Petrus Church (Berlin-Spandau)
The Petrus Church is part of a community center at Grunewaldstrasse 7 near Ruhlebener Strasse in the Spandau district of the Berlin district of the same name . The construction goes back to plans by the architect Georg Lichtfuß . The inauguration of a reinforced concrete skeleton erected church building took place on 20 December 1964 the remaining wings of the building were inaugurated on 11 April 1965th
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history
With the relocation of the Royal Casting House and the gun workshops to Stresow and the industrialization of the former fishing village of Tiefwerder , the population in both localities grew rapidly. The emerging parish in the east parish of the Nikolaikirche did not have its own church; the center of church life was a school building in Tiefwerder. The school building was destroyed in the Second World War , and now services were held in inns . To distinguish itself from Nikolaus , the patron saint of the old Spandau parish, the new parish chose Petrus as the namesake for the new parish center.
Before the community center with the Petrus Church was built, the young pastor Ernst Lange set up a shop church in a former bakery at Brunsbütteler Damm 17 in 1960 . He brought the idea of bringing the church to the people in Berlin. Biblical, ecclesiastical and social issues were to be discussed not in a solemn church room, but in the shop around the corner, and Sunday services were to be held at the round table, with the congregation having a say after the sermon . The community was created to provide church services for parts of the community area of the Nikolaikirche and the Klosterfelde community center and became independent on January 1, 1970.
The congregations of the Petrus Church and the Shop Church finally reunited with the mother congregation of St. Nikolai in 1998; in January 2004 the location of the shop church was given up and its activities relocated to the premises of the Petrus church.
Building description
The angularly arranged three-wing building complex is grouped around an open courtyard . It consists of a building wing with an irregular pentagonal floor plan , which is largely taken up by the pentagonal hall church , and two further wings that include the rectory and community rooms. The walls of the pentagonal building tract are exterior with red brick blinded above are by Attica tape in concrete complete.
The church hall opens onto the courtyard through a large colored glass window designed by Siegmund Hahn . There is a folding door on the back wall , by means of which the church space can be expanded to include the community hall behind. In front of the northeast windowless front wall is the pedestal for the altar , next to it a bay window for the baptismal font . The church stalls consist of simple wooden benches that are usually aligned with the altar. Inside, the walls are painted white, as are the concrete walls of the baptistery. The ceiling with planks boards.
Bells
The bell tower stands on the side in front of the windowless part of the facade opposite the colored glass window and protrudes halfway out of it. It is raised from the two side walls of the baptistery and tapers upwards. Behind the vertical lamellas of the bell house hangs a ring made of three bronze bells , which was cast by Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock .
| Chime | Weight (kg) |
Diameter (cm) |
Height (cm) |
inscription |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| a ′ | 450 | 92 | 74 | FROM THE COMMUNITY / 1964 |
| c ′ ′ | 265 | 76 | 62 | FOR THE COMMUNITY / 1964 |
| d ′ ′ | 180 | 67 | 59 | 1964 |
literature
- 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.
- Günther Kühne, Elisabeth Stephanie: Evangelical churches in Berlin. Berlin 1978.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 31 ′ 51 ″ N , 13 ° 12 ′ 17.8 ″ E