All Saints' Church (Dresden)

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Stereo image of the English Church in Dresden

The All Saints' Church (literally All Saints , in the parlance often only English Church or Anglican Church ) was an Anglican church building at the Vienna road , corner Beust (today for Andreas-Schubert-Straße) in Dresden . It was consecrated on November 27, 1869, and burned down during the air raids on Dresden on February 13, 1945. Its ruins were cleared away in 1952, the property is covered with a warehouse with office use.

It was an example of the Early English Style as a special variant of the historicist Neo-Gothic .

history

In 1841, an Anglican parish was founded in Dresden, which initially held its services in rented rooms, but tried to build its own church from around 1865.

The building of the church was made possible thanks to a donation from the widow of the Saxon merchant Wilhelm Heinrich Göschen (William Henry Goschen) in London; the building site was donated by the city of Dresden. It was built between 1868 and 1869 by August Pieper together with the London architect James Piers St. Aubyn and was consecrated on November 27, 1869.

The sacred building was a small three-aisled basilica with a low transept and corresponded to the English Gothic style of the 13th century, the Early English Style. A polygonal apse was added. In the south of the ship was a free-standing, mighty, square tower with a high, octagonal spire. It had a rich set of fittings: the organ and sculptural work of the altar and pulpit came from England. As is common in most English churches, the visible wooden roof structure was also the ceiling of the church. The walls were made of Saxon sandstone in lime mortar without anchoring or bracing.

The entire ornamental decoration of the capitals, the pulpit and the baptismal font was designed by an English sculptor "in high artistic quality". The most valuable decorations of the church, however, were the stained glass of the five church windows. They were made by Hardman in Birmingham and were gifts from Göschen's sons. “The five windows of the choir showed representations from the life of Jesus in particularly splendid execution. … In the stained glass of the large window on the southwestern front, particular reference was made to the name of the church: Christ blessing was depicted in the middle of the saints of the Old and New Testaments.

The Anglican community dissolved immediately after the beginning of the First World War and did not form again afterwards. The client, All Saint's English episcopal church eV , remained.

In 1927, a contractual agreement between All Saint's English episcopal church eV and the Evangelical Lutheran St. Pauls Congregation led to a change in use. Accordingly, the St. Pauls Congregation was given the use of the church building for a period of 30 years.

After the bombing in the air raids on Dresden on February 13 and 14, 1945, the church burned down. Nothing is known about rescue attempts, the ruin was demolished in 1952. For a long time, the property was a green area, in the 1980s it was built over with a warehouse, which was partially renovated and partially converted into an office building in the 2010s.

literature

  • Fritz Löffler : The old Dresden. History of his buildings . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1981, ISBN 3-363-00007-3 , p. 353 .
  • Matthias Lerm : Farewell to old Dresden. Loss of historical building stock after 1945 . Forum Verlag, Leipzig 1993, ISBN 3-86151-047-2 , p. 232 .
  • Volker Helas : Architecture in Dresden 1800–1900 . Verlag der Kunst Dresden, Dresden 1991, ISBN 3-364-00261-4 , p. 73 and 186 .
  • Hans-Jochen Free Life: All Saints Church . In: Lost Churches of Dresden Destroyed Houses of God A documentation since 1938. 3., chang. Edition, Dresden 2018, pp. 27–29. Also PDF
  • Saxon engineers and architects association, Dresden architects association (Hrsg.): The buildings, technical and industrial plants of Dresden . CC Meinhold & Sons, Dresden 1878, p. 140–141 ( digital copy from SLUB Dresden).

Web links

Commons : All Saints' Church  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Free life, p. 27.
  2. ^ Sächsischer Ingenieur- und Architekten-Verein, Dresdener Architekten-Verein (ed.): The buildings, technical and industrial plants of Dresden . CC Meinhold & Sons, Dresden 1878, p. 140 ( digital copy from SLUB Dresden).
  3. ↑ a b c free life, p. 28.
  4. ^ Statistical Office of the City of Dresden: The Administration of the City of Dresden 1927 . Dresden 1929, p. 21
  5. ↑ Free life, p. 29.

Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 20.8 "  N , 13 ° 44 ′ 16.7"  E