St. Hildegard (Berlin)
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The Catholic Church of St. Hildegard is located at Senheimer Straße 35 in the Berlin district of Frohnau in the Reinickendorf district . The two-aisled hall church is a listed building .
history
In 1913 Paul Poser built a building as a gym for the Frohnau Higher Girls' School . During the First World War the building served as a hospital . The Evangelical Lutheran Church purchased the building in 1921 to therein as makeshift church a place of worship set. The Berlin General Association of Catholic Churches took over the building from it and had it redesigned by Carl Kühn from 1936 to 1940, after the Johanneskirche was built for the Evangelical Christians in Frohnauwas built. In 1936 the Frohnau Catholics received their first permanent clergyman. On January 31, 1937, the first Holy Mass was celebrated in the new church and the parish of St. Hildegard was promoted to curate , initially as the daughter of Maria Gnaden in Hermsdorf . On January 8, 1938, the church was designated and consecrated on October 13, 1940 by Bishop Konrad Graf von Preysing . From 1941 it served as a parish church . On November 1st, 2003 the parish of St. Hildegard in Berlin-Frohnau, the curate of St. Judas Thaddäus in Hohen Neuendorf and the parish of St. Katharinen in Schildow merged to form the Catholic parish of St. Hildegard. Since then, the church of St. Hildegard has been the parish church of the new large parish.
Building description
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The church building is a building of the reform architecture influenced by Heimatschutz architecture . The masonry is above the rustication of the base plastered . The building has a high hipped roof with two ridge turrets covered with slate ; facing the street it is pulled down to the eaves on the ground floor , on the courtyard side it ends above the six two-story windows. In each case two windows are combined, between which there is a wall niche in which there is a statue , on the left that of Petrus and on the right that of Otto von Bamberg , both of which are the patrons of the Archdiocese of Berlin . In the middle is the statue of Hildegard von Bingen , the patroness of the church.
Inside there is a flat wooden barrel vault under the open roof structure . The gallery for the organ is also made of wood. Next to the main nave is a low aisle reduced to a corridor. In the area of the chancel it opens up to a narrow and low chapel on a polygonal floor plan .
Outside there is a campanile as a free-standing bell tower , but it does not reach the height of the church.
Bells
In the campanile there is a chiming made of three cast steel bells , cast by the Bochumer Verein .
| Chime | Weight (kg) |
Diameter ( cm) |
Height (cm) |
inscription |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| cis' | 1800 | 129 | 95 | AND YOU SHOULD ACT AS DEPENDING ON YOU AND YOUR DOING ALONE THE FATE OF GERMAN THINGS, AND THE RESPONSIBILITY WAS YOURS. |
| fis' | 1300 | 108 | 80 | DON'T LET YOUR BELIEVE STOVE YOU DESPITE EVERYTHING HAPPENING. |
| ais' | 640 | 96 | 70 | YOU SHOULD RESURRECT IN GERMANY'S FUTURE IN YOUR PEOPLE. |
Furnishing
- Six windows with scenes from the life of St. Hildegard.
- Four sculptures by the sculptor Frieda Winkelmann, the Mother of God , a Pietà , St. Antonius and St. Francis .
- Way of the Cross in Expressionist Traits by Breininger.
- The chancel furnishings by Paul Brandenburg .
- Altar of travertine .
- Altarpiece from the second half of the 18th century from St. Hedwig's Cathedral , supplemented in 1946 with side pictures by Pfeiffer for the triptych .
- Relic of St. Hildegard von Bingen.
- Devotional cross and door portal of the "Herrgottschnitzers von Frohnau" - Johannes Lotter.
- Pneumatic Sauer organ, the "little sister" of the St. Hedwig cathedral organ.
literature
- Christine Goetz and Matthias Hoffmann-Tauschwitz: Churches Berlin Potsdam. Berlin 2003.
- Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin: Berlin and its buildings. Part 6: Sacred buildings. Ernst, Berlin a. a. 1997, ISBN 3-433-01016-1 .
- Tilly Boesche-Zacharow: Der Herrgottschnitzer von Frohnau: Johannes Lotter , SCHATTENRISS (1985), ISBN 978-3923809042 .
- Klaus-Dieter Wille: The bells of Berlin (West). History and inventory (= The buildings and art monuments of Berlin. Supplement 16). Mann, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-7861-1443-9 .
- Gerhard Streicher and Erika Drave: Berlin - city and church. Berlin 1980.
- 50 years of St. Hildegard: Catholic parish in Berlin-Frohnau 1937–1987 , Berlin 1987.
Web links
- Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
- Homepage of the parish of St. Hildegard in the Archdiocese of Berlin
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 52 ° 38 ′ 21.8 " N , 13 ° 17 ′ 30.5" E