St. Joseph (Berlin-Wedding)
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| address | Berlin-Wedding , Müllerstrasse 161 |
| Denomination | Catholic |
| local community | St. Joseph |
| Current usage | Parish church, memorial |
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| Year of construction (s) | 1907–1909, repaired in 1948/1949, renovated at the end of the 20th century and partially restored to its original state |
| style | Neo-Romanesque |
St. Joseph is a Roman Catholic parish church at Müllerstraße 161 in the Berlin district of Wedding . The listed church was built according to a design by the church builder Wilhelm Rincklake from Maria Laach Abbey and its revision by the Berlin architect Wilhelm Frydag 1907–1909 as a neo - Romanesque three - aisled basilica with space for 3000 people.
During the renovation phase of St. Hedwig's Cathedral in Berlin-Mitte (since 2018), the cathedral liturgy will be celebrated in St. Joseph's Church as a replacement location.
history
With the enormous increase in population in Berlin after the establishment of the German Empire , many Catholics from the Prussian provinces came to the vicinity of St. Sebastian Church on Gartenplatz, in 1902 there were already more than 8,000, so that the establishment of another parish in Wedding was considered. which was to be consecrated to St. Joseph of Nazareth , the patron saint of workers. The Catholic community acquired the double plot of tenement houses at Müllerstrasse 161 as a building site. With the support of the Church Collective Association of the St. Sebastian Parish, under the responsibility of Hermann Bunning , an emergency chapel for 200 believers was initially built on the site between Müllerstrasse 161 and Willdenowstrasse 8–11 .
After an architectural competition, the free design by Benedictine Father Ludgerus (Wilhelm Rincklake) was awarded the contract. The architect Wilhelm Frydag revised the plans according to which Hermann Bunning directed the construction. The foundation stone was laid in September 1907 . When the church was consecrated on May 2, 1909, she received the patronage of Joseph of Nazareth . In 1913 the St. Joseph Congregation was raised to a parish . In World War II damaged, the congregation left the church to recover in much of 1948/1949. The painting on the ceiling and the murals in the nave were not restored, however, because the forms of historicism were rejected at the time. The formerly high pyramid roofs were replaced by very flat ones. The equipment remained in some parts, but was not restored to its original.
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The chancel received its current design in 1989/1990. The crypt under the apse , in an air raid in April 1945 destroyed in 1995 in a memorial to the victims of war and the 1944 executed priests Max Josef Metzger converted, whose name also the opposite green area, the Max-Josef-Metzger-Platz , received. The original hinged high altar was lost like the entire choir furnishings in the same air raid. At the beginning of the 21st century, the original painting of the church interior was uncovered and restored in order to preserve it as a total work of art at the Beuron art school .
At the beginning of March 2018, the Archbishopric of Berlin announced that the chapter and pontifical offices of the archbishop and cathedral chapter will be celebrated in the St. Joseph Church during the renovation work of St. Hedwig's Cathedral from September of the same year .
The parish of St. Joseph merged in January 2019 with the parishes of St. Aloysius, St. Laurentius, St. Paulus, St. Petrus and St. Sebastian to form the parish of St. Elisabeth in the Archdiocese of Berlin.
architecture
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The neo-Romanesque forms of the St. Joseph Church with the conventional floor plan of a three-aisled basilica, which was integrated into the closed development on Müllerstrasse, are based on Romanesque models from the 12th century in the Rhineland . The side aisles are separated by pillars and columns, following the change of the Rhenish pillars . Six monolithic columns made of red granite support the arcades of the aisles. They are decorated with sandstone capitals depicting scenes from the Old Testament story of Joseph . A semicircular apse , which is encased in polygonal form on the outside , adjoins the nave with large upper aisles , over which a three- bay cross-ribbed vault extends .
The gray limestone clad facade of the two-tower front, behind which the side aisles lie, and the protruding central nave gable are horizontally structured by friezes and cornices . The spiers are 31 meters high. Over the five by an ornamental associated Fries arched portal in the basement there is a false dwarf gallery . The gable field is divided into large panels, with a rose window above the middle of three arched windows .
The two compact towers with a square floor plan have triplet arcades on all sides as sound openings in the bell storey .
Furnishing
Altar, pulpit and more
The interior was still incomplete until the 1920s. The mosaic in the chancel , which has largely been preserved in its original form, was not installed until 1923 ; it is a replica of the high medieval apse mosaic of the upper church of San Clemente in Rome . The wall paintings executed in 1925/1926 illustrate the artistic ideas of the Beuron art school . The pulpit , supported by twelve red marble columns, is accessed via sandstone stairs. The chancel was redesigned in 1989/1990. Cryolite glass panes with an alabaster character were inserted into the five high arched windows of the apse . The altar table, the stele of the tabernacle , the ambo and the priest's seat were made of Carrara marble. The original Romanesque Altar of Mary has been preserved. In front of the old baptistery in the basement of the tower, which is no longer used today, is the original figure of Maria Immaculata made of terracotta . In 1981 the new organ was consecrated by Orgelbau Eisenbarth from Passau .
organ
The organ 1981 manufactured by organbuilder Wolfgang Eisenbarth Organbuilders (Passau), a grinding loading -instrument with 48 registers (including five transmissions ) on three Manual works and pedal . The game actions are mechanical, the stop actions are electric.
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- Coupling : I / II, III / II, III / I, I / P, II / P, III / P
Bells
Three cast steel bells from the Bochumer Verein bell foundry hang in the towers .
| Name of the bell | Pouring year | Chime | Weight (kg) |
Diameter ( cm) |
Height (cm) |
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| Joseph Bell | 1935 | c ' | 2010 | 170 | 135 | MR. JOSEPH CELEBRENT AGMINA COELITUM / donated by the KLINNER FAMILY. |
| Maria Bell | 1935 | it' | 1150 | 140 | 117 | AVE REGINA COELORUM / AVE DOMINA ANGELORUM |
| Sebastian bell | 1955 | f ' | 1000 | 132 | 100 | + ST: SEBASTIANUS + |
literature
- Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin: Berlin and its buildings. Part VI. Sacred buildings. Berlin 1997.
- Gerhard Streicher and Erika Drave: Berlin - city and church. Berlin 1980.
- Klaus-Dieter Wille: The bells of Berlin (West). History and inventory. Berlin 1987.
- André Franik: The St. Joseph Church in Müllerstrasse . In: Berlin monthly magazine ( Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein ) . Issue 11, 1999, ISSN 0944-5560 ( luise-berlin.de ).
Web links
- 360 ° panorama of the church
- Catholic parish of St. Joseph - St. Aloysius
- Entry in the Berlin State Monument List with further information
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b erzbistumberlin.de: St. Joseph Wedding is the replacement location for the cathedral.
- ↑ Information on the memorial in the crypt of St. Joseph Church on the website of the Diocese of Berlin.
- ↑ The parish. sankt-elisabeth-berlin.de, accessed on July 11, 2020 .
- ↑ Information sheet with some technical data. Kirchbau.de
- ↑ Information on the organ
Coordinates: 52 ° 32 ′ 38.5 " N , 13 ° 21 ′ 46.6" E