Hope Church (Dresden)
The Hope Church is an Evangelical Lutheran church building in the Dresden district of Löbtau . It was originally built in 1936 as a parish hall with a free-standing bell tower according to plans by the architect Rudolf Kolbe by the second Protestant parish in Löbtau and is located at Clara-Zetkin-Strasse 30. In addition to the parish hall of the Christ Church and the Church of St. Hubertus , it is one of the few sacred buildings in Dresden that were built during the Nazi era . The church construction plans were not finally given up until 1961 and the building has been the actual Hope Church ever since.
History of the Hope Church
Plans to outsource a second community in Löbtau had been in existence since around 1896. The rapid growth of the working-class suburbs of Löbtau and Naußlitz justified the planned outsourcing of the southern part. In 1899, building land was acquired on what was then Wallwitzstrasse for this community to be spun off.
The Hope Community Löbtau finally emerged as an independent parish from the Löbtau Peace Community on January 1, 1915 and was initially headed by Pastor Theodor Böhmer (1871–1946, previously Pastor of the Peace Community ), who held the office of pastor's head until 1935.
Since funds for the construction of the church with the parish and rectory were lost due to the inflation in 1923, construction of the church could not begin until 1935. Until then, the prayers were held in the auditorium of the neighboring 35th elementary school on Bünaustraße.
Preparations for construction began as early as 1932 according to various designs. The foundation stone for the parish hall, designed by the architect Kolbe, took place on June 26, 1935. The following year, the house was consecrated at Pentecost (May 30, 1936) by the then regional bishop Friedrich Coch .
At that time the church was divided. Pastor Johannes Paul belonged to the German Christians . His sermons were shaped by the worldview of the NSDAP , but in 1941 he publicly distanced himself from Nazi ideology. The two other pastors, Friedrich Schädlich and Erich Sickert, who belonged to the congregation, were members of the Confessing Church . The resulting tensions led to the refusal to use the room and the withdrawal of keys, so that the Friedenskirche granted the two pastors of the Confessing Church the right to host events.
During the air raids on February 13 and April 17, 1945, the parish hall was preserved with damage to the roof and many windows and was therefore able to provide shelter to the bombed-out communities in the area in the post-war period. a. also for a few months in 1945 with the Dresden Kreuzchor. The repair of the war damage ended with the renovation of the large church hall in 1961. In the same year the congregation celebrated its 25th church anniversary and the building has since been officially called the Hope Church .
In 1999, both parishes reunited in the course of internal church restructuring. Since then, the church services of the Peace and Hope Congregation have alternated between the Peace Church and Hope Church .
description
The simple building of the Hope Church has a hall that can hold five hundred people and various rooms for church work. The originally planned construction of a “real” church and a rectory was initially not possible for financial reasons. Later, Kolbe's early death and the beginning of the Second World War prevented the construction of a one thousand two hundred person church with a high tower on the neighboring property and was finally abandoned in the post-war period.
The building consists of two parts: a single-storey administrative wing and the actual community area. is plastered , which means “functionality and simple simplicity” characterize the building. Structurally remarkable are on the one hand the high pitched roof and on the other hand the entrance area of the house: three round arches rest on sandstone capitals and pillars below . The capitals depict figurative representations such as people at work and biblical themes. The rectangular forecourt was originally intended as a consecration place by the German Christians.
Furnishing
The church hall is defined by wide window walls on the south and north sides. Also noteworthy is the support structure of the hall building, which makes internal supports unnecessary.
The colored cross from 1965 comes from Elly-Viola Nahmmacher . Since the original stained glass windows in the interior were destroyed by the air pressure during the bombing raids in 1945, new windows were made according to Helmar Helas ' designs , initially in 1947 for the south side facing the Annenfriedhof and in 1953 for the south side facing the street. The background for the long period was that window glass, which was financed by donations from parishioners, which was made more difficult by the ban on public collections, was not available after the war and lead glazing was much more expensive.
The windows show scenes from the life of Jesus and the story of the Passion: The windows on the south side were designed as our hope in 1947 AD . Angels bear the facial features of the daughters of the first pastor of the Church of Hope, Johannes Böhme (1883–1950). Both had been raped on 8 May 1945 by soldiers of the Soviet Army and committed the same day suicide . Helas repeated the angel motif in 1953 on the northern window front.
With the renovation of the church hall for the 25th anniversary of the church building in 1961, it was painted, and Helmar Helas also provided the ceiling design.
Organs
The Hoffnungskirche has two Jehmlich organs from 1936 and 1986, the former having 24 registers and more than 1300 pipes.
Disposition of the Jehmlich organ (1936)
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- Coupling : II / I, sub-octave II / I, I / P, II / P
- Playing aids : 2 free combinations 2 ′, Tutti, Crescendo , Rohrwerke ab
Bells
Originally four bronze bells were commissioned in Dresden. The casting failed, however, and a replacement bell was cast in Apolda . Three bells were delivered on May 4, 1937 and consecrated on May 9. They were hung in a wood-clad steel bell chair in the garden. During the war (1941) the two large bells had to be delivered so that only the smallest bell remained. Today she is only used alone, e.g. B. as a christening bell, rung.
The current ringing of the Hope Church in the free-standing wooden bell tower is made possible by three steel bells from the Johanneskirche (which was made possible in the 1950s by the work of Pastor Rudolf Böhmes, who previously headed the Johannes Congregation, and the removal of the rubble in front of the bell tower by parishioners) and the remaining small bronze bell formed.
A lightning strike in 2017 damaged the bell tower so that the bells cannot be rung until further notice.
literature
- Matthias Donath : Architecture in Dresden 1933–1945 . 2nd, revised edition, Redaktions- und Verlagsgesellschaft Elbland, Meißen 2016, pp. 97–99. Without ISBN.
- Andrea Büsing-Kolbe , Hermann Büsing : Harmony of building and landscape. The architect Rudolf Kolbe. Elbhang-Kurier-Verlag, Dresden 2010, ISBN 978-3-936240-17-7 .
- Ulrich Rasch: The wedding of the centenarians - history of the Evangelical Luth. Hope Church Dresden - small edition
Web links
- Homepage of the Ev.-Luth. Parish Peace and Hope Dresden
- The Hope Church on dresdner-stadtteile.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Hilda Spaltholz: History of the Church of Hope. In: www.frieden-hoffnung.de. Church council of the Ev.-Luth. Parish Peace and Hope Dresden, accessed on April 7, 2018 .
- ↑ a b c d e Lars Herrmann: Church of Hope. In: www.dresdner-stadtteile.de. Retrieved December 4, 2009 .
- ↑ Donath, pp. 93-94.
- ↑ Donath, p. 99. Donath gives Rudolf as his first name , but this is not the case.
- ↑ Organ database orgbase.nl, accessed on September 18, 2017
- ^ Noa: Löbtau without ringing bells. Sächsische Zeitung from September 15, 2017 ( online , accessed April 7, 2018)
Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 16.9 ″ N , 13 ° 41 ′ 39.8 ″ E