Schlosskirche Buch

The castle church in Buch

The Schlosskirche Buch is located in the district of the same name in Berlin . The architect Friedrich Wilhelm Diterichs built it on the site of a previous building, which was demolished in 1731, between 1731 and 1736 at the same time as the renovation of Buch Castle in the Baroque style for the new owner of Buch, Adam Otto von Viereck . According to Charles IV's land register (1375), the street village of Buch had 40 hooves , four of which were parish hooves. Nothing is known about the appearance of the previous building.

architecture

The plan of the church is in the shape of a Greek cross ; however, the cross arms facing north and south are only half as deep as the other two. A dome rose above the crossing , which merged into a central octagonal tower adorned with pilasters . At the end there was a curved hood with an octagonal lantern on top .

Diterichs had to solve several design problems that arose from the tasks as a castle church for the church patron, as a parish church facing the village and the special location in the park and the nearby castle. The village toward which facade four Tuscan columns , triglyphs and a pediment with one of a halo surrounding Tetragrammaton , the four Hebrew letters of the biblical God's name " YHWH shows". The other sides of the church are designed much more simply, on the park side without gables and only subdivided with flat pilasters, with blind windows facing the castle. After von Viereck's death, the workshop of Johann Georg Glume created an epitaph for him within the church interior in 1763 .

Gut Buch with the baroque ensemble of palace, orangery and church became the property of the city of Berlin in 1898.

History since 1945

After the church was badly damaged in World War II , it was partially reconstructed from 1950 to 1953 without the tower. The East Berlin magistrate was indifferent to the buildings of the orangery and the palace, which were little damaged during the war, and had them torn down in 1955 and 1964. A comprehensive facade restoration of the church took place from 1995 to 2000.

Since its restoration, the palace church houses the Protestant community of book that the church district Berlin Nord-Ost in Sprengel Berlin of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Oberlausitz belongs. In the immediate vicinity are the parish hall and the old cemetery of the community. In addition, concerts by Berlin choirs and orchestras take place regularly in the church.