Christophorikirche (Breslau)
The Christophorikirche (also Christophori Church , Polish Kościół św. Krzysztofa ) is a Protestant church on the south-eastern edge of the old town of Wroclaw .
The church stands on Christophoriplatz (pl. Św. Krzysztofa) next to the East-West Street (Trasa WZ) , which was completed in the 1970s . In earlier times it served as a Protestant church with Polish and Czech-language services, but since 1958 German-language Protestant services have been held here every Sunday. Since 1993 it has been the parish church of the parish of St. Christophori in Breslau (German-speaking) .
history
13th to 19th centuries
Since 1267, a cemetery chapel of the Magdalen Church , consecrated to Mary of Egypt , stood on the site of today's Christophorikirche , the builder of which is named Wladislaw von Silesia . From 1343, the Wroclaw guild of furriers celebrated their services here.
Around 1410 the chapel was expanded into a church in the Gothic style . The single-aisle, three-bay brick building on a floor area of 32 by 16 meters goes back to the architect Heinrich Frankenstein . The nave was provided with a net vault and the single -yoke pentagonal presbytery with a ribbed vault , the steep roof covered with roof tiles. The new church building was consecrated to St. Christopher . In 1461 a square tower with a pyramid-shaped lead-covered helmet roof was built. In 1539 the church tower was given a clock, and in 1575 the tower was redesigned in the Renaissance style . In 1602 the sacristy was added.
In the course of the Reformation , the church became Protestant in 1523. From 1619 the Lutheran catechism was taught in Polish, and in 1646 the head of the school Michał Kusz published a textbook of the Polish language.
Both Polish and German services were held in the church in the 18th and early 19th centuries. From 1829 there were only German church services.
After 1945
Due to the Soviet bombing during the siege of Wroclaw , the church burned down, with the net vault and the windows being destroyed.
After the Elizabethan Church and other church buildings were catholized on July 2, 1946, the Christophorikirche and the formerly Protestant-Reformed Court Church , which is also the seat of the Protestant diocese of Breslau , were the only two churches in Wroclaw that remained Protestant.
In the years 1947–1949 and 1957–1958 it was renovated with the assistance of the architect Edmund Małachowicz . During the reconstruction, parts of the interior fittings of destroyed or abandoned churches in Silesia were used.
In 1958, the Protestant congregation in Breslau left the Christophorikirche to the Protestant Germans from Breslau who remained after the expulsion , but without their own community institutions.
In 1966 the facade was renovated and from 1969-1970 the baroque dome was renewed. In the 1970s, some old buildings in the area fell victim to the construction of East-West Street ( Trasa WZ ).
Today's church
In 1993 a German-speaking Protestant parish was founded in Poland for the first time after the Second World War, the Christophorigemeinde in Wroclaw and Lower Silesia, whose seat is the Christophorikirche. The parish priest is Andrzej Fober from Cieszyn (Teschen).
That once or twice monthly German-language church services in the churches of the respective Polish evangelical churches celebrate branch churches located in Hirschberg - Cieplice (Church of the Redeemer), Legnica ( Church of Our Lady ), Luban (Frauenkirche) Swidnica ( Peace Church ) and Waldenburg ( Church of the Redeemer ) .
As before, church services in German take place in the Wroclaw Christophorikirche every Sunday at 10 a.m. Most of the worshipers are now Germans who moved to Wroclaw after 1990.
In addition, at other times there are Methodist services in Korean and Anglican services in English, as well as Evangelical Reformed services in Polish.
Today the Christophorikirche is one of three houses of worship of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Breslau, along with the Hofkirche and Gustav-Adolf-Kirche, and the only one with German-speaking church services.
organ
The organ was built by the organ building company Schlag & Söhne . The slider chests -instrument has 12 registers on two manual works and pedal . The actions are pneumatic.
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Web links
- Official website of the Christophorigemeinde
- German Consulate General in Breslau on the Church
- Father Andrzej Fober's sermon on October 21, 2006, in which he describes the history of the Church
- Christophoribote, newsletter of the ev. German language community in Wroclaw and Lower Silesia. July, August, September 2008 (article on history, 50th anniversary of the rededication; PDF; 1.6 MB) ( Memento from May 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- Situation of the Christophori churchyard with its immediate surroundings in 1833, taken by Hanke , historical site plan
Individual evidence
- ^ Translation of the official Polish name Parafia św. Krzysztofa we Wrocławiu (niemieckojęzyczna) .
- ^ Papieski Wydział Teologiczny we Wrocławiu, PWT, Archidiecezja Wrocławska (Pontifical Faculty of Theology in Wrocław): Ks. Andrzej Fober .
- ↑ Proboszcz parafii, "Pastor of the community", is inaccurately reproduced on the website of the German Consulate General in Breslau as " Probst [sic]".
- ↑ Information about the organ (Polish)
Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 26.5 ″ N , 17 ° 2 ′ 13.1 ″ E