St. Aloysius (Berlin)
The St. Aloysius Church is a Catholic church in Barfusstraße in the Berlin district of Wedding in the Mitte district . Together with the community hall at Schwyzer Straße 2 on the northeastern edge of the Schillerpark, it forms a listed building complex . It was built in 1956 according to a design by Felix Hinssen in the architectural style of transition to modernity .
history
The first service in the northern Wedding, as the area of St Aloysius just from the parish collected mother church of St. Joseph was separated, found in a as a chapel instead of makeshift makeshift. This was in the back yard of a former factory building on Barfusstraße. When the factory building was expanded into apartments, for the sanitary facilities of which pipes had to be laid through the church service room, the congregation looked for a more suitable solution. Commercial premises were found on a plot of land in Ofener Strasse, which was converted into a new emergency chapel in 1927. In 1921 St. Aloysius became a pastoral curate , and in 1938 an independent curate in terms of property law . A planned new building had to be temporarily abandoned because of the Second World War . After that, churches that had been destroyed were rebuilt. The architect Felix Hinssen carried out the planning for today's church in the 1950s. To this end, the municipality had acquired a construction site of around 3,000 square meters on Schwyzer Strasse. The church was consecrated in 1956.
Building description
The first church buildings by Hinssen are based on the building tradition of the 1930s, that is, historicizing in their architecture. The architect later integrated rounded shapes into his designs, as in the floor plan of St. Aloysius. This is traditionally rectangular, but has rounded corners. The roughly horseshoe-shaped hall church has an attached semicircular apse . The nave is covered with an arched roof, inside it is closed by a flat wooden ceiling. Under the outer dome of the apse there is also a flat wooden ceiling with a skylight . The single-storey community hall is attached to the apse. The supports of the reinforced concrete skeleton structure are filled with brickwork and faced with ceramic tiles . The supports of the supporting structure are visible on the side walls , between which six high-lying window fields made of precast concrete are arranged below the eaves , ornamentally divided into round and rectangular openings, recognizable as the letters “O” and “H”. The porch of the entrance front, which is rounded at the corners, is structured above the entrance doors by pilaster strips , between which there are also windows with the same ornamental precast concrete elements.
The slender campanile , which adjoins the long side of Schwyzer Straße, repeats these design elements on the bell storey, albeit open as a perforated grid. Four cast steel bells , cast by the Bochum Association in 1958 , hang in the bell tower .
| Chime | Weight (kg) |
Diameter (cm) |
Height (cm) |
inscription |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| e ' | 940 | 135 | 108 | ST. JOSEPH |
| fis' | 620 | 118 | 98 | ST. MARIA |
| a ' | 360 | 98 | 83 | ST. ALOYSIUS |
| H' | 260 | 87 | 75 | CHRIST REX |
Furnishing
Four steps lead to the raised altar area, five more to the tabernacle . In accordance with the demands of the Liturgical Movement in anticipation of the liturgical reform of the Second Vatican Council , the altar was intended to be free-standing from the start. On the wall of the apse hangs a triptych with scenes from the Revelation of John by Werner Persy . Persy also created the three oil paintings behind the baptistery, which is two steps lower, in the entrance area. The pews and the lights are in the design designed in the 1950s.
literature
- Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin: Berlin and its buildings. Part VI: Sacred buildings. Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-433-01016-1 .
- Gerhard Streicher, Erika Drave: Berlin - city and church. More-Verlag, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-87554-189-8 .
- Hilde Herrmann: Development and expansion in the diocese of Berlin. More -Verlag, Berlin 1968, DNB 455578214 .
- Christine Goetz , Matthias Hoffmann-Tauschwitz: Churches Berlin Potsdam. Wichern-Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-88981-140-X .
- Klaus-Dieter Wille: The bells of Berlin (West). History and inventory. Gebr. Mann, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-7861-1443-9 .
Web links
- Catholic parish of St. Joseph - St. Aloysius
- Entry in the Berlin State Monument List with further information
Coordinates: 52 ° 33 '28.3 " N , 13 ° 21' 5.1" E