Blessing Church (Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg)
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The blessing Church in Berlin is one derived from 1908 listed evangelical church building in the district of Prenzlauer Berg of Pankow of Berlin . It is located on Schönhauser Allee and belongs to the Prenzlauer Berg Nord community of the Berlin Stadtmitte church district . In 2007, together with the Don Camillo community , the building complex was transformed into the city monastery of Segen .
history
In 1891 the parish of the often overcrowded Zion Church decided to found a daughter parish for around 40,000 members. The property at Schönhauser Allee 161 was acquired in 1900 and the residential building with the restaurant and bowling alley on it was demolished. The groundbreaking ceremony took place on October 16, 1905. On May 6, 1906 at the altar walled in a Bauurkunde.
The church in Schönhauser Allee , built according to plans by the architects August Dinklage , Ernst Paulus and Olaf Lilloe , was inaugurated on December 6, 1908. It is a complex of historicizing buildings made of clinker bricks , which are grouped around a small inner courtyard.
Building description
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tower
The Blessing Church is a church based on the style of northern European brick buildings with a 75 meter high church tower . This tower has a square base, an octagonal tower top with a curved copper dome and a lantern with a neo-baroque pointed helmet. In the middle section on the street side, the tower has a cantilevered balcony, above which rise two adjacent, multi-storey, arched sound outlet openings.
Church structure
Three portals lead into the church complex, above which sandstone figures of the evangelists Matthew, Mark, Luke and John are attached. The central building rises above a Greek cross plan. The main area of the church has an octagonal dome, in three cross arms there are galleries above flat arched arcades . The pulpit altar and the organ are inserted in the fourth cross arm. A gallery rises above the main room, the parapets of which are decorated with reliefs.
Outbuildings
The parish hall is attached to the high church tower. The street-side gable facade in the brick Gothic style with the wide passage has two symmetrically arranged bay windows and balconies with galleries. The architects, on the other hand , provided the façades on the courtyard side with Northern Italian Renaissance elements.
Furnishing
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organ
The organ of the church comes from the workshop of Wilhelm Sauer (Frankfurt / Oder) and is his Opus 993 . The pneumatic organ has 2332 pipes in 32 registers on two manuals and pedal . Between 1953 and 1959 it was given a baroque style by the Alexander Schuke Potsdam Orgelbau company, and its soundscape was greatly changed.
Peal
Three bells ring the church. These bells in the tones D flat , F sharp and A weigh 1200, 850 and 460 kilograms respectively. They bear inscriptions after Aaron's blessing from the fourth book of Moses 6: 24f:
- "The Lord bless and keep you."
- “The Lord let his face shine on you and be gracious to you.” And
- "The Lord lift his face to you and give you peace."
The bells are controlled electrically.
use
In 2005 the official inauguration of a representative for spirituality of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesia took place in this church .
The Segenskirche is used by the Prenzlauer Berg Nord parish, which includes the individual churches Eliaskirche , which has been used by a children's museum since 2003, the Gethsemane Church , Paul Gerhardt Church and the Segenskirche. The Swiss community Don Camillo was added in 2007 . Together, the Church of the Blessing was redesigned into the City Monastery of Blessing and is now available to parishioners and their guests.
literature
- The architectural and art monuments of the GDR, Berlin . Edited by the Institute for Monument Preservation at Henschelverlag, Berlin 1984; Pp. 367-368
- 100 years of the Blessed Church Berlin Prenzlauer Berg. A church ABC ; Brochure, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-9031640-67-5
Web links
- Entry in the Berlin State Monument List with further information
- Website of the parish of the Blessed Church
- Website of the project Stadtkloster Blessing
Individual evidence
- ^ Photos of the inauguration of a spirituality commissioner ; Retrieved July 9, 2009
- ↑ Homepage Ev. Parish Prenzlauer Berg Nord; Retrieved July 9, 2009
- ^ Homepage Communité Don Camillo from Montmirail; Retrieved on August 15, 2012 ( Memento of the original from January 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Website of the City Monastery of Segen; Retrieved August 15, 2012
Coordinates: 52 ° 32 ′ 10.2 " N , 13 ° 24 ′ 42.7" E