Resurrection Church (Dresden)

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Church of the Resurrection from the direction of Altplauen (6th church building from 1900/1902 after renovation 1996–1999)
Church of the Resurrection (6th church building in its original state (photo from 1903))

The Church of the Resurrection is an Evangelical Lutheran church in Dresden , in the south-west of Plauen . A church building at the same place has been documented since the 15th century and is believed to have been since the 13th century. Over time, the church has been expanded and fundamentally renovated several times. It got its current appearance during the renovation 1900–1902, which was practically the same as a new building, and during the renovation 1996–1999. Externally it is designed in the neo-renaissance style, inside wood and stone sculptures in Art Nouveau dominate . However, essential parts of the Art Nouveau interior were removed during a renovation in 1953. On the church grounds there is the abandoned churchyard and since 1912 a parish hall with rooms for parish work and administration as well as (service) apartments.

location

The Church of the Resurrection is located in the Plauen district of Dresden on the foothills of a mountain range, the Hahneberg , which is hardly recognizable as such due to the urban development. Over the centuries, the elevated location has always provided sufficient protection from the floods of the Weißeritz river , which flows through the lower part of the former village of Plauen. As older pictures show, the church was visible from afar until the turn of the 20th century. The transformation of the village of Plauen into a suburb of Dresden meant that only the church tower towered over the surrounding buildings.

history

Building history of the Resurrection Church according to Reinhold Gast (from Adolf Jädicke (1903))

Preliminary remark

The following presentation of the phases of the church building in Plauen near Dresden are - following strict art-historical interpretation - based exclusively on the status of research results. The mention of a dominus plebanus , a minor clergyman, in 1296, or the first written mention of Plauen in 1206, bear witness to an early history of church building, i.e. H. of a (permanent) place to perform sacred acts. However, this cannot be assigned or localized. This also applies to the late Gothic gate on the west side of the tower. It does not date from the 12th century, as is claimed in several sources (e.g. in the book by Paul Dittrich, which is referred to several times here: Between Hofmühle and Heidenschanze . Annette Dubbers also follows him). The Gothic did not appear in the Holy Roman Empire until the 13th century. Gurlitt assigned the gate as early as 1904 to the late Gothic and thus to the second church building in 1466/67.

First church building

Gothic gate

The first church (or chapel) building in Plauen near Dresden can be dated around 1300, since documents from 1296 and 1299 mention a Dominus Petrus plebanus (i.e. a lower clergyman, i.e. a “people's priest”). In 1329 the patronage of the church passed from Seusslitz Monastery to the Council of Dresden and was named “Dominus Ulmann de Plawin”.

Today's Plauen church still stands on the same ground as the first church. This could be determined during the renovation in 1900/02 when the then site manager, architect Reinhold Gast, determined and recorded several original floor plans in the cleared church. Since there are no further indications about the determination of these floor plans and the south wall and the tower were not or not completely removed, z. B. Information on the area of ​​the church buildings before 1700 to be regarded as uncertain.

During the Hussite Wars in 1429, the church in Plauen was probably almost completely destroyed.

Second church building

In 1466/67 the council of Dresden restored the church as patron. The consecration “to the holy Archangel Michael and all other holy angels” was carried out on March 17, 1467 by the Bishop of Meissen, Dietrich von Schönberg. The church had two altars and indulgences . Procession stations presumably extended as far as the Hohe Stein as a place of pilgrimage.

The original certificate of dedication handed down by Christian August Freyberg is no longer preserved, but has been confirmed by several objects from the 15th century. These are the gate on the west side of the tower (until 1878 the church entrance), a sacrament house , two vault keystones in the church and two bells, today in the Dresden City Museum. The vault keystones suggest that the second church building was extended the width of the tower to the east and spanned by two cross vaults. The tower built (or repaired) at that time retained its shape and height until 1893.

The Reformation was introduced in Saxony in 1539 , whereby the church initially lost its independence and was parish with six other villages to the St. Bartholomäi Hospital (demolished in 1839, it was located near today's Freiberger Platz in the Wilsdruffer suburb ) until 1563. The pastor's office at the church of the hospital was given to the pastor in Plauen.

Third and fourth church building

Ludwig Richter : Potato Fire (pen drawing, 1847); the 4th church building from the south
Church of Plauen (state 1701–1892, 4th and 5th church building), taken from the north

In 1610 the (again independent) community of Plauen took out a loan "for their church building". Details on the start of construction, construction duration and type of work have not been handed down. According to the floor plan, it should have been an extension to almost double the floor area for the construction stages. The first picture of the church from 1627 shows a roof turret that may have been attached during this renovation.

From March 1700 to December 1701 there was another extension (floor area 321.60 m² with 303 seats and 150 galleries, 4th church building, see photo on the right), whereby the tower remained unchanged, but the roof turret was removed.

Fifth church building

The poor condition of the church and the growing number of residents in Plauen prompted the church council in 1878 to undertake a comprehensive renovation of the fourth church building. The interior underwent a redesign in which seats were gained. A new sacristy with an area of ​​48.50 m² was built on the south side. The rededication of the church took place on the 4th Advent in 1878. In 1881 the owner of the Hofmühle Plauen , Gottlieb Traugott Bienert , had a gas pipe laid to the church at his own expense, so that it received attractive lighting and evening services were possible. In 1892 the Leipzig tower clock factory Bernhard Zachariä manufactured a new clock for the church and installed it. Significant damage to the wooden tower top was visible, which made a renovation necessary in 1893, during which the tower was raised and a new bell was hung.

Sixth church building

Church from the south. On the left the Gottlieb-Traugott-Bienert tomb

Another lack of space and the damp rising in the centuries-old walls made it necessary to make decisions again just a few years later: After several places for a new church were discussed and ultimately rejected, there was another renovation: From 1900 to 1902 the church was under the direction of the architect William Lossow and Hermann Viehweger reconstructed and expanded, whereby the lower part of the tower and the previous nave were retained, but a transept was added to this in the east and the choir in front of it. The renovation was so far-reaching that a new church building was practically built (floor space 934.50 m², with lofts now 1030 seats). On March 9, 1902, the congregation took possession of their new church.

Lossow and Viehweger chose the so-called German Renaissance as the external architectural style, and the tower was raised to a height of 49 meters. When the heating systems were installed, the tombs under the church, in which the coffins were partly stacked three times, were uncovered. Gas lamps were originally intended as lighting, but were replaced by electrical lighting in the final phase of construction. The pure construction costs amounted to 300,000 marks in 1902 , about a tenth of which was covered by donations from community members.

At the end of 1902 / beginning of 1903 the old school building in front of the church was demolished. In 1907, with funds from the Heger-Bienert Foundation, the staircase from Zwickauer Strasse could be built according to a design by city planning officer Hans Erlwein . In this context, the construction of a community hall was already considered, but it was not completed until 1912. The exterior of the church on the village side was thus completed. On this occasion, a keystone was sunk in the church interior. This could be found again in 2017. In a badly rotten wooden box there were two parcels wrapped in oiled paper and a glaze urn with four tin containers that contained a certificate about the completion of construction as well as several documents from the life of the parish and pictures.

According to the construction files, it can be assumed that the pastor Bernhard Liebe († 1917), who was in office during the construction period, intended to give the church the name Michaeliskirche for consecration. He relied on the document from 1467 and the patronage of the Archangel Michael that was elected at that time . The church council rejected this naming because "some gentlemen find the Catholic origin questionable". That is why the church was simply consecrated on March 9, 1902 as the "Church of Plauen" - as it has been called for centuries from all known sources, including the files of the parish. Only after Plauen was incorporated into Dresden did it receive its current name on March 3, 1903, Church of the Resurrection.

History until today

New chancel window by Wolfgang Korn ( Whitsun , 2003)

Until 1945, only conservation measures were carried out on the Church of the Resurrection; For example, the interior plaster was renewed in the 1920s and the tower roof was re-covered in 1939/40. During the air raids on Dresden in February and April 1945, the building remained largely unscathed; only many glass windows, especially those in the chancel and the large windows in the transept and nave, were severely damaged or completely destroyed by the pressure waves and splinters from the high-explosive bombs.

The war damage was repaired quickly - even if, like the windows, partly only provisionally - and the church could be used again. As early as mid-1945 it was one of the replacement venues for the Dresden Kreuzchor for the destroyed Kreuzkirche . In the years 1952/53 the church was renovated inside and changed massively. Three of the five windows in the chancel were walled up, the two remaining windows and all of the large windows in the nave were made of monochrome glass. The entire stucco in the choir fell victim to the taste of the times, it was perceived as a “work of Art Nouveau” and “complete derailment” and was removed. The walls in the entire church received a white paint, colored surfaces and decorative ornamentation were painted over.

Until 1990, only urgently needed repairs could be carried out on the church. After 1990, grants from the church and monument preservation were available, with the help of which the church building could be restored structurally and creatively to a good condition. In 1991 the interior of the church was fumigated in order to control the pest infestation in the unique church ceiling. After a damage survey in 1992, the church tower was renovated in 1996/97 and the church roof re-covered. The partial reconstruction of the interior began in 1994 with the opening of the three chancel windows that were added in 1953. From 1996 to 1999 the state of 1900/02 was artistically approximated again with the help of illusion painting. After a controversial discussion in the community and in the church council, the decision was made at the end of the 1990s to have the windows of the chancel on the themes of the destroyed windows (birth, baptism, crucifixion and resurrection of Christ as well as Pentecost) designed by the Dresden glass artist Wolfgang Korn. From 2000 to 2003, the windows were gradually installed and today they are again a striking eye-catcher in the church.

architecture

Exterior description

The current church building was built after 1900/02 by adding a transept and the chancel to the old village church. This gave the floor plan the shape of a cross. The exterior of the attached parts of the building is based on the simple design of the old church. Dehio assigns the building to the neo-renaissance and neo-Gothic styles. Above the transept one has skylights built. The attached chancel is surrounded by two sacristies and staircases to the galleries. Some turrets on the extensions were removed over the course of time, as water kept coming in through their roofing.

The outer jewelry is relatively economical. The symbols of the evangelists are designed as keystones above the main entrances , the side entrances and door jambs are decorated with angels' heads, and above the entrance to the sacristies there is a lamb of God . It is noticeable that stone sculptures of evil spirits (e.g. also a gargoyle ) are attached to the north and south sides of the church , as was often the case in the Middle Ages.

Inside description

View from the entrance to the church

Through the two main entrances on the western north and south side of the church, the visitor first enters an anteroom. On one side there are three double doors that lead into the church, on the other side the staircase to the organ gallery and the so-called bridal hall. The latter was intended as a waiting room for newlyweds before the wedding and was therefore also decorated with a mural “The Wedding at Cana” by Raphael Wehle. In the absence of other rooms for congregational events, the bridal hall was also used for Bible studies, confirmation classes and other congregational events. The moisture in the room caused by the gathering of people severely damaged the mural, which was finally removed around 1930.

When entering the church, the visitor is impressed by the imposing wooden ceiling, which was built into the church roof with the help of an iron structure and gives the impression of a large dome.

The interior of the church follows a theological concept: after the entrance, the believers are led past floral column capitals (e.g. a cross bedded on roses as a symbol of the abundance of the blessings of Christianity) to the chancel, where the symbols of salvation (birth, Baptism, crucifixion and resurrection of Christ as well as Pentecost) in the large windows and in the choir stalls the paradise is represented. In this way, individual depictions also remind of the temptations to which a believer is exposed (e.g. the snake biting into the apple or evil spirits on the pillar knobs of the wooden ceiling). These are juxtaposed with symbols for overcoming them and Bible quotes that strengthen faith.

The concept is no longer completely comprehensible, as essential elements are missing due to the destruction of the windows in World War II and the rigorous removal of the stucco in the sanctuary from 1953. The cross on the ceiling made of 98 incandescent lamps, which had to be switched off at the end of the 1970s due to the ailing electrics, is also missing; it was not reinstalled during the renovation.

In the church there are numerous decorative sculptures made of wood or stone. Angels in various forms predominate, presumably because the reigning pastor Liebe wanted to name the church after the Archangel Michael, which the church council rejected. Many plant motifs are reminiscent of the current Art Nouveau style at the time of construction, especially in the windows. The large glass windows of the nave (destroyed in 1945) were designed with striking floral carpet patterns.

Furnishing

View into the choir room with crucifix, lectern, altar, baptismal font and pulpit
Altar from 1732 (picture of Christ from 1859)

The interior of the church is characterized by the fact that the community wanted to take over the altar from 1735 (altarpiece from 1859) and the font from 1617 from the old village church. These two objects therefore seem a bit like foreign bodies, but are testimony to the long history of this church. Other historical elements such as a crucifix from 1720, various epitaphs , the late Gothic gate on the tower and a sacrament house from the 15th century, paintings by Luther and Melanchthon, etc. a. also found their place in the church.

altar

The second church building received two altars when it was consecrated, at least one of which was removed in 1539 when the Reformation was introduced in Saxony. During the renovation of the church in 1700 (fourth church building), the congregation tried to get an (unspecified) "altar deposited in Dreßden", apparently without success. When the Annenkirche in Dresden was given an altar from the Frauenkirche , which was being demolished, in 1727 , it in turn gave the altar from 1598 to the community of Plauen in 1729. It is unclear whether it was erected at all, because shortly before his death in 1732 the tenant of the Hofmühle , Carl Gottlob Gäbler, donated 70 thalers to the community for the construction of a new altar, the one that still dominates the chancel today.

The design for the altar comes from Johann Christian Feige . The consecration took place on Ascension Day 1735. Above a stone altar table clad in wood rises the late Baroque composition of a large table made entirely of wood, with two columns with gilded capitals in front of it. It is crowned by two urns, and at the top the artist attached a god's eye in a gilded halo.

All wooden parts of the altar were provided with illusion painting in typical late Baroque style , so that the viewer gets a uniform overall picture of a marble production . It must be taken into account that the baroque illusion painting at that time was considerably more cost-effective than a stone production: a “village church” like the Plauen church would have been financially overwhelmed with a “stone version”.

Two stone steps lead to the stone platform. Originally, as a note from 1853 states, metal railings were left and right. These were replaced in 1902 by a wooden railing, also made of wood and provided with the marbled motifs of the illusion painting of the actual altar, which still characterizes the overall picture of the altar in the lower part.

A Christ medallion originally took up the large visible surface. In 1859 the parish villages of Plauen, Dölzschen , Naußlitz , Cunnersdorf and Coschütz financed the purchase of the painting Blessing Christ by Alfred Diethe .

In the course of the sixth church building in 1902, the column positions were slightly changed, a new coat of paint was applied and the altar was taken over in the enlarged church. During restorations in 1953, the old illusion painting was restored and after 1990 some damage to Diethe's painting was repaired. With its almost three hundred year history, this altar is one of the very few baroque altars in Dresden that has largely been preserved in the original.

pulpit

Pulpit staircase with Dresden city arms

It is not known since when the church in Plauen had a pulpit. When the fifth church was built in 1878, the existing one, which Gurlitt describes as a work from 1610, was replaced. It must have been in poor condition so that a new pulpit had to be installed. Like the old one, it had an octagonal shape, stood on one foot, had five painted sides and a sound cover . The painting came from Karl Gottlob Schönherr . When the sixth church was built, this pulpit, unlike the altar, was replaced by one designed by Lossow & Viehweger . It was again designed in the historical octagonal shape of oak, rests on a marble base and has a richly decorated sound cover adorned with a cross, which is based on the tower cross of the Dresden Frauenkirche .

The city of Dresden, as patron of the church, took over the financing of the new pulpit, as did that of the lectern on the opposite side of the chancel. The Dresden coat of arms is therefore on both pieces.

The well-preserved pulpit from 1878 was donated to the evangelical parish of Deutsch Gabel in 1902 , in whose church it is still located.

Baptismal font

In 1617, on the occasion of the third church building, the court mill leaseholder Peter Junghans donated a baptismal font, which was probably made by the sculptor Balthasar Barthel from Meissen . In 1902, on the occasion of the sixth church building, the previously plain base was replaced by an ornate one. At the same time, parishioners donated a pewter baptismal bowl, which is still in use today, as well as a copper cover, which was crowned by a dove as a symbol of the Holy Spirit . The latter had to be delivered in 1942 to be melted down for war purposes.

More pieces of equipment

The oldest pieces of equipment in the church come from the second church building in 1467. These are the late Gothic gate on the west side of the tower (added today), a sacrament house walled in in the north-west entrance area and, on display in the south transept, two keystones with the Saxon or Dresden coat of arms and an ornamental stone with God's lamb , as the consecrating Bishop Dietrich III. von Schönberg led in the coat of arms.

The north side of the choir is dominated by a baroque crucifix on the wall, over three meters high and partly gilded. It was donated to the church on March 21, 1720 by Georg (e) Ranitzsch from Naußlitz and his wife. It rests on a base on which there is a skull and two symbolic silver bones protruding from the earth. The ends of the arms of the cross are adorned with angel heads. Damaged after a burglary in 1975, it was not fully restored until 2018.

In the entrance and stairway areas of the church, several epitaphs are walled in and, in the northeast entrance, a tomb for the donor of the altar, Gottlob Gäbler, erected by Johann Christian Feige the Elder. Ä. was created.

In the staircase to the organ loft hangs a larger than life painting by Pastor Christoph Schmidt, during whose tenure the fourth church was built in 1700/01. There are paintings by Luther and Melanchthon on the west wall of the church, donated or bought by the parish on the occasion of the jubilee celebration for the 300th anniversary of the introduction of the Reformation in Saxony in 1839. The painters of the pictures mentioned are unknown.

Two octagonal death shields from the 17th century hang on the south and north sides of the nave of the church.

Organs

Prehistory to 1877

Around 1500 the church in Plauen received its first organ from the Kreuzkirche in Dresden, which was damaged by fire in 1491 and planned for complete renovation . For example, although the organ was repaired in 1692, the teacher at the time Kretschmar complained in 1709 about the unusually poor condition of the work. Only after the demolition of the old Frauenkirche in Dresden did the church receive 9 registers of the local Weller organ through donations from the residents . Tobias Schramm (1701–1771), city organ builder and later court organ builder, used it to create a new organ with 11 stops on a manual and pedal , which was consecrated in May 1756.

However, when the village of Plauen was badly affected and looted during the Battle of Dresden in August 1813, almost all of the wood was torn out of the church and the organ was destroyed.

It now only took three years until the 11th Sunday after Trinity 1816 a new, presumably single-manual organ could be consecrated, which was probably built by Friedrich Traugott Kayser (one of the sons of the organ builder Johann Christian Kayser ).

Organ 1878–1901

Organ from 1879 to 1902, recorded around 1880

In connection with the comprehensive renovation of the church - (5th church building) - Traugott Bienert (1813–1894) gave the community 8,000 M (around EUR 60,000 in monetary value (as of 2019)) for a new organ in 1877. Carl Eduard Jehmlich's proposal for a new building with 20 registers on 2 manuals, which also reacted to the sound perception that had changed in the meantime, received the best rating and was commissioned to carry out the work. The newly built organ was put into service on the 1st of Advent in 1878 and then the new church was consecrated at Christmas 1878. The organ was not finally completed until February 1879 (photo on the right).

Organ 1901–1985

In 1900, as part of the last major expansion of the church by the architects Lossow & Viehweger, negotiations for a new organ began with the organ building company of the Jehmlich brothers . It was planned to reuse all 20 registers of the old organ, of which 19 registers were actually reused, whereby the disposition proposals were assessed by the then cantor Ferdinand Witzmann and the church school teacher at the time. The housing design comes from the architects mentioned, which means that the interior design of the church interior, which they also carried out, made it possible to implement a uniform spatial concept throughout. The case, which is unique and elaborately designed, is committed to Art Nouveau, but also incorporates stylistic elements from a wide variety of eras. Like the entire interior, it is adorned with numerous angel heads. The carving below the prospect pipes shows biblical symbols such as fish and grapevine.

Organ from 1902 to 1985

The old organ was demolished in April 1901 when construction work on the church was already in full swing. On April 1, 1902, the new organ was checked by seminar teacher Karl Richter (photo on the right). She had in the original cone chests , a free-standing gaming table and a pneumatic play and register contracture .

From today's point of view, according to the organ researcher Wolfram Hackel, “this organ represented a typical example of its time, in which, in turn, a changed sound perception can be recognized. Attempts were made to imitate the sound of the orchestral instruments and the orchestra by means of the keynote and the construction of solo registers. The clear brightness of the sound of the baroque organs was no longer required. Then there was the use of the pneumatic action, which at the time was praised as a technical advance. The tone valves and registers are controlled by compressed air in thin tubes. The power transmission from the button is delayed by the several meters long tubes. "

The layout of the Jehmlich organ of the Church of the Resurrection in 1902 with its 46 registers was as follows:

I Manual C-g 3
1. Drone 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Quintatön 8th'
4th Concert flute 8th'
5. Salicional 8th'
6th Fugara 8th'
7th octave 4 ′
8th. Fugara 4 ′
9. Gemshorn 4 ′
10. Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
11. octave 2 ′
12. Cornett III-V
13. Mixture IV
14th Trumpet 8th'
II Manual C-g 3
15th Quintatön 16 ′
16. Principal 8th'
17th Dumped 8th'
18th Aeoline 8th'
19th Gamba 8th'
20th Dolce 8th'
21st Hollow flute 8th'
22nd Principal 4 ′
23. Reed flute 4 ′
24. violin 4 ′
25th octave 2 ′
26th Sesquialtera II
27. Mixture III
28. clarinet 8th'
III Manual C-g 3
29 Dumped 16 ′
30th Violin principal 8th'
31. Reed flute 8th'
32. Vox coelestis 8th'
33. Soft flute 8th'
34. Harmony flute 4 ′
35. Salicet 4 ′
36. Forest flute 2 ′
37. oboe 8th'
Pedal C – f 1
38. Principal bass 16 ′
39. Thought bass 8th'
40. Sub-bass 16 ′
41. Violonbass 16 ′
42. Quint bass 10 2 ⁄ 3  ′
43. Octave bass 8th'
44. Cello bass 8th'
45. Octave bass 4 ′
46. trombone 16 ′
  • Coupling : 6 normal coupling, octave coupling, general coupling
  • Playing aids : Fixed combinations: p, mf, f, ff, viol, flute, reed choir, 1 free combination

The Bienert family once again bore the cost of building the new organ in the amount of 14,375 marks (around 97,000 EUR (as of 2019), rounded according to the monetary value).

The new organ only existed in this form for a few years. In 1917 the pewter prospect pipes had to be removed and handed over for war purposes. Repairs were also carried out over the years and, in 1934, the company Gebr. Jehmlich installed three “baroque registers” and the sound of other registers was redesigned.

In 1946 the organ was tuned up from 435 Hz to 440 Hz in order to enable it to play with orchestral instruments. 75% of the costs were borne by the Dresdner Kreuzchor, which, after the destruction of the Kreuzkirche and Kreuzschule, first found its home in the Dresden-Plauen grammar school and sang for the first time on July 1, 1945 in the service of the Resurrection Church and here until the Kreuzkirche was used again gave his concerts.

In 1958 the company Gebr. Jehmlich received the order for a technical renewal of the action (redesign of the console) and a tonal redesign of the disposition. For financial reasons, the municipality preferred the conversion to a new organ with a slider . The work was carried out in 1959, although only the most pressing problems could be solved in this way.

The situation changed when Cantor Gerald Stier entered the community. At first he tried to make a further improvement, which ultimately failed in 1972 with the attempt to delay the completely uneven action by relocating the back gear and increasing the wind pressure of the action action. With great personal dedication, Cantor Stier, who was also church music director of the Dresden West church district from 1976, set in motion an organ donation collection for a new organ in the community, in which the community members have been actively involved with the most diverse initiatives for years.

Organ since 1985

Owl organ from 1985
Nave with oak ceiling and owl organ (1985)

From 1977 conceptual considerations were also made. It was found that with a new organ and the requirements of organ playing, only 28 stops would have been possible within the previous case. Due to the wooden barrel vault, the church space has hardly any reverberation, which also had negative effects on the planning of the new building: the desired acoustic presence of the organ in the room could not be achieved in this way. In 1983, after much deliberation, it was finally decided to move the housing 1.25 meters into the room, which was also to be extended to the rear and at the same time to improve the sound radiation by installing a rear wall. In addition, it was decided to expand the disposition from the previously planned 28 to 44 registers: The upper work ( swell work ) received a richer line-up, and a Rückpositiv was planned as a further manual work . On the part of the tonal conception, the municipality aimed to synthesize a “healthy, fundamental foundation with brighter, baroque sounds in order to do justice to the room and its dry acoustics.” Appropriate playing aids (electric stop action and combinations of composers) would be useful for an organ of this size but failed due to the lack of foreign currency to be able to buy this technology in West Germany. It was undisputed from the start that it should be a slider-drawer organ.

After obtaining offers, the church council finally made the decision to entrust VEB Eule-Orgelbau Bautzen with the construction of the new organ. In 1984 the preparatory work began. For reasons of cost, it was insisted on reusing material that was still usable. The architect of the Rückpositiv, Dr. Karlheinz Georgi, took on the stylistic design of the main housing. At Christmas 1984 the parish for the Christ Vespers was once again urgently reminded by Pastor Hoch that the new building was beginning and the support that was still needed, as it was the second largest new organ in Dresden since the Second World War after the Kreuzkirche .

Disposition of the owl organ of the Church of the Resurrection in 1985:

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Drone 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Reed flute 8th'
4th octave 4 ′
5. Pointed flute 4 ′
6th Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
7th Super octave 2 ′
8th. Forest flute 2 ′
9. Cornet III-V
10. Mixture IV
11. bassoon 16 ′
12. Trumpet 8th'
Tremulant
II Oberwerk ( swellwork ) C – g 3
13. Quintatön 16 ′
14th Wooden flute 8th'
15th Pointed 8th'
16. Salizional 8th'
17th Unda maria 8th'
18th Principal 4 ′
19th Flûte douce 4 ′
20th Rohrnassat 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
21st octave 2 ′
22nd third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
23. Sifflet 1'
24. Scharff IV
25th Wooden dulcian 16 ′
26th Rohrschalmai 8th'
Tremulant
III Rückpositiv C – g 3
27. Dumped 8th'
28. Quintatön 8th'
29 Praestant 4 ′
30th Reed flute 4 ′
31. Pointed octave 2 ′
32. Sif flute 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
33. Sesquialtera II
34. Zimbel III
35. Krummhorn 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
36. Principal bass 16 ′
37. Sub-bass 16 ′
38. Octave bass 16 ′
39. Gemshorn 8th'
40. Chorale bass 4 ′
41. Pedal Mixture V
42. trombone 16 ′
43. Trumpet 8th'
44. Clarine 4 ′
Tremulant
  • Pair: III / I, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P
  • Secondary register: Zimbelstern , apparatus in the swell

(Disposition: VEB Eule Orgelbau Bautzen, Christoph Schwarzenberg ( Crostau ), Gerald Stier; Intonation: Ulrich Schwarzenberg; Sculpture: Günter Voigtländer ( Dippoldiswalde ); Carpentry: Konrad Heinrich ( Königswalde ), restoration of the organ case: Peter and Sven Taubert, Joachim Hugk ( Dresden))

The old organ was finally demolished in early 1985 by volunteers. The new organ was consecrated on the 4th Advent (December 22nd) 1985. In 2000, after the renovation work on the church, technical work as well as a sound inspection and cleaning of the organ by the builder took place.

Bells

history

The church had had three church bells since at least the second church was built , and they were in service until 1893. Two of them have been preserved because they were given to the Plauen town hall in 1894 to strike the hour and have been kept in the city museum since 1993. The smallest, probably the oldest, bell was melted down in 1904. The so-called “secular” bells were not affected by the forced delivery in either of the two world wars, so they have been preserved and are among the oldest bells in Dresden.

In 1893, extensive repairs to the tower of the church became necessary. In this context, the Hofmüller and manufacturer Traugott Bienert donated four new bells, cast by the Dresden company C. Albert Bierling . Belfry and the Glockenjoche were doing re made of steel.

During the First World War , the three largest bells were confiscated in 1917 and had to be delivered for war purposes. The smallest remained in the church as a ringing bell, but was smashed in 1923 after new bells were hung and sold as broken pieces. In 1922 (three bells) and 1929 (one bell) a new bell was made in the Apoldaer Bell foundry Gebr. Ulrich . In 1935 the community received a bell tower and a cemetery bell in the Äusseren Plauen cemetery , cast by the Dresden foundry T. Pietzel, Dresden.

During the Second World War , the bells from 1922, 1929 and 1935 (cemetery bell) fell victim to the metal collections again in 1942. Again only the smallest bell remained on the church tower.

Today's bell

After the war, the congregation received the steel bells from the destroyed Zion Church , which the air raids of 13-15. February 1945 (unlike the church itself) and which still ring the bells of the Church of the Resurrection today. They should also remind you that the Plauen parish was the home of the Zionskirche parish from 1945 to 1956. The church bell, which remained in 1942, has been hanging in the bell tower in the Outer Plauen cemetery since 1946.

Bells of the church of Plauen near Dresden / Auferstehungskirche Dresden-Plauen
Casting year Caster material diameter Dimensions Nominal tone Remarks
Bells for the second church building (consecration 1467)
around 1460 unknown bronze 750 mm 250 kg 1893 to City Hall Plauen, 1993 to Dresden City Museum
around 1500 unknown bronze 560 mm 120 kg 1893 to City Hall Plauen, 1993 to Dresden City Museum
1st half of the 15th century unknown bronze 530 mm 100 kg Melted down in 1904
Peal from 1893
1893 CA Bierling, Dresden bronze 1350 mm 1475 kg d 1 Delivered for war purposes in 1917
1893 CA Bierling, Dresden bronze 1140 mm 768 kg f 1 Delivered for war purposes in 1917
1893 CA Bierling, Dresden bronze 870 mm 390 kg a 1 Delivered for war purposes in 1917
1893 CA Bierling, Dresden bronze 740 mm 224 kg c 2 only chime from 1917 to 1922, smashed in 1923
Peal from the 1920s
1929 Gebr. Ulrich, Apolda bronze 1360 mm 1685 kg cis 1 Delivered for war purposes in 1942
1922 Gebr. Ulrich, Apolda bronze 1180 mm 898 kg e 1 Delivered for war purposes in 1942
1922 Gebr. Ulrich, Apolda bronze 920 mm 448 kg g sharp 1 Delivered for war purposes in 1942
1922 Gebr. Ulrich, Apolda bronze 750 mm 256 kg h 1 only bell from 1942 to 1946,
since 1947 on the bell tower of the Outer Plauen cemetery
Bells from 1946 (taken over from the destroyed Zionskirche , their basic tones form the B major triad )
1920 Bochum association
for mining and cast steel production 		Cast steel 1773 mm 2332 kg h 0
1920 Bochum association
for mining and cast steel production 		Cast steel 1430 mm 1272 kg dis 1
1920 Bochum association
for mining and cast steel production 		Cast steel 1260 mm 766 kg f sharp 1
Friedhofsblocken Outer Plauenscher Friedhof
1893 unknown bronze 300 mm Hand bell at the celebration hall
1935 T. Pietzel, Dresden bronze 940 mm 500 kg g sharp 1 Delivered for war purposes in 1942,
replaced in 1946 by the smallest bell from 1922 from the church tower

Parish and pastor

For the village church, whose pastor was first known by name in 1329, a single local priest was sufficient until 1890. In 1890 the second parish office was established, in 1902 with the consecration of the 6th church building the third parish office. At that time, the Plauen community alone had over 12,000 inhabitants, almost all of whom were Protestant.

In 1945, after the destruction of the Frauenkirche , the Church of the Resurrection was designated as the new ephoral parish for the Dresden-Land church district and thus received the superintendent of the Frauenkirche. The (existing) third parish office at the Resurrection Church was connected to this. Parts of the Zionskirchgemeinde were parish in 1945 because of the destruction of the church and its parish area in the Resurrection parish and only formed again in 1956 as an independent parish. With the redesign of the ephoral districts, the Superintendentur Dresden-West existed from 1976 to 1999 with its seat at the Church of the Resurrection. From 1999 the number of parish priests was gradually reduced to a single pastor.

In April 2017, the congregation belonging to the Church of the Resurrection had 2,810 congregation members according to its own information.

Churchyard

Old tombstone next to the church

It can be assumed that the first church building was surrounded by a churchyard. It had to be expanded in 1674 because of the parish of Cunnersdorf. In 1848 an enlargement became necessary again, and plots of land were purchased several times, which form today's Inner Plauen cemetery south of the church. By 1871 it had reached its current size of 0.33 hectares and is a listed building as a whole. When the sixth church was built in 1900/02, only the grave field west of the church remained of the old churchyard. Some old tombstones have been preserved north of the church.

In 1882 the much larger Outer Plauen cemetery was laid out on Bernhardstrasse and the celebration hall was built. Right next to it is the Coschützer Friedhof since 1897. Numerous former pastors from Plauen (Dresden) and among others the following personalities were buried in the Inner Plauen cemetery:

Parish hall

Parish hall

Towards the end of the 19th century, the population of Plauen had increased significantly, which led to an increase in the number of children and confirmands receiving church instruction. Several associations had also been set up for adults within the framework of the parish that required meeting rooms. As an alternative solution, premises in Plauen restaurants were used. The large church, completed in 1902, offered enough space for services, but was not suitable for events with a smaller number of visitors or those with a teaching character.

Following the example of other parishes in Dresden, a parish hall should therefore be built as quickly as possible, with rooms of different sizes for these needs. An area for a parish hall was therefore included in the initial planning for the enclosure of the church grounds facing Kirchstrasse (today Altplauen). Difficulties in acquiring the Schmidt property led to an initial delay of several years, the negotiations on the outsourcing of the Zion parish and thus the reduction in the number of members of the Resurrection parish led to another.

At the end of 1910 a competition was announced for which 29 designs were submitted. The contract was awarded to the architect Max Wrba, a brother of the sculptor Georg Wrba , who had been working in the Dresden building department near Erlwein since 1908. Work began in early September 1911, and the building was consecrated on October 9, 1912. On the front side facing Reckestrasse there is a bay window which is decorated with four relief figures ( Luther , Melanchthon , Henry the Pious and Frederick the Wise ) by Oskar Döll .

The parish hall of the Resurrection Parish can be used very flexibly for the work of the parish. In addition to apartments on the upper floor and rooms for the administrative staff on the mezzanine floor, there is a large hall with a stage and gallery for around 400 people, a smaller hall for around 100 people, a meeting room for the church council and several rooms for group work with up to 20 people. The large hall on the ground floor could be divided into three smaller rooms by two lowerable partition walls. However, the system for moving the partition walls was worn out, so that it had to be expanded without replacement in the 1980s.

literature

  • Christoph Pollmer: The history of the church of Plauen near Dresden. Published in 2017 on the 550th anniversary of the consecration of the church in 1467. Evangelical Lutheran Resurrection Church Community (Ed.), Dresden 2017. Without ISBN.
  • Heinzjoachim Franeck (Ed.): From time to time. Festschrift for the centenary of the Resurrection Church in Dresden-Plauen. Kirst printing works, Dresden, 2002. Without ISBN.
  • Memorandum on the new building of the Resurrection Church in Dresden-Plauen . Dresden 1908 ( digitized version )
  • Adolf Jädicke: The new organ in the church in Plauen-Dr. Petzschke & Gretschel, Dresden 1902 ( digitized version )
  • Adolf Jädicke: The church at Plauen near Dresden, worked on in the culture picture of the time. Petzschke & Gretschel Plauen-Dr., 1900. ( digitized )
  • Christian August Freyberg: Plauische church history. Dreßden, 1737. ( digitized version )

Web links

Commons : Church of the Resurrection  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Commons : Innerer Plauenscher Friedhof  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i reused stops of the Jehmlich organ from 1902

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul Dittrich: Between Hofmühle and Heidenschanze. History of the Dresden suburbs Plauen and Coschütz. 2nd, revised edition, Verlag Adolf Urban, Dresden 1941, p. 21.
  2. ^ Annette Dubbers (at the same time publisher): Plauen - From the history of a Dresden district. Self-published, Dresden 2006, ISBN 3-937199-34-9
  3. ↑ Cornelius Gurlitt: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony 24, Amtshauptmannschaft Dresden-Altstadt (Land). Dresden 1904, p. 99.
  4. ^ Paul Dittrich: Between Hofmühle and Heidenschanze. History of the Dresden suburbs Plauen and Coschütz. 2nd, revised edition, Verlag Adolf Urban, Dresden 1941, p. 22.
  5. ^ Paul Dittrich: Between Hofmühle and Heidenschanze. History of the Dresden suburbs Plauen and Coschütz. 2nd, revised edition, Verlag Adolf Urban, Dresden 1941, p. 25.
  6. ↑ Adolf Jädicke: contributions to the history of the village Plauen near Dresden. Collection of texts, newspaper clippings, brochures, etc. 1894-1903. , P. 227.
  7. ^ Paul Dittrich: Between Hofmühle and Heidenschanze. History of the Dresden suburbs Plauen and Coschütz. 2nd, revised edition, Verlag Adolf Urban, Dresden 1941, p. 24.
  8. ^ Christian August Freyberg: Plauische Kirchengeschichte. Dreßden, 1737, pp. 6-7
  9. ^ Paul Dittrich: Between Hofmühle and Heidenschanze. History of the Dresden suburbs Plauen and Coschütz. 2nd, revised edition, Verlag Adolf Urban, Dresden 1941, pp. 25-26.
  10. ↑ Christoph Pollmer: The history of the church of Plauen near Dresden. Published in 2017 on the 550th anniversary of the consecration of the church in 1467. Evangelical Lutheran Resurrection Church Community (ed.), Dresden 2017, pp. 10, 12.
  11. ^ Paul Dittrich: Between Hofmühle and Heidenschanze. History of the Dresden suburbs Plauen and Coschütz. 2nd, revised edition, Verlag Adolf Urban, Dresden 1941, p. 27.
  12. ↑ Documents Dresden City Archives, inventory 2.4.3, no. 468, s. also Christoph Pollmer: The history of the church of Plauen near Dresden. Published in 2017 on the 550th anniversary of the consecration of the church in 1467. Evangelical Lutheran Resurrection Church Community (Ed.), Dresden 2017, p. 14.
  13. ↑ Christoph Pollmer: The history of the church of Plauen near Dresden. Published in 2017 on the 550th anniversary of the consecration of the church in 1467. Evangelical Lutheran Resurrection Church Community (Ed.), Dresden 2017, p. 16.
  14. ↑ Christoph Pollmer: The history of the church of Plauen near Dresden. Published in 2017 for the 550th anniversary of the consecration of the church in 1467. Evangelical Lutheran Resurrection Church Community (Ed.), Dresden 2017, p. 17.
  15. ↑ Christoph Pollmer: The history of the church of Plauen near Dresden. Published in 2017 on the 550th anniversary of the consecration of the church in 1467. Evangelical Lutheran Resurrection Church Community (Ed.), Dresden 2017, pp. 22–28.
  16. ↑ Christoph Pollmer: The history of the church of Plauen near Dresden. Published in 2017 for the 550th anniversary of the consecration of the church in 1467. Evangelical Lutheran Resurrection Church Community (Ed.), Dresden 2017, pp. 29–30.
  17. ↑ a b c d Paul Dittrich: Between Hofmühle and Heidenschanze. History of the Dresden suburbs Plauen and Coschütz. 2nd, reviewed edition, Verlag Adolf Urban, Dresden 1941, p. 32, with further references.
  18. ↑ ACS: Discovery in the Church of the Resurrection. The church is celebrating an anniversary this year. Now a relic has been found. In: Sächsische Zeitung , Dresden edition, from 29./30. July 2017, p. 16.
  19. ↑ Files of the building committee 1897-1902, see Christoph Pollmer: The history of the church of Plauen near Dresden. Published in 2017 for the 550th anniversary of the consecration of the church in 1467. Evangelical Lutheran Resurrection Church Community (Ed.), Dresden 2017, p. 38.
  20. ↑ Christoph Pollmer: The history of the church of Plauen near Dresden. Published in 2017 on the 550th anniversary of the consecration of 1467. Evangelical Lutheran Resurrection Church Community (Ed.), Dresden 2017, p. 47.
  21. ↑ Christoph Pollmer: The history of the church of Plauen near Dresden. Published in 2017 on the 550th anniversary of the consecration of the church in 1467. Evangelical Lutheran Resurrection Church Community (Ed.), Dresden 2017, pp. 48–49. There also reproduction of the letter from the Evangelical Lutheran Art Service. Regional church of Saxony from 1953 in the archive of the Resurrection Church parish, which was cited here.
  22. ↑ For this and the following explanations in this section cf. Christoph Pollmer: The history of the church of Plauen near Dresden. Published in 2017 on the 550th anniversary of the consecration of the church in 1467. Evangelical Lutheran Resurrection Church Community (Ed.), Dresden 2017, pp. 49–54.
  23. ↑ Evangelical Lutheran Church of Resurrection (ed.): The windows in the chancel of the Church of Resurrection Dresden-Plauen . , Dresden 2010, flyer of the community, see also Christoph Pollmer: The history of the church of Plauen near Dresden. Published in 2017 on the 550th anniversary of the consecration of the church in 1467. Evangelical Lutheran Resurrection Church Community (Ed.), Dresden 2017, pp. 52–54.
  24. ↑ Georg Dehio: “Saxony I. Administrative Region Dresden. Handbook of German Art Monuments. ”Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin 1996, p. 296
  25. ↑ Christoph Pollmer: The history of the church of Plauen near Dresden. Published in 2017 for the 550th anniversary of the consecration of the church in 1467. Evangelical Lutheran Resurrection Church Community (Ed.), Dresden 2017. Without ISBN, p. 45.
  26. ^ "Memorandum on the new building of the Resurrection Church Dresden-Plauen." Published by the church council of the Resurrection Church Dresden-Plauen. 1908, pp. 20-25
  27. ^ Karl-Ludwig Hoch : The consecration of the church a hundred years ago . In: Heinzjoachim Franeck (Ed.): From time to time. Festschrift for the centenary of the Resurrection Church in Dresden-Plauen. Druckerei Kirst, Dresden 2002. Without ISBN, p. 17.
  28. ^ Dresden City Archives. Signature: 8.40 GV Plauen / R (invoices) 25e
  29. ↑ Christian Friedrich Müller u. a .: Chronicle of the Annenkirche in Dresden 1578-1998. History of the Jakobikirche 1884-1945. Publisher: Annen-Matthäus-Kirchgemeinde Dresden. Dresden, 2011. p. Xx
  30. ↑ a b Heinz Joachim Franeck (ed.): From time to time. Festschrift for the centenary of the Resurrection Church in Dresden-Plauen. Druckerei Kirst, Dresden, 2002. Without ISBN, p. 33.
  31. ↑ Christoph Pollmer: The history of the church of Plauen near Dresden. Published in 2017 on the 550th anniversary of the consecration of the church in 1467. Evangelical Lutheran Resurrection Church Community (Ed.), Dresden 2017. Without ISBN, p. 58.
  32. ^ Fritz Löffler: The old Dresden. History of his buildings. EA Seemann Verlag Leipzig 1981. ISBN 3-363-00007-3 , p. 466.
  33. ↑ Christoph Pollmer: The history of the church of Plauen near Dresden. Published in 2017 for the 550th anniversary of the consecration of the church in 1467. Evangelical Lutheran Resurrection Church Community (Ed.), Dresden 2017. Without ISBN, p. 56.
  34. ↑ a b Christoph Pollmer: The history of the church of Plauen near Dresden. Published in 2017 for the 550th anniversary of the consecration of the church in 1467. Evangelical Lutheran Resurrection Church Community (Ed.), Dresden 2017. Without ISBN, p. 57.
  35. ↑ Christoph Pollmer: The history of the church of Plauen near Dresden. Published in 2017 on the 550th anniversary of the consecration of the church in 1467. Evangelical Lutheran Church of Resurrection (Ed.), Dresden 2017. Without ISBN, pp. 56/57.
  36. ↑ Cornelius Gurlitt: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony 24, Amtshauptmannschaft Dresden-Altstadt (Land). Dresden 1904, p. 101.
  37. ↑ Christoph Pollmer: The history of the church of Plauen near Dresden. Published in 2017 on the 550th anniversary of the consecration of the church in 1467. Evangelical Lutheran Resurrection Church Community (Ed.), Dresden 2017. Without ISBN, p. 60.
  38. ↑ Christoph Pollmer: The history of the church of Plauen near Dresden. Published in 2017 for the 550th anniversary of the consecration of the church in 1467. Evangelical Lutheran Church of Resurrection (Ed.), Dresden 2017. Without ISBN, pp. 58–59.
  39. ↑ Christoph Pollmer: The history of the church of Plauen near Dresden. Published in 2017 for the 550th anniversary of the consecration of the church in 1467. Evangelical Lutheran Resurrection Church Community (Ed.), Dresden 2017. Without ISBN, p. 61.
  40. ^ A b Paul Dittrich: Between Hofmühle and Heidenschanze. History of the Dresden suburbs Plauen and Coschütz. 2nd, revised edition, Verlag Adolf Urban, Dresden 1941, p. 31.
  41. ^ A b Wolfram Hackel: The organs in Dresden Plauen . In: Festschrift, p. 21.
  42. ↑ a b c d e f History page church music of the Church of the Resurrection Dresden-Plauen , last accessed on January 14, 2013.
  43. ↑ a b c d e f Wolfram Hackel: The organs in Dresden Plauen . In: Festschrift, p. 23.
  44. ↑ a b c Wolfram Hackel: The organs in Dresden Plauen . In: Festschrift, p. 22.
  45. ↑ Christoph Pollmer: The history of the church of Plauen near Dresden. Published in 2017 for the 550th anniversary of the consecration of the church in 1467. Evangelical Lutheran Resurrection Church Community (Ed.), Dresden 2017, p. 63.
  46. ↑ Christoph Pollmer: The history of the church of Plauen near Dresden. Published in 2017 on the 550th anniversary of the consecration of the church in 1467. Evangelical Lutheran Resurrection Church Community (ed.), Dresden 2017, p. 63/64.
  47. ↑ Christoph Pollmer: The history of the church of Plauen near Dresden. Published in 2017 on the 550th anniversary of the consecration of the church in 1467. Evangelical Lutheran Resurrection Church Community (Ed.), Dresden 2017, p. 64.
  48. ↑ Christoph Pollmer: The history of the church of Plauen near Dresden. Published in 2017 on the 550th anniversary of the consecration of the church in 1467. Evangelical Lutheran Resurrection Church Community (Ed.), Dresden 2017, p. 65.
  49. ↑ Christoph Pollmer: The history of the church of Plauen near Dresden. Published in 2017 on the 550th anniversary of the consecration of the church in 1467. Evangelical Lutheran Resurrection Church Community (Ed.), Dresden 2017, pp. 65/66.
  50. ↑ Compiled from the files in the archive of the Resurrection Parish
  51. ↑ Rainer Thümmel, Roy Kreß, Christian Schumann: When the bells moved into the field ... The destruction of Saxon bronze bells in the First World War. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2017, p. 196
  52. ^ Rainer Thümmel: Bells in Saxony. Sound between heaven and earth. Ed .: Evangelical Church Office of Saxony. 2nd, updated and supplemented edition. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2015, ISBN 978-3-374-02871-9 , p. 291.
  53. ↑ Wolfgang Scheibner: The Resurrection Church community as an ephoral community for the church districts Dresden-Land and Dresden-West. In: Heinzjoachim Franeck (Ed.): From time to time. Festschrift for the centenary of the Church of the Resurrection in Dresden-Plauen, Kirst Printing House, Dresden, 2002, p. 12.
  54. ^ Stephan Sawatzki: Structural plans of the superintendent Dresden-Mitte. In: Ev.-Luth. Kirchgemeinden Dresden-Plauen and Dresden-Coschütz / Gittersee (Hrsg.): Gemeindeblatt. October / November 2017. Without ISBN / ISSN, p. 17.
  55. ↑ a b Christoph Pollmer: The history of the church of Plauen near Dresden. Published in 2017 on the 550th anniversary of the consecration of the church in 1467. Evangelical Lutheran Resurrection Church Community (Ed.), Dresden 2017, p. 71.
  56. ^ Paul H. Hartwig: The church parish hall of the Resurrection Church in Dresden-Plauen. In: Der Profanbau 7 (1913), pp. 150–162.
  57. ↑ Christoph Pollmer: The history of the church of Plauen near Dresden. Published in 2017 for the 550th anniversary of the consecration of the church in 1467. Evangelical Lutheran Resurrection Church Community (Ed.), Dresden 2017, p. 72.

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