St. Boniface (Berlin-Kreuzberg)
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St. Bonifatius is a Catholic parish church in the Berlin district of Kreuzberg . It was built in 1906/1907 according to plans by Max Hasak in neo-Gothic style together with a residential complex and was consecrated to the Apostle of the Germans . The patronage festival is celebrated on June 5th.
history
In the district of Kreuzberg, the number of Catholic residents rose sharply in the last quarter of the 19th century, parallel to the general population development of the imperial capital. After eight representative Catholic churches had emerged in the greater Berlin area in the 1890s, the church leadership ordered a collection freeze and the Kreuzberg St. Boniface Parish, which was founded in 1894 and now has 13,000 members, was to continue with a much too small provisional solution help. In 1901, the then pastor Schlenke founded a church building association on his own initiative, which in a few years managed to get a sufficient basis for building financing. The plot of land in Yorckstrasse was bought and the building of the church planned in such a way that tenement houses were added on both sides of the church, which should contribute to debt repayment in the long term. The foundation stone was laid on Bonifatiustag 1906 and the new church was consecrated the following year .
In the following years, interrupted by the First World War , the interior was finished. From 1927 stained glass windows with many figures were also used.
The building was not destroyed in World War II , but it burned down completely. In 1946 it was put back into use after provisional restoration. Today's interior design was created in 1966 by Paul Brandenburg . In 1969 the large picture of Fred Thieler was added behind the altar .
The Bonifatiusgemeinde sees itself affected by the far-reaching structural and population change in the Kreuzberg district and is responding to this with a wide range of offers, but also with reduction and concentration measures. The daughter church of St. Agnes was abandoned. Their parish was merged with that of the St. John's Basilica to form the new Boniface parish .
Building description
architecture
St. Boniface is an example of late historicism , which is already looking for new, harsher forms of expression. Hasak emphasized the widely visible double tower front facing the street, which with its gable is reminiscent of models of brick Gothic, but whose towers already indicate objectivity. He designed the church space as a wide, undivided hall , which is only rhythmized by pillars with pointed arches , rose windows and double windows. A uniform star vault spans over it . The sanctuary has a 3 / 8 - Final .
Bells
In the bell room hangs a ring made of three cast steel bells , cast in 1922 by Schilling & Lattermann .
| Chime | Weight (kg) |
Diameter ( cm) |
Height (cm) |
inscription |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| cis' | 2650 | 186 | 140 | ANNO DOMINI MDCCCCXXII S. BONIFATI + ORA + PRO + NOBIS + PAROCHUS ROBERTUS SCHLENKE EX AERE IN FERRUM DIRUM CONVERTIT NOS BELLUM. |
| e ' | 1570 | 160 | 117 | ANNO DOMINI MDCCCCXXII S. MARIA, REGINA PACIS, DA PACEM IN DIEBUS NOSTRIS. |
| fis' | 1150 | 140 | 103 | ANNO DOMINI MDCCCCXXII S. ROBERTE, ORA PRO NOBIS ET IN BELLO DEFUNCTIS ANNO DOMINI. |
Furnishing
This interior design is all the more immediate now that as a result of the damage of the Second World War, all interior paintings, ornamental items of equipment and also the colored windows have disappeared. The pieces created by Paul Brandenburg , the monumental altar, the ambo , the tabernacle stele and the slender Greek hanging cross , stand in the neo-Gothic hall with a strong impact. The moving, graduated blue of the large rear-altar painting by Thieler sets a transcendent color accent.
organ
The organ was built in 1992 by the organ building company Stockmann (Werl) for the St. Agnes Church, and moved to the St. Bonifatius Church in 2011. The instrument has 30 stops on two manuals and a pedal . The actions are mechanical.
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- Pairing : II / I
literature
- Max Hasak: Back to brick building. Lecture given at the Association of Berlin Architects. In: Berliner Architekturwelt , 11th year 1908/1909, issue 2 (May 1908) ( urn : nbn: de: kobv: 109-opus-5936 ), pp. 41–43, with eight images of the church on p. 44 -51.
- Max Hasak: The St. Bonifazius Church in Yorkstrasse in Berlin and the division of its building site . In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Vol. 28, 1908, No. 63 (of August 8, 1908) ( urn : nbn: urn: nbn: de: kobv: 109-opus-41969 ), pp. 426–428. (Part 1) / No. 65 (of August 15, 1908) ( urn : nbn: de: kobv: 109-opus-41984 ), p. 442 f. (Part 2) with nine illustrations.
- Klaus-Dieter Wille: The bells of Berlin (West). History and inventory. Berlin 1987.
- Architects and Engineers Club Berlin e. V. (Ed.): Sacred buildings. (= Berlin and its buildings , part VI.) Ernst & Sohn, Berlin 1997, pp. 131 f., 387 f.
- Christine Goetz , Matthias Hoffmann-Tauschwitz: Churches Berlin Potsdam. Berlin 2003.
- Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Berlin. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2006, p. 295.
Web links
- Official website of the parish
- Information on architecture and the recent restoration from the Berlin Senate Department for Urban Development
- Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 52 ° 29 '33.7 " N , 13 ° 23' 9.3" E