St. Mary's Church (Berlin-Heiligensee)
The Catholic Church of St. Marien (Maternitas Beatae Mariae Virginis) in Schulzendorfer Strasse 74-78 in the Berlin district of Heiligensee in the Reinickendorf district was built according to a design by Carl Kühn in the architectural style of homeland security architecture . It was on 13 December 1936, the virgin birth of Mary consecrated .
history
When the German Empire was founded in 1870, the population in the villa colonies Konradshöhe and Tegelort increased . In 1893, the Heiligensee and Schulzendorf stops on the Kremmener Bahn improved transport links, as did the installation of an electric tram to Tegel . The number of inhabitants rose to over 2,000 by the end of the First World War . The majority of the new residents of Heiligensee provided the workforce of the Tegeler Borsig works , who came from all parts of Germany, including Catholic areas. The Heiligenseer Catholics are looked after by the parish of the Tegeler Herz-Jesu-Kirche . Around 1930 they called for the formation of their own congregation, which is how the small church was built. In 1938, St. Marien became a curate . The church was only slightly damaged in World War II , but parts of the furnishings were lost to looting . In 1951, parishioners began to self-help to build an annex to the church for a parish hall and ancillary rooms, in 1956 the top floor was converted into an apartment for the pastor. On July 1, 1954, the curate was elevated to a parish and on July 1, 2004 the parishes Herz Jesu, St. Joseph and St. Marien were merged to form the parish Herz Jesu. The community center has expanded since 1991 and was inaugurated on June 6, 1993. The last time the interior of the church was redesigned in 2009, the altar was consecrated on September 5th by Georg Cardinal Sterzinsky .
Building description
The rectangular hall church in the style of a Brandenburg village church is a plastered masonry building .
The portal in the facade is rounded . The nave is divided into five bays outside and inside by pilasters and has a wooden barrel vault , although not with a round arched cross-section, but like a mansard roof , the ridge of which is flattened. In the side walls there are two small arched windows on each yoke . The altar area in the width of the nave takes up almost a yoke.
The church got an organ in 1967 .
Since 1971 the interior of the church has undergone several liturgical and artistic transformations. The wall behind the altar was adorned with a sgraffito , then it was removed again and replaced by a portrait of Mary as a copy of an icon . It is now simply white. The altar was moved away from the wall and the tabernacle was removed from the altar and placed on the side so that Holy Mass can now be celebrated with the people. In 1976 the church received the tabernacle of the old Canisius church .
Bell tower
On the steep gable roof there is a square, risalit-like protruding wooden roof tower with a pyramid roof and a tower ball . In his belfry hangs a bronze bell that was cast in the bell foundry of Franz August and Otto Wolfgang Schilling in 1936 . It weighs 750 kg with a diameter of 124 cm and a height of 96 cm and has the strike note as . Their inscription reads "REX GLORIAE, REX CHRISTE, REGNI CUM PACE".
literature
- Christine Goetz , Matthias Hoffmann-Tauschwitz: Churches Berlin Potsdam. Berlin 2003.
- Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin : Berlin and its buildings. Part VI. Sacred buildings. Berlin 1997.
- Hans-Jürgen Rach: The villages in Berlin. Berlin 1990.
- Klaus-Dieter Wille: The bells of Berlin (West). History and inventory. Berlin 1987.
- Gerhard Streicher, Erika Drave: Berlin - city and church. Berlin 1980.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 36 '46.8 " N , 13 ° 13' 49" E