St. Andreas Church (Berlin)
The St. Andreas Church was a Protestant church in today's Berlin district of Friedrichshain . It stood on Stralauer Platz in the immediate vicinity of the Schlesisches Bahnhof (today: Ostbahnhof ) at the southern end of Andreasstrasse. The church burned down in an Allied air raid in May 1944; its ruins were blown up and cleared away in 1949 .
architecture
The St. Andrew's Church was designed as a brick building by the architect and high-ranking Prussian building official Heinrich Strack and built between 1853 and 1856 under the direction of the city building councilor Gustav Holtzmann and the royal site manager H. Geiseler. It took up a base area of 34.12 meters in length and 19.15 meters in width, the height of the nave was 16.70 meters, the tower height 59.62 meters. The construction costs amounted to 199,236 marks .
It was a three-aisled basilica in the arched style with galleries and wooden ceilings, the semicircular and windowless apse was vaulted with a semi- dome. The two sacristies were led around behind the choir niche as ring-shaped, low connecting buildings. At the front there was a short transept for the side entrances and stairs, the center of which was occupied by the rectangular tower at the bottom, square at the top and octagonal at the top with an iron helmet covered with sheet zinc . Inside, the pillars of the arcades that supported the galleries were made of sandstone .
history
The church was built as an initially nameless church for the community, which was established in 1854 as a subsidiary of the Georgengemeinde . This was supposed to happen in the spring of 1848, but the start of construction was prevented by angry residents and given up in view of the March Revolution that had just taken place in 1848 . Instead, the building authorities began building the St. Mark's Church, also for a subsidiary of the Georgengemeinde, on Weberstrasse.
The foundation stone for St. Andrew's Church was laid on July 19, 1854, and the topping-out ceremony was held in November of the same year . It was not until January 1855 that the church was named after the apostle Andrew , the patron saint of Russia, as a tribute to the Russian Tsar Nicholas I , the husband of the Prussian Princess Charlotte , by royal resolution . The inauguration took place in October 1856 in the presence of King Friedrich Wilhelm IV.
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On May 8, 1944, St. Andrew's Church was hit by bombs in an air raid and burned down; the remains were blown up on January 12, 1949. The bells that survived the bombing have been ringing in the town church of St. Peter in Sonneberg since 1950 .
Andrea House
The parish hall of the church at Stralauer Platz 32 was preserved; Next to the listed building complex there is the central magazine with a historical warehouse, a gatehouse and an office building . The name Andreas-Haus is emblazoned on its facade . The former municipality is now together with those who also destroyed St. Mark's Church and the Church of St. Lazarus for Evangelical Church of St. Mark in the parish of Berlin city center .
literature
- Hans-Jürgen Mende, Kurt Wernicke (ed.): Berlin district lexicon Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg. Haude & Spener, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-7759-0474-3 , p. 80.
- Jan Feustel : Vanished Friedrichshain. Buildings and monuments in the east of Berlin . Heimatmuseum Friedrichshain, Berlin 2001.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Geiseler, H., Königl. Site manager . In: Allgemeiner Wohnungs-Anzeiger together with address and business manual for Berlin , 1856, part 1, p. 113.
- ↑ partly to Berlin and its buildings , edition 1896, volume II, p. 164.
- ↑ kirchensprengung.de
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 38.3 " N , 13 ° 25 ′ 50.9" E