St. Canisius (Berlin)
The Church of St. Canisius at Witzlebenstrasse 30 in the Berlin district of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf is the parish church of the Roman Catholic parish of the same name in the Archdiocese of Berlin . It was built between 2000 and 2002 to replace a church that burned down in 1995.
history
Depending on the Herz-Jesu-Gemeinde in Charlottenburg, the St. Canisius Curate was founded in 1921. Pastors have been Jesuits from the start . Today's parish church is the successor to two churches. In 1924 Max Warnatsch built a simple St. Canisius chapel in the basement of the grammar school on Lietzensee, today's Canisius college in Tiergarten; the building was destroyed in World War II. Between 1954 and 1957, the first St. Canisius Church was built according to plans by the architect Reinhard Hofbauer . The building, which was also used for major events at the time of the division of Berlin, burned down completely on April 30, 1995.
After the foundation stone was laid on May 8, 2000, the new church on 28 June 2002 by Cardinal Georg Sterzinsky ordained . It is built according to the plans of the Berlin architects Heike Büttner, Claus Neumann and George Braun, which were awarded with distinction at the Berlin Architecture Prize 2003. They won third place in an open architectural competition in 1997, which came after negotiations with the first two winners Schmidt-Thomsen & Ziegert and Edgar Wisniewski . Since April 1st, 2006 St. Canisius has been an independent parish.
architecture
The church, designed as a light exposed concrete building, is placed as a “monumental building sculpture” in a free space between Suarezstrasse / Kantstrasse and Witzlebenstrasse and Lietzensee. It is divided into two cubes, at the intersection of which there are surfaces made of larch wood. The 11 meter high entrance doors and the Lady Chapel inside are also made of this material, which was originally light, but has darkened considerably due to the weather. The one, closed cube forms the church interior. The adjoining open cube - the so-called "open space" - whose raised floor can only be accessed from the interior of the church, forms a frame and is reminiscent of a dome, which, however, does not exaggerate the church space, as in the Baroque, but rather 90 degrees the earth is sunk. The wood-clad semicircular Lady Chapel protrudes like an apse as a "softly rounded hinge" from the church interior into the open space .
The church building also includes in its northern part the sacristy , the confessional room and - on a total of four floors - other rooms, among other things for groups and community work. The roof is mainly used as a green roof, in part also as a terrace with a view of the nearby Lietzensee . The church tower is free-standing, facing Witzlebenstrasse, 32 m high and equipped with four church bells ringing .
Interior and equipment
Inside, the church is designed as a bright, light-filled room that guides the light, facing south-east. Further design elements are a carefully worked out, irregular geometry with straight and curved walls and the distribution of the liturgical places over the entire room. The room is divided into two “naves” by different ceiling heights: to the south a high hall 16 meters high around the altar with a 6 meter high window front to the open space and to the north a low side area. The floor, a mosaic stone made of gray sandstone, continues the pavement of the forecourt and underlines the character of a “church on the way”, which is not a living space but a meeting place; for the altar it is walled up to form a flat hill. On festive days the high portal doors are opened and create a direct connection between inside and outside.
The tabernacle in the low and windowless part of the church is highlighted by a separate incidence of light from above by means of a tube that penetrates the entire building. The baptismal font stands on a stone stele in front of the window front to the open space , which is demarcated here by a low natural stone wall, on which water can flow. The centrally arranged and free-standing massive altar by the Trier artist Guy Charlier (* 1954) consists of light, rough limestone , shows signs of processing and is 10 cm higher. A similar block-like sculpture on the outer square corresponds to the altar, also created by Guy Charlier, just like the limestone stelae under the baptismal font and the tabernacle; A Bible with pictures by Marc Chagall lies open on a third stele in the entrance area .
Another correspondence exists between a painting “The Resurrection of Christ” from the 16th century near the tabernacle, which is attributed to Ercole Ramazzani (1530–1598), and an altarpiece of about the same size “Golden fields” by Winfried Muthesius (* 1957 ), which was created as part of a project in U- and S-Bahn stations for the Ecumenical Church Congress in 2003 and was installed behind the altar.
The sculptor Jo Achermann designed the baptismal bowl, the candlesticks and holy water basin made of metal as well as the ambo and the movable benches made of maple wood.
In the height on the north wall hangs the body of Christ by Gerhart Schreiter (1909–1974) from the old church, which was burned out when the church burned, but was preserved. It does not immediately catch the eye, but demands a look upwards: "They should look up to him whom they have pierced." ( Jn 19:37 EU )
Immediately next to the main entrance is a Lady Chapel, whose larch wood contrasts with the exposed concrete. A crescent moon Madonna by Otto Moroder (Tyrol) is placed in this place of worship . It was carved in 1943 and has survived the destruction of the previous structures.
organ
When the church burned in 1995, the organ built by the Klais organ building company was also destroyed. A small organ positive stood temporarily in the right part of the church. Since December 2013, a larger organ with a more appropriate sound for the church has been installed on the "organ stage" that was already built during the new building, a niche in the west wall. The console found its place in the nave next to the Ramazzani painting, about 20 m from the organ.
The new instrument comes from the old Protestant Reformed church in Zurich- Albisrieden , where it was played until 2013 and can no longer be used due to a new church being built. The organ has 1720 pipes in 24 registers on two manuals and pedal . Its oldest parts date from 1900, a new electric console from 2002. It was installed by the Glatter-Götz Orgelbau workshop in the St. Canisius Church and was heard partially for the first time at Easter 2014 and has now been completed. There was no organ prospectus. In 2019 a carillon was installed, which can be played from the 2nd manual.
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- Coupling : Normal coupling, Super II / I
- Swelling step
- 2 free combinations
- fixed combinations: piano, forte, tutti
- Individual storage for tongue registers and mixtures
- General distributor for tongues, mixtures
- Action: electro-pneumatic
Bells
The bronze bells , cast in 1955 in the Feldmann & Marschel bell foundry in Münster, were recovered after the fire in the old church in 1995 and placed in the new bell tower in April 2002.
| No. | Chime | Weight (kg) |
Diameter ( cm) |
inscription |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | d ' | 1500 | 135 | Jesu Christe, Rex gloriae, veni cum pace. (Jesus Christ, King of Glory, come with your peace) |
| 2 | e ' | 1000 | 119 | Sancta Maria, Regina mundi, esto nobis praesidium. (Holy Mary, Queen of All, be our protection) |
| 3 | f sharp | 700 | 105 | Sancte Petre Canisi, confirma credentes, voca labentes (Saint Peter Canisius, strengthen the believers, call the falling) |
| 4th | a ' | 370 | 86 | Sancte Joseph, morientes juva et nobis coronam implora (Saint Joseph, help the dying and implore us for the victory wreath) |
Meeting spaces
The St. Canisius Catholic day care center, residential and business premises, a community center, the parish office, rooms of the Jesuit Forum and the Germany office of the Jesuit Refugee Service are located in separate buildings . With the completion of this building in 2003, the nearby former Ignatiushaus , Neue Kantstrasse 1, was given up.
Web links
- Homepage of the Catholic parish of St. Canisius
- St. Canisius (Berlin). In: Structurae
- Pictures on the website of the parish of St. Canisius
- Pictures ( Memento from January 6, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) at stadtentwicklung.berlin.de (Architecture Prize 2003)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Brief information on building history. Website of the State of Berlin. Retrieved June 5, 2011.
- ^ History of the parish of St. Canisius with photographs. Community website. Retrieved January 8, 2020.
- ↑ a b Building history of St. Canisius. Community website. Retrieved June 5, 2011.
- ↑ View from the outside Architecture Prize Berlin 2003 awarded. Website of the State of Berlin. Retrieved June 5, 2011; BauNetz dated June 28, 2002, accessed on August 28, 2013.
- ↑ a b c d Christine Goetz : Pathos in concrete. St. Canisius, Berlin-Charlottenburg. In: Christine Goetz, Constantin Beyer: City. Country. Churches. Sacred buildings in the Archdiocese of Berlin. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-95976-101-7 , p. 144.
- ↑ St. Canisius Church in Berlin - objects made of concrete. Website of BauNetz Media GmbH, Berlin. Retrieved June 5, 2011.
- ↑ a b c Church interior of St. Canisius . Community website. Retrieved January 8, 2020.
- ↑ Construction plan of the church interior on the website of the State of Berlin. Retrieved on February 23, 2016 ( Memento of November 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Guy Charlier. Artist's website. Retrieved June 5, 2011.
- ↑ Madonna on Crescent Moon St. Canisius Church in Berlin
- ^ Bells of St. Canisius . Community website. Retrieved January 8, 2020.
- ↑ St. Canisius day care center. Daycare website. Retrieved January 8, 2020.
- ↑ Former Ignatius House . Website of the State of Berlin. Retrieved June 13, 2011.
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 27.8 ″ N , 13 ° 17 ′ 37.5 ″ E