St. Wilhelm (Berlin)
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| Start of building: | December 8, 1963 |
| Inauguration: | October 30, 1965 |
| Architect : | Ulrich Craemer |
| Style elements : | Reminiscence of the new building |
| Client: | Catholic parish of St. Wilhelm |
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| Location: | 52 ° 31 '21.7 " N , 13 ° 11' 43.4" E |
| Address: | Weissenburger Strasse 9-11 Berlin-Wilhelmstadt Berlin , Germany |
| Purpose: | catholic worship |
| Local community: | Catholic parish of St. Wilhelm |
| Diocese : | Archdiocese of Berlin |
| Website: | www.sankt-wilhelm.de |
The Roman Catholic St. Wilhelm Church in the Berlin district of Wilhelmstadt ( Spandau district ) was built from 1963 to 1965 according to plans by Ulrich Craemer . The reinforced concrete - skeleton rises above the community center , which is below the road surface. The church with the patronage of St. William of Aquitaine is a listed building .
history
As a result of the expansion of Spandau to include the Wilhelmine suburb , the church Maria, Hilfe der Christians was built in 1910 because the church of St. Marien am Behnitz in the old town of Spandau had become too small for the growing community. In the 1920s, when the Marien parish had 12,000 members, it became necessary to build a branch church . The church property on Weißenburger Straße, a former gravel pit, was acquired in 1929. There, in 1935, the first Wilhelm Church with 160 seats was built in the local style of Brandenburg village churches based on a design by Carl Kühn . This simple hall church with the deep saddle roof stood until 1963, then it was demolished in favor of the new church. In 1943 the community got its first pastor . In 1952, St. Wilhelm became an independent curate , a year later a parish .
The municipality of St. William is part of the Dean's Office of Spandau, in Archdiocese of Berlin and forms since 2004 after merging with the neighboring community of St. Maximilian Kolbe parish St. William and St. Maximilian Kolbe. Since 2018, it has formed the pastoral area Spandau-Süd with the neighboring parishes of St. Markus and Mariä Himmelfahrt (Berlin-Kladow) , which is expected to merge into a single parish in 2022 .
Building description
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Because of the unfavorable building site on a heavily sunken plot of land, several applicants were unable to submit suitable designs in an architectural competition. Ulrich Craemer planned the church on pillars on which a ground floor flat platform rests. Community rooms are located on the lower floor.
The forms of the church anticipated the liturgical reform of the Second Vatican Council . The church interior should express the active participation of the community in the liturgy . The main building is a cube on a square floor plan , a skeleton structure made of reinforced concrete . The large, relatively flat altar island protrudes far into the interior and is surrounded on three sides by the benches of the church stalls. On all four sides, the walls of the nave consist of a concrete framework, which is provided on the outside, below the parapet and above a base, with a facade made of rectangular aluminum frame windows with double-pane insulating glass . Inside, the supports are filled with concrete lamellas, which provide shaded light. The flat roof is formed by a planar structure made of octaplates that is visible from the inside .
On the altar island are the tabernacle , the baptismal font , an ambo and the Easter candlesticks . Behind the altar island there is a wide copper relief wall , it represents the audience of the Sermon on the Mount . Behind this is the sacristy in the church itself .
The free-standing church tower to the north in front of the church consists of four diagonal reinforced concrete slices on a square floor plan. At a height of 23 m, they have an almost completely closed bell chamber .
organ
The organ in St. Wilhelm was built by the Eisenbarth organ building workshop in Passau and completed in December 1979. It has 34 stops on two manuals and a pedal . Manual I serves as a coupling manual . The organ has slide chests and mechanical action , the regulator is electric. The planning was done by Eckhard von Garnier.
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- Playing aids : 4 free combinations , 1 pedal combination.
- Pairing : II / P, III / P
Bells
In the tower hangs a ring made of three bronze bells , which was cast in 1965 by Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling .
| Chime | Weight (kg) |
Diameter (cm) |
Height (cm) |
inscription |
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| f ' | 1017 | 115 | 97 | CHRIST REX |
| as' | 600 | 97 | 81 | ST. MARIA |
| b ' | 408 | 85 | 70 | ST. GULIELMUS |
literature
- Christine Goetz , Matthias Hoffmann-Tauschwitz: Churches Berlin Potsdam. Berlin 2003.
- Berlin and its buildings. Part VI. Sacred buildings. Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin, 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.
- Hilde Herrmann: Development and expansion in the diocese of Berlin. Berlin 1968.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Christine Goetz , Constantin Beyer: Meditative engineering. St. Wilhelm, Berlin-Spandau. In: Christine Goetz, Constantin Beyer: City. Country. Churches. Sacred buildings in the Archdiocese of Berlin. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-95976-101-7 , p. 114ff.
- ↑ a b Julia Ricker: Faith in the square. St. Wilhelm in Berlin-Spandau impresses with a sophisticated design . In: Monumente , Vol. 25 (2015), Issue 4 (August), pp. 36–37.
- ↑ overtones: 1 1 ⁄ 3 ′, 1 1 ⁄ 7 ′, 88 ⁄ 9 ′, 16 ⁄ 27 ′, 2 ⁄ 3245 ′