Catholic Church of St. Augustine Berlin
Berlim, Berlim, Germany
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The Catholic Church of St. Augustine in the Berlin district of Pankow is a late Expressionist building by the architects Josef Bachem and Heinrich Horvatin from 1927/1928 and is a listed building. Since 2003 it has belonged to the Holy Family parish in Prenzlauer Berg.
The church, the complex with the rectory, the Prenzlauer Berg district in Dänenstrasse 17/18, which parallels the deeper joints of the railway safety and is only built on on one side. The buildings are apartments in the row of houses. On the courtyard side, the Rechtsossiger community hall and the Catholic kindergarten have interests. The entire church building ensemble with the courtyard covers an area of around 2700 m².
The history of the St. Augustine congregation began with the meeting of the pastoral care office St. Afra in the northwest part of the parish Herz Jesu on October 25, 1903 in the St. Afra monastery of the Gray Sisters. In 1909, this pastoral care office was preserved as a curate and on July 1, 1918, the name of St. Augustine, three years later the curate became an interested parish.
Due to the rapid growth in the number of parishioners and the management of the public use of the Church of St. Afra are problems. The parish council, under its first pastor Carl Pelz, is responsible for having its own house of worship built; the communities openly differentiate together. The church building association, which was responsible for the execution of the building plan, began to collect money and also sent out countless begging letters to eat abroad. With the first donations at the beginning of the 1920s, the building plots in the corner of Dänenstrasse and Schivelbeinerstrasse should be stopped.
In 1925 an architectural competition was rejected, from the design by Josef Bachem al Sieger emerged.
Together with Heinrich Horvatin, the design by Bachem, who envisaged a symmetrically attached parsonage to the right and left of the church, was once again experienced. Since both architects were followers of the modern Bauhaus-oriented architectural style, they have a building in the same shapes and sparingly used jewelry that becomes the late expressionism.
Entrance to the church
The somewhat restrained entrance area is vaulted by two pointed arch portals, over which terracotta figures are placed at the apex, depicting the patron saints St. Monica and St. Augustine. Biblical sayings frame the church portals that are visible from the visible. To the right and left of the small vestibule there are stair towers with narrow, articulated windows, and the church tower rises in the middle. At about ten height a large window rose - with clinker studs - interrupts the smooth, framed blind wall.
The entire street-side facade of the church is faced with red-colored clinker bricks; the (now) only one-sided distant five-storey rectory takes up the shapes and the clinker bricks in the base area and on the first floor, it was covered with gray high-grade plaster and was cheaper than original than original.
The laying of the foundation stone for the construction of the church on May 15, 1927. The architects Otto Kutschmar and Günter Majewski directed the construction work.
The architectural style hardly corresponded to the views of a church building, which became common practice in the neo-Gothic or neo-Romanesque style. Archbishop Cardinal Bertram von Breslau, for example, ordered this modern building to be consecrated by his rights on September 16, 1928, when Bishop Josef Deitmer carried out the church consecration.
The main nave of the church is a large hall with a domed vault and niches with side altars and confessionals in the closed, sloping corners. In the center of the dome has a skylight for brightness in all parts of the church. The rectangular and barrel-vaulted chancel is in two paragraphs over six and can be stepped up, e large round arch harmoniously belongs to both components. Separation arranged on both sides in the choir space form this space into a three-aisle structure. Each side concerns about an altar window.
The choir is led by a high altar with a round arched closed altarpiece, framed by black marble. The altarpiece is in mosaic, on which the service of the crucified by Augustine and Monica is shown. The altar decorations, including those of the side altars, belonged to Otto Hitzberger, the work of the company Puhl & Wagner from Treptow.
The original handicapped colors in the church interior were silver and light blue, after the renovation warm tones in beige and brown are now predominant.
With the perception of the church, an organ was inaugurated on a gallery, the other after the Second World War, no longer playable war. On September 15, 1973, the congregation jointly owned a new organ from the Jehmlich company from Dresden.
36 meter high rectangular church tower rises on the south side above the compact structure. It was situation with sloping corners and a protruding cornice and is followed with a copper-clad pyramid roofs. A six-meter gold-plated cross was placed on the roof facing the street.
On December 11, 1927, on the morning of the church building, bells were consecrated in the shell:
St. Augustine with the inscription "If their voice is heard today, do not harden your hearts."
The bell weighs 1,600 kg, its production cost 2,700 marks (today: around 10,000 euros);
St. Monica with the inscription "Come, let praise the Lord sell some, but also many people in the foundation stone of our salvation."
This bell weighs 900 kg and cost 1,500 marks;
St. Maria Magdalena with the inscription "The master is there and calls you."
A hat weighing 600 kg, price: 1,000 marks;
St. Maria (the smallest bell); it was handed over to war purposes around 1943 and was never returned.
On New Year's Eve 1927, chaplain Walter Adolph rang the bells of the new church and many others listened to their sound.
With the construction of the Berlin Wall, the parish of St. Augustine became the administration of St. Afra.
In the Advent season up to the following month January, a nativity scene with various parts from the biblical Christmas story has been run in the church since 1964. The life-size figures were made by the Berlin painter and sculptor Rudolf Heltzel (1907–2005).
Due to the declining number of parishioners, from September 13, 1992 only one pastor was left for “St. Augustine ”and the“ Holy Family ”.
On the roof of the rectory of St. Augustine, a photovoltaic system and a solar thermal system were found up to December 2001 for 35,000 euros. Over 3000 kWh was used for the energy costs of the municipal administration.
On November 1, 2003 the parish of St. Augustine was abolished by Archbishop Georg Cardinal Sterzinsky and the parish of the Holy Family was led. The common two municipalities, which had a double name, resulted from administrative demands.
Only in Berlin-Brandenburg without a parish with Saint Augustine as patron are there more, fewer than three parishes of the Holy Family (in Prenzlauer Berg, in Lichterfelde and in Rüdersdorf). But the name “St. Augustine ”emblazoned on the building.
In 2007 the church was reopened after numerous interior fittings and a facade renovation by the architects Krieger and Mielke. For the repair of five important Berlin buildings, 120,000 euros were raised for private donations and for the GlücksSpirale lottery, and 22,500 euros for the Church of St. Augustine.
The community is authorized to be active: a church day-care center has been maintained since 1930, there is a church choir and small personal events such as excursions and celebrations, and organ concerts. Ez social service is also offered in cooperation with the Caritas association.
The Church of St. Augustine is the seat of the Edith Stein Catholic student community.
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