St. Boniface (Erkner)

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The Bonifatius Church in Erkner
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The Bonifatius Church in Erkner is a church building of the Catholic Church from 1932 .

history

Building history

In 1907 the Catholic workers' association Concordia was founded in Erkner. On January 23, 1910, the first Catholic service in Erkner since the Reformation took place in the Kurhaus, today's Gerhart-Hauptmann-Museum . An emergency chapel was inaugurated on September 19, 1920. From 1921 the services were held in the Stella Maris barrack chapel . In 1932 the parish acquired a building site on Dämeritzsee . The church was built there according to plans by the Berlin architect Carl Kühn . The groundbreaking ceremony for today's Bonifatius Church took place on June 15, 1932.

On July 11, 1936, the community received a relic of St. Boniface . This relic was the occasion for pilgrimages by Berlin Catholics to Erkner until the 1950s. 1941 took place the consecration of the church.

In a bombing raid on the factories in Erkner on March 8, 1944, both the church and the Evangelical Church of Galilee were destroyed. Reconstruction began after the end of World War II on the orders of the Soviet city commanders. On March 19, 1949, the church's new altar was consecrated.

The chancel was rebuilt under Pastor Seifert according to the requirements of the liturgical reform.

In 1991 a support association was founded to finance the reconstruction and maintenance of the organ. In 2007, extensive work was carried out on the facade, barrier-free access to the church was created and a new Boniface painting was installed.

local community

The Catholic parish belonged to the dean's office in Berlin-Neukölln until 1958 and to the dean's office in Frankfurt / Oder from 1958 to October 1999. Since the end of 1999 the community has belonged to the Dean's Office in Berlin-Köpenick.

In 2004 the parish of Sankt Bonifatius merged with the parish of the Holy Three Kings in Berlin-Rahnsdorf .

The pastors of the parish were:

  1. 1921–1927: Ernst Klebba
  2. 1928–1929: Karl Hrabak
  3. 1929–1930: Dr. Sczypior
  4. 1931–1950: Johannes von Kiedrowski
  5. 1950–1970: Ignatius Seifert
  6. 1970–1980: Wolfgang Trabandt
  7. 1980–2004: Gerhard Engelmann
  8. 2004–2016: Josef Rudolf
  9. since 2016: Hansjörg Blattner

Building description

The church was built as a single-nave hall church with a steeple and red tile roof.

Furnishing

The original equipment of the church was destroyed in the bombing of 1944.

organ

In 1949, a small, from which was organ builder Sauer originating organ set up. The instrument initially had seven registers , five of them in the manual , two in the pedal with 564 pipes . It was fitted with a pneumatic cone drawer.

From the 1955/1956 also built by Sauer the concert organ of the State Opera Unter den Linden in Berlin, usable material, especially the expensive metal pipes, was built into the organ in Erkner by the company Alexander Schuke Potsdam Orgelbau . On March 15, 1997, the enlarged organ was inaugurated. The organ now has two manuals, a pedal, 24 registers and around 2000 pipes. The cost of expanding the organ was DM 116,255.59.

In 2019, the renovation of the occurred gaming table by the Eberswalde organ workshop GbR, in which the Crescendowalze and Zungenabsteller were reactivated.

Disposition :

I Manual C-g 3
Quintadena 16 ′
Principal 8th'
Reed flute 8th'
octave 4 ′
Pointed flute 4 ′
Schwiegel 2 ′
Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Mixture IV
Trumpet 8th'
II Manual C-g 3
Big dumped 8th'
Quintatön 8th'
Salicional 8th'
Prefix 4 ′
recorder 4 ′
Forest flute 2 ′
Nasat 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
Scharff IV
Krummhorn 8th'
Pedal C – f 1
Sub bass 16 ′
Octave bass 8th'
Bass flute 8th'
Choral bass 4 ′
trombone 16 ′

Web links

Commons : Bonifatius-Kirche (Erkner)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 52 ° 25 ′ 33.3 "  N , 13 ° 44 ′ 54"  E