Baptist Church (Potsdam)
The Baptist Church is a church building at Schopenhauerstraße 8 in Potsdam . The building was erected on the ruins of the war-torn church of the Great Military Orphanage.
history
The existing daughter congregation of the Berlin-Charlottenburg congregation was formed on May 22, 1910 as an independent Potsdam congregation. On July 2, 1911, a separate parish hall was inaugurated at Yorckstrasse 4-5 in Potsdam. Behind the baroque front buildings, a neoclassical hall was built according to designs by the Nowawesian architect Eduard Quednau. The parish hall was destroyed by five bomb hits on April 14, 1945 during World War II. After several intermediate quarters, the community was offered an exchange of land. The ruins of the parish hall on Yorckstrasse were demolished in 1961 in favor of the new development area Zentrum Süd .
Between 1957 and 1960, a second church was built on the ruins and with the stones of the chapel of the Great Military Orphanage, which was also destroyed during the war, and was consecrated in March 1960. In 1993 it was expanded with a modern extension.
organ
The organ was built in 1973 by Alexander Schuke Potsdam Orgelbau as Opus 443. The slider chest organ has 10 registers with 694 pipes.
Personalities associated with the Potsdam Baptist Church
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Andreas Kitschke: The churches of the Potsdam cultural landscape . Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-86732-248-5 , p. 263 .
- ↑ Peer Straube: Church of the "living stones". In: pnn.de. March 6, 2010, accessed August 14, 2018 .
- ↑ Baptist Church. In: potsdam.de. Retrieved August 14, 2018 .
- ^ Potsdam, Baptist Church. In: organindex.de. Retrieved August 20, 2018 .
- ↑ Klaus Beer: Michael Hirte. In: fernweh-park.de. March 15, 2013, accessed August 14, 2018 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 23 '52.9 " N , 13 ° 2' 54.9" E