Our Father Church (Berlin-Wilmersdorf)
The Our Father Church is a Protestant church in the Berlin district of Wilmersdorf ( Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district ). It was in the years 1959-1961, designed by Werner March as the central building with Campanile built and on March 18, 1961 inaugurated . The parish hall on this site was designed by Otto Herrnring in 1912 . The church and parish hall are under monument protection .
history
By the end of the 1950s, the number of parishioners in the area of the Lindenkirche had grown to around 30,000. Because congregation life has been very independent for years - in the Lindenkirche as well as in the Detmolder Straße parish hall there were separate Sunday services, weekly services and children's services - the parish church council proposed in October 1958 to the Berlin consistory that the parish should be divided and for the northern district, for whose parishioners the way to the Lindenkirche was too far to have their own church built. This request was granted.
On April 1, 1959, the previous church district Wilmersdorf Süd was divided. The approximately 16,000 members in the southern area remained with the Lindenkirchen parish. The new congregation with around 14,000 members in the north of the Ringbahntrasse was named Father-Our-Church. A parish hall had been located on the church's own property on the corner of Detmolder and Koblenzer Strasse since 1913. From 1925, the services for the church district Wilmersdorf Süd were held here and, after the Lindenkirchen parish got a new church in 1936, only for the north district. On October 31, 1959, the foundation stone for a church with 500 seats was laid on this site. The new church was consecrated on March 18, 1961.
building
The church, a late work by Werner March, is connected to the existing parish hall by a two-story wing structure. The floor plan is reminiscent of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church by Egon Eiermann , which was built at the same time , for whose reconstruction Werner March had also submitted a design that was not accepted. In contrast to this design, March chose a building for the Our Father Church with a support system made up of four brackets that support a vaulted ceiling shell. Both the external girders and the ceiling shell are made of reinforced concrete. The surrounding walls of the octagonal central building are made of bricks , red on the outside and yellow on the inside. The interior of the church is illuminated by a ribbon of glass between the walls and the ceiling shell, and also by a skylight in the top of the ceiling shell. There is a small bell support for the prayer bell above the skylight .
At the corner of the property, the intersection Detmolder- / Blissestraße , is located as far visible landmark of the urban formative concrete tower as Campanile tapers upwards. It consists of two closed wall panels, each with a clock and two perforated surfaces. Three open bell storeys rise above it . There are three bronze bells hanging in the campanile, and a fourth in the bell bearer above the nave. They were cast in 1960 by the Rincker bell and art foundry .
| Chime | Weight (kg) | Diameter (cm) | Height (cm) | Crown (cm) | inscription |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| e ′ | 1092 | 116 | 100 | 19th | HE WILL JUDGE THE EARTH WITH JUSTICE AND THE PEOPLES WITH RIGHT + PS. 98/9 + |
| G' | 613 | 96 | 80 | 17th | THE ENDS OF ALL THE WORLD SEE THE SALVATION OF OUR LORD + PS. 98/3 + |
| a ′ | 430 | 84 | 72 | 15th | A NEW SONG TO THE LORD / BECAUSE HE DOES WONDERS + PS. 98/1 + |
| c ′ ′ | 292 | 81 | 65 | 12 | YOURS IS THE REALM AND THE POWER AND THE GLORY IN ETERNITY + |
The four bronze bells sound in the disposition e′ – g′ – a′ – c ′ ′, a Griesbacher ideal quartet (also known as the Parsifal motif ).
literature
- Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin: Berlin and its buildings. Part VI, sacred buildings. Berlin 1997.
- Günther Kühne, Elisabeth Stephani: Evangelical churches in Berlin. Berlin 1978.
- Karl-Heinz Metzger: Churches, mosques and synagogues in Wilmersdorf. Berlin 1986.
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments . Berlin. 3rd edition, reviewed and supplemented by Michael Bollé. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin et al. 2006, ISBN 3-422-03111-1 .
- Klaus-Dieter Wille: The bells of Berlin (West). History and inventory (= The buildings and art monuments of Berlin. Supplement 16). Mann, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-7861-1443-9 .
Web links
- Evangelical Our Father Church Congregation
- Entry in the Berlin State Monument List with further information
- Sketches and architectural drawings of the Our Father Church in Berlin-Wilmersdorf , made 1960–1961 by Werner March . (Holdings of the Architecture Museum of the TU Berlin )
Coordinates: 52 ° 28 ′ 44.4 " N , 13 ° 19 ′ 16.7" E