St. Otto Church (Berlin-Zehlendorf)
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The Roman Catholic Church of St. Otto in the Berlin district of Zehlendorf in the Steglitz-Zehlendorf district was built between 1954 and 1955. The designs were provided by Karl Josef Erbs, who took up the architectural style of Heimatschutz architecture of the 1930s. The church building is a listed building .
history
Initial plans to build their own church south of the Wannseebahn existed in the Herz-Jesu congregation before the First World War . But it was not until 1929 that the General Association of Catholic Churches in Berlin acquired a field in the Schönow district . Initially, the property, address in Heimat 67/69, remained unused because building a church in the years of the global economic crisis was out of the question. This situation did not change during the time of National Socialism either, there was a risk of the property being confiscated . In order to prevent this, allotment gardeners , who enjoyed special government funding , were able to lease land. After the end of World War II direction Schönow began on both sides of the dam Teltower a building primarily for resettlers and repatriates . Since many of the newcomers were Catholic, building a new church became more and more urgent. The foundation stone of the church was laid on June 18, 1954 and consecrated on April 24, 1955 . The construction costs for the church with 250 seats were 207,000 marks (adjusted for purchasing power in today's currency: around 529,000 euros). It is the only church in the Berlin area whose patronage is reminiscent of Otto von Bamberg , the second patron saint of the diocese . On July 1, 1955, the St. Otto Curate was established with a permanent pastor ; on April 1, 1959, it was elevated to a parish . When the church building was being renovated in 1989, the chancel was also redesigned.
As part of the reorganization of the Archdiocese of Berlin, the parish of St. Otto merged with the former mother parish on November 1, 2005. Since then, the merged parish Herz Jesu has had two houses of worship.
description
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The building is a gray plastered masonry structure on a rectangular floor plan 28 meters long and 17 meters wide with a transverse rectangular bell tower and a semicircular apse arranged on the side . The compact design of the entrance and side walls corresponds to the traditional architectural style. The translucent window wall behind the altar , which irritates the eyes of the faithful, as well as the slender columns of steel and the type of stone flooring in the interior show the emergence of time in the 1950s. In St. Otto, tradition and modernity combine to create a modern traditionalism .
Building
The nave of the hall church, which is covered with a gable roof , consists of a wide central nave and aisle- wide side aisles , each separated from one another by five slender, round steel supports. To the side of the nave there is an annex for the sacristy . The central nave ends in a recessed, semicircular apse. The wall of the apse is pulled into the nave so that rounded prayer niches are created in the side aisles. Just below the eaves of the nave, 18 rectangular individual windows are arranged on both sides. The wall of the apse consists almost entirely of floor-to-ceiling windows.
A coffered ceiling made of acoustic panels hangs under the steel roof trusses . The flat ceiling lies above the broad nave and the apse, reminiscent of the type of basilica , one step higher than the side corridors.
Peal
The church tower has a flat tent roof and in it is the ringing of four bronze bells from the Rudolf Perner bell foundry . Her consecration took place in May 1958.
| Name of the bell | Chime | Weight (kg) |
Diameter (cm) |
Height (cm) |
inscription |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St. Otto | f ' | 794 | 113 | 86 | PRO FIDELIUM TUORUM COE TU PIUS IN INTECESSOR SANCTE OTTO, CARTRIDGE ECCLESIA NOSTRAE. |
| Mariae Immaculate Conception | b " | 385 | 91 | 67 | BERLIN - ST. OTTO MAGNIFICAT ANIMA MEA DOMINUM. |
| St. Peter | c " | 252 | 77 | 57 | SANCTE PETRE PASTOR OFINUM.
PRINCEPS APOSTORUM, ORA PRO NOBIS. |
| St. Hedwig | d " | 158 | 68 | 50 | SANCTE HEDWIGI SANCTA INCLYTA.
IN COELESTI CURIA CORONATA NOS POST EXILIUM FAC HABERE COELI GAUDIUM. |
Furnishing
Relics of Saints Gaudentius of Gniezno and Prospera were walled into the altar of St. Otto during the consecration of the church . At the patronage festival on July 5, 1958, the statue of St. Otto, carved by Rudolf Hetzel, was consecrated and placed in the left prayer niche. In the main nave there are 14 bronze panels on wood that Hans Schrott-Fichtl made. They represent the fourteen stations of the cross and came to church in November 1962. The crucifix above the altar was made in South Tyrol around 1980. It is worth mentioning an original Russian icon in the church interior .
The organ with 15 registers was manufactured by Johannes Klais Orgelbau . It was set up and voiced in January 1968 . The instrument was consecrated on February 18.
literature
- Anton Markmiller: St. Otto in Berlin-Zehlendorf . Berlin 2008.
- Christine Goetz and 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 and Erika Drave: Berlin - city and church. Berlin 1980.
- Hilde Herrmann: Development and expansion in the diocese of Berlin. Berlin 1968.
Web links
Coordinates: 52 ° 25 ′ 12.3 " N , 13 ° 15 ′ 45.5" E