Tabor Church (Wilhelmshagen) (german: link=no, Tabor-Kirche) is one of the three churches of the

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Berlin-Rahnsdorf Congregation, a member of today's

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umbrella organisation

Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia The Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia (german: Evangelische Kirche Berlin-Brandenburg-schlesische Oberlausitz, EKBO) is a United Protestant church body in the German states of Brandenburg, Berlin and a part of Saxony ...

. The church building is located in the quarter ''Wilhelmshagen'', locality Rahnsdorf, borough

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. The church was named in memory of the

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, which allegedly took place on Mount Tabor הר תבור in today's Israel.

Congregation and Church

The congregation's parish comprises the area of the historical village of Rahnsdorf, which has been incorporated into Berlin by the

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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

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s. The church consists of one

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covered by a

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, drawn down to also roof the

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s. 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

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intact.

Furnishings

The main entrance in the tower is topped by a tympanon, decorated with

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symbolising the

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of Faith, Love (Charity), and Hope. The nave is covered by a barrel vault. The

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furnishings by Albert Klingner comprise an altarpiece depicting the

(1911) and a tableau of the Four Evangelists

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, Luke,

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, and Matthew accompanied by scenes from the Old Testament.Sibylle Badstübner-Gröger, Michael Bollé, Ralph Paschke et al., ''Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler /

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'': 22 vols., revis. and ext. new ed. by Dehio-Vereinigung, Berlin and Munich:

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, ²2000, vol. 8: Berlin, p. 240. .

Putti above the entrance

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Notes

References

* 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. . * Günther Kühne and Elisabeth Stephani, ''Evangelische Kirchen in Berlin'' (¹1978), Berlin: CZV-Verlag, ²1986, p. 431. .

External links

Berlin-Rahnsdorf Congregation (website)
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