Friedenskirche (Dresden-Löbtau)
The Evangelical Church of Peace is a listed sacred building in the Dresden district of Löbtau . The church, which was built using the remains of the previous building, which was largely destroyed in 1945, is one of the 41 surviving emergency churches designed by the architect Otto Bartning in Germany. Together with the Church of Hope , the Church of Peace has been part of the Evangelical Lutheran Church Community for Peace and Hope since 1999.
history
Since 1875 Löbtau was parish together with Naußlitz to the Kreuzkirche , northern parts of Löbtau belonged to the parish of the Briesnitz church . Due to the strong population growth, including the influx of working-class families, a service was held for the first time in Löbtau on September 5, 1875. By 1879 the Löbtau school gymnasium was raised by one floor and this was set up as a prayer room. The temporary structure was only replaced by a church around ten years later.
On October 14, 1889, construction of the Church of Peace, designed by Christian Friedrich Arnold , began with the laying of the altar stone . Arnold died in 1890 and therefore did not live to see the church consecration under the name "Friedenskirche" on October 6, 1891. In 1891 Löbtau was cleared out of the Kreuzkirche parish and thus independent. After the population of Löbtau, which had been incorporated into Dresden in 1903, continued to grow, the Löbtau community split into the Peace and Hope Community in 1915, the latter comprising the southern part of the suburb. In 1999 both parishes were united to form the parish Peace and Hope.
Like numerous sacred buildings in Dresden , the Löbtauer Friedenskirche was hit during the air raids on Dresden . It was already badly damaged on January 16, 1945 and finally burned down completely on February 14. After the partial demolition of the ruins, a wooden emergency church was built in the partially preserved surrounding walls according to plans by Otto Bartning , which Regional Bishop Hugo Hahn consecrated on December 18, 1949. It was financed by the World Association of Churches and domestic and foreign donations.
Building description
Exterior
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The Friedenskirche was built as a long, single-nave complex in neo-Gothic style with neo-Romanesque details. It was 54 meters long and 13.5 meters high in the main nave. The church tower was 62 meters high.
After 1945 the steeple was largely preserved without the spire and the lower eastern wall of the Friedenskirche remained after the ruins were torn down. According to plans by Otto Bartning, a “standardized wooden emergency church” with a flat row of windows was built within the walls. For this purpose, a series-produced roof structure made of wood was delivered pre-assembled and the stone walls were finally erected with demolition stones from the destroyed church. The window niches that had been preserved in the eastern perimeter wall were closed.
Interior
The church is accessed through the main portal in the south. A small vestibule and stairs lead to the nave. The emergency church construction made of dark wood dominates. The wood-transparent wall pillar pairs form the timber truss structure, which widens upwards and merges into the roof beams, which tapers again towards the ridge.
The side walls, built with demolition stones, are also visible from the inside because they are not plastered or clad. The south side of the nave is taken up by the organ gallery. The chancel is raised by three steps to the north, in front of which is the oak baptismal font. Like the wooden lectern, it is carved in the neo-renaissance style. The font and lectern are among the few items that could be saved from the destroyed Friedenskirche in 1945. The church stalls are slightly inclined towards the altar area and leave a central aisle free.
Before it was destroyed, the Friedenskirche had 1,000 seats. Today it offers space for 450 believers.
altar
Until it was destroyed, the Friedenskirche had a three-part altar with a painting of the crucified in the center. Like the side paintings on the altarpiece, it was made by the history painter Arthur Troebs, b. February 20, 1857 Geithain, died September 27, 1894 Dresden, created. Both side paintings were preserved in 1945 and were only stolen in 1989 when the church was broken into.
Today's altar of the Friedenskirche is the former sacristy altar of the Dresden Sophienkirche . It was created in the course of the renovation of the Sophienkirche in 1868 in neo-Gothic style and placed in the northern sacristy. Since it was relocated before the church was destroyed, it is one of the few preserved items in the Sophienkirche today. After 1945 it was installed in the Friedenskirche.
The altar made of sandstone probably goes back to plans by Christian Friedrich Arnold. The eyelash closes with a finial . At the side there are crabs and a tracery rose in the crown. The altar originally had two reliefs . In the lower part there was a relief of the Entombment of Christ, which probably comes from the epitaph of Markus Gerstenberger († 1613) from the Sophienkirche and is attributed to Christoph Walther IV . Today it is located in the Dresden Kreuzkirche.
The second relief, which is still attached to the center of the altar today, is an alabaster relief from the epitaph of Gertrud Helffrich († 1629). It was created by Sebastian Walther and originally formed the middle relief of the extensive epitaph. It shows Christ carrying the cross over a width of 82 centimeters and a height of 137 centimeters. Christ with the cross has fallen to his knees and looks imploringly behind him where a grieving woman is standing. Cornelius Gurlitt suspects that it is a "portrait of the woman to whom the monument was dedicated." To the right of her, Simon of Cyrene can be seen , who is helping Christ lift the cross. In the background there are mainly warriors, some of whom are mounted. Cornelius Gurlitt described the relief as “an excellent work of the most elegant and careful execution of the richest characteristics of the figures. Noteworthy is the often somewhat fearful treatment of the robe in fold nests next to the wide area. "
On the altar is a crucifix that has belonged to the community since 1875 and survived the destruction of the church.
organ
In the Friedenskirche there was initially a Jehmlich organ with 36 registers from 1892, which was donated by the political communities of Löbtau and Naußlitz . It was rebuilt and modernized in 1941 and destroyed in 1945.
After the consecration of the emergency church in 1949, the Friedenskirche received an organ on loan from the Jehmlich company for five years , which the community finally took over in March 1955. It previously served as a practice organ in the teachers' seminar in Stollberg . The new organ of the Friedenskirche was probably created by Richard Kreutzbach (1839–1903) in 1901 and was modernized by the Jehmlich brothers. It has eight registers with pedal on pneumatic cone chests .
The organ's disposition today is as follows:
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Remarks
Bells
From 1891 the Friedenskirche had three bronze bells from the Dresden art and bell foundry C. Albert Bierling . The bell in D flat major fell victim to the Reichsmetall donation in 1917 . Only one piece of bell with the inscription "Peace" is said to have survived. In 1920 the church received three new steel bells cast in Bochum , which also survived the destruction of the church. They bear the same inscriptions as the bells destroyed in 1917 and are now on the wooden belfry, which was renovated in 2005.
| Surname | Chime | year | Weight | diameter | inscription |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Big bell | d ′ | 1920 | 1350 kilograms | 149 centimeters | "Glory to God in the highest" |
| Medium bell | f sharp ′ | 1920 | 850 kilograms | 126 centimeters | "Peace be with you" |
| Little bell | a ′ | 1920 | 460 kilograms | 102 centimeters | "Stop in prayer" |
literature
- Georg Dehio (Hrsg.): Handbook of the German art monuments . Dresden . Updated edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich and Berlin 2005, p. 176.
- Jürgen Helfricht : Dresden and its churches . Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2005, p. 83.
- Cornelius Gurlitt : Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony . City of Dresden, part 1. Meinhold, Dresden 1900, p. 106.
See also
Web links
- History of the Friedenskirche on frieden-hoffnung.de
- Article about the Friedenskirche on dresdner-stadtteile.de
- Friedenskirche by Otto Bartning in 1949 as a standardized type program on Das neue Dresden
Individual evidence
- ^ Lars Herrmann: Friedenskirche. In: www.dresdner-stadtteile.de. Retrieved December 1, 2009 .
- ^ Dehio, p. 176.
- ↑ a b Helfricht, p. 83.
- ↑ Cf. The Altar of the Friedenskirche . Information board in the Friedenskirche.
- ↑ Gurlitt, p. 99.
- ↑ a b Gurlitt, p. 106.
- ^ Organ of the Friedenskirche Löbtau , accessed on April 11, 2017.
- ↑ See what is saved and what is preserved . Information board in the Friedenskirche.
Coordinates: 51 ° 2 '43.2 " N , 13 ° 42' 0.8" E