St. Eduard (Berlin)

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St. Edward
Tower, gable and rectory

Tower, gable and rectory
Start of building: October 14, 1906
Inauguration: October 13, 1907
Architect : August Kaufhold
Style elements : The aftermath of historicism , echoes of the beginning of modernity
Client: Parish of St. Clara
Tower height:

50 m

Location: 52 ° 27 '57.1 "  N , 13 ° 26' 8.1"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 27 '57.1 "  N , 13 ° 26' 8.1"  E
Address: Kranoldstrasse 23
Berlin-Neukölln
Berlin , Germany
Purpose: catholic worship
Parish: Catholic Parish of St. Clara
Diocese : Archdiocese of Berlin
Website: www.sankt-clara.de

The Catholic St. Eduard Church, inaugurated in 1907 in the Neukölln district of Berlin in the district of the same name , whose patron saint is St. Eduard the Confessor , is a listed building . With the choice of the church name, the memory of the Catholic theologian and politician Eduard Müller , the "Apostle of Berlin", is kept alive.

history

The large number of Catholics in the parish of St. Clara - around 20,000 believers lived there at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries - required the construction of another church. On April 6, 1904, the church council of St. Clara decided to build this on Kranoldplatz. In memory of Eduard Müller, the deceased apostle of Berlin, missionary vicar and General Praeses of Catholic associations, the new church also became an Eduard Müller memorial church . Numerous Catholic associations, such as the St. Eduard Master Association and the St. Eduard Journeyman Association, contributed to their equipment. The former donated the high altar made of sandstone and the pulpit , the latter the statue of Christ with the children.

The St. Eduard Congregation was formed on September 23, 1905, after services had previously taken place in a house on Rudower Strasse. On April 1, 1906, St. Eduard was made a curate , and in 1924 a parish . In 1934 the Guardian Angel community of Britz was spun off from the parish of St. Eduard. During the Second World War , the tower and the roof of the church suffered severe damage, which could be removed by 1957. The original windows were moved to Silesia during the war years and have been lost ever since.

In the 21st century, the St. Eduard congregation lost its parish status due to the financial situation in the Archdiocese of Berlin; May 1, 2004, was parish merger takes St. Clara with the mother parish. St. Eduard remains the place of worship in the parish of St. Clara.

Building description

The gable of the nave is set back from the building line and therefore cannot be seen from Kranoldplatz. The house built later at Kranoldstrasse 24 and Bendastrasse covers it. The nave of the basilica consists of a short nave and two low aisles . It is crossed by the transepts immediately in front of the choir , which are not aligned with the side aisles. The resulting crossing in front of the choir and the stepped-in apse belong to the space intended for laypeople, a building motif preferred by the architect. The side aisles also end next to the choir in an apse, each with chapels.

In the interior , the beginning of modernity can already be heard through the simplification of the historical elements, while in the exterior , which is inserted into the surrounding block perimeter development, historicism has an effect on the material and form . The building complex , a masonry structure , is partially faced with red bricks, otherwise plastered. The ground floor is partly built with brickwork . The outside of the nave is structured by wall templates .

The nave has three bays up to the crossing , another behind in the area of ​​the choir. The main nave and the aisles are spanned with cross vaults, as is the crossing and the aisles. The upper aisle has three arched windows per yoke , in the side aisles there are only two. Rose windows adorn the gable of the transepts . The tendencies of the twenties are heralded with the objectified form of the pillars and their capitals , the arches and the frieze with a zigzag pattern .

tower

The church tower with a square floor plan is inserted into the facade on the side of the arched portal . On the other side is the rectory in a closed building . The simple, clinkered tower shaft has only small arched windows on each floor; in the fourth there is one within a plastered field that ends with an arched frieze . In the bell storey , the sound openings are designed as arcades , over which triangular gables plastered all around connect with two further small openings. A pointed helmet in the shape of an octagonal tent roof rises above it . In the tower there is a 926 kg bronze bell , which was made in 1907 by the Otto bell foundry . Its height is 100 and its diameter is 120 cm. In the shoulder it is decorated with an anthemion frieze, underneath a pearl band. Their inscription reads: "+ GIFT OF THE CITY RIXDORF 1907 +", on the opposite side: "+ ST. RICHARDUS + ”.

Furnishing

Look inside

In the crypt under a side niche there has been a tumba for Eduard Müller since October 13, 1920, the St. Eduard Festival . His bones were transferred from the St. Hedwig cemetery to the St. Eduard Church in order to create a place of worship for him there. In 1966 the remains of Eduard Müller were transferred from the damaged metal coffin to a new oak coffin. The crypt was redesigned for his 150th birthday.

In 1961 a wooden statue of the patron saint of the church , Saint Eduard, was placed on a pillar, and a year later that of Saint Brother Konrad next to the door to the rectory, both created by Paul Brandenburg .

According to the liturgical reform of the Second Vatican Council , the chancel was enlarged up to the pulpit pillar. A people's altar designed by Paul Brandenburg was erected, as well as a new ambo and new sediles . The old high altar with the crucifixion group and the pulpit were preserved. In 1971 the church was renovated and it received new confessionals and confession rooms in the aisles. Next to the entrance hall there are two chapels, one with a statue dedicated to Saint Anthony , the other with an image of Mary in the style of an icon of Mary . In 1977 Paul Brandenburger erected a bronze statue of the Madonna on the left front pillar. In 1981 the artist also redesigned the baptismal font . In 1982 the chancel was equipped with an Easter candlestick , a Legile for storing the Sunday Gospel and a new holder for the Eternal Light . For the patronage festival on October 13, 1995, a memorial plaque for Eduard Müller was attached to the outer wall of the tower to the left of the portal .

organ

The Steinmeyer - organ (1919)

The organ of the St. Eduard Church was built in 1919 as Opus 1276 by the Oettinger organ building company Steinmeyer . It is located on the gallery above the church entrance.

In the course of a general overhaul in 1969, Berlin organ builder Arndt Stephan gave the instrument a new sound design and gave it a neo-baroque character. In addition to changing the disposition , the pneumatic action was electrified. The instrument also received a new console . In 2012 the instrument was repaired by W. Sauer Orgelbau .

The pocket shop instrument today has 29 registers and one transmission , divided into two manual movements and a pedal . The playing and stop action are electric. The following is the disposition since 1969:

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
01. Drone 16 ′
02. Principal 08th'
03. Pointed flute 08th'
04th Dumped 08th'
05. octave 04 ′
06th Reed flute 04 ′
07th Nassat 02 2 ⁄ 3  ′
08th. Forest flute 02 ′
09. Mixture IV 02 ′
10. Zimbel III 01 ⁄ 2 ′ n
11. Trumpet 08th'
II Swell C – g 3
12. Horn principal 8th'
13. Quintatön 8th'
14th Lovely Gedackt 8th'
15th Cheering flute 8th'
16. Violin principal 4 ′
17th Transverse flute 4 ′
18th Sesquialter II
19th octave 2 ′
20th Piccolo 2 ′
21st Fifth (from c o ) 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ n
22nd Scharff IV 1' n
23. clarinet 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
24. double bass 16 ′
25th Sub bass 16 ′
26th Subtle bass (= No. 1) 16 ′
27. Octave bass 08th'
28. Dacked bass 08th'
29 Flute bass 04 ′
30th trombone 16 ′
n = New register by Arndt Stephan (1969)
  1. ↑ a b c wooden register.
  2. ↑ Zinc Cup.
  3. ↑ Resounding register.
  4. ↑ Register visible in the prospectus.
  5. ↑ Wooden cup.

literature

  • Adalbert Jurasch (arr.): 1907–2007. 100 years of St. Eduard. Eduard Müller Memorial Church Berlin-Neukölln. Berlin 2007.
  • Christine Goetz , Matthias Hoffmann-Tauschwitz: Churches Berlin Potsdam. Wiechern, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-88981-140-X .
  • Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin: Berlin and its buildings. Part VI: Sacred buildings. Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-433-01016-1 .
  • Gerhard Streicher, Erika Drave: Berlin - city and church. More, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-87554-189-8 .
  • Klaus-Dieter Wille: The bells of Berlin (West). History and inventory. Gebr. Mann, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-7861-1443-9 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto bells. Family and company history of the Otto bell foundry dynasty . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, especially page 515 .
  2. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, especially p. 480 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).
  3. ↑ a b Detailed information on the organ , organindex.de, accessed on January 12, 2018.