St. Ansgar (Berlin)
The complex of buildings of the Roman Catholic St. Ansgar's Church and the building wings for sacristy , rectory and parish hall are the Klopstockstraße 31 in Berlin district Hansa district of Mitte district . The plant is with the other buildings of the Interbau under monument protection .
history
St. Ansgar was founded in 1926 as the last subsidiary of the Weddinger parish of St. Sebastian . The congregation carried out the services in an emergency church very close to the current church location, which arose from a garage in the courtyard of Altonaer Straße 22. In 1938 St. Ansgar became a curate , and in 1941 it was declared a parish. The chapel and the entire Hansaviertel fell victim to the bombs in 1943. Since 1948 the congregation has been using a parish hall converted into an emergency church on the ground floor of the front building at Altonaer Straße 22. The new St. Ansgar Church was built as a replacement for the destroyed church of the same patron saint Ansgar . The foundation stone was laid on October 21, 1956, the consecration took place on November 1, 1957 by the Berlin bishop Julius Döpfner .
On November 1, 2003, the St. Ansgar congregation merged with the St. Laurentius congregation founded in 1910, which has given up its church.
Building description
The church, like the neighboring Evangelical Kaiser Friedrich Memorial Church, was built in 1957 as part of Interbau , the first building exhibition actually realized in Berlin. The contemporary press praised the two churches as model solutions for modern sacred buildings , the architecture of which achieved a unique spatial effect with innovative floor plans and modern materials.
Willy Kreuer's design provided for a so-called “parish farm”, which, in addition to the church building with 250 seats, includes a two-storey rectory and a parish hall. The sacristy forms the link between the rectory and the church. The complex is limited to the street by a free-standing wall.
Nave
The floor plan of the nave consists of a parabola with the altar wall in the apex. The northern parabolic arch consists of a closed gray-yellow brick wall to shield the church from the noise of the nearby Berlin tram . The southern arch has reinforced concrete towards the entrance front - pillars on a sawtooth-shaped floor plan, between them there are vertical ribbon windows that are divided by trapezoidal concrete frames. It merges into the three-tiered entrance front, which also consists of a series of ribbon windows between reinforced concrete supports.
The supporting structure of the reinforced concrete skeleton structure is made of exposed concrete . The coffered ceiling of the interior, which slopes slightly towards the chancel and ends there, is formed from a supporting framework of beams in the longitudinal and transverse directions. The chancel, which is raised by four steps, is indirectly lit by windows located in the wall between its flat ceiling and the low ceiling of the rest of the nave.
tower
The side-mounted campanile , for which the foundation stone was laid on October 21, 1957, consists of three concrete supports that are horizontally connected in the upper area. One support continues as a cross.
Bells
In the open bell cage hang three cast steel bells that were cast by the Bochum Association in 1957 . The ringing is coordinated with the bells of the neighboring Kaiser-Friedrich-Gedächtniskirche.
| Chime | Weight (kg) |
Diameter ( cm) |
Height (cm) |
inscription |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| f ' | 780 | 126 | 108 |
Shoulder : + ME DONATED THE GERMAN CHANCELLOR DR. CONRAD ADENAUER AD 1957 Flank : HEILIGER ANSGAR + + + + + |
| g sharp ' | 440 | 105 | 90 |
Shoulder : + ME DONATED THE GERMAN CHANCELLOR DR. CONRAD ADENAUER AD 1957 Flank : SAINT OTTO VON BAMBERG + + + + + |
| H' | 300 | 94 | 80 |
Shoulder : + ME DONATED THE GERMAN CHANCELLOR DR. CONRAD ADENAUER AD 1957 Flank : HEILIGER CONRAD + + + + + |
Furnishing
According to the liturgical reform of the Second Vatican Council , the sanctuary was subsequently changed. The people's altar , which originally stood on the back wall of the chancel, was moved forward.
The crucifixion group in front of the altar wall made of Stucco lustro comes from Ludwig Gabriel Schrieber . On the right wall there is a fresco carpet depicting 20 Stations of the Cross by Ludwig Peter Kowalski . The bronze statue of the parish priest , created by Simon Schrieber, was erected in 1995.
There is a free-floating concrete slab above the entrance, which serves as a gallery for the organ . On it is a three manual organ with 31 stops from the Karl Schuke Berlin organ building workshop .
literature
- Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin: Berlin and its buildings. Part VI. Sacred buildings. Berlin 1997.
- Gerhard Streicher, Erika Drave: Berlin - city and church. Berlin 1980.
- Hilde Herrmann: Development and expansion in the diocese of Berlin. Berlin 1968.
- Christine Goetz , Matthias Hoffmann-Tauschwitz: Churches Berlin Potsdam. Berlin 2003.
- Christine Goetz: Praise God with iron and concrete - Our parish church. Berlin 2010.
- Klaus-Dieter Wille: The bells of Berlin (West). History and inventory. Berlin 1987.
Web links
- Catholic parish of St. Laurentius in Berlin-Mitte
- Entry in the Berlin State Monument List with further information
- Information about the organ
Coordinates: 52 ° 31 '3.8 " N , 13 ° 20' 27.2" E