St. Richard Church (Berlin)
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The Catholic St. Richard Church was designed by Michael König and consecrated on December 13, 1975. It is located at Braunschweiger Straße 18 in the Berlin district of Neukölln in the district of the same name and is a listed building .
history
The parish of St. Eduard was spun off from the large area of the mother parish of St. Clara as early as 1905 , then the parishes of St. Richard and St. Christophorus . A church was built for the latter from 1929 to 1932, but only a temporary chapel for the new parish of St. Richard . Carl Kühn designed a rectangular low hall church with a flat gable roof , which was inaugurated on June 9, 1930. In its bell tower hangs a small bronze bell that weighs only 107 kilograms. It was cast by the Ulrich brothers and is still in service today. A saint named Richard, here Richard von Chichester, was chosen as the patron saint for the chapel, based on the historical Rixdorf, originally Richardsdorf . In the 1930s the construction of a large church failed due to a lack of money, in the 1950s it was decided again. Even before the new church was built, created in 1956 on the church property, a community center , which on September 1, 1958 inaugurated was. It also housed a retirement home and a daycare center .
The parish was initially a curate from January 1, 1930 and was administered by St. Clara , on January 1, 1948 it was raised to an independent parish . On September 1, 1994, the parish of St. Anna in Baumschulenweg was annexed to that of St. Richard after it had dissolved. Services are still celebrated in the Church of St. Anna.
The chapel, built in 1930, is still located on the site and is now used as a church café and, in winter, as an emergency shelter for the homeless .
Building description
The compact, towerless central building has an irregular floor plan made up of interlocking, rounded rectangles. Vertical, between the gaps of the members of the four-stepped, with flat roofs covered building structure are slit windows that illuminate the interior indirectly. The chancel is also illuminated by six skylights . The room height is lowest in the sacristy facing the courtyard , above the gallery on which the organ stands, and it is highest in the area of the altar wall. There is a second entrance next to the annex for the confessionals . The green-painted exposed concrete enclosing walls without windows facing the street stand out from the surrounding cityscape . Inside, the walls are partially clad in wood and the ceilings. The dais is raised by three levels. The altar does not mark the architectural center of the church. The pews of the church stalls are aligned with him in three right-angled axes . The sanctuary has Paul Brandenburg equipped. The 14 stations of the cross as a relief made of concrete on the wall opposite the altar are by Paul Ohnsorge . Rudolf Heltzel created a picture of Saint Richard. Various statues of saints were taken from the chapel from 1930 .
literature
- Christine Goetz and Matthias Hoffmann-Tauschwitz: Churches Berlin Potsdam. Berlin 2003.
- Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin: Berlin and its buildings. Part 6: Sacred buildings. Ernst, Berlin a. a. 1997, ISBN 3-433-01016-1 .
- Klaus-Dieter Wille: The bells of Berlin (West). History and inventory (= The buildings and art monuments of Berlin. Supplement 16). Mann, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-7861-1443-9 .
- Gerhard Streicher and Erika Drave: Berlin - city and church. Berlin 1980.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 28 ′ 22.5 ″ N , 13 ° 27 ′ 7 ″ E