St. Stephanus (Berlin-Haselhorst)
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The consecrated on September 11, 1982 Roman Catholic Church of St. Stephen , designed by Günter Maiwald, is in Gorgasring 9 in Berlin district Haselhorst of Spandau . In the 21st century it belongs to the parish of St. Joseph in the Deanery of Spandau ( Archdiocese of Berlin ). Their patron saint is St. Stephen .
history
At the end of the 19th century , a housing estate was created on the grounds of the Haselhorst estate , which was not annexed to the then city of Spandau until 1910, for the employees of a powder factory, which later became the BMW motorcycle factory in Berlin . So the first Catholic families came here who had to be looked after by pastoral care. Since 1919 the Catholics went to the emergency church of St. Joseph in neighboring Siemensstadt for holy mass . Between 1931 and 1935 another 3,500 apartments were built in Haselhorst, so the number of Catholics rose sharply. In 1932, founded a church building association , but only on 15 August 1947, after the end of de Second World War, saw the founding of the parish of St. Stephen. The holy mass took place in the auditorium of the school on the garden field. In 1951 the congregation bought a building from Siemens and had it converted into a place of worship. The emergency church was consecrated on December 23, 1951. As a precaution, the community acquired several building plots between 1958 and 1972 for the construction of the church, which had already been envisaged in 1932. First, a house with 91 was senior housing of Caritas on Gorgasring 11 built and acquired by the municipality two-family house for the sexton rebuilt. The decision to build a new church was made in 1979 after the Bonifatiuswerk assumed around two thirds of the construction costs of 2.6 million marks (adjusted for purchasing power in today's currency: around 3.01 million euros).
Building description of the emergency church
The elongated structure with a low extension for the entrance, a plastered single-storey masonry structure with a very flat tent roof , was set back from the street in a garden. It served as a community center and had an almost square church service room. It received its daylight from the right side through four paired windows and through two similar windows on the side of the entrance. On the broad side, the room was closed with a flat, rounded apse , and the altar stood on the single-tier dais . The bell tower , a reinforced concrete skeleton structure with a square floor plan , was attached to the south-west corner. The open bell house went over the two upper floors . In it hung a ring made of three bronze bells that were cast by Feldmann & Marschel in 1957 .
| Chime | Weight (kg) |
Diameter (cm) |
Height (cm) |
inscription |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| a ' | 390 | 88 | 75 | STEPHANUS - I SEE THE SKY OPEN. |
| b ' | 349 | 83 | 68 | MARIA - MARIA, SPREAD YOUR COAT. |
| c ' | 237 | 73 | 63 | MICHAEL - HELP US FIGHT HERE. |
In 1952 Rudolf Heltzel created the reliefs on the side altars and the protective mantle Madonna as inlay in a folding picture, as well as the baptismal font and the fourteen Stations of the Cross . In 1954 a Walter organ was installed.
Building description of the new church
The central building between the sexton and senior citizen's house, a reinforced concrete frame structure clad with brownish-red bricks, rises over an almost octagonal floor plan. Five pages are about the same length. The wall opposite the entrance is wider than the five above, so the two adjacent ones are shorter. The wall sections are connected to one another by vertical ribbon windows. The bell tower , a semicircular campanile made of exposed concrete , as well as a semicircular flat-roofed extension for the baptistery have colored glazing and walls plastered white on the inside, each stand next to the open vestibule with the portal . There is also access to the gallery in the tower . The bell was taken over by the emergency church.
Hubert Elsässer designed the altar area with altar , tabernacle , ambo and cross made of travertine and bronze . Above the almost centrally arranged altar, which is surrounded on three sides by the pews of the church , an octagonal skylight is embedded in the wood-clad ceiling under the flat roof . The rear bay window is opened by side light strips. The Way of the Cross, the baptismal font and the Easter candlestick were taken over from the Notkirche , the Walter organ was expanded. The protective cloak Madonna came to the baptistery.
Pastor
The pastors of St. Stephen were:
- August 15, 1947 - August 1958: Gregor Rittmeyer (* August 14, 1907; † February 6, 1985)
- August 1958 - October 31, 1972: Karl Kurek (born January 5, 1912; ordained a priest on March 27, 1938; † May 12, 1995)
- November 1, 1972 - August 31, 1988: Eugen Psiuk (born April 29, 1938; ordained a priest on December 22, 1962)
- September 1, 1988 - November 30, 1996: Peter Baumgart (born November 10, 1940; ordained a priest on January 24, 1976)
- December 1, 1996 - July 9, 2007: Norbert Kühn (born June 20, 1947; ordained a priest on March 15, 1975; † July 9, 2007)
literature
- Christine Goetz , 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, Erika Drave: Berlin - city and church. Berlin 1980.
Web links
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 52 ° 32 ′ 31.8 " N , 13 ° 14 ′ 34.4" E