Gnadenkirche (Chemnitz)
The Bornaer Gnadenkirche is an Evangelical Lutheran church in the Borna-Heinersdorf district of Chemnitz . It is located at Wittgensdorfer Straße 82.
history
The Gnadenkirche is one of the 43 emergency churches built according to type designs by the architect Otto Bartning , which were built across Germany between 1946 and 1951 with the help of foreign donations in a building program of the aid organization of the Evangelical Churches in Germany (HEKD); The donor here was the American section of the Lutheran World Federation . The foundation stone was laid on June 11, 1950, the inauguration on July 29, 1951. The tower, which was initially only built as an approach, was raised to 27.5 meters in 1953/54.
The church has been a listed building since 1992 .
Construction and equipment
As in the other Bartning emergency churches of type B, the supporting structure of the church consists of prefabricated wooden trusses. In between, a brick lining is inserted, which was built with 170,000 demolition bricks from the destroyed city center. The building is completed by a choir-like walled-in chancel (and not, as in many other emergency churches of this type, with a polygonal closure) with round windows. The room is covered with a gable roof with an open roof structure.
The bells that can be seen from the outside date from 1955.
The organ in the gallery has 21 registers and was installed in 1957 by the Jehmlich company .
literature
- Georg Dehio (founder), Barbara Bechter u. a. (Editor): Handbook of German Art Monuments: Saxony II ; Munich, Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1998, ISBN 3-422-03048-4 , p. 141
See also
Web links
- Community website
- Gnadenkirche (Chemnitz)
- Bartning catalog raisonné of the Otto Bartning Working Group on Church Building (OBAK)
- Bartningkirchen-Flyer of the Otto Bartning-Arbeitsgemeinschaft Kirchenbau (OBAK) (PDF; 1.2 MB)
Coordinates: 50 ° 51 ′ 41.8 ″ N , 12 ° 53 ′ 24 ″ E