Institution church Johannstadt hospital
The Johannstadt Hospital Church , also known as the Johannstadt Hospital Chapel , was the church of the Johannstadt City Hospital in the Saxon state capital Dresden . The church was badly damaged during the air raids on Dresden in 1945 and was demolished a short time later.
history
Hospital church
At the same time as the Johannstadt City Hospital , the asylum church was built from around 1898 and was consecrated by Superintendent Franz Dibelius on December 2, 1901 when the hospital opened . The architect of the church, as well as the city hospital, was Edmund Bräter (1855–1925). The building was built in the neo-Romanesque style. The sculptor Otto Schilling created reliefs and decorations on the outside of the church. The church tower was about 31 meters high and equipped with a clock with four dials and two bronze bells.
The interior of the church was mostly designed in Art Nouveau style. The history painter Eugen Louis Otto created the stained glass windows with biblical motifs. The pews , the pulpit , the galleries and the ceiling were made of pine. From Jehmlich Orgelbau Dresden who came Organ , they had two manuals , 12 registers and 810 organ pipes . The altar was made of sandstone and showed the relief of Christ on the Mount of Olives . The church offered over 300 seats as well as some places for patient beds.
time of the nationalsocialism
After the National Socialists came to power , plans arose to convert the Johannstadt city hospital into a biological hospital . The institution church and some farm buildings were to be demolished, and the central vacant space of the new hospital was to be created in their place. With the outbreak of World War II , the plans to restructure the institution disappeared. During the air raids on Dresden on February 13 and 14, 1945, the church was badly hit and burned down completely except for the stone walls.
post war period
Despite the relatively intact walls of the church and steeple, the hospital management decided to demolish the ruin in 1946, as the building was not classified as valuable in terms of art history . For a few years the walls served as a coal store. The demolition took place in the spring of 1950 and a green area was created on the site of the church.
In the 1950s, a plaque was set up at the former location of the church with the inscription: “On this floor stood the asylum church, which was from Anglo-American. Bombs destroyed on February 13, 45 “.
Ecumenical Pastoral Care Center
On December 5, 2000, the foundation stone for a new pastoral care center for the University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus was laid at the former location of the institution church . The new building was designed by the architects Johannes Kister, Reinhard Scheithauer and Susanne Gross , the consecration took place on December 2nd, 2001, exactly 100 years after the consecration of the institution church. During the construction of the new ecumenical center, rubble of the former church was found; these are exhibited in a small park next to the new building.
literature
- Joachim Winkler: The Johannstadt Hospital Chapel . In: City of Dresden (Hrsg.): Lost churches: Dresden's destroyed churches. Documentation since 1938 . Dresden 2018, p. 68-71 ( Online [PDF; 6.3 MB ]).
- Architectural office Kister Scheithauer Gross, ECC Kohtes Klewes Dresden: Ecumenical Pastoral Care Center . Ed .: Carl Gustav Carus University Hospital. Dresden ( Online [PDF; 1,2 MB ]).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c History of the old church. Carl Gustav Carus University Hospital, accessed on February 24, 2016 .
- ↑ a b c d Lars Herrmann: University Hospital. In: www.dresdner-stadtteile.de. Retrieved February 24, 2016 .
- ^ "Obligations" on the occasion of the 7th anniversary of the destruction of Dresden. Deutsche Fotothek, accessed on February 24, 2016 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 19.9 ″ N , 13 ° 46 ′ 43.7 ″ E