St. Jakob (Berlin-Tiergarten)
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The Church of St. Jacob the Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch , a former Roman Catholic church of St. Ludger , is on the Potsdamer Straße 94 in Berlin district of Tiergarten of the district center .
history
At the time, Potsdamer Strasse was south of Potsdamer Brücke , i. H. already partially lined in front of the Potsdam Gate, of houses, than the Hedwigskirche 20,000 dollars by Matthias Aulike for a Catholic chaplains were bequeathed. Behind a one-story residential building , a hall church was built by Carl Niermann , which was designated on June 4, 1868 and spun off from St. Hedwig. In honor of the testator it was named Matthias Church, after the construction of the new St. Matthias Church on Winterfeldtplatz it was called Matthias Chapel. The community became a curate on July 1, 1921 , but still belonged to St. Matthias in terms of property rights. In 1928 the consecration of the church, she was called by Liudger St. Ludgerus. It was not until 1964 that the municipality became financially independent. After damage from the Second World War , the rubble of the front building was cleared away in 1947. In 1959 the church was restored under the direction of Felix Hinssen , but it was modernized. The independent curate existed until the end of 1983 and was reunited with St. Matthias on January 1, 1984.
The church was made available to the Syrian Orthodox community by the St. Matthias Parish in 1984, initially for ten years, then extended for a further ten years and finally left in 2005 under heritable building law until 2065. The Catholic Schoenstatt Community continues to hold Mass twice a month in the Schoenstatt Chapel.
Building description
Of the structure of the chapel built in 1868, the ogival frieze and the extension of the choir can still be seen. In 1881 the nave was lengthened and a side aisle was added. Felix Hinssen designed today's interior, including the facade , in 1959. The room is spanned by a flat, wooden barrel vault. The flat ceiling of the square choir has skylights . The vestibule and the nave are from the nave by pointed arch arcades separated. There is now a blinded, windowless facade on the forecourt facing the street. A blind arcade rises above the wide portal in the middle part, ending in open round arches of a bell gable . The side wall surfaces are sand-colored plastered and framed with brown ceramic tiles .
Bells
The ringing of four bronze bells , which was cast by Rudolf Perner in 1959, originally hung in the bell gable. After a bell tower was built in 1964 , it hangs in the bell house .
| Chime | Weight (kg) |
Diameter (cm) |
Height (cm) |
Crown (cm) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| b ' | 456 | 92 | 68 | 16 |
| of" | 231 | 76 | 57 | 15th |
| it" | 189 | 68 | 50 | 12 |
| f " | 111 | 60 | 47 | 9 |
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.
- Hilde Herrmann: Development and expansion in the diocese of Berlin. Berlin 1968.
Web links
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 '8.9 " N , 13 ° 21' 52.5" E