St. Francis of Assisi (Berlin-Staaken)
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The Catholic Church of St. Francis of Assisi , before St. John B. M. Vianney Chapel, is in the Hackbusch Straße 14 in Berlin district Staaken of Spandau .
history
With the establishment of the garden city Staaken for the armaments workers of Spandau in the years 1914–1917, many Catholics also moved to the west of Spandau. In 1925, a low chapel was built for them at Finkenkruger Weg 27 , which was consecrated to Francis of Assisi , as an extension to a small, single-storey rectory based on a design by Carl Kühn .
In 1951 Staaken was divided as part of an area swap. The western part came to the Nauen district of the GDR in exchange for an area required by the British to expand the Gatow airfield . After Staaken was now divided by a border, the residents of West Staaken were no longer allowed to pass the way to the church, which was in the restricted area . The church was only demolished at the end of 1987. For the Catholics of the West Berlin part of Staaken, a 20 × 4 m prefabricated house made of wood fiber boards was built as an emergency church in 1955 and consecrated on December 18, 1955 by Prelate Drews on the patronage of St. Jean-Marie Vianney , the pastor of Ars . Francis of Assisi has been its patron since 1970 , a statue in the garden in front of the church represents him. The church is the place of worship for the St. Mark's community in the Spandau dean's office in the Archdiocese of Berlin .
Building description
The hall church on a rectangular floor plan is a wooden structure with a protruding flat gable roof . The hall has a high ribbon of windows on both sides and a recessed rectangular choir . The roof structure remained open, the roof trusses reach the floor. The walls are partially faced with clinker bricks. The chancel was redesigned in 1973.
In the open, free-standing bell carrier hangs a ring made of three bronze bells cast by Rudolf Perner .
| Pouring year | Chime | Weight (kg) |
Diameter (cm) |
Height (cm) |
inscription |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | H'" | 45 | 40 | 30th | ST. RAPHAEL - HOLY RAPHAEL LEAD US. |
| 1960 | f sharp " | 96 | 54 | 40 | ST. MICHAEL - BERLIN-STAAKEN. |
| 1961 | g sharp " | 66 | 49 | 37 | ST. GABRIEL, BERLIN-STAAKEN / RUDOLF PERNER ANNO DOMINI 1961. |
literature
- Christine Goetz and Matthias Hoffmann-Tauschwitz: Churches Berlin Potsdam. Berlin 2003.
- Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin: Berlin and its buildings. Part VI. Sacred buildings. Berlin 1997.
- Klaus-Dieter Wille: The bells of Berlin (West). History and inventory. Berlin 1987.
- Gerhard Streicher and Erika Drave: Berlin - city and church. Berlin 1980.
Web links
Coordinates: 52 ° 32 '21.1 " N , 13 ° 9' 2.2" E
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gunther Jahn (arrangement): The buildings and art monuments of Berlin. Part: City and District of Spandau. Berlin 1971, p. 160.