Zionskirche (Dresden)
With Zion Church is called two Lutheran churches in Dresden district Südvorstadt . There is also a Methodist Zion Church in Dresden- Striesen .
Old Zion Church
The Roman Catholic mechanical engineering manufacturer Johann Hampel, whose factory was on Zwickauer Strasse, decreed in a will in 1896 that his assets of around 750,000 marks should be transferred to the city of Dresden, on condition that a Protestant church was built in the southern district of Dresden and he and his wife were to be buried in the church.
The second condition violated the law, so a solution had to be found in order to be able to implement the project. On November 5, 1901, in order to meet the deadline, a foundation stone was first laid on Nürnberger Strasse for the church, popularly known as the “Hampelkirche”. A provisional timber construction followed a little later.
Ultimately, the city awarded the contract to the winner of an architecture competition, the Schilling & Graebner office . They implemented an Art Nouveau-style church with around 1,100 seats in the form of a central building , an unusual and highly regarded solution for the time. The pulpit found its place in the central axis of the church, the tiers were arranged in a fan-shaped rising, similar to an amphitheater . The sculptor Selmar Werner designed bronze figures of the four evangelists for the church . The tower was 26 meters high.
On July 27, 1908, construction of the church began. It could be consecrated on September 29, 1912. The consecration was carried out by the Superintendent Közsch and quoted the title of the altar place, "The beautiful splendor of God breaks out of Zion" .
The organ of the church was the first organ in Saxony with a purely electric action and register system, built by the well-known Dresden organ builder Jehmlich .
The congregation, which had formed in the meantime, comprised 5619 members, the majority of whom came from the Lukaskirche , which is also in the southern suburbs , 800 came from the congregation of the Resurrection Church , and around 80 from the Annenkirche congregation . The first pastor of the church was Theodor Droese, followed by Herbert Böhme and Ringulf Siegmund, who were both opponents of National Socialism.
During the air raids on Dresden on 13./14. February 1945 the church was badly hit and burned down to the surrounding walls. It was later secured with a temporary roof. The steel bells of the Zion Church survived the attacks and were handed over to the Church of the Resurrection, which in turn had to give up its bells in the course of the metal collections in World War II and no longer had its own peal. The parish was initially dissolved in 1945 and incorporated into the Resurrection Parish. It was only formed again in 1956 and initially housed in a barrack next to the ruins.
Lapidary
In exchange for the area for the New Zion Church , the city of Dresden received the Zions Church ruins. With the beginning of the reconstruction of the Dresden Castle from 1985 on the suggestion of the Institute for the Preservation of Monuments, the church ruin was designated as a central warehouse for approx. 7,100 fragments and expanded into a lapidarium . As of 1995, the existing external camps could be closed. In 1996 the building was given a weather protection roof.
New Zion Church
In 1965, on his 60th birthday , Regional Bishop Gottfried Noth was promised by the Lutheran World Federation that a church would be built for him. He should determine the location himself, the Swedish Church should implement the project. Various attempts failed until the New Zionskirche was finally built in Dresden.
On June 5, 1981 the foundation stone was laid for a new Zionskirche (at Bayreuther Straße 28). With Swedish material, Swedish master fitters, employees of the Dresden church building yard and our own specialists, the church was built under the direction of the Swedish site manager Erik Granbom in around 8,000 working hours.
On October 31, 1982, the church was consecrated by Regional Bishop Johannes Hempel , the Swedish Bishop of Skara , Helge Brattgård and the parish priest Michael Kanig.
The center of the community is the 10-meter-high church built in glued wood. It offers space for 120 parishioners. Altar, lectern and the rows of chairs form a circle. In the building itself there are additional rooms for community work.
See also
literature
- Luise Helas: The Zionskirche in Dresden. A sacred building of reform architecture, in: INSITU. Zeitschrift für Architekturgeschichte 2/2014, ISSN 1866-959X , pp. 239–256.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ See: Luise Helas: The Zionskirche zu Dresden - A sacred building of reform architecture . In: INSITU. Zeitschrift für Architekturgeschichte 6 (2/2014), pp. 239–256.
- ↑ Zionskirche. In: Dresdner-Stadtteile.de. Retrieved December 2, 2015 .
- ↑ a b c d Chronicle of the Zionskirche , accessed on March 10, 2019.
Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ' N , 13 ° 43' E