St. Petrus (Berlin-Gesundbrunnen)

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St. Peter Church

The St. Peter's Church in the Bellermannstraße 91 of the Berlin district in Gesundbrunnen , district center , was built for the Catholic residents of the district. The design in neo-Gothic architectural style comes from the church builder Wilhelm Rincklake from Maria Laach Abbey . The construction management was Hermann Bunning . The parish church is dedicated to the apostle Peter . The cornerstone was laid on December 16, 1906 ; on January 6, 1908, he was liturgically blessed. The church consecration (consecration) took place on April 29, 1934. St. Petrus is a listed building .

history

In 1861 Wedding and Gesundbrunnen were incorporated into Berlin and, in the course of industrialization at the end of the 19th century, developed into a classic industrial and working-class district with typical tenement houses . The Catholic population in the parish of St. Sebastian Church grew to around 50,000, aided by the ongoing rural exodus. Therefore it became necessary to split up the mother parish of St. Sebastian. The daughter parishes with the St. Paulus Church in Moabit and the St. Joseph Church in Müllerstrasse were created. A plot of land in Bellermannstrasse was acquired to establish a community on Gesundbrunnen, where a parsonage with 42 rental apartments was built in 1905/1906 and the St. Petrus Church in 1907/1908. The curate separated from its mother parish of St. Sebastian with the inauguration in 1908 and became its own parish in 1913.

The stained glass windows in the apse were destroyed in 1943. In May 1944 the roof structure burned down . Penetrating rain damaged the organ . The vault partially collapsed after a lightning strike, so that the church could no longer be used. Services have been held in the church since October 1948, but the reconstruction was not completed until 1957. The parish of St. Petrus belongs to the deanery center in the diocese of Berlin .

Building

Nave of St. Peter's Church

The single-nave hall church , wedged into the row of tenement houses , is a masonry building with five bays, has a retracted, rectangular choir and a towerless porch in a closed perimeter block , the five-story facade of which is clad with red bricks and is designed as a double gable motif . The back wall layer to the western front of the Cistercian - monastery Chorin recalls, has pinnacles and a cross decorated with flowers , crab occupied triangular pediment. In front of it is a second, over- high gable building. In its large pointed arch niche is the double portal, above it a row of pointed arched windows and a rose window decorated with tracery . The nave cannot be seen from the street. Its structure extends as a right wing in the courtyard . Only to the courtyard of the neighboring rectory and in the choir are there high window strips.

As is usual in Cistercian churches, St. Petrus has no tower, but only an open bell cage for the four bronze bells from the bell foundry Feldmann & Marschel from 1957 on the roof of the porch, covered by the rear gable.

Chime Weight (kg) Diameter (cm) Height (cm) inscription
G' 560 99 79 LORD, YOU KNOW I LOVE YOU.
a ' 380 88 75 PLEASE FOR US IN THE HOUR OF DIE.
b ' 325 83 68 YOU, MY MOTHER AND I, YOUR CHILD.
f ' 153 65 53 ON YOUR WINGS, THEY WILL CARRY YOU. PS. 90.

The interior is determined by the buttresses drawn in and opened in pointed arches to form side corridors . This creates the impression of a three-aisled church space.

Furnishing

Organ gallery of the St. Petrus Church

Behind the altar in the choir there are three glass windows depicting a scene with the patron saint. The interior of the church was initially only equipped with an emergency altar and six benches . At the end of 1908, more benches, a pulpit and a confessional were added. In 1909 the apse was provided with large-format murals depicting the church teachers Hieronymus , Ambrosius of Milan , Augustine and Gregory the Great . The wall paintings from the time of construction are hidden under layers of plaster that were applied later. Some of them were exposed again.

Apse of St. Peter's Church

In 1910 a wooden winged altar by Ferdinand Langenberg was added. The altarpiece is in a closed state, the Annunciation of the Lord as a painted image, in the open state as polychrome carving, left Christ on the Mount of Olives, in the middle of the Crucifixion and right the resurrection of Jesus Christ . The insides of the wings depict the birth of Christ and the coronation of Mary . In 1920 the altar of Mary and the altar of St. Peter were added. In 1929 framed pictures with neo-Gothic stations of the cross were made, the frames were removed in the course of the restoration in 1940 and the pictures were embedded in the wall.

The sanctuary was redesigned after the liturgical reform of the Second Vatican Council . The side altars have been removed. A free-standing altar table is set up in front of the winged altar .

literature

  • Franz Gottwald (Hrsg.): Heimatbuch vom Wedding . Kribe-Verlag, Berlin 1924, p. 197 .
  • Gerhard Streicher, Erika Drave: Berlin - city and church. Berlin 1980.
  • Klaus-Dieter Wille: The bells of Berlin (West) - history and inventory. Berlin 1987.
  • Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin: Berlin and its buildings. Part VI. Sacred buildings. Berlin 1997.

Web links

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Coordinates: 52 ° 33 '15.1 "  N , 13 ° 23' 7.6"  E