Petruskirche (Berlin-Lichterfelde)
The Petruskirche is a neo-Gothic church in the Berlin district of Lichterfelde . Just 19 months passed between the laying of the foundation stone on May 27, 1897 and the inauguration on December 15, 1898. Damaged by aerial bombs at the end of World War II in 1944 , the building could be restored from 1955 to 1956 and was subsequently modified several times. The church is a listed building .
history
Planning and construction
The village church of Lichterfelde and the village church of Giesensdorf , both located in old villages, no longer met the requirements of the growing villa colony of Groß-Lichterfelde. Although the number of seats was doubled by expanding the village church of Lichterfelde, this measure remained a makeshift. Efforts to build one or two new churches, as the founder of the villa colony Johann Anton Wilhelm von Carstenn had called for, did not progress until 1895. This year, the parish decided, in agreement with the Berlin consistory , to build three churches, the Petruskirche on Wilhelmplatz (today: Oberhofer Platz) in the old Giesensdorf, the Pauluskirche on the Dorfaue in the old Lichterfelde and the Johanneskirche on the Ringstrasse in the south-western district . Government builder Ernst Goldbach emerged victorious from the competition for the first Petruskirche to be built .
Fate of the building in the two world wars
During the First World War , the two large bells for war material were melted down. Only the smallest bell remained for the community. After the bronze bell that remained in the tower was sold in 1922 to pay for new bells, a complete bell , consisting of three cast steel bells from the Schilling bell foundry , was purchased. In 1925–1926, August Oetken planned a new painting in 1921 , which was completed on March 14, 1926.
From 1942 during the Second World War , the building served as a furniture store for bombed-out people, so that there were no more regular church services until 1945. In early 1944, the roof was damaged by bombs in an Allied air raid , and the church was subsequently opened for material extraction by NSDAP agencies . After the war ended, the roof of the Petruskirche was almost completely covered. The leaded glass windows were no longer there. The interior was exposed to the rigors of the weather. In 1948 the roofs were re-covered and prevented further moisture from penetrating the masonry of the church.
Development from 1945
On October 1, 1954, the Lichterfeld congregation was dissolved and the Petrus congregation became independent. In the spring of 1955, the restoration of the church interior began, but with drastic changes. The original wall structure was changed, the capitals of the pillars were simplified and the rosette in the choir wall was bricked up. The wall paintings damaged by moisture were not restored, but whitewashed with white paint. The damaged old principal pieces were not restored, nor was the organ . The pulpit with sound cover was made from wood. The brick parapet of the gallery disappeared behind a cladding made of wood. On December 11, 1955, Bishop Otto Dibelius inaugurated the Petruskirche again.
In 1981 the church interior was rebuilt so that it could also be used for non-ecclesiastical purposes. In addition to the installation of a powerful heating system and toilets in the tower, the winter church was separated from the nave below the gallery . The cladding of the gallery parapet and the pews have been removed. On the third Advent in 1981 the rebuilt church was consecrated again.
From 1955 to July 2006 there was a simple wooden cross over the place of the walled-up rose window. An earmarked legacy made it possible to restore the rose window. Since the new rosette takes up a large area of the altar wall, the entire sanctuary was redesigned with the cross and altar.
The roof covering of the Petruskirche from 1948 was renewed. The new roofing of the spire and the nave roof was based on the original shape and color of the roof from 1898.
Building
Naves
The single-aisled hall church is a masonry building clad with red bricks . The roofs are covered with glazed interlocking tiles, the tower roof is patterned in different colors. The walls are divided by buttresses . The large pointed arch windows are staggered in groups of three. Powerful pilasters carry in four Jochen the groin vault with ogival transverse arches . The flat arched gallery is built into the first yoke . The rectangular choir and the sacristy behind the choir are also vaulted.
Church tower and entrances
At the front of the church, along the longitudinal axis, is the 60-meter-high, simple church tower , finished with an eyelash and a pointed helmet . In it hang three bells that were cast by the Bochum Association in 1924 .
| Chime | Weight (kg) |
Diameter ( cm) |
Height (cm) |
inscription |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| c ′ | 1810 | 170 | 125 | BE TRUE UNTIL DEATH. OFF. JOH. 2.10. |
| e ′ | 940 | 140 | 104 | WE ARE OPPRESSED + BUT WE DON'T COME AROUND + KOR. 4.9 +. |
| f sharp ′ | 870 | 124 | 95 | THE LIGHT HAS TO RISK UP AGAIN + PS. 97.11. |
At the foot of the tower is the main entrance hall, which is flanked by two narrow extensions for the stairs to the organ gallery. In addition to the main entrance, two side entrances lead into the nave with 500 seats. The organ gallery offers a further 100 seats.
Interior
Inside, the buttresses, the belt arches and the frames of the windows and doors are faced with bricks. The remaining areas are cleaned.
organ
The organ in romantic style with 15 registers by the Berlin organ builder Ferdinand Dinse was built into a vaulted arch on the gallery on the wall to complete the church. It was less than half the size of today's organ. At the end of the Second World War, the organ in the Petruskirche was still there, but it was badly damaged. As an interim solution in serving postwar one electronic organ , the sound soon proved to be insufficient. In 1967 the church received the current organ with 35 registers made by the Walcker company for 170,000 marks (adjusted for purchasing power in today's currency: around 328,000 euros) . This large instrument could no longer be built into the arch where the old organ had stood, so the new organ was placed on the gallery. In 2000 the organ was largely re-voiced. As a result of these measures, almost a new organ was created in terms of sound.
Another organ, built in 1930 by the organ builder GF Steinmeyer & Co. for the parish hall of the Petruskirche, has been in the Reformation Church in Berlin-Moabit since 1966 .
literature
- Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin: Berlin and its buildings. Part 6. Sacred buildings. Berlin 1997
- Günther Kühne, Elisabeth Stephani: Evangelical churches in Berlin. Berlin 1978
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Coordinates: 52 ° 25 ′ 30.6 ″ N , 13 ° 19 ′ 40.7 ″ E