Sophienkirche (Berlin)

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The Sophienkirche in Berlin-Mitte
View from Sophienstrasse

The Sophienkirche is a Protestant church in the Spandau suburb of the Berlin district of Mitte . The church belongs to the Evangelical Church Congregation am Weinberg (until December 31, 2013: Evangelical Church Congregation Sophien ) in the parish of Berlin Stadtmitte . The church is surrounded by a churchyard that has not been used for a long time and that borders the Hackesche Höfe to the north-west .

Building history and description

The Sophienkirche was built as a hall according to the concept and plans of the master builder Philipp Gerlach . The foundation stone was laid during the reign of King Frederick I of Prussia . After the death of her husband on February 25, 1713, the originally planned namesake Sophie Luise von Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1685–1735), Friedrich's third wife, was highly undesirable at the consecration of the church to the subsequent King Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia; the church was therefore first consecrated as the Spandau church on June 18, 1713 . It was only named after Sophie Luise under the successor to King Friedrich II and has been called Sophienkirche ever since. The baroque church tower was added in the years 1732–1734 by the tower builder Johann Friedrich Grael .

In the years 1891/1892 the church was rebuilt according to designs by the building councilor Friedrich Schulze (as a representative of the authorities) and the architects Kyllmann & Heyden . The executive architect was Kurt Berndt . The ceiling was raised - which was accompanied by a renewal of the roof structure - and the floor was lowered and an altar niche was added to the rectangular floor plan on the eastern narrow side. The wall structure and decor - including the oversized rocaille on the ceiling on a halo - can be traced back almost entirely to this conversion.

The church was equipped with electric lighting in 1893. Of the 265 light bulbs, 78 were placed on the large chandelier.

In the outer wall of the church is at the sacristy , the memorial plaque for the poet Karl Wilhelm Ramler - a beautiful example of early classical signature drive - and on the north wall that for the poet Anna Louisa Karsch added.

In addition to a number of graves from the last days of World War II on the adjacent Sophienstrasse, the most prominent graves are those of Carl Friedrich Zelter , the second director of the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin , and the historian Leopold von Ranke .

On September 13, 1964, the American civil rights activist Martin Luther King preached in the Sophienkirche during a surprise visit to East Berlin .

On November 5, 1989, the (East) Berlin district association of the SDP was founded in the Sophienkirche . The event lasted eight hours and was filmed by the State Security . In September 1990 the SDP and SPD were merged.

organ

The organ of the Sophienkirche was built in 1970 by the company Alexander Schuke Potsdam Orgelbau .

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
01. Quintadena 16 ′
02. Principal 08th'
03. Reed flute 08th'
04th octave 04 ′
05. Pointed flute 04 ′
06th Nassat 02 2 ⁄ 3  ′
07th octave 02 ′
08th. Mixture V 01 3 ⁄ 5  ′
09. Cymbel III 01 ⁄ 2 ′
10. Trumpet 08th'
Tremulant
II Swell C – g 3
11. Dumped 08th'
12. Salicional 08th'
13. Principal 04 ′
14th Night horn 04 ′
15th octave 02 ′
16. recorder 02 ′
17th third 01 3 ⁄ 5  ′
18th Fifth 01 1 ⁄ 3  ′
19th Sif flute 01'
20th Scharff IV 01'
21st Krummhorn 08th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
22nd Principal 16 ′
23. Sub bass 16 ′
24. Principal bass 08th'
25th Dacked bass 08th'
26th Choral bass 04 ′
27. Mixture V 02 2 ⁄ 3  ′
28. trombone 16 ′
29 Trumpet 08th'

See also

literature

  • Jürgen Boeckh: Old Berlin city churches. From the Dorotheenstädtische Church to the St. Hedwig's Cathedral (Berlin Reminiscences 58). Volume 2. Haude & Spener, Berlin 1986; ISBN 3-7759-0289-9 ; Pp. 84-94.
  • Institute for Monument Preservation (Ed.): The architectural and art monuments in the GDR. Capital Berlin I . 2nd Edition. Henschelverlag, Berlin 1984, pp. 294-297.
  • Günther Kühne, Elisabeth Stephani: Evangelical churches in Berlin . 2nd Edition. CZV-Verlag, Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-7674-0158-4 , p. 382 f.
  • Thomas Raschke: The Sophienkirche in Berlin (the historical place 160). Kai Homilius Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-89706-159-7 .

Web links

Commons : Sophienkirche  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prometheus: Illustrirte Wochenschrift about the advances in trade, industry and science No. 191 , 1893, p. 559. This makes the Sophienkirche possibly the first electrically illuminated church in Berlin. The text refers to the “newly built Sophienkirche”. What is probably meant is the renovation in 1891/1892.
  2. ^ Lars-Broder Keil: How Martin Luther King moved East Berlin. From: welt.de , September 13, 2014, accessed on September 13, 2014
  3. ↑ Eckhard Jesse, Thomas Schubert: Peaceful Revolution and Democracy: Perspectives after 25 years . Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-86153-834-9 , pp. 124 .
  4. ^ District association of the SDP founded in Berlin. SPD, accessed December 15, 2018 .
  5. ↑ More than 150 years of the SPD. SPD, April 1, 2016, accessed December 15, 2018 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 31 ′ 32 "  N , 13 ° 24 ′ 0"  E