Christmas Church (Spandau)
The Lutheran Christmas Church in Berlin district Haselhorst is a building from the 20th century and is considered a time typical experiment, the usually only secular buildings reserved Neoclassicism also for sacred use.
location
The Berlin Christmas Church is located in the Spandau district on Haselhorster Damm , into which the Saatwinkler Damm joins the property triangle to the Berlin-Spandau shipping canal .
Building history / description
The church with outbuildings is a closed, cubic structure and was built from 1934 to 1935 according to plans by the architect Erich Bohne .
The church hall with its formerly slender window axes under a flat hipped roof is entered through a vestibule, which connects to the other parts of the building through a slim-looking campanile. In the forecourt there is a sculpture by Waldemar Otto depicting the Holy Family on the run to Egypt .
Under the direction of Georg Lichtfuß , the church was rebuilt between 1965 and 1966 and received its current appearance. This led to the loss of the clear order of the facade of the church hall. Its interior was also rotated and supplemented by an altar niche with the exposed concrete outer wall in the long side facing the main view and a new brick- faced gallery on the courtyard side. The organ from 1937 was replaced for reasons of style by a wooden lattice work that changed the acoustics of the church strong. The original equipment was replaced by elements typical of the time, including new principal pieces by Hans-Joachim Burgert . The windows are the work of Sigmund Hahn .
On Epiphany day (January 6th) of the year 1935, the consecration of the church took place, which was actually planned for Christmas. The house of God was allowed to keep the name provided accordingly.
organ
The organ was originally built in 1913 by the organ builder GF Steinmeyer & Co. for the Schützenhaus-Saal in Meiningen , with a mobile console . The instrument was inaugurated on April 19, 1914 by Karl Straube . The disposition shows features of the Alsatian organ shape. The disposition is essentially based on the cooperation between Steinmeyer and Max Reger . Based on an advertisement, the municipality bought the Max Reger organ in 1937 for 8,500 Reichsmarks. The organ building workshop Christian Scheffler from Sieversdorf restored the organ in 2006/2007, freed it from the few ingredients of the 1960s and rewired the console. The pocket shop instrument has 45 stops on three manuals and a pedal . Game and stop actions are electro-pneumatic . The instrument is a listed organ worth preserving , makes an important contribution to the performance practice of late romantic organ music and is practically in its original condition. After the restoration, the organ can be heard in the regular Haselhorst Organ Lesson , which was initiated by the Cantor Jürgen Trinkewitz. The disposition is as follows:
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- Pairing :
- Normal coupling: II / I, III / I, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P, idle coupling I
- Sub-octave coupling: III
- Super octave coupling: III
- Switching device for sub- and super-octave coupling III for coupling through (modern addition)
- Playing aids : two free combinations , piano pedal for Manual II and III, crescendo roller, generaltutti, holder for reeds, roller and hand register
Bells
In the belfry of its bell tower hangs a ring made of three bronze bells, which was cast in 1957 by the Feldmann & Marschel bell foundry .
| Chime | Weight (kg) |
Diameter (cm) |
Height (cm) |
inscription |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| f sharp | 685 | 103 | 90 | GLORY TO GOD IN THE HIGHEST |
| a | 361 | 87 | 74 | AND PEACE ON EARTH |
| H | 289 | 77 | 67 | AND A FEEL GOOD TO PEOPLE |
Parish
The Haselhorster Christmas parish belongs to the Spandau parish in the Berlin district of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia . At the time the church was built, it was still in the area of the Spandau St. Nikolai parish. The construction of a church in Haselhorst had become necessary due to the rapid growth of the district with the settlement of companies such as Siemens , Halske , Osram , Motard and BMW .
In July 1938 the Christmas parish was given its independence. During this time, the National Socialist German Christians shaped the community, who even removed the crucifix from the church on the grounds that Jesus was a Jew . Many Haselhorster counted themselves to the opposition Confessing Church and attended the services of the superintendent Martin Albertz in the Spandau St. Nikolai Church .
By 1982 the community had grown to 10,000 members. A parish hall had already been built in 1962 and an additional base on Gorgasring in 1966. In the meantime the number of parishioners has decreased to 2,700. The church is looked after by a clergyman.
On June 10, 2010, the parish celebrated the 75th anniversary of the construction of their Christmas church.
literature
- Churches Berlin Potsdam. Guide to the Churches in Berlin and Potsdam , ed. by Christine Goetz and Matthias Hoffmann-Tauschwitz, 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.
- Günther Kühne, Elisabeth Stephanie: Evangelical churches in Berlin. Berlin 1978.
Web links
Coordinates: 52 ° 32 '49.6 " N , 13 ° 14' 14.3" E
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jürgen Trinkewitz: Max Reger's Meininger Schützenhaussaal organ in "Ars Organi", 57th year. Issue 1, March 2009.
- ↑ More information on the history of the organ on the municipality's website, accessed on November 26, 2016
- ↑ Disposition of the organ on the website of the municipality, accessed on November 26, 2016 (PDF)