St. Markus (Berlin-Spandau)

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St. Mark's Church

The Roman Catholic St. Mark's Church , built in 1977, is located at Am Kiesteich 50 in the Berlin district of Falkenhagener Feld in the Spandau district . It was designed by Hans Skull . The building complex , a reinforced concrete skeleton structure in the architectural style of post-war modernism , is a listed building .

history

Since 1963 there has been a general influx from old building areas in the city ​​center to the Falkenhagener Feld with a high proportion of Catholics. Mid-1965, the desire to Berlin bishop was Alfred Bengsch approached with, in the satellite town of its own priests to send after so far in a garden shed makeshift church services were held. As a result, the parish was officially founded in 1966 , which met as a guest in the Jeremiah Church until 1968 for worship services, in March 1968 the community center designed by Hermann Jünemann was completed, in whose hall Holy Mass was celebrated from then on . The construction of one's own church was not without controversy in the community; some in the community pleaded for the funds - estimated at 1.2 million DM - to be better used for the pastoral care of guest workers . In votes in the parish and in the committees, however, a church building was supported by a majority and also promoted and financially supported by the archdiocese. Within nine years the church was planned and built, for which the congregation raised money. The laying of the foundation stone took place on Easter Sunday , March 30th, 1975; on Sunday, May 8th, 1977 Cardinal Alfred Bengsch consecrated it to the patronage of the Evangelist Mark . The congregation celebrated the 50th anniversary of the foundation of the congregation with a festival week from April 2 to 10, 2016.

The parish has a second place of worship with the Church of St. Francis of Assisi (Berlin-Staaken) and belongs to the Deanery Spandau in the Archdiocese of Berlin . Since 2018, it has formed the pastoral area Spandau-Süd with the neighboring parishes of Mariä Himmelfahrt (Berlin-Kladow) and St. Wilhelm , which is expected to merge into a single parish in 2022.

Building description

In building the thoughts to perfect spatial and should liturgical design within the meaning of the Second Vatican Council to be implemented. Based on this model, the architect previously created the St. Dominicus Church in Gropiusstadt and then the Church of the Holy Martyrs of Africa in Lichtenrade . These churches are also referred to as " St. Melitta " by the Berliners because of the shape of the domes .

The center of the central building , which has a square floor plan , is domed with a truncated cone made up of 24 girders ; above a circumferential ribbon of windows, its outer surface is clad with aluminum . The side windowless walls of the nave are made of red-brown clinker brick and are not plastered. The back wall is made of thick glass.

The interior is characterized by the truncated cone dome, the top surface of which has a skylight , below which the altar stands. The pews of the church stalls are arranged in a circle around the altar with a recess of a 60  degree segment .

There is a fountain by Hubert Elsässer on the forecourt . He also made the tabernacle , ambo , candlesticks and reliquaries in the church. A mosaic depicting Mary as the "Mother of Perpetual Help" was created by the Vatican mosaic workshops.

A covered pergola is in front of the glazed entrance front. At the street-side entrance, the basement of the campanile is arranged like a gate , which is composed of precast concrete parts and crowned with a large paw cross . In the belfry hangs a bronze bell that was cast by Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock in 1975. It weighs 200 kg, has a diameter of 67 cm and a height of 58 cm, bears the inscription "almost crushed FROM NOISE STAR TENDER JET AIRCRAFT I CALL FOR REFLECTION AND PRAYER" and sounds on the percussive d ".

organ

Interior with organ

The organ was built by the company Freiburg Orgelbau August Späth and consecrated on November 18, 1984 by the Berlin cathedral provost Wolfgang Haendly . The arrangement was drawn up by Eckhard von Garnier, church musician at the Maria Regina Martyrum Memorial Church , with the organ building company. The organ has 14 registers on two manuals and pedal , 6 registers on the second manual, playable through alternating loops .

The disposition is as follows:

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
Principal 08th'
Reed flute 08th'
octave 04 ′
Night horn 04 ′
Rohrnasat 02 2 ⁄ 3  ′
recorder 02 ′
Far third 01 3 ⁄ 5  ′
Fifth 01 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Mixture V
Trumpet 08th'
II Positive C-g 3
 
Reed flute 08th'
 
Night horn 04 ′
Rohrnasat 02 2 ⁄ 3  ′
recorder 02 ′
Far third 01 3 ⁄ 5  ′
 
 
Trumpet 08th'
Pedal C – f 1
Pedestal 16 ′
Covered bass 08th'
Backset V
bassoon 16 ′

literature

  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments, Volume Berlin. Munich / Berlin 2006
  • 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

Commons : Sankt-Markus-Kirche, Berlin-Falkenhagener Feld  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ St. Markus Berlin-Spandau (ed.): St. Markus. Festschrift for the 25th anniversary of the consecration of the church, not published , not published [2002] p. 10f., Text: Michael Mießner [1] .
  2. ↑ www.st-markus-berlin.de: 50 years of St. Markus , accessed on April 3, 2016.
  3. ↑ Day of the Lord. Catholic weekly newspaper for the Archdiocese of Berlin. No. 14, Volume 66, April 3, 2016, p. 11.
  4. ↑ Changing loops from the first manual

Coordinates: 52 ° 32 ′ 56.5 ″  N , 13 ° 9 ′ 49 ″  E