St. Pius (Berlin)

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The St. Pius Church

The St. Pius Church in Berlin-Friedrichshain is a Roman Catholic church after Pope V. Pius is named. The building at Palisadenstrasse 73–74, built in 1889–1894 based on a design by Max Hasak , is now a listed building . The parish of St. Pius merged in 2003 with the parish of St. Antonius to form the parish of St. Antonius, whose parish church is St. Pius.

History and architecture

The St. Pius Church seen from the north

In the second half of the 19th century, this part of today's Friedrichshain, the so-called Frankfurter Viertel, was home to many Catholic workers who had moved from the Prussian eastern provinces. In 1873 the Catholic Church built the first Catholic church in East Berlin. The comparatively small Pius Chapel in half-timbered construction was built in a backyard in Palisadenstrasse . The building site was flanked on Palisadenstrasse with two storey houses that were supposed to provide rental income for the construction and maintenance of the planned church. Therefore, the building site of the church is set back from the road. The new church was built from 1892 to 1894 according to a design by the government master builder Max Hasak , who was the architect of a number of Catholic church buildings in Berlin at the time. The church was built around the old half-timbered chapel, which was only demolished after mass could be held in the western part of the new building from March 1894. After St. Hedwig's Cathedral , St. Pius was the second Catholic parish in Berlin with its own parish church and independent parish rights.

German sports hall with the ruined tower of the Pius Church in 1951
The entrance area of ​​the St. Pius Church
Shows the iconic lettering in Egyptian or soap-reinforced font in cast brass

The church's tower, which was originally 86 m (or 96 m?) High, was damaged during World War II . He was burned out in the air raids . Instead of repairs, the community was forced to have the tower removed over a length of 61 m. In this way it was achieved that the tower of the church did not appear in the streets of the “socialist Stalinallee ”. In particular, the church building should not tower over the German sports hall . In 1961, the GDR architect Hermann Henselmann selected the version visible today from three tower designs submitted by the church council, a transverse saddle with a roof turret. The new tower is only 66 m high.

Choir room

The organ with 2 manuals , a pedal and 10 stops was built in 1964 by Alexander Schuke Potsdam Orgelbau .

literature

  • The architectural and art monuments in the GDR, capital Berlin, Volume I, ed. from the Institute for Monument Preservation, edited by a collective from the Research Department (Ingrid Bartmann-Kompa, Horst Büttner, Horst Drescher, Joachim Fait, Marina Flügge, Gerda Herrmann, Ilse Schröder, Helmut Spielmann, Christa Stepansky, Heinrich Trost), Heinrich Trost's overall editor. 2nd, unchanged edition. Berlin 1984, p. 450.
  • Max Hasak : The St. Pius Church in Berlin . In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , vol. 15, no. 10 (March 9, 1895), urn : nbn: de: kobv: 109-opus-28456 , pp. 97–99. (Five pictures)

Web links

Commons : Sankt-Pius-Kirche (Berlin-Friedrichshain)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ralf Schmiedecke: archive pictures Berlin-Friedrichshain . Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 2006, p. 53, ISBN 3-86680-038-X
  2. ↑ Kathrin Chod: St. Pius Church . In: Hans-Jürgen Mende , Kurt Wernicke (Hrsg.): Berliner Bezirkslexikon, Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg . Luisenstadt educational association . Haude and Spener / Edition Luisenstadt, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-89542-122-7 ( luise-berlin.de - as of October 7, 2009).

Coordinates: 52 ° 31 '12 "  N , 13 ° 26' 9"  E