Church of the Holy Cross, Catholic parish church in Wilmersdorf, Berlin, Germany
The Church of the Holy Cross is a single-nave hall church built in 1911–12 by Max Hasak, its red brick facade set into the northern row of houses on Hildegardstraße. The facade has a large pointed arch with a rose window, below which smaller pointed arches frame louvered panels, with white plaster panels contrasting the brickwork. Inside, clustered cream-stone piers carry pale ribbed vaults over wooden pews on a red carpet leading to a white altar table beneath a wooden crucifix.
Max Hasak designed this structure in the early 20th century, with construction completed in 1912 as a mission church for the expanding neighborhood. The building reflects the Gothic architectural language of that era in Berlin's context.
Since 2010 the church has housed the Catholic Italian Mission of Berlin, which holds Italian-language services here. The parish was dissolved in 2009 and merged into Maria unter dem Kreuz; in 2024 Archbishop Heiner Koch made it part of the new parish St. Helena – Wilmersdorf-Friedenau. The church is consecrated to the Finding of the Cross, celebrated on 3 May.
The church stands in the northern row of houses on Hildegardstraße, its facade flush with the street line, near the Volkspark Wilmersdorf. Since 2010 it has housed the Catholic Italian Mission of Berlin, so Masses and visits follow that community's timetable. The entrance vestibule is five metres deep before the nave opens out.
Eight of the nine rose windows above the organ were bricked up after the Second World War; only the largest survived. The four long window fronts were also closed with half-bricks, so the present glazing by Paul Corazolla belongs to the postwar rebuilding, finished in 1959.
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