Ascension Church (Dresden)
The Protestant Ascension Church is a sacred building in the Leuben district of Dresden . It was built until 1901 based on designs by Karl Emil Scherz and is a listed building.
history
A parish in Leuben was first mentioned in 1362. The well-known old parish church was built in 1512 or a previous building was fundamentally rebuilt at that time. In the Middle Ages it was the only church between Dresden and Dohna . The church was built on the highest point of the village and was surrounded by a cemetery; The village pond was in front of the church, followed by the rectory and the farms of the farmers.
In the course of industrialization , Leuben grew steadily until the end of the 19th century. The number of parishioners also rose by leaps and bounds, so that the old parish church soon turned out to be too small. The parish council therefore decided on February 2, 1897 to build a new church. A competition among seven architects was announced. The competition was carried out by the Saxon Society for Church Art as an appraiser, who decided in favor of the design by Karl Emil Scherz . The foundation stone was laid on May 8, 1899. The topping-out ceremony took place on November 9, 1899 . The tower of the church was completed in February 1901; in the same month the solemn consecration of the four-part bells took place. On Ascension Day on May 16, 1901, the church was consecrated under the name "Himmelfahrtskirche".
From 1900 to 1901 the old Leuben church was torn down except for the tower. In favor of the new Church of the Assumption, the village pond had already been filled in and the churchyard of the old church had been reduced. The baptismal font and three stained glass windows, some from the early 16th century, were taken over from the old church to the Ascension Church.
During the First World War , the bells and some tin pipes of the owl organ had to be donated as war metal . The church's bell today dates from 1922. The church survived the bombing of Dresden with almost no damage. Only the roof suffered minor damage, which was removed from 1964 to 1970. Inside, the painting and furnishings were restored in 1984. The interior work was finished in 1989; the glass windows were restored in 1996 and the organ was also overhauled at that time; the tower was re-covered in 2001. Another overhaul of the organ was necessary in 2006.
Building description
Exterior
The Ascension Church was built as a sandstone building in the neo-Gothic style. The shape of the church, the straight east end and the gable roof refer to the 13th century, whereby the Scherz'sche building shows similarities with the Holy Spirit Church in Blasewitz , also designed by Scherz . Like the Heilig-Geist-Kirche, the top of the 75 meter high church tower is flanked by four turrets. The plan of the church is cruciform.
Interior
The church is entered via a pointed arch portal on the west side. First you get to the so-called bridal hall and then to the main room. This is designed without supports and has a four-bay, 15.5 meter high ribbed vault . The interior has "the ideals of the time, strongly centralizing character".
There are single-storey galleries in the north, south and west , with the western gallery being used as an organ gallery. The chancel in the east is "laid out like a stage ..."; the triumphal arch of the sanctuary is painted with a pictorial representation of the elevated Christ with angels. The simple altar stands in the center of the chancel, the baptismal font on the left; on the right is the pulpit. From the altar square, the baptistery can be entered through a simple door to the north and the sacristy to the south . The church room with galleries has around 1000 seats.
The interior was painted with echoes of Art Nouveau and Historicism by court painter Julius Schultz (1849–1927). Possibly it was based on designs by Karl Emil Scherz. The color of the painting harmonizes with the colored windows and the furnishings in dark wood or stone. The east window with the Ascension of Christ is by Alexander Linnemann . The glass windows with Anna Selbdritt , the Alnpeck coat of arms and the Adoration of the Kings were taken over from the old Leuben church.
Altar and pulpit
The altar made of Cotta sandstone was created by Hermann Hasenohr and W. H. Weinhold. It is accessed via two steps and consists of a simple cafeteria with a crucifix structure .
Hasenohr and Weinhold also created the wooden, octagonal pulpit with a sound cover. It shows iconographic representations of “law” and “gospel” mixed with floral carvings. The pulpit is entered through the sacristy.
Baptismal font
The baptismal font comes from the old Leuben church and was transferred to the Ascension Church in 1901 after it was partially demolished. The font dates from 1610, is one meter high and has a diameter of 80 centimeters. It was made of sandstone and has the shape of a Roman glass .
The base is cylindrical-wide with four circular fields, three of which are filled with flowers. The dome of the baptismal font is only slightly expansive and divided into four fields. At the top it bears the inscription “go into all the world and learn all the people and teuffet them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. frosted. 28 ".
The fields of baptism bear the following inscriptions:
- Field 1: Rome VI. will are sampt | Christ through baptism | buried in the dead. | .ano 1610.
- Field 2: gal. 3 how much your ge | baptize who have Christ | dressed. | tit: 3. through the bath of rebirth and renewed | eration of the holy spirit.
- Field 3: marc. X. let the child | lein come to me and | are not in you then | such is the ee of God.
- Box 4: marc. 16 whoever believes and ge | he will be baptized | but who will not | believes he is ver | be damned.
Baptism closes with a lid that is crowned by a lamb.
epitaph
At the altar place on the left is the epitaph for Hans von Dehn-Rothfelser . It comes from the old Frauenkirche , was stored in the churchyard in Leuben after the church was demolished and was rediscovered there at the end of the 19th century. It then came to the old Leuben church and, when it was demolished, to the Ascension Church. The epitaph shows the deceased kneeling, with a city silhouette in the background. The scenery is framed by Corinthian columns.
Leaded glass window
The stained glass windows of the church connect to the iconographic program of the pulpit. If “Law” and “Gospel” are depicted there, the windows of the nave show the themes “Repentance” - in the depiction of the prodigal son - and “Faith”, with the depiction of Mary at the feet of Jesus. The east window shows the ascension of Christ; below there are five smaller stained glass windows depicting Matthew , Mark , John the Baptist , Luke and John .
organ
The Ascension Church has a pneumatic organ made by the organ building company Eule (Bautzen) in 1901. It has 38 registers with a total of 2241 pipes on two manuals and pedal . After several renovations, including in 1935, the “romantic […] had become an instrument with baroque style .” By 2006, the organ was overhauled in order to bring the sound back to its original state.
Bells
The Assumption Church originally had four bronze bells from the Albert Bierling bell foundry . They had the basic tones b, des, f and a flat. The two largest bells were given to Leuben by the city of Dresden and therefore bore the city's coat of arms, among other things . The four bells had to be donated as war metal in 1917.
Today's four-part bell comes from 1921/22. The four chilled iron bells with the basic tones b, des, e and ges were cast by the Bochum Association for Mining and Cast Steel Manufacture .
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 | 1882 mm | 2600 kg | b ° |
| 2 | 1921 | Bell foundry Bochumer Verein | 1574 mm | 1560 kg | of' |
| 3 | 1921 | Bell foundry Bochumer Verein | 1387 mm | 1080 kg | fes ′ |
| 4th | 1921 | Bell foundry Bochumer Verein | 1260 mm | 850 kg | ges ′ |
Community and use
In the 15th century, the villages of Leuben , Sedlitz and Dobritz belonged to the parish of Leuben . In 1674 the villages of Laubegast , Seidnitz and Tolkewitz were parish off to Leuben, which was the largest parish in the city after it was incorporated into Dresden in 1921. Tolkewitz and Seidnitz were not parished until 1953, followed by Laubegast in 1994. Since 2006 the parish districts Christophorusgemeinde Laubegast , Parish Center Niedersedlitz and Himmelfahrtskirche have formed the entire parish "Evangelical Lutheran Parish Dresden-Leuben". There is also a sister church relationship with the Stephanus community in Zschachwitz .
Services are held regularly in the Church of the Assumption. Baptisms and confirmations are also carried out and weddings are celebrated. The Ascension Church is also a popular concert venue due to its good acoustics.
literature
- Georg Dehio (original), Barbara Bechter (ed.): Dresden ( Handbook of German Art Monuments ). Updated edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-422-03110-3 , pp. 169–170.
- Annette Dubbers: Leuben. From the history of a Dresden district. Verlag A. Dubbers, Dresden 2005, ISBN 3-937199-33-0 .
- Jürgen Helfricht : Dresden and its churches . Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-374-02261-8 , p. 79.
- 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. 290 (With a foreword by Jochen Bohl and photographs by Klaus-Peter Meißner}).
Web links
- Church in Leuben Website of the Ev.-Luth. Parish Dresden-Ost
- Himmelfahrtskirche on dresdner-stadtteile.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Jürgen Helfricht: Dresden and his churches , p. 79.
- ^ Annette Dubbers: Leuben. from the history of a Dresden district , p. 12.
- ↑ a b Georg Dehio (greeting), Barbara Bechter (ed.): Dresden. P. 170.
- ↑ Quotation from Cornelius Gurlitt (edit.): Amtshauptmannschaft Dresden-Neustadt (descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony; vol. 26). Meinhold Verlag, Dresden 1904, pp. 74-75.
- ^ Annette Dubbers: Leuben. From the history of a Dresden district , p. 15.
- ↑ See Himmelfahrtskirche-dresden.de ( Memento of the original from August 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ 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. 290 (With a foreword by Jochen Bohl and photographs by Klaus-Peter Meißner).
Coordinates: 51 ° 0 ′ 39.6 " N , 13 ° 49 ′ 33.3" E