Adventkirche, Protestant church in Pankow, Germany.
Adventkirche is a Protestant church in Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin, built 1910–1911 to designs by Georg Dinklage and Ernst Paulus. The masonry building is clad in clinker brick; pointed-arch portals and tracery windows on the gable facade carry Gothic Revival forms, while the centralized interior plan follows the Wiesbaden Programme, placing the communion celebration among the congregation.
The parish was founded in 1906 as St. Bartholomäus II and renamed Advent-Kirchengemeinde in 1908. Architects Georg Dinklage and Ernst Paulus built the church in 1910–1911; it was consecrated in the presence of Crown Prince Wilhelm. Air raids on 22 March and 7 May 1944 destroyed large parts; the first postwar service was held on 6 May 1945. Reconstruction ran from 1949 to 1952, and the community house front was rebuilt by 1969.
The parish was renamed Advent-Kirchengemeinde on 1 April 1908, before the church existed; it merged with Zachäus in 2004 and with Bartholomäus in 2022 into the Gemeinde Am Friedrichshain. A plaque in the entrance hall commemorates parish members killed in both world wars.
The church stands at the corner of Danziger Straße and Heinz-Bartsch-Straße, where the parish and community house was built as one unit with the church. The main entrance is on Danziger Straße; the war memorial plaque for parish members killed in both world wars is in the entrance hall. The interior holds about 500 seats after the galleries were walled off.
The church was built to a budget: the Berlin city synod capped new churches at 200,000 marks, so Dinklage and Paulus replaced the Gothic columns and vaults with wire-lath, plaster and cement. The altar, rebuilt after 1945, got its Cotta sandstone slab in July 1960. A memorial plaque in the vestibule lists parishioners killed in both world wars.
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