St. Paul's Church (Berlin)
The St. Pauls Church (with the parish on the Panke ) is a Protestant church building in the Berlin district of Gesundbrunnen in the Mitte district . It is one of the four Schinkel suburban churches , all of which have a similar construction plan, and is named after the apostle Paul .
location
The church is located at Badstrasse 50/51 at the busy intersection with Pankstrasse at the subway station of the same name and in the immediate vicinity of the former Luisenbad , after which the district is named.
history
Around 1750 the Friedrichs-Gesundbrunnen had developed in a rural area on the Panke to the north of the Vorwerk Wedding located in the area of today's Nettelbeckplatz . The first closed settlements appeared before the northern gates of Berlin. From 1830 these initially village-like colonies grew together to form suburbs.
From 1832 to 1835, St. Paul's Church was built as the third of the Schinkel suburban churches. Its inauguration took place on May 12, 1835. In the same year, the St. Pauls Congregation separated from its mother congregation, Sophien, and thus achieved communal independence. One of the pastors in the 19th century was Philipp Buttmann . In the 21st century the church belongs to the parish on the Panke in the north-east Berlin district.
Building description
The church is a single-aisled - formerly towerless - complex with an apse and galleries , the location of which can be seen on the longitudinal façades. Above the galleries there are four large windows, four of which are small. Unlike the brick- facing versions of St. Johannis and Nazareth , St. Paul was built as a plastered building. The Corinthian pilasters that stretch around the entire building, the wide architrave under the protruding eaves cornice and the flat gable make the church look like an ancient, temple-like building.
In 1885 the church was given a sacristy designed as a gallery , which is placed around the high apse on the ground floor. In 1889/1890 Max Spitta added the free-standing bell tower that looked like a campanile, about 32 meters high . In the tower there were three cast steel bells in an almost square bell room (side lengths around 4 m) that had been cast by the Bochum Association . The following information can be found in an inventory list of the foundry: The three-part bell including clapper, bearings, axes and bell lever cost 2,971 marks to manufacture .
| size | Chime | Weight (kg) | lower diameter (mm) |
Height (mm) | inscription |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| greatest | e | 980 | 1335 | 1185 | unknown |
| middle | G | 570 | 1125 | 1005 | unknown |
| smallest | b | 410 | 1335 | 890 | unknown |
On the occasion of its 75th anniversary, the parish hall on Badstrasse and the bridal hall between this and the church were added in 1910 . All additions respect the Schinkel building in terms of style.
In 1943 the church was badly damaged in World War II and burned down completely during the street fighting for Berlin in 1945. The decision to rebuild was made by the West Berlin Senate together with the parish council in 1952. It is thanks to the then state curator Hinnerk Scheper and the architect Hans Wolff-Grohmann commissioned by him that the exterior construction was true to the original until 1957 - apart from greenish paint used by Karl Friedrich Schinkel - was restored.
The interior, however, was designed in a modern way. Instead of the old wooden altar, there is a new one made of yellow artificial marble . The new pulpit is clad with embossed copper plates that Ludwig Gabriel Schrieber created. Today's organ with 34 registers and 2500 pipes dates from 1965 and was created by the Beckerath organ workshop in Hamburg. More information about the organ can be found here.
literature
- Franz Gottwald (Hrsg.): Heimatbuch vom Wedding . Kribe-Verlag, Berlin 1924, p. 196 .
- Günther Kühne, Elisabeth Stephani: Evangelical churches in Berlin. CZV-Verlag, Berlin 1986, 2nd edition, ISBN 3-7674-0158-4 , p. 280f.
- Matthias Hoffmann-Tauschwitz: Paths to Berlin Churches. Suggestions for exploring church sites in the western part of Berlin. Wichern-Verlag, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-88981-031-4 , pp. 41, 44.
- Matthias Hoffmann-Tauschwitz: Old Churches in Berlin. 33 visits to the oldest churches in the western part of the city. 2. revised Aufl. Wichern-Verlag, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-88981-048-9 , pp. 248-252.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Compilation of the bells delivered to Berlin and the surrounding area ; Bochum Association, around 1900. In the archive of the Köpenick Church of St. Josef, viewed on August 6, 2019.
- ↑ Information on the organ
Coordinates: 52 ° 33 ′ 7.9 " N , 13 ° 22 ′ 49.8" E