St. Karl Borromeo (Berlin)
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| Start of building: | August 15, 1954 |
| Inauguration: | May 19, 1955 |
| Architect : | Alfons Leitl |
| Style elements : | Post-war modernity |
| Client: | Catholic parish of St. Karl Borromeo |
| Location: | 52 ° 29 '2.5 " N , 13 ° 16' 53.6" E |
| Address: | Delbrückstrasse 33 Berlin-Grunewald Berlin , Germany |
| Purpose: | catholic worship |
| Local community: | Catholic parish of St. Karl Borromeo |
| Diocese : | Archdiocese of Berlin |
| Website: | www.karl-borromaeus.de |
The St. Karl Borromeo Church is a Catholic church building in the Berlin district of Grunewald . The square hall church was built in 1955 as reinforced concrete - skeleton under a gable roof with a narrow attachment for the sacristy under a canopy roof . A campanile , integrated into a two-winged cloister , encloses a small courtyard with the church and the weekday chapel.
history
As early as 1919, the first efforts to care for the Catholic maids in Schmargendorf and the villa colony Grunewald began because the church routes to Sankt Ludwig in Wilmersdorf were too far. On October 22nd, 1920 the church building association Grunewald was founded. On November 1st, 1920 the first service took place in the restaurant "Lindeneck". As the number of visitors grew, from 1921 the services were held in the auditorium of the Delbrückstrasse school, often with Carl Sonnenschein .
On January 20, 1928, the property at Delbrückstrasse 33 was acquired for 150,000 marks by the General Association of Catholic Churches in Greater Berlin . Due to the precarious financial situation, only the existing buildings were converted, a horse stable into a chapel with 100 seats and a coach house into living space. The opening service of the chapel named after Karl Borromeo took place on May 20, 1929 with Prelate Bernhard Lichtenberg . The church-pastoral independent curate was established on July 1, 1929; on December 1, 1936, it also became financially independent. The curate was elevated to a parish on October 1, 1940 . The community was hoping for their big church, but only the rectory was built, because the beginning of the Second World War put an end to all further new building plans.
On February 15, 1944, the chapel was badly damaged by incendiary bombs . First the parish hall was makeshift, then the chapel. Since 1952 donations have been collected for the construction of a church in memory of Carl Sonnenschein, the foundation stone of which was laid in 1954 on the feast of the Assumption of Mary . The topping-out crown was raised in the same year on the feast day of St. Charles Borromeo. On Ascension Day in 1955, Wilhelm Weskamm , the Bishop of Berlin, inaugurated the church. The construction costs amounted to 259,000 marks (adjusted for purchasing power in today's currency: around 662,000 euros), which the Association of Catholic Parishes contributed. The community had raised 40,000 marks for the interior.
The church was renovated for the first time in 1964 and a second time in 1977. 1991–1992 the church was renovated again and redesigned according to the plans of Paul Brandenburg and Johannes Beeck. After the renovation, the altar was consecrated on January 12, 1992 by Georg Sterzinsky , the Bishop of Berlin. In July 2000 the parish of St. Karl Borromeo was taken over by the Salvatorians . Due to the reduction in financial support from the Archdiocese of Berlin , the St. Karl Borromäus-Salvator Foundation was established in Berlin on October 7, 2009 to create a financial foundation for the parish of St. Karl Borromäus-Salvator.
Building description
The architecture of Alfons Leitl conceptually and stylistically follows the tendencies of the time it was built with a conscious turn to modern materials.
Exterior design
The pillars and roof beams of the supporting structure of the wide gable facade facing the street are white, the walls below the windows are painted rust-red. A small gabled portal house is located in front of the central axis of the gable. The upper part of the gable is glazed and divided by narrow struts. The tower is structured by a white supporting structure, the four upper floors are designed as open belfry . A gable roof rises above it.
The five-storey campanile is integrated into a two-winged cloister that delimits two sides of a small memorial courtyard for Carl Sonnenschein. The other two sides of the courtyard are taken up by the church wall and the glass front of the weekday chapel. Four cast steel bells , cast in 1953 by the Bochumer Verein , which were consecrated on April 3, 1955, hang in the bell floors of the tower .
| Chime | Weight (kg) |
Diameter ( cm) |
Height (cm) |
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| cis' | 1570 | 160 | 135 |
Shoulder: + SCIENCE + FRIENDSHIP + RELIGION Flank: S. CAROLUS BORROMAEUS; THE DEAD AS A MEMORY, THE LIVING AS A WARNING Brass knuckles : 100 YEARS KV STUDENT; MEETING OF REPRESENTATIVES 1953 IN BOCHUM |
| e ' | 1150 | 135 | 115 |
Shoulder: + FORTES + IN + FIDE Flank: SUB TUTELA S. FAMILIAE brass knuckles : 100 YEARS OF KV STUDENT |
| G' | 730 | 104 | 100 |
Shoulder: + CRUX + CHRISTI + NOSTRA + CORONA Flank: S. PETRUS + S. PAULUS brass knuckles : 100 YEARS of KV STUDENTUM |
| a ' | 500 | 102 | 87 |
Shoulder: + PER + ASPERA + AD + ASTRA Flank: S. ALBERTUS MAGNUS brass knuckles : 100 YEARS of KV STUDENT |
The Cartel Association of Catholic German Student Associations (KV) donated it on the occasion of its centenary.
Inner design
Leitl's engagement with the liturgical movement manifests itself in the inclusion of the sanctuary in the parish room . The entire width of the raised chancel originally took up almost a third of the depth of the room in order to enable the congregation to participate directly in the worship service. It is completed by a room-high 5/8 tabernacle niche. A small weekday chapel is assigned to the chancel on the left, which opens onto the main room with a view of the altar.
The construction of the gable roof with girders and purlins made of concrete, visible in the interior, was intended to develop a sacred effect. Incidentally, the gable roof does not correspond to the first draft, in which a flat roof was planned. During the renovation from 1991 to 1992, the tabernacle niche was opened to the outside through windows. Newly designed windows were installed at the rear of the church. The elevation of the chancel has been removed, and a new altar stands on the ambo .
Furnishing
An organ was inaugurated on February 14, 1960. On November 4, 1984, a relief about Charles Borromeo is unveiled, whose relic is embedded in him. Opposite the relief is a 200-year-old Russian icon depicting the Last Supper , which is consecrated on May 14, 1980, the eve of Ascension Day , according to the Eastern Church rite. The copy of the well-known group of sculptures The Apostle John on Christ's Breast is in the weekday chapel; the original was made around 1320 in Upper Swabia. The real Gothic Madonna, stolen in 1970, was replaced in 1971 by a freely reproduced figure of Mary. Since February 19, 1989, the 60th anniversary of Carl Sonnenschein's death, a bronze plaque has been hanging on the outside wall of the church in his honor. In the atrium there is a memorial stone for Carl Sonnenschein. In the tabernacle there is a relic of Saint Conrad von Parzham , whose authenticity was certified by the Vatican authorities on April 10, 1989.
organ
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The organ has 47 registers on three manuals and a pedal . The new building by Friedrich Fleiter in 1898 with 32 registers was expanded and changed several times before the organ came to the state it is in today in St. Karl Borromäus Berlin. It was built in Billerbeck Cathedral in 1898 and transported to Berlin in 2017, where it can now be heard on two opposite galleries.
Billerbeck Cathedral from 1898
- Friedrich Fleiter, 1898 with 32 registers
- Klingenhegel, expanded to 42 registers in 1948
- Kreinbrink, 1979 technical new building, extension to 47 registers
- Fa. Kreinbrink, 1994 mobile gaming table, typesetter, roller
St. Karl Borromäus Berlin from 2017
- Fa. Fleiter, 2017 intonation, addition of sub and super couplings, new brochure
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Coupling : I / II, III / II, III / II and III / I, I / P, II / P, III / P, sub and super coupling from III to II and / or I
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- annotation
- H = historical pipe material from 1898 (completely or partially)
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments (volume Berlin). Munich / Berlin 2006.
- Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin: Berlin and its buildings. Part 6: Sacred buildings. Ernst, Berlin a. a. 1997, ISBN 3-433-01016-1 .
- Elmar Göbel: 40th anniversary of the consecration of the parish church of St. Karl Borromeo. Berlin 1995.
- Klaus-Dieter Wille: The bells of Berlin (West). History and inventory. Berlin 1987.
- Karl-Heinz Metzger: Churches, mosques and synagogues in Wilmersdorf. Berlin 1986.
- Gerhard Streicher and Erika Drave: Berlin - city and church. Berlin 1980.
- Hilde Herrmann: Development and expansion in the diocese of Berlin. Berlin 1968.
