St. Bernhard (Berlin-Dahlem)

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St. Bernhard, tower and portal

St. Bernhard is a Catholic church in the Berlin district of Dahlem . It was built from 1932 to 1934 according to plans by Wilhelm Fahlbusch in the New Objectivity style and is a listed building . St. Bernhard is a reliably open church .

location

The church is located at Königin-Luise-Straße 33 in the Steglitz-Zehlendorf district . The brick building is north, the church tower with its portal is directly on the street.

history

The church building was badly damaged in World War II . It could only be restored in 1952.

St. Bernhard has been a subsidiary church of the Rosary Basilica since 2010 with the parish of Maria Rosary Queen, from whose territory the parish was once separated.

architecture

The brick building is characterized by square shapes and designed in the style of a basilica . The soaring portal tower contains a bronze statue of the church patron Bernhard von Clairvaux in an open rectangular recess above .

Furnishing

Interior

Behind the tower the church space opens up as a three-aisled nave with flat ceilings and an indirectly lit apse .

In front of the white plastered walls, the altar with the high bronze cross, marble back wall and angels, the two side altars with the statues of Immaculata , St. Joseph and St. Bernhard has a strong presence as a wandering preacher. The bright leaded glass windows in the nave are by Paul Corazolla . In the memorial chapel in the west aisle there is a colored glass window by Felix Senger with the stations of the cross . On the bronze relief of the fifth station of the cross, the architect is portrayed in the form of Simon of Cyrene .

The organ with three manuals , a pedal and 29 registers was built in 1962 in the workshop of the Stockmann brothers .

literature

  • Hildegard Faller et al. : St. Bernhard - Berlin-Dahlem , Regensburg 2009.
  • Adolf Stahl: St. Bernhardus Church in Berlin-Dahlem. In: Deutsche Bauzeitung 68 (1934), pp. 871–874.

Web links

Commons : St. Bernhard  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments. Berlin . Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2006, p. 463, ISBN 3-422-03111-1 .
  2. ↑ Home - Rosary Basilica . Website of the parish “Maria Rosenkranzkönigin”. Retrieved July 3, 2012.

Coordinates: 52 ° 27 ′ 30 "  N , 13 ° 17 ′ 39.1"  E