St. Benedikt (Lankwitz)

St. Benedict

St. Benedict, interior view of the chancel

The Church of Saint Benedict in Kaulbachstrasse 62-64 in the Berlin district of Lankwitz ( Steglitz-Zehlendorf district ) is a Roman Catholic parish church of the parish of St. Benedict in the Archdiocese of Berlin . The church was completed in 1968 and is a listed building .

history

The parish of St. Benedict emerged from the Catholic parish of Mater Dolorosa . In memory of the Benedictines from the Maria Laach Abbey , the daughter church in Lankwitz was to be consecrated to St. Benedict. After the garden city of Lankwitz was destroyed in World War II , many apartment buildings were built in the district that housed many people. So the division of the parish became necessary. Church services took place regularly between 1946 and 1952 in the St. Franziskus-Heim on Kaulbachstrasse, where the St. Benedikt parish center was later established. But the tradition was only continued again from 1956 in its own emergency church . 1966 first pastor was hired and in 1967 the curacy "St. Benedict ”was founded. In 1967 the foundation stone for the church was laid. The church consecrated to Saint Benedict was built in the years 1967/1968 according to the plans of the Wiesbaden architect Paul Johannbroer with the participation of the Berlin master builder H. Petersburs in the architectural style of post-war modernism . It forms the center of a by on July 11, 1968 Archbishop Alfred Cardinal Bengsch consecrated community center .

In 2004, the formerly independent congregations of St. Benedict, St. John Evangelist and From the Resurrection of Christ merged to form the congregation of St. Benedict . In 2014 the church building From the Resurrection of Christ was sold and is now used under the name St. Emmanuel by the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church in Germany Berlin / Brandenburg.

Exterior architecture

The church building, 20.50 meters long and wide, is designed in the shape of a cube . The height above the chancel is eleven meters, the main nave is nine meters high. The roof is designed as a flat roof without slopes . The building design should appear "clear and orderly" and thus correspond to the "spirit of Benedict".

The facade is mainly made of yellowish-reddish bricks , supplemented by circumferential strips of cast and glass concrete and not plastered . A cross adorns the gable.

The free-standing round church tower made of fair- faced concrete rings reaches a height of 22 meters and is located directly next to the main entrance to the community center on Kaulbachstrasse. The tower of a crowned weathercock from copper . In it hangs a bronze bell that was cast in 1925 by Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock . With a diameter of 44 cm and a height of 38 cm, it weighs 50 kg. Their strike tone is G sharp ". The inscription is on the flank

ME RESONATE TUAS LAUDES NICOLAE PRECARE, FLAMMIS AETERNI UT DOMINUS NOS LIBERET IGNIS.

Interior design and equipment

The interior of the church building is bright, the walls are made of white lime sandstone . Bright, tinted construction elements made of reinforced glass concrete and other glass elements enclose the walls all the way to the ceiling. The coffered ceiling has large-format square fields that, in multiple steps, rise to form a small inner square. The modern glass art was made according to designs by the Hattersheim artist Josef Jost . There are no separate church windows, "Windows are part of the overall architecture and stand in the way of a variety of liturgical and theological statements in the church year ".

The organ is on the ground floor. The altar cross, the ambo and a floor lamp are artistically modern made of metal. A cube-shaped altar table completes the altar area.

Land use and transport links

The rectory and a day care center were built on the 120 meter deep and 50 meter wide plot on both sides of the church building.

The church is located directly at the Berlin-Lankwitz train station of the S-Bahn , line S25. Several bus lines of the BVG also stop near the church.

literature

• Hilde Herrmann: Development and expansion in the diocese of Berlin. Berlin 1968.
• Gerhard Streicher and Erika Drave: Berlin - city and church. Berlin 1980.
• Klaus-Dieter Wille: The bells of Berlin (West). History and inventory. Berlin 1987.
• Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin: Berlin and its buildings. Part VI. Sacred buildings. Berlin 1997.
• Christine Goetz and Matthias Hoffmann-Tauschwitz: Churches Berlin Potsdam. Berlin 2003.
• Annelen Hölzner-Bautsch: 100 Years of Mater Dolorosa Church - History of the Catholic Community in Berlin-Lankwitz - 1912 to 2012. Editor: Katholische Pfarrgemeinde Mater Dolorosa, self-published, Berlin (2012), p. 184 ff.
• Catholic parish of St. Benedikt in Berlin-Lankwitz (Hrsg.): Sankt Benedikt Berlin. Self-published, Gerlach printing workshop, Berlin.

Web links

Commons : St. Benedikt Church (Berlin-Lankwitz)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the parish of St. Benedict
• Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
• Data sheet of the church at kirchbau.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ History of the community . Community website. Retrieved June 30, 2012.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} History of St. Benedict. Community website. Retrieved June 30, 2012.
3. ↑ History of the Churches on St. Benedikt.de , accessed on July 1, 2012.
4. ↑ Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church Community of St. Emmanuel zu Berlin ( Memento of the original from June 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , eotc-berlin.org, accessed June 12, 2016. 
5. ↑ Image view of the altar area St. Benedikt in Lankwitz  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ Personal ( Memento of the original from September 12, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Community website. Retrieved June 30, 2012. 
7. ↑ Day care centers ( Memento of the original from March 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Community website. Retrieved June 30, 2012. 
8. ↑ 100 Years Mater Dolorosa Church - History of the Catholic Community in Berlin-Lankwitz - 1912 to 2012 , Mater Dolorosa Berlin-Lankwitz, accessed online on April 24, 2013

Coordinates: 52 ° 26 '24 "  N , 13 ° 20' 31.2"  E