Holy Spirit Church (Dresden)

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The Holy Spirit Church

The Evangelical Holy Spirit Church is a listed sacred building in the Dresden district of Blasewitz and today one of the three houses of worship of the Evangelical Lutheran Parish Dresden-Blasewitz .

history

Holy Spirit Church under construction, photo 1892

Blasewitz had been part of the Kreuzkirche parish since 1480 , whose deacon was also entrusted with pastoral care in Blasewitz. At the same time the Blasewitz had to pay taxes to the Kreuzkirche. The first church services took place in Blasewitz from 1876 in the new school, from 1879 confirmation lessons were also given in the school hall. As early as 1878, the desire arose to build their own church in Blasewitz. For this purpose, a church building fund was set up in 1878. Funds were collected from the “Committee of the Cooperative for the Preservation of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church Services established in Blasewitz”, the academic choral society Union from Leipzig and from private individuals. In 1890 the church building fund had grown to 120,000 marks. As early as October 1, 1887, Blasewitz had become an independent parish .

The community acquired a plot of land on Berggartenstrasse, which was near the center of the village. Karl Emil Scherz won the architectural competition with his imaginative church design. The groundbreaking ceremony on August 31, 1891 at the site of the future altar was followed by the laying of the foundation stone on October 12, 1891. The topping-out ceremony was celebrated on August 6, 1892 and the church was finally consecrated on October 15, 1893.

When Dresden was bombed in February 1945, the church was hit by an incendiary bomb, but it did not ignite. However, pressure waves caused damage to the roof and windows, among other things. After the damage was repaired in the 1950s, the building fabric was secured again during the renovation by Fritz Steudtner from 1969 to 1972. The rich interior painting of the church was painted over with a light coat, the galleries were provided with simple plywood panels, as well as the altar, baptismal font and pulpit modern built. The church was rededicated on November 16, 1969.

After the fall of the Wall , the church's steam heating was switched from coal to oil. From 1993 to 1995, major maintenance measures were carried out on the church stalls, the roof structure and the facade, among other things. In spring 2005 the interior painting of the church was renewed and the wooden facings of the gallery parapets were removed.

Building description

Main portal of the church
Rosette on the west gable

Exterior

The Heilig-Geist-Kirche is a red brick building in the neo-Gothic style . The facade is clearly structured. The 75-meter-high bell tower on a square floor plan is relatively slim and has a pointed helmet with four spikes. The tower is arranged asymmetrically in front of the north side of the church. The gable roof of the church has a ridge turret and mid-roofs .

The main portal is adorned with the figures of Elias , John the Baptist and a relief of Christ. They were created by Friedrich Hecht . It was donated by Crown Prince Georg in 1893 after visiting the church on May 15, 1893 during the construction phase.

The church property was designed by Horticultural Director Max Bertram .

Interior

The hall church has four bays and a ribbed vault , which is divided by girders . The windows have pointed arches ; the church's rose windows were walled up after 1945; the western rosette is covered by the organ. The windows were designed by Walter Artur Thomas and Alfred Diethe (1836–1919), the stained glass was by Bruno Carl Urban (1851–1910). The windows that were dented in the bombing of Dresden were replaced by tinted windows after 1945. The church can accommodate between 800 and 1000 people.

The interior is bordered on three sides by galleries, which are designed like aisles. The western organ gallery is supported by two polished granite pillars.

On the west side of the church there is a statue of Christ by the sculptor Heinrich Epler , the limestone altar relief by Oskar Rassau was re-installed in the bridal hall after the interior renovation in the 1960s.

The altar , baptismal font and pulpit were newly created during the renovation until 1972 and today form an equilateral triangle in the church interior as a representation of the Trinity . The simple altar table and the simple baptismal font were created by master stonemason Reiche from Cotta sandstone . Above the altar "dominates a large cross - gilded oak". The new pulpit is not located below the gallery like the old one, but as a standing desk in front of the first row of benches, whereby "reading desk and pulpit [...] are now combined into an ambo made of the same material". The pulpit is covered with wood.

Bells

The consecration of the bells on May 17, 1893

The four steel bells of the church with the basic tones C, E, G and B were consecrated on May 17, 1893. It cast the Dresden bell foundry C. Albert Bierling in the presence of the church council. The three largest bells were melted down in 1917 as a war metal donation. In 1921, the chiming was supplemented by hard-cast iron bells from the Bochumer Verein bell foundry and now had the basic tones d ', f', g 'and b'.

Three bells were stored in the Hamburg bell cemetery during the Second World War .

Peal

The ringing consists of four chilled cast iron bells , the bell cage and the bell yokes are made of steel. Below is a data overview of the bell:

No. Casting date Caster diameter Dimensions Chime
1 1921 Bell foundry Bochumer Verein 1490 mm 1350 kg d ′
2 1921 Bell foundry Bochumer Verein 1330 mm 1100 kg f ′
3 1921 Bell foundry Bochumer Verein 1170 mm 660 kg G'
4th 1921 Bell foundry Bochumer Verein 960 mm 350 kg G'

organ

The church initially had an organ made by the Jehmlich brothers , which was located opposite the altar on the west gallery of the church and was put into use on January 14, 1894. The 28 sounding voices were enlarged by five and later by four more registers in 1901. During the First World War, 69 organ pipes had to be donated as Reich metal donations in 1917 . In 1926 the work was expanded to three manuals and 50 registers and the organ's sound was finally redesigned in 1953 by the organ building company Hermann Eule - it now had 40 registers. In 1969 the entire organ had to be expanded because "the technical side of the organ [1953] had [remained]".

Since 1978 the Heilig-Geist-Kirche has had the owl organ from Leipzig's Markuskirche . It dates from 1954 and has 38 sounding registers (slider chests) on three manuals and a pedal . The game actions are mechanical, the stop actions pneumatic. The organ is also used for organ concerts in the church.

The disposition of the owl organ is as follows:

I main work C – f 3
1. Quintad 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Pipe slack 8th'
4th octave 4 ′
5. Pointed flute 4 ′
6th Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
7th Flat flute 2 ′
8th. Mixture V
9. Trumpeted 16 ′
10. Tromba 8th'
II Rückpositiv C – f 3
11. Coarse 8th'
12. Principal 4 ′
13. Pipe slack 4 ′
14th octave 2 ′
15th Night horn 2 ′
16. Quintina 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
17th Sesquialtera IV
18th Sharp IV
19th Bear whistle 8th'
III Oberwerk C – f 3
20th Wooden principal 8th'
21st Gemshorn 8th'
22nd Principal flute 4 ′
23. Pommer 4 ′
24. Nasat 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
25th Octave 2 ′
26th Sifflet 1'
27. Zymbel III
28. Dulcian 16 ′
29 Krummhorn 8th'
Pedal C – f 1
30th Principal bass 16 ′
31. Sub-bass 16 ′
32. octave 8th'
33. Dumped 8th'
34. Chorale bass 4 ′
35. Mixture V
36. trombone 16 ′
37. Trumpet 8th'
38. Singing Cornett 2 ′

literature

  • Georg Dehio (Hrsg.): Handbook of the German art monuments. Dresden . Updated edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich and Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-422-03110-3 , p. 145.
  • Heilig-Geist-Gemeinde (Hrsg.): 100 years of the Heilig-Geist-Kirche in Dresden-Blasewitz . Dresden 1993.
  • Jürgen Helfricht : Dresden and its churches . Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2005, p. 56.
  • The church in Blasewitz . In: AR Lux, Dieter Prskawetz: Blasewitz in the historic Elbbogen . B-Edition, Dresden 1994, pp. 148-155.
  • Folke Stimmel, Reinhardt Eigenwill et al .: Stadtlexikon Dresden . Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1994, p. 180.
  • Rainer Thümmel : Bells in Saxony . Sound between heaven and earth. Ed .: Evangelical Regional Church Office of Saxony . 2nd, updated and supplemented edition. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2015, ISBN 978-3-374-02871-9 , p.289 (With a foreword by Jochen Bohl and photographs by Klaus-Peter Meißner}).

Web links

Commons : Heilig-Geist-Kirche, Dresden-Blasewitz  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ AR Lux, Dieter Prskawetz: Blasewitz in the historic Elbbogen . B-Edition, Dresden 1994, p. 153.
  2. ↑ AR Lux, Dieter Prskawetz: Blasewitz in the historic Elbbogen . B-Edition, Dresden 1994, p. 154.
  3. ↑ a b c M. Andreas Sembdner: 90 years of the Holy Spirit Church in Dresden-Blasewitz 1983 . In: M. Andreas Sembdner: Festschrift Heilig-Geist-Kirche Dresden-Blasewitz 1893/1983 . 1983, p. 3.
  4. ↑ See building history on kirchgemeinde-dresden-blasewitz.de
  5. ↑ A new house of God - stylish and simple . In: Die Union , November 23, 1969.
  6. ^ M. Andreas Sembdner: 90 years of the Holy Spirit Church in Dresden-Blasewitz 1983 . In: Sembdner: Festschrift Heilig-Geist-Kirche Dresden-Blasewitz 1893/1983 . 1983, p. 2.
  7. ^ A b Rainer Thümmel : Bells in Saxony . Sound between heaven and earth. Ed .: Evangelical Regional Church Office of Saxony . 2nd, updated and supplemented edition. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2015, ISBN 978-3-374-02871-9 , pp. 289 (With a foreword by Jochen Bohl and photographs by Klaus-Peter Meißner).
  8. ↑ a b Holy Spirit Community (ed.): 100 years of the Holy Spirit Church in Dresden-Blasewitz . Dresden 1993, p. 23.
  9. ↑ Disposition of the owl organ

Coordinates: 51 ° 2 '54.8 "  N , 13 ° 48'24.9"  E