Martinskirche (Koethen)

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The Martinskirche is a former Protestant church in Köthen (Anhalt) in the Anhalt-Bitterfeld district . It is one of the most important Art Nouveau buildings in Saxony-Anhalt , is a listed building and is listed in the monument register with registration number 094 17547 as an architectural monument.

View from the west
View from the east

location

The church was built in the years 1912 to 1914 southeast of the old town on the former gallows hill of Köthen. Today it stands between Franzstraße in the north, Bahnhofsstraße in the east and Leipziger Straße, which forms the triangle.

History and architecture

The urban growth of Köthen also expanded to the south-east, where a Wilhelminian-style district was created. This received its own church building at the beginning of the 20th century. Friedrich Gothe , who had already proven his skills with the replacement of the village church in Gnetsch , was hired as the architect . For both places he designed a round building, creating a pure central tower church in Gnetsch, in which the components are arranged around the tower, whereas in Köthen he arranged the tower, servants' house and rectory east of the round domed structure. This creates a V-shaped floor plan. The hood of the choir tower is particularly striking and idiosyncratic.

In 1985 the Martinsgemeinde was merged with that of St. Jakob , so that the church has not been used for church services since then. In 1986 the city took over the building and tried out various uses. The servant house is used as a youth club, the cellar as a student club .

Interior and outfit

Due to multiple renovations and the abandonment of the church, nothing of the furnishings has survived. Only the spatial effect and parts of the glazing still bear witness to the former sacral use.

Appreciation

Holger Brülls describes the church in Dehio as a central building dominating the cityscape (...) with an impressive silhouette effect and speaks of an individual achievement of church building in the context of Art Nouveau and reform architecture . He also said in 2012: the Martinskirche (...) is the largest and most important sacred architectural monument of the early 20th century in Saxony-Anhalt. Here, too, he emphasizes the function as a landmark of the region.

literature

  • Holger Brülls / Kristina Friday: The Martinskirche in Köthen by Friedrich Gothe. Successful restoration and conversion of an important sacred building from the early 20th century. In: Denkmalpflege in Sachsen-Anhalt 20 (2012), no. 2, pp. 59–70.
  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Saxony Anhalt II. Administrative districts Dessau and Halle. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-422-03065-4 .

Web links

Commons : Martinskirche (Köthen in Anhalt)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the state of Saxony-Anhalt (pdf, 9.9 MB) - answer of the state government to a small question for written answer (the delegates Olaf Meister and Prof. Dr. Claudia Dalbert; Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen) - printed matter 6/3905 from March 19, 2015 (KA 6/8670)
  2. ↑ a b Martinskirche. City of Köthen (Anhalt), accessed on September 3, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Brülls / Friday, p. 60.
  4. ^ Dehio, p. 384.
  5. ↑ Brülls / Friday, p. 59.

Coordinates: 51 ° 44 ′ 51.5 ″  N , 11 ° 59 ′ 12.2 ″  E