Heilandskirche (Schidlitz)
The Evangelical Church of the Savior in the Gdańsk suburb of Schidlitz (today part of Gdańsk Siedlce ) was a neo-Gothic church building .
Building description and history
The plans of the church were completed in 1901 according to plans by the Potsdam government building officer Ludwig von Tiedemann . The church was solid throughout its walls and clad on the outside with natural red facing stones in the format of a monastery . The 50 m high tower with a steep roof and ridge turret was designed according to the motif of the Danzig tower . Tiedemann was born near Danzig. - In 1902 a large school building was built not far from the church, also in neo-Gothic style.
In 1945, the church was the invasion of the Red Army severely damaged. When Schidlitz was rebuilt, it was decided to demolish the ruins. A restoration would have been possible, however. The neo-Gothic school building, today Lyceum VIII LO w Gdańsku, and the Catholic Franciscan Church in Schidlitz-Emaus , built in the same style between 1904 and 1906 , are still preserved today.
Parish of the Heilandskirche
The associated cemetery , called " Schlapker Kirchhof " in Schidlitz , was located at Karthauser Strasse 171 . A new morgue was built in 1905. The pastor of the parish was Albert Hoffmann in the 1930s; he was also a Protestant clergyman in charge of the Gdańsk penal institutions . His successor was Max Stelter in 1937. At the beginning of the 1930s, Schidlitz received a second Protestant church with the Jacob-Hegge Chapel , where Werner Lippky was the pastor.
Web links
- Photograph by Schidlitz around 1946 (church ruins: back right) . Retrieved February 16, 2013 .
- Ruins of the Heilandskirche (photo from 1947) . Retrieved February 16, 2013 .
