Promise Church
The listed promise church stands at Boxhagener Straße 100 in Berlin district of Friedrichshain the district of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg . Originally it served exclusively as a cemetery chapel for the cemetery of the Parochial Church, which was newly laid out in 1867 . It was based on plans by Gustav garlic and Edward Wex in the architectural style of historicism built and on December 14, 1879 inaugurated .
history
The Promise Parish was established on April 1, 1949 as a result of the 1948 resolution of the Berlin Consistory to divide the large Berlin parishes into smaller ones. It emerged from two vacant parishes of the parish of the Belief Church in what was then the Friedrichshain district in what is now the Lichtenberg district . The new congregation did not have its own church, nor did it have other rooms. A new community center to replace a war-torn barrack church was not approved, and the church did not own any other property. For example, the Berlin superintendent assigned the chapel to the use of the chapel , which had become independent, and the damage that had occurred in the Second World War had since been repaired. Services were held here on Sundays until 1996 , and the building continued to serve as a cemetery chapel.
The community also had a hall in the back yard of the office building at Frankfurter Allee 96 for church services. Until the 1920s, this hall was used as a synagogue by a Jewish community . After 1933 it stood empty and was forgotten. This hall had to be abandoned when the Berlin City Mission moved there with its events.
In 1997 the congregations of the Revelation Church and the Church of Promise united due to the small number of congregational members; that of the Zwinglikirche joined later. The small church building has been used as a theater in the evening since around 2007, although funeral services are still held during the day.
Building description
The brickwork building on a rectangular floor plan , faced with yellow bricks , has a gable roof . The apse of the hall church is in the east, in front of the facade in the west there is an annex designed as a canopy , the columns or pilasters of which are decorated with capitals . It covers a staircase that leads to the portal . A cornice runs between the basement and the ground floor . The side walls have arched windows and are structured with pilaster strips . There is an arched frieze below the eaves of the gable roof .
literature
- Ernst Badstübner , Sibylle Badstübner-Gröger: Churches in Berlin. From St. Nikolai to the parish hall “Am Fennpfuhl” . EVA, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-374-00171-8 .
- Institute for Monument Preservation: The architectural and art monuments in the GDR, Vol. 1: Capital Berlin . Henschel Verlag, Berlin 1983.
- Günther Kühne, Elisabeth Stephanie: Evangelical churches in Berlin. 2nd edition CZV-Verlag, Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-7674-0158-4 (EA Berlin 1978).
Web links
- Entry in the Berlin State Monument List with further information
- Evangelical parish Boxhagen-Stralau
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sometimes a playground sometimes a theater - new users of former churches ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 44.6 ″ N , 13 ° 27 ′ 39.5 ″ E