St. Nicholas (Berlin-Wittenau)
The Roman Catholic St. Nicholas Church ( ) on Spießweg 1–3 / corner Techowpromenade 35/43 in the Berlin district of Wittenau in the Reinickendorf district is a listed building . It was built in 1960/61 according to a design by Heinz Völker and Rolf Grosse. The namesake of the church is Nikolaus von Tolentino , an Augustinian monk of the 13th and 14th centuries.
history
The impulse for founding the parish in Wittenau came from St. Marien in Reinickendorf. In 1928 Wittenau was merged into a curate and the Würzburg Augustinian order was won as pastor . The services took place until 1946 in the chapel of the St. Joseph Children's Home of the Sisters of Mary , newly built in 1928 . A labor service - barracks then formed until 1961, the temporary church of St. Nicholas church that was founded in 1951 and became independent 1954th In 1958 the property was acquired for a new church. On June 19, 1960 was cornerstone for the new church put that on April 29, 1961 ordained was. The dedication was based on the old Nikolai patronage of Dalldorf - Wittenau was called until 1905 - albeit with a new patron saint ( Nikolaus von Tolentino , instead of Nikolaus von Myra ).
In 1968 the area of the Märkisches Viertel was separated from the municipal area and the parish of St. Martin was re-established there. As part of the austerity measures in the Archdiocese of Berlin , the two parishes merged in 2003 to form the parish of St. Martin with the St. Martin and St. Nikolaus worship locations. Since 2004 the St. Nicholas Church has also become the home of the Spanish Language Mission in Berlin.
The merged parish has been part of the "Pastoralverbund Reinickendorf-Nord" since 2013, which was converted into the parish of St. Franziskus on January 1st, 2017. Now St. Martin and St. Nicholas are two of the seven parishes in this parish.
Building description
The building ensemble consists of the free-standing hall church on a polygonal floor plan , which is connected by a pergola to the 36 m high, hexagonal campanile , the two-story rectory and the kindergarten .
The nave is a skeleton construction with a load-bearing frame made of reinforced concrete . The frames of the construction are set up in such a way that they mark out six yokes or room parts in the floor plan, they are visible inside and outside, and inside as beams . In the zigzag- shaped side walls, wall panels made of red-brown clinker alternate with room-high lattice windows with dark-tinted glass. To the right of the main nave is the ground-level nave of the confessional chapel in the same staggering. The altar area is located in the three-sixth end of the nave . The gable wall stands on three sides of a hexagon , with the portal in the middle . The other three walls inside separate the vestibule from the nave. The framework of the square bell tower made of gray exposed concrete tapers conically upwards. There is a large concrete cross on the flat roof above the portal , the tower only has a weathercock .
Peal
The chime consists of three cast steel bells that were cast by the Bochumer Verein in 1960 .
| Name of the bell | Chime | Weight (kg) |
Diameter (cm) |
Height (cm) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NICHOLAS | e ' | 1360 | 144 | 118 |
| ELISABETH | g sharp ' | 440 | 105 | 85 |
| HEINRICH | c " | 320 | 89 | 75 |
organ
The first organ in St. Nikolaus had a manual with an attached pedal ; it was already in the emergency church. In 1970 an organ from the Karl Schuke Berlin organ building workshop with two manuals was purchased, which was expanded in 1982.
Today's organ was built by the Johannes Rohlf company in the years 1973–1974 for the former Luther Church designed by Peter Poelzig , today the Church of Meeting , in Reinickendorf. The instrument with 25 sounding registers and approx. 1650 pipes on two manuals and pedal was transferred from Michael Becker Orgelbau to St. Nikolaus as a permanent loan from the end of November 2005 to January 2006 . For the sound of this organ, models can be found in baroque organ building. This enables a good representation of baroque and classical organ music . The slide chests are fully mechanical. The instrument has the following disposition :
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Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P.
Stations of the Cross
The wall panels between the main nave and the confessional chapel are decorated with fourteen stations of the cross , which Hans Beyermann made in 1982 in enamel :
- Jesus is sentenced to death
- Jesus takes the cross on his shoulders
- Jesus falls under the cross for the first time
- Jesus meets his mother
- Simon of Cyrene helps Jesus carry the cross
- Veronica gives Jesus the handkerchief
- Jesus falls under the cross for the second time
- Jesus meets the weeping women
- Jesus falls under the cross for the third time
- Jesus is stripped of his clothes
- Jesus is nailed to the cross
- Jesus dies on the cross
- Jesus is taken from the cross and placed in his mother's lap
- The body of Jesus is placed in the grave
literature
- Catholic parish Berlin-Wittenau: 25 years of St. Nicholas Church (1961–1986). Berlin 1986.
- 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
- Entry in the Berlin State Monument List with further information
- Catholic parish St. Nikolaus Berlin
- Misión Católica de Lengua Española en Berlin
- History of St. Nikolaus - Wittenau
Coordinates: 52 ° 35 '30.4 " N , 13 ° 19' 50.9" E