St. Martin Church (Berlin-Märkisches Viertel)
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The Roman Catholic St. Martin Church ( ) on Wilhelmsruher dam 144-144b in Berlin district Märkisches quarter of Reinickendorf district is under monument protection . It was built in concrete in 1972/1973 based on a design by Werner Düttmann . The exposed concrete is a formative and consciously used design medium.
history
From 1965 onwards, a new district for around 50,000 residents was built in the north of Berlin . As early as the autumn of 1968, the first service for the Catholic population was held in a shop . The planning of the building ensemble and its completion in sections was accompanied by the establishment of a subsidiary community of the St. Nikolaus community in Berlin-Wittenau . The new community chose St. Martin of Tours as patron saint . On September 1, 1971, St. Martin became an independent curate in terms of property law .
The foundation stone for the new community center was on October 10, 1970, the feast of the dedication on 7 October 1973. The construction costs for community center and church were 5.5 million marks (adjusted for purchasing power in today's money: approximately 8.34 million euros), the Diocese of Berlin were worn. The community took over 180,000 marks for the interior decoration.
Building description
In addition to the many community centers with an integrated sermon church , purely sacred buildings were also built in the 1970s. The connecting element of these church buildings was the centralization of the architectural space to promote the active participation of the faithful in the Holy Mass in accordance with the liturgical reform . Although the altar was drawn further and further into the room, it rarely actually formed the architectural center, so that there was often a discrepancy between architectural and liturgical centralization. The first examples of complete centralization with the altar table in the middle of the room did not appear until the late 1960s. In the following decade, the centering was even more pronounced. The church on Wilhelmsruher Damm is an example of this. In addition to the church, the building ensemble consists of the community center, an old people's home , a daycare center and a school .
The church has an irregular cross-shaped plan . The walls of the block- like structure are made of exposed concrete and have retained the rough structure of the former formwork . The enclosing walls have no windows. The interior receives indirect daylight from above through narrow sloping skylights that are arranged all around. The nave has two staggered transepts of different heights, at the intersection of which the altar stands under the elevated crossing . The light falls on him from above through a large skylight . It is grouped around a small square ceiling element that is clamped into the beams . The choir is only hinted at structurally. Access to the interior initially leads into an anteroom through the portal in the bell tower . Behind it lies the first yoke of the nave, which has been extended to form the vestibule, with the gallery , where the paths to the central church service room and the Marienkapelle share, the latter is used on weekdays . The chapel can be separated from the church by floor-to-ceiling folding doors .
Peal
There is no cross on top of the tower, but a recess in the form of a cross has been cut into its walls. Its ringing of four bronze bells comes from the Rudolf Perner bell foundry . Each bell is adorned with a picture and has a special bell saying below the crown. Her consecration took place on September 6, 1981.
| Name of the bell | Chime | Weight (kg) |
Diameter ( cm) |
Height (cm) |
Bell spell |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PETER | fis' | 877 | 113 | 91 | BUT YOU STRENGTHEN YOUR BROTHERS. |
| PAULUS | a ' | 506 | 97 | 75 | DO NOT LAMINATE IN ZERO, BE FIERY SPIRITS, SERVE THE LORD! |
| HEDWIG | H' | 354 | 85 | 65 | WE PROCLAIM CHRIST THE CRUCIFIED. |
| MARIES | d " | 211 | 72 | 55 | WHAT HE TELLS YOU DOES! |
Furnishing
All ceilings in the church are clad with spruce straps. The altar table, the ambo and the sediles are also made of light-colored spruce wood, as are the benches of the church stalls, which are arranged on three sides of the altar island, which is one step higher. The walls are decorated with fourteen Stations of the Cross , which Jakob Adlhart carved in 1985. The organ from the Freiburg organ builders Hartwig and Tilmann Späth is located in the front nave. More information about the organ can be found here. On the front wall behind the altar there is a large picture of St. Martin and a large wooden cross. The baptismal font is integrated into the rows of pews in the right aisle. In the Lady Chapel there is a statue of Our Lady , which was made in Umbria around 1400 . The tabernacle on the altar of the chapel was used until 2004 . Since then, the new tabernacle, a work by the sculptor Wilfried Statt , has stood in the chancel. The panel painting of the patron saint was painted by Johannes Grützke in 1980 . Hubert Elsässer created the bronze baptismal font in 1986.
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.
- Klaus-Dieter Wille: The bells of Berlin (West). History and inventory. Berlin 1987.
- Gerhard Streicher, Erika Drave: Berlin - city and church. Berlin 1980.
- Parish council of the Catholic parish St. Martin Berlin: Festival magazine for the 25th anniversary of the parish. Berlin 1996
Web links
- Catholic parish of St. Martin Berlin
- Entry in the Berlin State Monument List with further information
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information on the organ
- ↑ The Tabernacle: God Has a New Home in St. Martin. Parish of St. Martin, accessed May 13, 2016 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 35 '49.9 " N , 13 ° 21' 9.6" E