhaus , a chapel , a hospital with isolation ward and several apartment buildings - have been preserved for smaller renovations and are available as Ensemble listed .
Location and transport connections of the Paul Gerhardt Stift
The approximately 20,000 m² area with the monastery complex comprises part of Müllerstrasse (56 to 58), Barfusstrasse and Edinburgher Strasse (courtyard side). The main entrances are mainly on the inner courtyard and are therefore protected from direct car traffic. The facilities can be reached both by underground line 6 ( Rehberge station ) and by bus no. 120 at the Türkenstrasse stop. The Rehberge Park is just a few minutes' walk away.
The monastery complex is fully integrated into the residential area, whose residents come from different social classes. In the overall picture of Berlin, the Müllerstrasse area has been a problem area since the 2000s, but the district administration and associations of business people are making greater efforts to constantly improve its reputation.
history
First and second construction phase
At the St. Jacobi Church in the Luisenstadt parish, Pastor Carl Schlegel founded a private foundation for the care of the sick, children and the elderly in the mid-1870s and named it after the hymn writer Paul Gerhardt . The monument database of the Berlin Senate names the pastor August Disselhoff as the founder , which is to be assumed as rather unlikely, since he was active in the Sauerland and Westphalia from the 1850s.
The founders were able to acquire a building site in the Vorwerk Wedding on Müllerstrasse and commission the architects Ernst Schwartzkopff and Heinrich Theising to plan a larger building complex.
The first deaconess mother house ("mother house Kaiserswerther order") was used for the training of Christian nurses , later also of after-school care workers (educators) and housekeeping staff . The trainees and the sisters with a vocational qualification lived in this building. They worked with hospitals, looked after around forty day-care centers and supported the community nurses there in the city of Berlin and in the surrounding villages.
The brick building on Müllerstrasse was inaugurated in 1888 under the protectorate of Empress Auguste Viktoria . The money for the purchase of the building site and the construction of the building came mainly from private donations, on a bronze plaque in the gate entrance a particular Hermann Silka is highlighted as a sponsor .
To the north-west there is a tract that was built in a second construction phase (1897/1898) along Müllerstrasse and laid in the depths of the area. On the mezzanine floor, the extended main building received a small and a large representative wood-paneled ballroom, and on the floors above, bedrooms for the deaconesses and administration rooms. This part of the building has a more lively facade structure and has a generous gate entrance (in which a colored mosaic can be read: “Built in Anno Domini 1897–98”). Lighter and smoother bricks characterize the new building. After 1905, a second extension was added to the corner of Barfusstraße, which was clad with light majolica and has Art Nouveau-like elements. New departments such as a kindergarten teachers' seminar , a home care school and other social educational institutions moved into the extension buildings .
Expansion and several extensions
After completing these construction phases, the large hall received a bronze statue in honor of Paul Gerhardt, which the sculptor Friedrich Pfannschmidt made on the basis of his monument model for the Paul Gerhardt Church in Lübben (1909). The painter Hedwig Weiß , who belongs to the Berlin Secession , commissioned five oil paintings ( The Seven Works of Mercy ) for the small hall that has been named after this painter since 2013.
The Paul-Gerhardt-pin entrusted the architect Otto Rüger in the 1920s, the task then northeast to the terrain a Feierabendheim for ladies to build. The home, completed in 1928 in the modern style , faces Edinburgher Strasse. The after-work home was rebuilt in 1950/51 according to plans by the architect Hermann Schluckebier and exactly 50 years later a residential pen was added on the courtyard side .
In the 1930s, during the National Socialist dictatorship , most of the monastery’s Christian training centers were closed; for financial reasons, the auxiliary work also had to be reduced. At the end of the Second World War , the building complex suffered severe damage.
Development between the end of the war and 1990
After the war there was simply a shortage of everything - apart from the small number of deaconesses (only 146 are given in 1946 compared to 1928, when there were 425 sisters) - there was a lack of basic food and other material things, so that the facilities were rebuilt and put back into operation could only be realized slowly. Nursing duties were increasingly performed by non-Christian nurses in the following years.
In 1989 the women's home was closed and the hospital was also closed.
The pen since German reunification
After German reunification , the children's home also had to be closed. The operators gave the reasons that modernizations were too expensive and demand was declining. The building was soon given a new use as a home for emigrants from the GDR and late repatriates from Poland and the CIS . From 1995 to 2004 employees of the monastery took care of traumatized war refugees from various crisis areas (Bosnia, Kurds from Turkey and Syria, Chechnya, Iran, Iraq and others).
A partnership has existed between the PGS and church institutions in Russia ( Kaliningrad Provost ) since 1998 .
architecture
The mother house
The foundation's board of trustees commissioned the well-known architects Ernst Schwartzkopff & Heinrich Theising with drafts, which were then implemented on the property in several construction phases. The builders chose an architectural style that was customary at the time, based on the Brandenburg brick Gothic . The symmetrical main house with a slate-covered gable roof extends parallel to Müllerstrasse and is around 80 meters long and around 15 meters wide. Through later additions, three wings of different lengths point into the courtyard area. Up until the destruction in World War II, there was a pointed tower above the southeastern pointed arched gate . A stepped gable , grouped arched windows and a two-story bay window structure the four-story structure along the street.
The large hall, which has a continuous bay window and a wide glass window, is set up above the north-western double gate entrance.
Collegiate church
In the courtyard, a small chapel, also in neo-Gothic style, complements the building ensemble. In 1991, after almost 100 years of its existence, the chapel received new colored stained glass windows on the side walls and in the altar apse. The total of six windows were designed according to song motifs by Paul Gerhardt ( Command you your ways , go out, my heart, and search for Freud , I sing to you with heart and mouth , how should I receive you , should I not sing to my God , I stand at your crib here ) and performed by Eric Feist. The simple chapel is vaulted by a cross dome; its wooden altar stands on the dais of the whitewashed altar apse. There is a small organ on the gallery .
Infirmary and nursing homes
The brick buildings in the courtyard were built by architects and master masons Carl Pullich and Paul Stüwe and again according to plans by Schwartzkopff & Theising. They served by its progressive completion to 1905 different departments of the hospital, especially if there were a sick ward , a cripple home , an isolation ward, an outpatient clinic for disabled children, an infant home. Finally a boiler house and a morgue were added in the courtyard, which was then planted with greenery. In 1908, Heinrich Theising added another floor to the originally two-story hospital wing (his partner had died in 1905).
Use of the building since the late 1990s
Modernization of the parent company
The deaconess mother house was energetically renovated in 2009 , for which funds from the European Fund for Regional Development and from the financial pot of the Senate of Berlin were made available. In 2013, parts of the parent company were converted into a district center with funds from the Deutsche Klassenlotterie Foundation and the Senate Department for Urban Development and Environment (urban monument protection).
Hospital construction
In the 1990s, the owner of the monastery had the hospital building renovated and modernized, and several outpatient medical practices and a day care clinic, which form the Wedding Medical and Health Center in the Paul Gerhardt Stift, then moved in. Some parts of the building are also rented to other institutions, for example to the Charité Psychiatric University Clinic in St. Hedwig Hospital (Wedding supply area) or to a studio for paramentals that is maintained by the designer Christine Utsch.
Conversions and new buildings
A new residential building was built in 2001 as Paul Gerhardt Wohnstift , in which 48 completed, age-appropriate apartments are furnished.
The socio-educational work for traumatized refugees and asylum seekers has been continued since 2005 in the successor facility Refugium on the site.
The Paul Gerhardt Home for Refugees was converted into a Diakonisches Pflegewohnheim Schillerpark with a capacity of 163 places and was officially inaugurated on December 1, 2006.
Future House Wedding
Since 2011, the PGS, under the direction of Ute Köpp-Wilhelmus, has been pursuing the opening of the house to the district and to new target groups under the heading of Zukunftshaus Wedding . With the conceptual further development of the offers in the Paul-Gerhardt-Stift under the roof of the future house, the existing activities and projects for young and old as well as for people of different origins, different ages and languages are to be connected. The house offers rooms and opportunity structures for contacts, to exchange experiences as well as diverse educational and support opportunities.
With the already existing offers of assisted living, the Refugium advice center and the family center opened in 2012, the future house in Wedding took its first shape. Further differentiations - such as the district center mentioned above - and a daycare center (since summer 2014) complete the offer. The future house in Wedding is to become a hub of neighborly cooperation in the social area Schillerpark and in the district of Wedding. The future house also addresses the issue of inclusion with its offers and projects, especially the promotion of self-determination and social participation.
Regular events
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literature
- Carl Schlegel : Memorandum for the inauguration of the deaconess mother house Paul-Gerhardt-Stift in Berlin. Berlin 1888
- Carl Schlegel (Ed.): The Paul Gerhard-Stift under the protectorate of Her Majesty the Empress and Queen Auguste Victoria. A deaconess house for and in Berlin together with the associated hospital. A report on its development and growth. Berlin 1898
- 50 years of the Deaconess Mother House Paul Gerhardt-Stift Berlin 1876-1926. Berlin 1926
- Hermann Wagner (ed.): Memorandum for the 75th annual festival of the deaconess mother house Paul Gerhardt-Stift in Berlin Müllerstrasse 56/58 on June 7, 1951. Berlin 1951
- Paul-Gerhardt-Stift, history and fields of work, 1876–2006 . Published by Paul-Gerhardt-Stift zu Berlin, 2006
- Lyuba Kirjuchina: In the garment of the maid. From the life of the deaconesses of the Paul Gerhardt Stift in Berlin . Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-934703-33-X
Web links
- Homepage of the Paul Gerhardt Stift
- Newer homepage for the Paul Gerhardt and Johannesstift
- Courtyard view of part of the PGS, 1962
- Street view of Müllerstrasse with PGS, 1940
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Paul-Gerhardt-Stift, history and fields of work, 1876–2006, ...
- ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List with further information
- ↑ Müllerstrasse local community , example for improving reputation: accessed on April 10, 2016.
- ^ Schlegel, C., pastor and board member of the deaconess mother house Paul-Gerhardt-Stift . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1885, I, p. 910.
- ↑ Presentation of the PGS at www.stadtentwicklung-berlin.de ; accessed on April 16, 2016.
- ↑ Paul-Gerhardt-Stift wedding on a private homepage; Retrieved April 10, 2016.
- ↑ Winfried Böttler: Paul Gerhardts Lieder in dark times. The spiritual song as pastoral care. In: notes from the Paul-Gerhardt-Stift in Berlin . Spring 2007, p. 3f.
- ↑ Stüwe & Pullich . In: Address book for Berlin and its suburbs , 1902, part 1, p. 1711. “Architects and masons; SO (Berlin), Michaelkirchstrasse ”.
- ↑ Press release on the opening of the district center in November 2013 ; Retrieved April 10, 2016.
- ↑ Homepage of the medical center with current offers ; Retrieved March 9, 2010
- ^ Board on the corresponding building in the courtyard
- ^ Homepage Atelier für Paramentik in Müllerstrasse , accessed on April 10, 2016.
- ↑ Future House Wedding