Luther Church (Radebeul)

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The Luther Church , formerly Radebeul Church , is an Evangelical Lutheran church on Meißner Strasse in Radebeul East in Saxony . The address is Kirchplatz 1, between Meißner Straße 99 and 101 (Villa Henriette) . As one of the rare buildings with exposed brickwork in Radebeul , the Luther Church is also known as the Red Church . The burial place for the parish at the same time as the church was built is the Lutherfriedhof in Radebeul-Ost , about 700 meters away as the crow flies on the other side of the railway line.

Luther Church Radebeul-Ost, from the crown of the Bismarck tower

history

Church for the Loessnitz, design by Ernst Ziller, 1865
Luther Church, diagram from 1891. Villa Henriette on the right

In 1839 the newly founded Oberlößnitz was added to the parish of Kaditz , which was also responsible for Radebeul and Serkowitz . In 1854 a prayer room was set up in the newly built Oberlößnitz school, in which services were held more and more frequently in the following years. So in the eastern Lößnitz communities the desire arose for their own parish, which was formed on July 1, 1890.

Rejecting a design for a Byzantine-style church submitted by Ernst Ziller unsolicited in 1865 , the community announced a competition between the Dresden architects Giese & Weidner and Schilling & Graebner in 1890 before it was officially constituted .

In contrast to their academic teacher Karl Weißbach , who had rebuilt the Friedenskirche in the nearby Kötzschenbroda in the style of the neo-Gothic recommended by the Eisenach regulations , Schilling & Graebner designed the new church in the style of the neo-renaissance . The two architects first introduced this architectural style in Dresden with the town hall of the former municipality of Pieschen, completed in 1891 . It had not previously been used for church buildings.

In 1891 the foundation stone was laid for the Evangelical Lutheran church designed by the Dresden architects Schilling & Graebner, shortly after the opening of the newly created Radebeul-Ost cemetery ; the construction was carried out by the builders Wilhelm Eisold from Serkowitz and Rudolf Baron from Dresden. The inauguration took place on November 30, 1892 as a church in Radebeul . The church project was presented by the architects to the professional world during the construction period and followed with great interest, including at the Berlin art exhibition in 1891. With the successful completion of the construction work, this church became the first church to be built by the Schilling & Architects, who later became known as busy church builders. Graebner.

Since 1934, after an extensive interior renovation by the architect Alfred Tischer , the name Luther Church has been used in honor of the reformer Martin Luther . Today the church is a listed building .

In 1973 the original "unusually light colors" were restored.

description

Luther Church Radebeul-Ost
Portal of the Luther Church

The Luther Church is on the edge of an Elbe alluvial sand terrace that runs to the south. The long-distance railway connection Leipzig – Dresden , which was opened in 1839, runs south of the church , while the Meißner Straße, i.e. the post and highway connection from Dresden via Meißen to Leipzig, runs directly north of the church. Based on these two starting points, the church was aligned in a north-south direction as well as the “representative design of the choir and the tower front”, which opens directly onto Meißner Straße with the entrance portal and the open space in front of it.

church Square

The Luther Church stands on the church square, which is also dedicated as an address . This rectangular church property is located on Meißner Straße between house numbers 99 and 101. The Luther Church occupies the address Kirchplatz 1 there.

On the back of the block on Karl-May-Straße, the church square occupies the properties assigned to numbers 9 and 11. While number 9 is free and provides access to the church and Meißner Straße, it is formerly also known as Karl-May-Straße 11 assigned address built on. There is the parsonage of the Luther parish, today at the postal address Kirchplatz 2.

church

Exterior view

The style of the church building is reminiscent of forms of the German Renaissance of the 16th century in the Elbe Valley. Hard-fired, dark red brick was used as the material, which is loosened up by light yellow sandstone on the base and in the structure. The roofs are slated, the spire is made of sheet copper.

The hall of the church stands above a cross-shaped floor plan with a central, high tower in the north. Its transverse gable roof supports a roof turret with a clock and a small lantern . To the side of the tower are two low staircase extensions that are closed off by pointed helmets . A high tower hall with a central column opens behind the entrance portal. Above the portal there is a wheel window , above it arched windows and arched arcades with openings to the northern half of the tower head.

The nave and the short transept at the end of the nave also have gable roofs. The windows in the ship stand between buttresses . The nave is decorated at the gable to the choir with an openwork staggered gable on which a roof turret is rotated by 45 °. The polygonal high choir in the form of an apse is framed on both sides by low chapels with six-sided tent roofs .

Interior design

Inside, the nave has a wide barrel vault with stitch caps and cross ribs . To the tower is an organ loft, which projects into the first yoke, and be located on both sides of the galleries , which flat lunettes on far protruding corbels rest. The transition to the lower sanctuary as well as to the apse are formed by narrowing belt arches. On the right in the chancel a portal door leads into the adjoining chapel on the outside, which houses the hexagonal sacristy , while on the left the baptistery can be seen through the arched opening decorated with a wrought iron lattice door.

In the apse there is a small altarpiece . Diagonally above, on consoles in the triumphal arch to the apse, there are larger-than-life wood-carved figures of Moses and John the Baptist , which were created by the sculptor Richard König, who lived in Radebeul until 1920 . The choir window, the middle one of which was donated by Karl May , was created by the Urban & Goller glass painting company in Dresden.

Also to be emphasized are the large wooden pulpit with an elaborate basket and a sound cover with a high attachment, the lectern and the baptismal font designed by the sculptor Curt Roch .

The organ from the Jehmlich company was simplified in 1934 and 1952. In 1934 the gallery was expanded and the organ front enlarged. The west window was covered by this measure. Also in 1934 the candelabra was removed and the stucco reduced.

Peal

Previous bell

The first previous chime from 1890 consisted of three bronze bells and were cast in Dresden by C. Albert Bierling. The total cost was 9,476.25 gold marks. All three bells were cast on December 11, 1890 and shipped two days later. The solemn consecration took place in the open air on December 23, 1890, as the church was not yet completed. It was only in the summer of 1892 that the bells could be installed in the tower. On November 28, 1892, the bells were consecrated together with the church in a festive service. In 1917 two bells had to be donated as metal during the First World War. The following is an overview of the data on the bell from 1890 to 1917:

No. Casting date Caster diameter Dimensions Chime Whereabouts
1 1890 Bell foundry C. Albert Bierling 1450 mm 1657 kg of 1917 metal donation
2 1890 Bell foundry C. Albert Bierling 1150 mm 864 kg f´ 1917 metal donation
3 1890 Bell foundry C. Albert Bierling 960 mm 469 kg as' 1921 sold to Fremdiswalde Church,

1942 metal donation and melted down

The second previous bell from 1921 consisted of three chilled cast iron bells from the Schilling and Lattermann bell foundry in Apolda . The chilled cast iron bells were heavier, so the bell cage had to be rebuilt and expanded. The total cost was 40,774.90 marks. The small bronze bell still preserved was sold to the parish of Fremdiswalde for a result of 15,640.20 marks. On January 11, 1921, the bells from Apolda were delivered to Radebeul. On Thursday, January 13, 1921, the bells were consecrated with a festival service. The following is an overview of the data on the bell from 1921 to 2008:

No. Casting date Caster diameter Dimensions Chime Whereabouts
1 1921 Bell foundry Schilling and Lattermann 1874 mm 2725 kg of Shut down in 2008
2 1921 Bell foundry Schilling and Lattermann 1470 mm 1283 kg f´ Shut down in 2008
3 1921 Bell foundry Schilling and Lattermann 1222 mm 758 kg as' Shut down in 2008
Today's bell

On October 4, 2007, after a thorough examination, major defects and urgent repairs to the bell cage and bells were found. One possible solution to repairing the damage was to purchase a new bell. With donations and grants, three new bronze bells and a wooden belfry could be financed as a sensible, financially affordable and durable alternative. In 2008 the church bought new bronze bells. All were poured in Lauchhammer. The solemn consecration of the new bell took place on October 31, 2008. All bells have the inscription on the bell neck : + Lutherkirche + zu + Radebeul + AD2008 + . The following is a data overview of the bell from 2008:

No. function Surname Casting date Caster diameter Dimensions Chime Inscription on the bell neck
1 Festival bell Luther bell 2008 Bell foundry Lauchhammer 1410 mm 1650 kg des´ + 2.5 Glory to God on high, and peace on earth, and a pleasure to men. Luke 2.14.
2 Prayer bell City and winegrowers bell 2008 Bell foundry Lauchhammer 948 mm 2650 kg f´-0.5 Christ is the resurrection and the life, whoever believes in him will live whether he dies soon. John 11.25
3 Baptismal bell Children's bell 2008 Bell foundry Lauchhammer 1020 mm 660 kg as' + 2 All the children in the world. I called you by your name. Isa 43,1
Tower clock

The 68 m high church tower houses the tower clock no. 116 by the Lommatzsch tower clock maker Moritz Bassler from 1892. The quarter- hour strike is triggered by the movement , the hour strike by the quarter-hour strike every hour. The power transmission is realized by two levers with threaded rods via wire pulls and angle levers to the hammers of the bells.

Rectory of the Luther Church

Rectory

The (old) parish or parsonage, also listed under Kirchplatz 2, had the address Karl-May-Straße 11 for a long time. It was also built by Schilling & Graebner in 1891. The plastered building is two-story and has a gable roof with a high stepped gable in the eastern view. To the north there is a side wing with a gable roof, in front of which there is a two-storey veranda . The facades are loosened up by the brickwork.

Grove of Honor

To the east of the church square, on a small, square green area, which has been called Ehrenhain since the mid-2000s (previously called Heldenhain), there is a war memorial for those who fell in the First World War. The group of figures, inaugurated on May 22, 1927, consists of a widow with two children, stands on a pedestal. The bronze cast was created by the sculptor Georg Wrba , the overall design comes from the architect Emil Högg . The sandstone pedestal bears the inscription in two lines

"THE MOORING HOME / 1914-1918"

to the side are two sandstone tablets with the names of the fallen in the old community of Radebeul.

The honor grove is classified as a garden monument ("grove in the form of a tree grid") within the outdoor facilities of the Luther Church as a cultural monument.

  • Grove of honor behind the hedge, from the forecourt

  • War memorial at the Luther Church

  • War memorial at the Luther Church, group of figures

  • War memorial in the middle of the tree grid

  • Winter grove, in the back Villa Bärenfett

New parish hall

New parish hall of the Luther Church, from the Karl May street side

The parish built a new parish hall in 2018, which was placed from Meißner Straße behind the grove of honor and fills the space to the east between Luther Church itself and the garden of the Karl May Museum. The single-storey low-rise building rises on the lower Karl-May-Strasse side from the level of the church substructure there, so that it almost disappears behind the hedge of the Ehrenhain on the higher-lying Meißner Strasse side.

The Luther Church parish was awarded the Radebeul Builders Prize in the new building category in 2019 .

natural reserve

On June 9, 2013, the church was awarded the Habitat Church Tower plaque by NABU . The reason was that not only kestrels are allowed to breed (successfully) in the eastern side tower, but also swifts have now made use of at least two of the four nesting boxes on the tower side at the clock level. As a further measure, the tower hatch was opened in the lantern so that it could be used as a potential access for barn owls, and a smaller hatch with specially tailored access to a smaller tower room was also opened for bats .

literature

  • Frank Andert (Red.): Radebeul City Lexicon . Historical manual for the Loessnitz . Published by the Radebeul City Archives. 2nd, slightly changed edition. City archive, Radebeul 2006, ISBN 3-938460-05-9 .
  • Frank Andert: New publications on the work of the architects Schilling & Graebner . In: Radebeuler monthly books (ed.): Preview and review . No. 12 . Radebeul 2008, rummaged through the archive - historical from Radebeul, p. 3-5 ( online ).
  • Volker Helas (arrangement): City of Radebeul . Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Saxony, Large District Town Radebeul (=  Monument Topography Federal Republic of Germany . Monuments in Saxony ). SAX-Verlag, Beucha 2007, ISBN 978-3-86729-004-3 .
  • Ricarda Kube: Schilling and Graebner (1889–1917) - the work of a Dresden architectural firm . Dissertation at the Technical University of Dresden. Dresden 1988 (2 volumes).
  • Heinrich Magirius : Churches in Radebeul . 2nd Edition. Schnell and Steiner, Regensburg 2003, ISBN 3-7954-5630-4 .
  • Rainer Thümmel: Bells in Saxony. Sound between heaven and earth. Edited by the Evangelical Regional Church Office of Saxony . With a foreword by Jochen Bohl and photographs by Klaus-Peter Meißner. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2011, ISBN 978-3-374-02871-9 , pp. 202ff

Web links

Commons : Lutherkirche (Radebeul)  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Frank Andert: New publications on the work of the architects Schilling & Graebner . In: Radebeuler monthly books (ed.): Preview and review . No. 12 . Radebeul 2008, rummaged through the archive - historical from Radebeul, p. 3-5 .
  2. ↑ Hans-Dieter Steinmetz: The Villa "Shatterhand" in Radebeul. In: Yearbook of the Karl May Society 1981. Karl May Society, accessed on July 5, 2009 .
  3. ↑ After the information board next to the entrance to the church.
  4. ↑ a b c monument registration 08951300. Retrieved December 18, 2019.
  5. ↑ a b Volker Helas (arrangement): City of Radebeul . Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Saxony, Large District Town Radebeul (=  Monument Topography Federal Republic of Germany . Monuments in Saxony ). SAX-Verlag, Beucha 2007, ISBN 978-3-86729-004-3 , p. 172-173 .
  6. ^ Rainer Thümmel: Bells in Saxony; Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Leipzig: ISBN 978-3-374-02871-9 : p. 202
  7. ^ Rainer Thümmel: Bells in Saxony; Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Leipzig: ISBN 978-3-374-02871-9 : pp. 203ff
  8. ^ Rainer Thümmel: Bells in Saxony; Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Leipzig: ISBN 978-3-374-02871-9 : p. 202ff
  9. ^ Watch Wiki: Luther Church Radebeul
  10. ↑ Open Monument Day on September 9, 2007. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved July 5, 2009 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.radebeul.de  
  11. ↑ Johannes Woldt: The church tower as a living space - "Responsibility for creation in practice" . In: Radebeuler monthly books (ed.): Preview and review . No. 8 . Radebeul 2013.

Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 12.2 "  N , 13 ° 40 ′ 21.4"  E