Kreuzkirche (Chemnitz-Kaßberg)

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The rebuilt Kreuzkirche

The Kreuzkirche of the St. Pauli Cross parish was built in 1935/36 in the Kaßberg district of Chemnitz by Otto Bartning , an important church architect of the 20th century. Its 40 meter high freestanding tower is reminiscent of Italian campaniles and is an eye-catcher in the district. After its destruction in 1945, it was rebuilt until 1954.

Construction, destruction and rebuilding

The Kreuzkirche on the Kaßberg was built in 1935/1936. Your architect Otto Bartning is an important church builder of the 20th century with 120 churches created. As a free-standing campanile, the 40-meter-high tower makes clear reference to Italian models and forms an attractive eye-catcher in the Wilhelminian-style district with its protected monuments.

The church was destroyed in the night of bombing on March 5, 1945 . Thanks to the great commitment of the parishioners in clearing and securing the ruins and in financial terms, the church building was faithfully restored by 1954 and thus the second church consecration took place. The church is a protected cultural monument and listed in the list of cultural monuments in Chemnitz-Kaßberg under Henriettenstrasse 36.

Furnishing

Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Pauli Cross

The interior of the rebuilt church was changed. The redesign was in the hands of the Chemnitz architects Laudeley and Kornfeld. The church interior was equipped sparingly and reduced to the essentials. A 4.80 m wooden cross by the sculptor Elly-Viola Nahmmacher , which hovers over the altar, symbolizes the crucified and risen Christ. The altar table, pulpit, baptismal font and lectern are made of Hilbersdorf porphyry . A picture frieze with scenes from the New Testament was repositioned under the church windows.

organ

The organ is already the third instrument of the Bautzen organ building company Eule in the Kreuzkirche, the original from 1936 had three manuals, pedal and 39 stops. After the Second World War it was a slide organ with an electric action. In 1993 the organ was renewed and now has two manuals , a pedal and 34 stops . The organ literature of all styles can be interpreted on it.

Century anniversary 2014

During a festival week in November 2014, the St. Pauli-Kreuz-Kirchgemeinde celebrated its location at the Kreuzkirche and the inauguration of its renovated kindergarten with church services and concerts.

Varia

literature

  • Tilo Richter: The Kreuzkirche in Chemnitz-Kaßberg: A building by Otto Bartning; 1936-1996. (With a foreword by Mathias Wild) Evangelisches Forum Chemnitz. Passage-Verlag, Leipzig 1998.
  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Saxony II. Administrative districts Leipzig and Chemnitz. Edited by Barbara Bechter, Wiebke Fastenrath, Heinrich Magirius et al. Munich, Berlin 1998.
  • Tilo Richter: The Nobel Quarter as an Area Monument: On the building history of the Chemnitz Kaßberg. In: Dr.-Wilhelm-André-Gymnasium - 100 years of school on the Kaßberg. Verlag Heimatland Sachsen, Chemnitz 2008, ISBN 978-3-910186-70-5 , pp. 16-19.

Web links

Commons : Kreuzkirche (Chemnitz-Kaßberg)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.paulikreuz.kirche-chemnitz.de/ accessed on January 1, 2017

Coordinates: 50 ° 50 ′ 9.4 "  N , 12 ° 54 ′ 11.9"  E