St. Joseph Church (Berlin-Rudow)
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The Catholic Church of St. Joseph was Albert Brenninkmeyer designed and 1967 inaugurated . It is located in Alt-Rudow 46 in the Berlin district of Rudow in the Neukölln district and is a listed building .
history
In 1872 the Silesian Count Friedrich von Praschma bought a piece of land at Kaiser-Wilhelm-Straße 9 (today Alt-Rudow 42-44), which he made available to the Ursulines from Berlin-Kreuzberg for recreational purposes. Two years later a house was completed there. The services took place in its gable room.
After the Ursuline convent in Berlin had to be closed in 1877 due to the culture war , the six sisters were allowed to move to the house in Rudow. In 1883 Miss Maria Sarge bought the neighboring property at Kaiser-Wilhelm-Straße 10 (today Alt Rudow 46). In the same year a chapel was built there, which was not on the street and was not allowed to have a bell tower. It was inaugurated in 1884 and served a Catholic community with 70 seats and around 130 standing places. The house became a meeting place and refuge for Catholic priests and religious. In 1888 the Ursulines were allowed to return to their monastery on Lindenstrasse .
In 1929 a small roof turret was built on the chapel. On April 1, 1931, a separate community was founded, which was incorporated into the parish of St. Eduard in Neukölln. In 1934 parts of the area went to the newly founded Heilige Schutzengel congregation in Britz. From February 1, 1936, St. Joseph became the curate responsible for pastoral care . The first priest was August Fröhlich , who later died in the Dachau concentration camp . The plaque on the gate tower of the community center reminds of him.
On January 1, 1948, the parish of St. Joseph obtained property sovereignty . From July 1, 1950, she was raised to a parish. In 1952, the municipal area shrank again when the places in the GDR were lost. In 1966 it again lost territories to the newly established St. Dominicus Curate in Gropiusstadt .
However, due to extensive construction activity in Rudow and the corresponding influx of young families, the community continued to grow, so that in 1967 the old chapel was demolished due to disrepair and a new church building with a community center was built.
Building description
Behind the free-standing gate tower on Alt-Rudow street is another courtyard, at the end of which, almost on Neuköllner Straße, there is the E-shaped building complex consisting of a hall church and one and two-storey building wings of the community center. The nave is a reinforced concrete skeleton structure with a gable roof , with additions as a basement in front of it. The altar wall is windowless, the rear gable is glazed.
The gable roof, clad in wood inside, is supported by six open, three- hinged concrete girders that converge on the ridge purlin , which is also open . Two of the seven yokes are used for the altar area. Analogous to the basilica floor plan , low corridors flank the high main room. They contain the 14 Stations of the Cross , which were already hanging in the old chapel. The side walls, like the altar wall, are made of ocher-yellow exposed brickwork . In front of the upper section of the glazed rear gable, the gallery stands freely on six supports . The organ is installed on it. Behind the laterally offset portal is an anteroom, next to it are the confessionals , and next to them is the weekday chapel.
The gate tower consists of a passage made of two bounding yellow ocher brick walls, which are covered with a concrete slab. In the steep gabled roof made of concrete plates with rises shingles of Eternit are covered.
Bells
The bell chamber is hidden behind cross braces . In it hangs a ring made of three bronze bells , which was cast in 1967 by Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock .
| Chime | Weight (kg) |
Diameter (cm) |
Height (cm) |
inscription |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| dis' | 1403 | 133 | 104 | REX PACIFICUS, MISERE RE NOBIS. |
| fis' | 866 | 113 | 88 | STA. MARIA, REGINA PACIS, ORA PRO NOBIS. |
| g sharp ' | 573 | 100 | 76 | STE. NICOLAE, INTERCESSOR PACIS, ORA PRO NOBIS. |
Access to the church is barrier-free .
Events outside of the usual church celebrations
The organ is used for regular concerts as part of the Music in Churches program . In addition, the parish takes part in the Long Night of Religions . She runs a kindergarten and belongs to the Kolping family .
literature
- Christine Goetz , Matthias Hoffmann-Tauschwitz: Churches Berlin Potsdam. Berlin 2003.
- Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin V. (Ed.): Sacred buildings. (= Berlin and its buildings , part VI.) Ernst & Sohn, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-433-01016-1 .
- Klaus-Dieter Wille: The bells of Berlin (West). History and inventory. Berlin 1987.
- Gerhard Streicher, Erika Drave: Berlin. City and church. Berlin 1980.
- Hilde Herrmann: Development and expansion in the diocese of Berlin. Berlin 1968.
Web links
- Entry in the Berlin State Monument List with further information
- Catholic parish of St. Joseph
- Individual data sheet on kirchbau.de with photos and a floor plan
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ursulines in Rudow Berliner Woche 2016, about the exhibition Ursulines in Rudow: des Heimatverein
- ^ History of the St. Joseph Chapel St. Joseph Berlin
- ↑ Christmas Oratorio in the St. Joseph Church in December 2013 on musikinkirchen.de , accessed on November 27, 2013
- ↑ Community details on lndr.de ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2013 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. , accessed November 27, 2013
Coordinates: 52 ° 25 ′ 6.2 " N , 13 ° 29 ′ 35.8" E