St. Johannes Evangelist (Berlin-Steglitz)
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The Roman Catholic St. Johannes Evangelist Church in Sembritzkistraße 17-19 in Südende , a former villa colony in what is now the Berlin district of Steglitz in the Steglitz-Zehlendorf district , is a listed building . The church building was erected in 1951 according to plans by the architect Felix Hinssen in the style of village churches from the 1930s in the architectural style of the beginning modern , the so-called Heimatschutz architecture.
history
The congregation, which Johannes the Evangelist chose as patron saint , emerged from the chapel congregation of the St. Annastiftes, whose chaplain acted as pastor for the Catholics in Südende on behalf of the Steglitz pastor of the Rosary congregation . Soon the chapel was no longer enough for the growing congregation, so that Südende received its own pastor to build a new congregation and to look for a larger building to celebrate the mass . In August 1928, was Mund'sche restaurant at today Sembritzkistraße / Ecke bought Hanstedter way the ballroom of Carl Kuehn converted into a longitudinal rectangular room for worship and on April 1, 1929 ordained was. A small bell tower was added later . The Südend Kuratie was founded on October 1, 1929 and raised to a parish on March 27, 1941 with 3,000 parishioners .
The church was destroyed in 1943. 1950 began with the new building on the old foundation . The new church was consecrated on June 29, 1951. The parish of St. Johannes Evangelist was abolished on May 1, 2004 and merged with the Lankwitz parishes of the Resurrection of Christ and St. Benedict under the name of St. Benedict . The St. John Evangelist Church will continue to be used as a place of worship.
Building description
The hall church is a white plastered masonry building with an asymmetrical saddle roof . The roof ridge is not in the middle of the structure, but the eaves heights are the same. To the south the roof surface is steeply sloping and short, to the north it is gently sloping and long. The side walls are divided by five slender pairs of arched windows. The choir , raised by several steps, is just closing. It is laterally separated from the church by floor-to-ceiling wall panels, reminiscent of the supports of a triumphal arch . The baptismal font is located in the northern niche of the choir , the outer wall has four narrow, high arched windows. A door leads from the niche opposite, in which the sediles are located, into the sacristy . The annex for the sacristy is covered by the roof of the steeply sloping part of the gable roof. Opposite the choir, there is a retracted crossbar under the slightly inclined part of the gable roof, which houses the anteroom to the church. Above the arched portal that leads into the anteroom of the church there is a row of small arched windows. At the southeast corner, at an angle of 45 degrees between the nave and the crossbar, the tower covered with a pent roof protrudes on a rectangular floor plan , the tower hall of which is designed as a gate with two opposite round arched open portals. A door leads from the tower hall into the anteroom of the church.
In the bell tower there are three hard-cast iron bells that were cast by Franz Weeren in 1952.
| Weight (kg) |
Diameter (cm) |
Height (cm) |
|---|---|---|
| 437 | 100 | 78 |
| 262 | 84 | 63 |
| 129 | 66 | 53 |
The side aisles of the nave are divided across the width of the wall panels in front of the choir by a series of narrow wooden supports. The wooden flat ceiling is pulled down a little over the side aisles. This is reminiscent of a three-aisled nave in a basilica .
In 1970 a mechanical organ from Gebr. Späth Orgelbau was installed on the gallery above the anteroom. The chancel is also illuminated by a skylight . On the red-washed wall behind the altar there has been a crucifixion group since 1996 , on the left the statue of Mary and on the right that of John, in the middle a crucifix illuminated from the back , below the tabernacle . Ludwig Peter Kowalski created two mosaics on the side wall panels in front of the choir in 1953 , they depict Mary and Joseph . The terracotta statue of the church patron, created in 1929 by Josef Dorls, is on the outer wall of the sacristy.
literature
- Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin: Berlin and its buildings. Part VI. Sacred buildings. Berlin 1997.
- Christine Goetz and Matthias Hoffmann-Tauschwitz: Churches Berlin Potsdam. Berlin 2003.
- Klaus-Dieter Wille: The bells of Berlin (West). History and inventory. Berlin 1987.
- Hilde Herrmann: Development and expansion in the diocese of Berlin. Berlin 1968.
- Gerhard Streicher and Erika Drave: Berlin - city and church. Berlin 1980.
Web links
- Entry in the Berlin State Monument List with further information
- Catholic parish of St. Benedict
- Data sheet of the church at kirchbau.de
- Information about the organ
Coordinates: 52 ° 27 '5 " N , 13 ° 20' 58.9" E