Luther Church (Breslau)
The Martin Luther Church was a Protestant church in Breslau , it was located on the southeastern edge of the sandy suburb. After being destroyed by the Wehrmacht at the end of the Second World War , the church was not rebuilt.
History and description
The church, named after the reformer Martin Luther , was built according to a design by the renowned Berlin architect Jürgen Kröger and inaugurated in January 1896. Its tower had a height of 90 m and it was equipped with 1,400 seats. Kaiser Wilhelm II gave the congregation a replica of the Luther figure designed by Ernst Rietschel , which crowned the main portal of the church. A glass window came from the Frankfurt artist Alexander Linnemann , which was installed at the end of the 19th century.
In March 1945, during the Battle of Breslau , Gauleiter Karl Hanke had the church blown up in order to be able to create an airplane runway. The provisional runway was not of military importance. It is reported that only one plane took off on it: that of Gauleiter Hanke, who pulled away just before the fall of the city.
Clergy
- Pastor Günzel
- Pastor Pollack
- Pastor Schmidt
- Pastor Nay
- Pastor Borner
- Pastor Erasmus
Church musician
- Max Ansorge (1862-1937)
- Hanns-Georg Seibt
literature
- Ulrich Bunzel: Origin and Decay of the Protestant Churches in Wroclaw. Munich 1964.
- Gerhard Scheuermann: Das Breslau-Lexikon, Volume 1. Laumann-Verlag, Dülmen 1994, pp. 980–981, ISBN 3-87466-157-1
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Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 36 ″ N , 17 ° 3 ′ 32 ″ E