Tabor Church (Berlin-Wilhelmshagen)

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Tabor Church
Tabor-Kirche (Rahnsdorf) Sakristei.JPG
Tabor Church, seen from southwest with the sacristy
Religion
Affiliation United Protestant
DistrictSprengel Berlin, Kirchenkreis Lichtenberg-Oberspree
Province Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia
Location
Location Rahnsdorf, a locality of Berlin
Geographic coordinates 52°26′07″N13°42′54″E / 52.43517°N 13.715036°E / 52.43517; 13.715036 Coordinates: 52°26′07″N13°42′54″E / 52.43517°N 13.715036°E / 52.43517; 13.715036
Architecture
Architect(s) Peter Jürgensen and Jürgen Bachmann
Completed1911
Materials Brick

Tabor Church (Wilhelmshagen) (German: Tabor-Kirche) is one of the three churches of the Evangelical Berlin-Rahnsdorf Congregation, a member of today's Protestant umbrella organisation Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia. The church building is located in the quarter Wilhelmshagen, locality Rahnsdorf, borough Treptow-Köpenick of Berlin. The church was named in memory of the Transfiguration of Jesus, which allegedly took place on Mount Tabor הר תבור in today's Israel. [1]

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Congregation and Church

The congregation's parish comprises the area of the historical village of Rahnsdorf, which has been incorporated into Berlin by the Prussian Greater Berlin Act in 1920. Due to the high number of new parishioners moving in at the beginning of the 20th century the congregation decided to build an additional church in # 48, Schönblicker Straße, in the then newly developed quarter of Wilhelmshagen (today's 12589 Berlin-Wilhelmshagen).

In 1910 the congregation commissioned the architects Peter Jürgensen and Jürgen Bachmann to build the new church. On 9 April 1911 Tabor Church was inaugurated. The church is situated as a landmark in the middle of a round square, joined by streets from six directions. The quire of the church is not oriented, but directed to the south. Since baroque times church buildings are often not build according to the biblical tradition of orientation. The outside of yellow bricks is partly covered with a plaster, structured by rusticated strips of pilasters. The church consists of one nave covered by a saddle roof, drawn down to also roof the aisles. Northerly attached to the nave is a massive tower of a rectangular groundplan, topped by a squat spire, covered with shingles of slate. The building weathered the Second World War intact.

Furnishings

Main entrance in the tower Taborkirche Berlin-Rahnsdorf 1014.jpg
Main entrance in the tower

The main entrance in the tower is topped by a tympanon, decorated with putti symbolising the theological virtues of Faith, Love (Charity), and Hope. The nave is covered by a barrel vault. The Jugendstil furnishings by Albert Klingner comprise an altarpiece depicting the Transfiguration of Jesus (1911) and a tableau of the Four Evangelists John, Luke, Mark, and Matthew accompanied by scenes from the Old Testament. [2]

Putti above the entrance

Notes

  1. Two other churches in Berlin, named after Mount Tabor, are Tabor Church (Berlin-Kreuzberg) and Tabor Church (Berlin-Hohenschönhausen) in the borough of Lichtenberg.
  2. Sibylle Badstübner-Gröger, Michael Bollé, Ralph Paschke et al., Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler / Georg Dehio : 22 vols., revis. and ext. new ed. by Dehio-Vereinigung, Berlin and Munich: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 22000, vol. 8: Berlin, p. 240. ISBN   3-422-03071-9.

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