Kath. Herz-Jesu-Kirche, Catholic parish church in Charlottenburg, Germany.
Kath. Herz-Jesu-Kirche is a Gothic Revival church in Charlottenburg built with brick and featuring strong buttresses along its exterior walls. The structure shows a pronounced central aisle that extends forward at the entrance, creating a clear vertical emphasis.
The church was built from 1875 to 1877 as the first new Catholic church in Prussian Charlottenburg, on the Anger of the former village of Lietzow. It replaced a chapel that had become too small after the founding of the German Empire. The triangular choir was added in 1883, and the roof turret was not rebuilt after World War II.
The parish is now part of the parish of the Martyrs of Berlin, formed on 1 January 2023 by merging with St. Kamillus. The church keeps the mosaics of the twelve apostles made by Lammers in 1937, below the choir windows that survived the Second World War. From 1913 to 1930 Bernhard Lichtenberg, beatified in 1996, served here as parish priest.
The church stands behind the Charlottenburg district town hall on the Anger of the former village of Lietzow. The entrance is on the three-axis street facade, where the central nave projects slightly and a stepped portal marks the main door. The side aisles are largely windowless because of the neighbouring buildings, so the interior is lit mainly through the choir windows.
The church safeguards a baptismal font from the 16th century that has an unexpected past. This basin was repurposed as a decorative item in a beer garden for years before being recovered and returned to the building.
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