Forest Church (Berlin-Heiligensee)
The Protestant forest church is on Stolpmünder Weg 39-43 in the Berlin district of Heiligensee in the Reinickendorf district . It was created according to a design in the architectural style of the Heimatschutz architecture by Walter Krüger .
history
On October 1, 1947 , a new area of the Heiligensee parish was demarcated beyond the tracks of the S-Bahn for the Borsig-Siedlung and Stolpe-Süd , which at that time still belonged to the Reinickendorf district. The services were initially celebrated in a school. The construction of the forest church was made possible by a donation from the Wooden Church Crusade Inc. , founded by Henning von (Royk-) Lewinski in 1950 in the USA . This organization wanted to build a spiritual protective wall against communism with modest churches in the Federal Republic . The foundation stone was laid on October 16, 1954, the inauguration on August 7, 1955. On April 1, 1957, the Neu-Heiligensee community with the subsidiary for the Borsig settlement and Stolpe-Süd was spun off from the Heiligensee parish. In 1963, the Neu-Heiligensee parish was given the name Matthias Claudius parish , its daughter Waldkirchengemeinde . With the building of the wall , the forest parish lost the area of Stolpe-Süd, but it became independent on January 1st, 1967. On January 1, 1998, the formerly independent parishes of the forest and village churches merged to form the Evangelical parish of Berlin-Heiligensee. Both parish locations were retained.
Building description
The simple hall church standing on a small hill , a masonry building covered with a saddle roof , has a compact, square tower incorporated into the structure . On its accessible viewing platform , it carries a slender, boarded bell storey made of half-timbered buildings , which is covered with a slightly curved pyramid roof on which a tower ball sits. In his belfry hangs a chime with three hard cast iron bells , which was cast in 1955 by Eisenwerk Franz Weeren.
| Chime | Weight (kg) |
Diameter (cm) |
Height (cm) |
|---|---|---|---|
| c ′ | 388 | 96 | 78 |
| G' | 245 | 82 | 61 |
| a ′ | 160 | 71 | 56 |
In 1957 the Waldkirche received an organ from Karl Schuke's Berlin organ building workshop . A wing of the building for the parish hall, designed by Ludolf v. Walthausen and inaugurated on November 29, 1971, connects the day-care center on the street with the church to form a building complex . The structure is tiered due to the terrain. The reinforced concrete skeleton structure has surfaces in exposed concrete , large windows and an irregular folding roof .
literature
- Christine Goetz and Matthias Hoffmann-Tauschwitz: Churches Berlin Potsdam. Berlin 2003.
- Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin: Berlin and its buildings. Part 6: Sacred buildings. Ernst, Berlin a. a. 1997, ISBN 3-433-01016-1 .
- Klaus-Dieter Wille: The bells of Berlin (West). History and inventory. Berlin 1987.
- Günther Kühne, Elisabeth Stephani: Evangelical churches in Berlin. Berlin 1978.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 37 ′ 33.3 " N , 13 ° 14 ′ 11.8" E