Old Reformed Church (Dresden)

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The Reformed Church in Dresden , lithograph by Johann Franke around 1830
The organ of the Silbermann students David Schubert (1688–1757) and Adam Gottfried Oehme (1718–1789) from the old Reformed Church in Dresden has been preserved in Mahlis .

The old Reformed Church was the first church building of the Evangelical Reformed congregation in Dresden . It was located in the old town at the exit of Kreuzgasse at the Salomonistor. The church, built from 1764–1767 according to plans by Samuel Locke , in the form of a gallery hall with pulpit altar, was replaced by a new church elsewhere in connection with the plans for the construction of the New Town Hall in the years 1892–1894 . The old building, which was used by the council archives from then on, was finally demolished in 1907.

history

An Evangelical Reformed community of Huguenot religious refugees existed in Dresden as early as the 17th century. After the destruction of their prayer house in 1760 during the Prussian bombardment of Dresden during the Seven Years' War , the community received permission on August 16, 1764 to build a “prayer house for private religious practice” in Kreuzgasse.

The mother house in 1617.

At the Salomonistor in the Kreuzgasse not far from the Kreuzkirche stood the Fraumutterhaus , a Dresden house built in 1555 by Melchior Hauffe and since 1571 in the electoral property. It was the birthplace of Christian II and his brother Johann Georg I. It was named after the widow's residence of Christian I's wife , Sophie von Brandenburg, since 1611 . The baroque Reformed Church designed by Samuel Locke was built on this site. According to Gurlitt , the inauguration took place on July 26, 1767.

Architecture and equipment

According to Gurlitt's description, the building was 13.6 m wide and 22.4 m long. Inside there was a light, rectangular room, surrounded by two galleries, with rounded corners, measuring 7.9 m by 17 m. On the southeast side were the stairs to the two galleries. Opposite was the altar, behind it the pulpit was arranged between a pilaster architecture. The altar table was free-standing and was surrounded by a barrier for the presbytery . Behind the pulpit were the sacristies. The whole arrangement is "clear, understandable and comfortable". In 1772 the church building received an organ from the Silbermann students David Schubert (1688–1757) and Adam Gottfried Oehme (1718–1789). When it was demolished, the organ case (“charmingly carved, in elegant rococo forms”) was given to the church in Mahlis near Mügeln . Above the main portal was the inscription "Evangelical, Reformed Church, built in 1767". Various paintings decorated the room:

  • Portrait of Pierre Coste († 1757), pastor of the Eglise Françoise de Leipzig. On canvas, in oil, 64 × 79 cm.
  • Portrait of the assistant preacher Pauli (1778), on paper, in gouache, 37 × 48 cm.
  • Portrait of Privy Councilor of Ponickau (1784), on canvas, in oil, 40 × 53 cm.
  • Portrait of Georg Joachim Zollikofer (1730–1788), on canvas, in oil, 41 × 54 cm.
  • Portrait of Friedrich Christian Paldamus (1763–1806), on paper, in ink, 36 × 53 cm.
  • Portrait of Johann Jakob Mesmer (1740–1814), on canvas, in oil, 46 × 53 cm.
  • Portrait of the doctor Dr. Carl Ludwig Cauer († 1813), on paper, in pastel, 50 × 66 cm.

literature

  • Fritz Löffler : The old Dresden: history of its buildings . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1999, ISBN 3-363-00007-3 , pp. 94, 203/204, 417 .
  • Cornelius Gurlitt : The Evangelical Reformed Church . In: ders .: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 23rd issue: City of Dresden (Part II) . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1903, pp. 293-295. on-line

Web links

Commons : Reformierte Kirche (Dresden)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ From: Images of Dresden's old and new magnificent buildings, folk and court festivals. Copper notebook for the Chronicle of the Kgl. Saxon. Residenz-Stadt Dresden and the collector for history and antiquity, art and nature in the Elbthale. In the Ch. Fr. Grimmerschen Buchhandlung, Dresden 1835. SLUB Dresden Hist.Sax.G.0601.o http://digital.slub-dresden.de/id118749846 .
  2. ↑ Löffler, p. 94 fig. 112.
  3. ↑ Löffler, p. 417.
  4. ↑ Gurlitt, p. 293f.
  5. ↑ a b Gurlitt, p. 294
  6. ↑ Cornelius Gurlitt: Mahlis . In: ders .: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 28th booklet: Oschatz Official Authority (Part II) . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1905. p. 177. online

Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 52.8 "  N , 13 ° 44 ′ 28.7"  E