St. Laurentius (Berlin-Köpenick)
| St. Laurentius City Church | |
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 View of the south side of the Laurentius-Stadtkirche from Laurenzstrasse |
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| Construction year: | 1838 |
| Inauguration: | May 31, 1841 |
| Builder : | Friedrich Wilhelm Butzke |
| Client: | Evangelical parish of the city of Köpenick |
| Floor space: | 28 × 18 m |
| Tower height: |
65 m |
| Location: | 52 ° 26 '47.8 " N , 13 ° 34' 32.3" E |
| Address: | Alt-Koepenick / Freiheit, Berlin-Koepenick Berlin , Germany |
| Purpose: | church service |
| Local community: | Evangelical parish of Köpenick |
| Website: | www.stadtkirche-koepenick.de |
The Protestant St. Laurentius City Church is the parish church of the Berlin district of Köpenick of the former city of Köpenick. The current church building is the second church at this point, the first was built in the 13th century and demolished in 1837. The church has been a listed building since 1977 .
Location and history
The church building stands on an area of around 3,300 square meters, delimited by Freiheit (north), Kirchstrasse (northeast), Laurenzstrasse (south) and Alt-Köpenick (northwest).
In the Köpenick settlement core, today's old town, a basilica without a tower was built from field stones in the 13th century . It had a straight, closed choir , a transept and five altars . In the 15th century a reconstruction took place and a west tower was added. The basilica was dedicated to St. Lawrence . At the beginning of the 19th century the church was so dilapidated that parts of this tower were demolished in 1836. In 1837 the church building was completely dismantled, and the recently founded Märkisches Museum received the font and sculptures from the basilica . The current building was built between 1838 and 1841 based on a design by the architect and Prussian government building inspector Friedrich Wilhelm Butzke . The church was inaugurated in the presence of King Friedrich Wilhelm IV and his wife Elisabeth on May 31, 1841.
In 1984 the interior of the church was extensively restored .
After the political change , a church support association was founded in 2003, which among other things organized an exhibition in the nave that shows the history of the church building.
In 2004 the church tower had to be refurbished and renovated. Some valuable documents were found in the tower ball, such as a copy of a letter of indulgence from Johann Tetzel from 1514 for the Köpenick citizen Tiedemann, as well as documents and coins. These can now be viewed in an exhibition in the church. Later documents from 2004 came into the sphere.
In 2012, the parish council decided to rename the St. Lawrence parish in Protestant city church Koepenick . In the long term, the community center and the associated day-care center at Am Generalshof 1 will be renovated and modernized in accordance with the listed buildings.
architecture
Exterior design
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The master builder, who came from the Schinkel period, favored the round arch style that was common at the time for the new church building. This is particularly evident in the two-storey arched windows, the arched portals on both long sides of the nave and the tower and also in the vaults inside.
The building is a rectangular brick structure that rests on a field stone base and is enlivened by regular layers of stone of darker color. In addition, the serrated layers create a further visual stimulation of the facade. It has not yet been finally clarified whether the granite blocks of the base come from the previous building. The basic dimensions of the nave are about 28 meters in length and 18 meters in width. It is provided with a tile-covered gable roof .
The arches and fighters zones of the windows and the portals show profiled cornices. On the east side of the main building a sacristy was added, which is 6 meters long and 8.50 meters wide.
The west tower has a square floor plan with an edge length of around 6.80 meters. It is four storeys high and has high sound openings adapted to the windows . It ends with an eight-sided kinked pointed helmet . The tower entrance is also the main portal of the church building. In the bell room there are bells from the Apolda foundry .
In 1932 and 1936, the clock , which had already been shut down during the First World War , was removed from the church tower, first the hands, then the movement. Throughout the 20th century, only the mounting holes for the four dials could be seen; no replacement took place. In 2015, on the initiative of the Church Association and with the help of numerous donations, a new church tower clock was manufactured and installed on September 30th, which was largely based on the original.
Interior design and equipment
The nave has a wooden beam ceiling and a three-sided gallery inside. The large altar niche in the east wall contains a so-called pulpit altar. The altar painting shows the risen Christ with Thomas and was painted by Heinrich Lengerich in 1840. A new font from Christian Gottlieb Cantian's workshop was also made this year . An organ on the west gallery completes the facility. It was installed in 1963 by the Schuke company from Potsdam in place of the original organ. On this organ, but also with other musical instruments, or pure singing, regular concerts have been held in the city church since 2004.
A parish room is separated in the church building itself. The church has had a clock tower again since autumn 2015. A digital central clock drives the hands of the four dials via shafts. The old tower clock was taken out of service after a defect in World War I and dismantled in 1936. A support association raised 22,000 euros in donations for the new watch.
Surroundings
To the south of the church is the rectory (address Kirchstrasse 4), a clinker facing building in Gothic form. The gable parts facing the street are structured with pilaster strips on the ground floor . From the first floor were pillars gable designed by three round-pointed arch window above it rose windows from other buildings are sold. The building was built between 1900 and 1901, the master builder is not known.
The St. Laurentius Congregation has four other preaching sites. In 1993 the parish named its preaching place Kirchsaal (Köpenick Südost) in Werner-Sylten-Saal and soon afterwards the cemetery chapel in Werner-Sylten-Kapelle . This commemorated the Köpenick pastor Werner Sylten , who was initially relieved of his position as head of a welfare institution during the National Socialist era . After working with Heinrich Grüber in his office, he was arrested and taken to the Dachau concentration camp . He was murdered in 1942. His grave has been a Berlin honorary grave since the end of the 20th century . A stumbling block was laid in 2006 in front of his former home at Ostendorfstrasse 19 in the Wendenschloß area.
The commitment of the association for the promotion of the Evangelical St. Laurentius City Church Community in Berlin-Köpenick e. It is thanks, among other things, to V. that a permanent exhibition with documents on church history was opened in spring 2012.
The community maintains a children's and youth choir as well as a trombone choir . The choir emerged from a singing group founded in 1947, which has grown steadily since the 1950s. In close cooperation with musicians, especially from the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, performances of oratorios could be included in the program. These are now an integral part of church and cultural life in Köpenick. ( Support group of the St. Laurentius Kantorei Köpenick e.V. ).
The own church history is researched and made public by a working group history of the city parish. Under the direction of Pastor Dr. The Working Group Partnership and Ecumenism was also launched in 2012 . One of the goals is to activate cooperation with a Romanian community in Hermannstadt (Romanian Sibiu ). Further project partnerships are being planned.
The citizens' platform Berlin-Südost - community organizing , which was created in May 2012, was co-founded by the Laurentius parish. She is scientifically accompanied by Leo Penta from the Catholic University of Social Sciences Berlin (KHSB) in Berlin-Karlshorst . In this network, citizens of all denominations and atheists are committed to changing “their neighborhood”. Initial successes such as an improvement in local public transport, medical care and the construction of additional sports and gymnasiums have already been achieved.
literature
- Barbara Schwantes: The St. Laurentius City Church in Berlin-Köpenick, history and community life. Festschrift for the 175th anniversary of today's church. Trafo-Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-86465-065-9 (published by Heimatverein Köpenick e.V.)
- Kirchstrasse (Köpenick). In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
- Institute for Monument Preservation (Ed.): The architectural and art monuments of the GDR. Capital Berlin-II . Henschelverlag, Berlin 1984, p. 285 f .
- Barbara Schwantes: On the history of the St. Laurentius town church in Köpenick , in: The Ev. City Church of St. Laurentius in Bln.-Köpenick. Berlin 2008 (published by the parish office).
- Friedrich Winter: The history of the city parish Berlin-Köpenick 1945–1990. (Ed. By the parish council).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alt-Köpenick monument, St. Laurentius Church, 1838–41 by Butzke; with surrounding open space; Kirchstrasse / Laurenzstrasse / Freedom
- ^ Website of the St. Laurentius Stadtkirche church support association
- ↑ Copied original texts from the tower ball (selection): Our forefathers tell .
- ↑ Köpenick goes to www.berlinde / ba-treptow-koepenick over time; accessed on February 13, 2016.
- ↑ Concert presentation on laurentiuskantorei-koepenick.de
- ↑ Representation of the solemn laying of the Stolperstein; on ev-schule-koepenick.de, accessed on December 5, 2012 ( Memento from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Information on the choirs at stadtkirche.de
- ↑ Brief information on the history of the St. Laurentiuskantorei on laurentiuskantorei-koepenick.de
- ^ Information from the GKR, Jan. – March 2012
- ^ Information from the GKR, April – May 2012