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1422:. In this time all West Berliners, wishing to visit the grave of a late relative or friend in the cemeteries in East Germany, were excluded, as well as late widows and widowers, who wanted to be buried side by side with their earlier deceased spouses buried there. Between 1972 and 22 December 1989 West Berliners had restricted access, because they had to apply for East German visas and to pay for a compulsory exchange (officially in
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1231:, as did many congregations on certain dates or events of Nazi interest. This earned him an entry in his Gestapo file, collecting material against Lahde. Even after Lahde – due to his weak health – went into early retirement by the end of 1937, the presbytery inflicted a disciplinary procedure on him because of his alleged
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partner get a divorce from their Jewish-classified spouses, by granting easy legal divorce procedures and opportunities to withhold most of the common property after a divorce. Those, who stuck to their spouse, would suffer discriminations like dismissal from public employment, exclusion from civic
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Originally the church was sparingly furnished. The main nave was not vaulted but covered by a wooden ceiling, repeating in the middle the gable-roof form of the outside roof. Both side naves had even ceilings, supported by columns with cubic capitals. The lofts opened through three wide arches into
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board refused to approve that. Thus he offered the site on the crossroads of
Seestraße #34/35 with Antwerpener Straße No. 50 on the condition of starting the constructions until a certain date, otherwise the tendered money would be forfeited. Oppersdorf speculated for a rise of land prices by
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grew too small. Count Eduard Karl von
Oppersdorf, who purchased many grounds along Seestraße in order to develop them as building land, offered to donate a site for a new church and a considerable sum of money to build it. He considered a prestigious site on a square to be developed in Antwerpener
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reached a number of about 70,000 parishioners through these tactical mass enlistments. Once the interest of the Nazi leadership, to convert official
Protestantism into a Nazi movement, faded due to the ongoing problems with opponents from within the churches, the policy changed. Many Nazis, being
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then started the collection of signatures among the parishioners against Heyne's appointment. They handed in 300 signatures, what made the consistory to change its mind. In order to pacify the situation, it refused any reappointment on 23 November. Only in 1942 the presbytery succeeded and the
1353:). He smuggled (last) letters and messages of many death candidates and other detainees to their relatives. Already in 1933 under the impression of the maltreatment and torture of many political inmates in Tegel he and Laukant founded a circle of opponents, helping persecuted persons to hide.
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synodals had voted for an abolition of further church elections. Parishioners' democratic participation by elections only re-emerged after the end of the Nazi reign. The Nazi government preferred the
Protestant church bodies to weaken their influence in Germany by letting them enter into a
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society organisations etc. When deportations started people living in mixed marriages were first spared. In March 1943 an attempt to deport the Berlin-based Jews and
Gentiles of Jewish descent, living in mixed marriages, failed due to public protest by their relatives-in-law of so-called
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systematically tried to subject any unadulterated form of
Protestantism by way of firing church employees of other opinion, blocking church property for non-Nazi Protestant groups, prohibiting collections for other purposes than the officially approved ones.
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she held weekly Bible hours in her private apartment in Müllerstraße #97c, until she was bombed out in an allied air raid in
February 1945. At the end of these meetings she traded the latest news about murders, arrests, and what was going on in
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In the beginning of the Nazi reign the two groups around
Kersten and Poelchau, helping persecuted persons, were mostly helping them to emigrate or to avoid arrest, until a flight abroad could be organised. From 18 October 1941 on, when the
1263:, which were concealed by the official Nazi media. Kersten informed about a senior police officer in the local Seestraße precinct, who issued official police documents confirming the Christianness of its bearer, as Mechur recalled in 1989.
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while another 200 had taken neither side. The same was true for the average parishioners, the vast majority did not bother being non-observant, many did not even participate in the elections, those who did, often voted for the
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with round-arched windows in
Seestraße #35, finished on 1 April 1911, thus aligning the church with the surrounding houses. The rear wing of the rectory confines the backyard of church and rectory as a semi-closed court.
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1285:, after he had been badly injured by a falling burning beam during an allied air raid. Dora Mechur recalls that the Christian friends of her family and fellow parishioners attended her father's burial on the Jewish
676:, depicting the scene of the Roman Centurion and Jesus. In 1958 August Wagner created new coloured windows above the altar, after the design of the Hermann Kirchberger. The windows depict the Benedictive Jesus, the
1064:), collected and then transferred by the state tax offices. To block any access to funds, in 1934 the Nazi government subjected any form of public money collection to state approval, which was regularly denied if
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on an asymmetric ground plan. While the northeastern nave is large and harbours a loft, in order to place more seats, the southwestern nave to
Antwerpener Straße is narrow, rather resembling an aisle.
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advanced their project of a new Protestant church and organised their own synods with synodals representing the intra-church opposition. The movement declared Protestantism was based on the complete
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Mural paintings repeated Lombard bands and Romanesque ornaments. The quire was elaborately decorated with mural paintings typical for the Evangelical churches of the end of the 19th century. The
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Starting in 1952 the architect Fritz Berndt began the reconstructions, accomplished by architect Günter Behrmann until 1959. The structures were simplified, the rose window was replaced by three
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pastor, argued the diminished number of parishioners would not allow the employment of another pastor, the presbytery under the merchant Ebeling demanded a new pastor. On 19 October 1935 the
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585:. The gable towards Seestraße was simplified due to the new simple gable roof, covering the main nave, the side naves carry catslide roofs, thus the nave to Antwerpener Straße lost its
1209:, and other colleagues of her, continued to treat Jewish patients even after this was strictly forbidden in 1938 and therefore could not be invoiced to the health insurance anymore.
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from Berlin started, the purpose of hiding persons became a permanent issue. Jews, hiding from deportation, 'dived' in the underground and thus used to call themselves
1060:, since the official church bodies did not share their revenues from the contributions levied from the parishioners by way of a surcharge on the income tax (so-called
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As part of the re-election campaign the Nazi government and the Nazi party promoted that Nazi party members of Protestant descent, who were not members of the
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to wit Karl Berlich, Helmut Petzold, and Friedrich Lahde, the latter holding as senior pastor the office of chief executive of the presbytery, dominated by
641:). Stained glass windows of ornamental and figured design in the apsis continued the rich colourfulness of the quire. All this was destroyed in May 1944.
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The knowledgeable Vicar Kersten (died 25 Oct. 1967), becoming after the war one of the first woman pastors in Berlin, was an important proponent of the
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in Berlin, leading the opposing synodals, gathered opposing pastors, who clearly saw the breach of Christian and Protestant principles and founded the
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915:. The participants declared this basis to be binding for any Protestant Church deserving that name and confessed their allegiance to this basis (see
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Protestant, and his daughter was by religion not Jewish, this made the Nazi authorities classify his marriage as a then so-called 'privileged'
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After 1938 German Jews and Gentiles of Jewish descent were all to be treated exclusively by Jewish doctors or hospitals like the neighbouring
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turned out to be a precarious balancing act. Official services were attended by denunciators, who would report any critical utterance to the
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1158:. Among the signatories we find the names of Vicar Kersten, the bookkeeper Dora Mechur, and Pastor Hans Urner (1901–1986; chaplain at the
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in the years 1935–1953). These three ran an underground circle to help persons, persecuted by the Nazi regime as Jews, to emigrate.
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919:). Henceforth the movement of all Protestant denominations, opposing Nazi intrusion into Protestant church affairs, was called the
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The existing majorities in the bodies on the different levels of church organisation remained, since in the synods the majority of
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1122:(the competent executive and clerical body) agreed to restaff the vacancy. On 18 November the presbytery thus chose the orthodox
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parishioners and presbyters would inflict disciplinary procedures through the superior levels of the official church body.
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Dr. Johannes Rosenfeld. Lacking any substantial basis for this decision, Lahde reached his reappointment on 19 December.
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on the regional, let alone the Berlin-wide level. The three pastors, who had not taken sides, did not bother their three
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in her rogations, while the two pastors on their turn never did so. The deaconess leading the medical station of the
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Ilse Kersten, the merchant Mr Komnow, inspector Mr Krummrei, Mrs Ranitz, and Mrs Rosendahl. However, even though the
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was unavoidable, a new Protestant church was to be established, since the official organisation was anti-Christian,
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allegiance, in order to withdraw them from their parish activity, and he was killed as a soldier in World War II.
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applied for it. So door-to-door collections became a dangerous, but necessary thing. In the parish of the
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destructive self-deprecation, once in while orchestrated by Nazi government interference in favour of the
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and regularly attracted 250 children and juveniles of parents of all allegiances. In the scope of the
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is highlighted by two octagonal towers, which are connected by a columned gallery of arcades (German:
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The tower at the crossroads of Seestraße with Antwerpener Straße, topped by a typical Rhenish steep
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357:-Eilpe, which he adapted to the site on Seestraße. On 22 July 1902 the church was finished. The
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Agnes Laukant (Brüsseler Str. 28a), ran another underground circle, hiding persecuted persons.
1185:. While the institution's two chaplains, Pastor Urner and Pastor Hermann Wagner stuck with the
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4:13), at least for some time. In Capernaum also, Jesus allegedly healed a man, and a fever in
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presbytery and its executive chief Lahde arose. While Lahde, fearing the appointment of a new
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was an enactment performed by two minority groups within a rather indifferent majority.
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Kersten, Mechur, and Urner were also friends with Pastor Harald Poelchau, who with the
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758:(24 August 1933), competent for the Berlin and Brandenburg subsection, and then in the
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1009:. Compared with other congregations in the north of Berlin this was a great number of
896:, but mostly in favour of the Protestant church bodies' dropping into insignificance.
436:) north of the church building and the Schillerhöhe northeast of the church building.
379:, co-financed the constructions. On 26 August the same year she, her son Crown Prince
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since the imposed re-election. In 1933 among the pastors of Berlin, 160 stuck to
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was constituted as independent legal entity, within the then Protestant umbrella
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congregations. The church is located on Seestraße No. 34 in the locality of
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had a stable and considerable membership, the congregation did not hold regular
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were in fact spared from deportation. In November 1944 Mr. Mechur died in the
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cleric and layman or laywoman was denounced and subsequently taken to court.
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of membership, which were issued by confidents only. 380 parishioners of the
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spire, was built to form a landmark. Siebold designed it after the towers of
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on 23 July 1933, which the Nazi government had imposed onto all Protestant
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The cemetery of Capernaum Congregation in formerly East German Ahrensfelde
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consisting of the installer Mr Bolz, Mrs Brandt, Mr Grundt, the parochial
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was hastily laid. Effective constructions were only started in 1900.
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Buildings and structures in Berlin destroyed during World War II
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and the entrance hall to Antwerpener Straße rather resembles a
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Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia
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Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia
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Kapernaum. Eine evangelische Kirchengemeinde "auf dem Wedding"
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prayers for those persecuted by the Nazi regime and the three
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pastors did not participate regularly in the meetings of the
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deportations of German Jews and Gentiles of Jewish descent
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anyway non-observing Protestants, seceded again from the
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Entry in Berlin's list of monuments with further sources
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Evangelical Association for the Construction of Churches
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Sprengel Berlin (region), Kirchenkreis Berlin Nord-Ost (
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attitude of treason against the German people and state
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painting displayed an enthroned Jesus of Nazareth in a
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already were liberated. However some were deported to
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pastor Johannes Hoffmann was appointed, coming from
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had to take place as private events, thus only true
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1392:Capernaum Congregation, located in what used to be
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444:Due to the location of the site the church is not
259:Christians revere the town of Capernaum, since on
236:(literally "Nachum's village"; transliteration in
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1380:. In 1944 Poelchau joined a further group named
581:windows, while the main tower now bears a steep
371:), a charitable organisation then headed by the
1463:(1978), Berlin: CZV-Verlag, 1986, p. 431.
1908:Romanesque Revival church buildings in Germany
1410:) in formerly East Berlin's eastern suburb of
1169:The institutionally independent foundation of
766:(5/6 September 1933) – voted in the so-called
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1680:Kühne, Günther; Stephani, Elisabeth (1986) .
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1045:colleagues. All the fighting was promoted by
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1913:Religious buildings and structures in Berlin
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1546:, translit. Ya'aqov Bar-Zebdi), his brother
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406:Schillerhöhe parish hall of the congregation
1052:A particular problem was fund-raising. The
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303:the establishment of a church in the area.
1948:Rebuilt buildings and structures in Berlin
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997:would be admitted, who had to identify by
723:), the Nazi partisan Protestant so-called
699:The Capernaum Congregation in the Nazi Era
621:alternating with palms. A painting on the
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1558:, translit. Yochanan Bar-Zebdi), and the
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656:is very plain. Behrmann created a new
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234:Capernaum, today Kfar Nachum כפר נחום
1627:continued to treat Jewish patients.
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289:The area belonged previously to the
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648:Interior towards the apsis in 2016
467:. Siebold's design is inspired by
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1376:in his official residence in the
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964:Confessing Christian congregation
774:), meaning that employees of the
625:on top of the apsis depicted the
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16:Church building in Mitte, Germany
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1595:Later Wagner was drafted to the
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1366:Helmuth James Graf von Moltke
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1106:. Thus a dispute between the
1039:Emergency Covenant of Pastors
901:Emergency Covenant of Pastors
794:Emergency Covenant of Pastors
387:attended the inauguration of
232:. The church was named after
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1087:for his allegiance with the
911:of Jewish heritage, and the
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573:The main tower burning, 1945
562:inflicted severe damages on
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1953:Rebuilt churches in Germany
1903:Lutheran churches in Berlin
1219:Lahde was denounced at the
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