St. Anne's Church (Berlin-Lichterfelde)
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| Construction year: | 1932 |
| Inauguration: | June 14, 1936 |
| Architect : |
Siegfried Lukowski , Carl Anton Meckel |
| Style elements : | Homeland Security Architecture and Neo-Romanesque |
| Client: | Catholic parish of Lichterfelde |
| Space: | 600 people |
| Location: | 52 ° 26 '54.7 " N , 13 ° 18' 47.1" E |
| Address: | Catholic parish Holy Family - Church of St. Annen, Gardeschützenweg 17 Berlin-Lichterfelde Berlin , Germany |
| Purpose: | catholic worship |
| Website: | www.st-annen-berlin.de/index1.html |
The Catholic St. Anne's Church in the Steglitz-Zehlendorf district, Berlin-Lichterfelde district , was built between 1932 and 1936 according to plans by the architects Siegfried Lukowski and Carl Anton Meckel . The listed church is a three-aisled basilica in the style of homeland security architecture with historicizing echoes of Romanesque and Gothic . The church can accommodate 500 to 600 people.
history
The Catholic Christians who moved to Groß-Lichterfelde from Silesia , East Prussia and other areas founded their own parish on October 1, 1930, and some time later a church building association . First, the service was celebrated in the chapel of the newly opened St. Ludwig retirement home in what is now Klingsorstrasse 119. On June 14, 1936, the Church was consecrated .
St. Anne's Church was badly damaged by incendiary bombs and high explosive bombs during World War II . Until the church was rebuilt, the service took place in the parish hall and in adjoining rooms. The rededication of St. Anne's Church took place on March 17, 1946.
In the novel The Berlin trip of Hanns-Josef Ortheil a service will be held in St. Anne's Church. The eschatologist Kurt Anglet is the chaplain of the associated parish.
Location and architecture
The St. Anne's Church stretches across the eaves to the Gardeschützenweg. It was designed as a basilica in the neo-Romanesque tradition . It has a large, high central nave with two narrow aisles at a lower height. Daylight penetrates into the interior through the arched upper arcade and the large round window in the east wall. The aisles also have small arched windows . The side aisles have a flat wooden ceiling, the central nave has a wooden ceiling in the form of a trapezoidal barrel vault over visible horizontal crossbeams and vertical support beams. In the area of the rectangular apse , the church has a small transept that gave space for a chapel next to the chancel. The organ console is now there . Above this is an open room in which the organ from the post-war period is located. On a square floor plan in front of the transept, the bell tower rises above the height of the roof ridge . Above a frieze there is a recessed square storey with beveled inwardly angled corners, on each side a round arched sound opening. Another retracted octagonal floor ends in a pointed tent roof . A wing of the building with two portals connects the rectory with the right aisle of the church. The windows and portals are arched. The entire building ensemble is a masonry structure faced with dark red bricks .
Opposite the transept is the sacristy . The altar area is separated from the central nave by a narrow triumphal arch . The baptistery with its five walls and arched windows in pointed arch niches on an octagonal floor plan is close to the entrance area.
Furnishing
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The furnishings of St. Anne's Church come from different times. The tabernacle in the style of the Beuron art school , which stands on the side of the chancel, was part of the initial equipment . It was originally located in the middle of the high altar , which was crowned by a cross. The Baptistery with the late Gothic styled font has been preserved from the original equipment. The church received the Stations of the Cross by Hans Breinlinger in the 1940s.
A bronze bell , which was cast by Franz Schilling in 1935, hangs in the tower . It has a diameter of 89 cm, a height of 74 cm and weighs 600 kg. Their strike tone is a ′ ′. She bears the inscription on her shoulder: “EN! PIOS VOCOPASTORIS BONI LOCO! PIUS. "
In 1972 the altar area was redesigned. It received three steps, a folk altar and an ambo . After the liturgical reform of the Second Vatican Council , the communion pews were removed from the church. The large gable wall area behind the altar had been redesigned over and over again. In 1972 the wooden sculpture of Anna herself was placed in front of the altar wall. In 1978, the four-meter-tall, simple wooden cross with a wide transverse beam by Paul Brandenburg was placed on the wall behind the main altar, which is now on the gable wall near the main entrance. A new organ was installed on the gallery on this gable wall in 2003 , which replaced the organ from 1951, which was made up of war-damaged parts. In the south aisle above the altar of Mary hangs a painting of the Mother of God with the baby Jesus. This copy based on a picture that is in the church of Santa Maria del Popolo in Rome is not of great artistic value.
Anna herself the third
St. Anne's Church has two sculptures about Anna selbdritt, a wooden sculpture inside and the relief in the gusset between the two portal arches , which was created during the construction of the church. It shows Anna standing with the child Jesus on her left arm, Mary kneeling on her right. The relief ends in a canopy with five coat of arms stylized roses on the frieze below the eaves . The artistic representation corresponds to the Art Nouveau . The sculpture of Anna Selbdritt, which today stands in the area of the central nave on one of the pillars of the arcade, dates back to 1936. It was created by the master carver Johannes Lotter, who also created the figure of St. Anthony .
Big mosaic
In 1995 a large mosaic was placed over almost the entire wall surface behind the high altar . This work is a copy of the mosaic in the apse of the Church of San Clemente in Rome . The mosaic was not originally intended for St. Anne's Church, but was created in the 1930s by the Puhl & Wagner company for a hospital in Karlshorst. It was never installed there and was stored in boxes for a long time until it found a place in a hospital chapel in Lankwitz in the 1960s. When it was demolished in 1993, it was given to the St. Anne's community as a gift. The approx. 1.6 million stones were put together in two years of work.
literature
- Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin: Berlin and its buildings. Part VI. Sacred buildings. Berlin 1997.
- Klaus-Dieter Wille: The bells of Berlin (West). History and inventory. Berlin 1987.
- Friederike Warnatsch-Gleich: On the 75th anniversary of the consecration of St. Anne's Church in Lichterfelde, construction and furnishings. Berlin 2011.
- Gerhard Streicher and Erika Drave: Berlin - city and church. Berlin 1980.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Berlin trip. Munich 2014. pp. 92–94. See also p. 272.
- ↑ Our parish and its full-time leadership team. In: Catholic parish of the Holy Family in Lichterfelde with the churches of the Holy Family and St. Annen. Catholic Church Congregation Holy Family, Carl-Heinz Mertz, accessed on June 15, 2020 .