Court Church (Breslau)
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The Church of the Divine Providence (Polish Kościół Opatrzności Bożej ), until 1946 court church (hence Polish Kościół dworski ), is a church on the southwestern edge of the old town of Wroclaw . It is the bishopric of the Wroclaw diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland . The church stands on East-West Street , which was completed in the 1970s . It has about 1000 seats.
history
The late baroque church was built from 1747 according to plans by Jonas Friedrich Arnold and Jan Bouman and was consecrated on October 27, 1750. After Frederick II's city palace, located next to the church , the church was given the name Hofkirche in 1830 on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the Augsburg Confession .
The church survived the Second World War undamaged. After the expropriation of the Elisabeth Church on July 2, 1946 and conversion into a Catholic garrison church, the provincial synod of the Old Prussian Church Province of Silesia met here on July 22 and 23, 1946 for the first time after the Second World War. Synodal groups from 40 church districts were represented, but none the five in Upper Lusatia, while the number of Evangelicals steadily decreased due to the ongoing expulsions from Silesia. At the Synod, Oberkirchenrat Robert Berger rejected Otto Zänker's requests to re-function as head of the Silesian Church from the British Zone . The synod then confirmed the provisional church leadership formed at the beginning of May 1945 and elected the previous President Ernst Hornig as bishop.
After the Silesian church leadership was expelled from October 1946 and Hornigs in December of that year, only a few employees of the church leadership remained in Wroclaw until May 1947 to accompany the takeover of the few remaining church structures by the authorized representative of the consistory of the Evangelical Church AB in Poland . Hornig and the church leadership took their seat in Görlitz in Silesia .
The former evangelical-reformed court church became the bishop's seat of the Lutheran diocese of Breslau , Evangelical-Augsburg church in Poland. Today the Hofkirche is one of three churches of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Wroclaw, alongside the Christophorikirche and the Gustav-Adolf-Kirche, which was transferred back in 1996 .
architecture
The church is about 30 meters long and 17.5 meters wide. It is oriented in a north-south direction . It has an oval floor plan, two galleries. There are two boxes to the right and left, the pulpit above the altar. The interior is finished in creamy white with gold.
organ
The organ was built in 1926/27 by the organ builder Wilhelm Sauer (Frankfurt / O.). The slider chests -instrument has 50 registers on three manual works and pedal . The actions are electric.
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literature
- Reiner Sörries: By the grace of the emperor - Protestant church buildings in the Habsburg Empire. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-412-20154-8 , p. 128
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Christian-Erdmann Schott, Go out of your fatherland ...: Expulsion - Integration - Legacy of the Protestant Silesians; Lectures, essays, sermons , Berlin [a. a.]: Lit-Verlag, 2008, (= contributions to theology, church and society in the 20th century; Vol. 13), p. 20. ISBN 3-8258-0801-7 .
- ↑ a b SBZ manual: state administrations, parties, social organizations and their executives in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany 1945–1949 edited by Martin Broszat, with contributions by Hermann Weber and Gerhard Braas, Munich: Oldenbourg, 1990, p. 822. ISBN 3-486-55261-9 .
- ↑ Peter Pragal, We'll see each other again, mein Schlesierland , Munich: Piper, 2012, p. 101
- ↑ Information about the organ (Polish)
Web links
- History of Wroclaw: Evangelical Court Church ( Memento from January 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 28.3 ″ N , 17 ° 1 ′ 41 ″ E