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Start | Bauwerke | St. Ansgar Willy Kreuer
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St. Ansgar
Willy Kreuer

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Tower of St. Ansgar Church, July 1957 Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Foto: Willy Pragher
F Rep. 290 Nr. 0000954_C
On the Hansaplatz: Catholic Church of St. Ansgar from the East, 1964 Landesarchiv Berlin, Foto: Horst Siegmann
Parabolic church nave Landesarchiv Berlin, Wiederaufbau Hansaviertel; Sonderveröffentlichung zur Interbau Berlin 57
20 Stations of the Cross by Ludwig Peter Kowalski (right) Archiv St. Ansgar
Three-manual organ on free-floating concrete slab Archiv St. Ansgar

St. Ansgar’s Church, completed in 1957, was erected in almost exactly the same place as the original church of the same name, which had been destroyed in the war. The parabola determines the floor plan of the overall complex and for the church interior. The ensemble including communal rooms, a recessed sacristy with an inner courtyard, and the church itself can be interpreted as a segment of a parabola, where the central axis points to the street corner, allowing a large plaza to open up. It is slightly turned toward the east, to face away from the rail viaduct and to open toward the street. A wall and flat steps link the various parts of the complex to one another and separate the church from the public space. The parabola is revealed explicitly in the church interior with the al tar as focus. While the closed, brick western wall protects the church space from the rail viaduct, the flank of the eastern wall is shortened dramatically, dissolving into a staggered wall of windows on concrete grids the height of the building. They form a zigzag pattern with matte ornamental windows and the three covered entrances. One of the three concrete supports of the stylized church tower (the bells were a gift from Konrad Adenauer) is topped by a cross that is visible from afar.

“Provisional church” in the Altonaer Straße 22 Archiv St. Ansgar
St. Ansgar under construction Archiv, Apotheke am Hansaplatz
View from the gondola of the suspension crane to Hansaplatz and the city railway, 1957 Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Foto: Willy Pragher
View of St. Ansgar from the north Deutsches Historisches Museum
Konsekration fand am 1. November 1957 durch Julius Döpfner statt
“Bell donator” Konrad Adenauer at the inauguration Archiv St. Ansgar
St. Ansgar as part of the Interbau, visualisation in the building brochure Archiv St. Ansgar
Building
  • A church building seating 250 in reinforced concrete on an open parabolic floor plan
  • The rectory and community hall are l inked to the church building by the sacristy
  • The supporting elements and church tower consist of exposed concrete
  • The curved west wall with brick serves as sound insulation against the rail viaduct
Garden design
  • Edvard Jocobson (Karlstadt/Sweden)
  • Hertha Hammerbacher (Berlin)
Klopstockstraße 29
Day Care Center
Building Construction Office Tiergarten
Ladenzentrum
E. Zinsser – H. Plarre

Willy Kreuer

* 1910 in Cologne † 1984 in Berlin

  • studied construction and architecture at the Kunstgewerbe- und Handwerkerschule, Cologne
  • 1927–1930 worked in the Ernst office
  • 1932–1937 Scheidt, Cologne
  • 1937 moved to Berlin
  • from 1938 permanent employee at Werner March; stays in Belgrade, Copenhagen, Budapest
  • 1942–1945 military service
  • 1945–1949 Chief Architect at Eckhart Muthesius, Berlin
  • 1949–1951 Technical Assistant at the TU Berlin with G. Jobst
  • from 1949 also freelance architect, participation in competitions
  • from 1952 professorship at the TU Berlin
  • from 1953 with Gerhard Jobst 1st prize for the overall plan for reconstruction of the Hansaviertel; America Memorial Library (with Fritz Bornemann); Kreuzberg Town Hall (with Hartmut Wille)
  • 1955–1959 Faculty and Institute Buildings for Mining and Metallurgy at the TU Berlin
  • 1965–1968 Institute for Technical Chemistry, Berlin

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