Luther Church (Magdeburg)

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The Luther Church was a Protestant church in the Friedrichstadt district of Magdeburg .

First house of prayer

The first house of prayer of a Reformed community in Friedrichstadt, today's Brückfeld, existed at least from 1798. With a cabinet order of May 8, 1798, the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm II gave the community a house of prayer on Heumarkt near today's Anna-Ebert-Brücke . In 1820 the city of Magdeburg donated an organ to the community that had previously been used in the city's poor and educational institution. A bell was purchased in 1822 and a tower clock in 1824.

New building

However, the prayer house turned out to be too small due to the growing population. In 1847, therefore, a petition was submitted to the Prussian government , which approved a new building on November 4, 1865.

The foundation stone for the neo-Gothic brick building with four yokes in the form language of the north German brick Gothic and an east gable based on bourgeois Hanseatic architecture took place in 1880. The consecration took place in 1882, and on January 22, 1897 the church was officially named Luther Church , which the king had approved on April 12 of the previous year.

In 1917 two of the three bronze bells donated by Kaiser Wilhelm I were melted down for armament purposes.

During National Socialism , the community sympathized with the German Christians who were close to the National Socialist leadership . On the occasion of a redesign of the church park in 1936, Adolf Hitler donated 200 Reichsmarks . A Hitler oak was planted in front of the church . In the choir room of the church, the order box of the Friedrichstadt military comradeship was installed by resolution of the church council .

On January 21, 1944, the church was badly damaged in a British air raid. In 1951 the partially destroyed church was torn down. Today is the site of the former church by the Complex with DDR - prefabricated unrecognizable.

literature

  • Hans-Joachim Krenzke: Churches and monasteries in Magdeburg. City Planning Office Magdeburg, Magdeburg 2000.

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Coordinates: 52 ° 7 ′ 40.9 ″  N , 11 ° 39 ′ 24.2 ″  E