Resurrection Church (Pforzheim)

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The Church of the Resurrection

The Protestant Resurrection Church in Pforzheim is an emergency church in the southwest German city. It is located at Mathystraße 10 in the Rod area in the south-west of Pforzheim.

history

The church belongs to the Protestant Johannesgemeinde in the Rodviertel. After the destruction of Pforzheim towards the end of the Second World War , this community grew strongly due to the billeting from the war-torn valley town. The increase in the congregation and the destruction of many churches in the city gave the reason to build a stable church as quickly as possible.

The Church of the Resurrection was built in the years 1946–1948 as the first emergency church according to the program of the architect Otto Bartning and consecrated on October 24, 1948. The groundbreaking ceremony took place on May 8, 1946, the first anniversary of the end of the war. The church set the standard for the 42 subsequent Bartnings emergency churches.

description

architecture

Front view

The church, a tent-like wooden structure in manageable dimensions, with a polygonal apse has a massive rectangular tower. The outside of the building is clad in red and yellow red sandstone blocks recovered from rubble, while the inside is clad with brick. The tower was raised in 1954.

Furnishing

Otto Bartning designed the altar canteen and the baptismal font of the church. The late Gothic wooden altar cross (see Old Town Church (Pforzheim) #Crucifix ) dates from around 1440. It first hung in the cemetery of the Dominican convent, then in front of the town church of St. Stefan and in 1899, after restoration, it was transferred to the new town church, where it survived the great bombing raid badly damaged . After restoration by the sculptor Oskar Theodor Loos, it was moved to the Church of the Resurrection.

The church originally had a neutral ribbon of windows and in 1966 received abstract stained glass windows by Klaus Arnold . The basic color of the windows is blue, each window shows six similarly constructed figures in white and red.

literature

  • Wolfgang Hartmann: Otto Bartning's emergency churches . In: Kunst und Kirche , Heft 3, 1987, pp. 199ff.
  • Ulrike Rein: From the ashes ... the Protestant churches in Pforzheim after 1945 , Karlsruhe 1990, pp. 69–74.
  • Christoph Timm: Monuments of the post-war era in Pforzheim and their problems . In: Badische Heimat , volume 3/1995, pp. 421–440, here p. 433/34.
  • Festschrift for the 50th anniversary: Signs of Hope - 50 Years of the Church of the Resurrection 1948-1998 , publisher: Evang. Parish office of the Johannesgemeinde.
  • Chris Gerbing: The Resurrection Church in Pforzheim (1945-1948). Otto Bartnings church building in the field of tension between modernity and traditionalism . Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2001, ISBN 3-7954-1428-8 .

Web links

Commons : Church of the Resurrection  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Georg Dehio, Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Baden-Württemberg I, edited by Dagmar Zimdars a. a., Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich / Berlin, 1993, p. 626, ISBN 3-422-03024-7
  2. ↑ Ulrike Rein: From the Ashes ... the Protestant churches in Pforzheim after 1945. Karlsruhe 1990, pp. 69–74. Erroneously wrong information at Dehio.

Coordinates: 48 ° 53 ′ 1.7 ″  N , 8 ° 41 ′ 31 ″  E