Apostle Church (Dresden)
The Apostle Church in Dresden was built between 1927 and 1929 according to designs by the architect Oswin Hempel . Today she belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran Laurentius Church in Dresden- Trachau in the north-west of Dresden, which has around 6000 members .
history
Trachau, which was first mentioned in 1242, originally belonged to the parish of the St. Laurentius Chapel in Kaditz (today Emmauskirche ), where the church school for the community was also located. In the course of the Reformation , the first Protestant service took place in Kaditz in 1539. Due to industrialization , the population of the communities rose sharply in the 19th century, so that the town of Trachau needed its own church. From 1873 to 1898 the services took place in the old school on today's street Alttrachau 52, in 1897 an assistant chaplain was set up for the place. After the opening of the new Trachau school in 1899, the gymnasium was used as a place for church services and in 1901 a bell cage with three bells was built in the school garden .
In 1908 an independent Trachau parish separated from the Kaditz parish and was now called the Apostle Parish. In the same year the landowner Johann Heinrich Trobisch provided the community with a plot of land for a church to be built, which is still remembered today by a picture and an inscription on the foundation stone in the basement of the church. Due to lack of money and the First World War , a new building was out of the question for many years. It was not until October 9, 1927 that the foundation stone was finally laid for a community center. Oswin Hempel's design originally envisaged a church as a construction phase to be carried out later (on the site of today's kindergarten), but this was never implemented.
"God shield that which is built by human hands, and grant his grace that through this house that other house also grows higher and higher, of which the words of the Apostles speak: You as living stones, build yourselves into a spiritual house!"
In 1958 the church received a new organ from Alexander Schuke . Ten years later, the exterior and interior renovation of the building began, during which the tower was also repaired. In 2006 the belfry and bells were renovated.
During a renovation in 2011/2012, the nave was newly plastered and repainted together with the church tower. The entire church roof was also re-covered with around 4,000 bricks. The construction costs amounted to 300,000 euros, of which the regional church contributed 145,000 euros, the city of Dresden 23,000 euros and the community 132,000 euros. The organ was also refurbished for 24,000 euros. It was badly damaged by the ingress of water as a result of Hurricane Kyrill in 2007.
Since the unification of the Apostle parish with the Laurentius parish in Dresden Kaditz- Pieschen and the Weinberg church parish , the Apostle Church has been part of the Laurentius parish .
description
The building, adorned with sculptures by Stephan Hirzel and Kurt Dämmig, is considered to be a new, functional building with " expressionist sprinkles". An architecture of the “milder type of reforming late expressive building” characterizes the sacred building. The decoration was in the style of brick expressionism as a special variant of expressionist architecture using red-brown, unevenly colored bricks.
The baptistery is decorated with a wall design using sgraffito technology . Three layers of plaster (brown, beige and white) are scratched out. Scenes from the life of Jesus are shown.
Previous bell
The first previous chime from 1901 consisted of three bronze bells. In 1917 two bells had to be donated as metal. The following is an overview of the data on the bell from 1901 to 1917:
| No. | Casting date | Caster | diameter | Dimensions | Chime |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1901 | Bell foundry C. Albert Bierling | 1470 mm | 1700 kg | of |
| 2 | 1901 | Bell foundry C. Albert Bierling | 1170 mm | 965 kg | f´ |
| 3 | 1901 | Bell foundry C. Albert Bierling | 950 mm | 457 kg | as' |
The second previous chime from 1922 consisted of three bronze bells. In 1942 two bells had to be donated as metal. The following is an overview of the data on the bell from 1922 to 1942:
| No. | Casting date | Caster | diameter | Dimensions | Chime |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1922 | Bell foundry C. Albert Bierling | 1450 mm | 1540 kg | of |
| 2 | 1922 | Bell foundry C. Albert Bierling | 1150 mm | 810 kg | f´ |
| 3 | 1901 | Bell foundry C. Albert Bierling | 950 mm | 457 kg | as' |
The third previous chime from 1954 consisted of two chilled cast iron bells and the remaining bronze bell. In 2006 the bells were renewed. The following is an overview of the data on the bell from 1954 to 2006:
| No. | Casting date | Caster | diameter | material | Dimensions | Chime |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1954 | Bell foundry Schilling and Lattermann | Chilled iron bell | 1400 mm | 1343 kg | f´ |
| 2 | 1954 | Bell foundry Schilling and Lattermann | Chilled iron bell | 1050 mm | 492 kg | b´ |
| 3 | 1901 | Bell foundry C. Albert Bierling | Bronze bell | 950 mm | 457 kg | as' |
Peal
Two of the original bells in the makeshift bell cage were melted down for armaments purposes during the First World War . In 1922 the community received two new bells, which, however , had to be given in during World War II for the same reason . In 1955 the community received two cast steel bells from the bell foundry in Apolda . In the course of the reconstruction of the belfry in 2006, these were replaced by two new bronze bells from Lauchhammer.
| Name / designation | Origin (foundry) and year | Bell inscription | diameter | Dimensions | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bell i | "Rainbow bell" | Art foundry Lauchhammer 2006 | "Glory to God in the highest" | 1217 mm | 1160 kg |
| Bell II | "Baptism Bell" | C. Albert Bierling , Dresden 1901 | "A pleasure for the people!" | 950 mm | 457 kg |
| Bell III | "Peace Bell" | Art foundry Lauchhammer 2006 | "Peace on Earth" | 933 mm | 513 kg |
literature
- Rainer Thümmel: Bells in Saxony. Sound between heaven and earth. Edited by the Evangelical Regional Church Office of Saxony . With a foreword by Jochen Bohl and photographs by Klaus-Peter Meißner. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2011, ISBN 978-3-374-02871-9 , p. 180
Web links
- Apostelkirche Dresden Trachau by Oswin Hempel - architecture of the 20th century on www.das-neue-dresden.de
- History of the Apostle Church Trachau on the homepage of the Ev.-luth. Laurentius parish Dresden
- Apostelkirche on dresdner-stadtteile.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ History of the Apostle Church Trachau. (No longer available online.) Evangelical Lutheran Laurentius Church Community Dresden, archived from the original on March 6, 2014 ; Retrieved July 29, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ New painting for the Apostle Church. sz-online.de (chargeable), accessed on March 2, 2012 .
- ↑ Apostelkirche Dresden Trachau by Oswin Hempel - Architecture of the 20th Century on www.das-neue-dresden.de
- ^ Rainer Thümmel: Bells in Saxony; Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Leipzig: ISBN 978-3-374-02871-9 : p. 180
- ^ Rainer Thümmel: Bells in Saxony; Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Leipzig: ISBN 978-3-374-02871-9 : p. 180
- ^ Rainer Thümmel: Bells in Saxony; Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Leipzig: ISBN 978-3-374-02871-9 : p. 180
Coordinates: 51 ° 5 ′ 32.2 " N , 13 ° 42 ′ 37.5" E