Tabor Church (Berlin-Wilhelmshagen)
The Protestant, listed Tabor church stands in the beautiful Durchblicker street in the Berlin district Rahn village of the district of Treptow- Köpenick. It was built to a design by the architect Peter Jurgensen and Jürgen Bachmann in the style of Homeland Security architecture with hints of the beginnings of modern art and was inaugurated on 9 April 1911.
History
The first building northeast of Rahn village was already mentioned in 1734. The line of Niederschlesisch - Märkischen railway from Berlin to Frankfurt (Oder) was opened in 1842, for the suburban railway station of Berlin, the New Rahn village was inaugurated on 15 November 1882. 1891 put the German - Volksbau - Aktiengesellschaft to the villa colony New Rahn village whose population center developed around the station. Since 1902, the colony Wilhelmshagen allowed to call. When the church was built 1910-1911 in the open field, although much of it was still unfinished, in the local situation but were already 80 villas, where about 600 people lived. Today she stands on a round place in the visual axes of the radial roads leading-. The former parish Wilhelmshagen now belongs to the parish Rahn Village / Wilhelmshagen / Hessenwinkel.
The church is a monument of culture of Berlin, of the surrounding park is a memorial garden.
Specifications
The architects fused at their design the historicist neo-classicism with modern Art Deco style. The church hall is a masonry construction, which is outside elutriated sand color. The corners of the walls are executed by ashlar plaster as pilasters. The nave has three bays and is covered by an extremely pulled gable roof. The nave is internally covered by a barrel vault, on the coffered ceiling is painted. The aisles are reduced behind a row of pillars to narrow aisles and have flat ceilings. The slightly indented rectangular choir in the southwest is flanked symmetrically by low, chapel -like attachments that are like the chorus covered with Halbwalmen. In the northeast, the nave is a powerful, cross- rectangular bell tower is purposed. Above the bell chamber womb he has a tapered top, where the clock tower is located. Above it rises a slate- covered spire, which is provided with dormers. The portal in the tower has a blown- gable, it shows in the lintel three cherubs terracotta with the symbols of the Christian virtues. Above the entrance hall are a gallery and a niche for the organ.
The equipment of Albert Klingner Art Nouveau of 1911 is obtained. His altarpiece represents the Transfiguration of the Lord represents the existing original glass painting shows representations of the four Evangelists, the twelve apostles and other subjects from the Old Testament.