Pauluskirche (Breslau)
The Pauluskirche on Striegauer Platz (today plac Strzegomski ) was a Protestant church in the neo-renaissance style in the Westend of Breslau (Polish: Szczepin ). The church building was blown up in 1945 during the Battle of Wroclaw .
history
The first design for the Pauluskirche came from an architecture competition in 1907. The first prize was awarded to the design by the Potsdam government building officer Arthur Kickton . This was based on the ideas of the local art movement at the time. In 1911 work began on the church. At the same time, two parsonages and a parish hall were built adjacent.
On March 17, 1913, the centenary of the appeal of the Prussian king " To my people " in Breslau, the Pauluskirche was consecrated. In 1919 Fritz Lubrich became senior organist at the Pauluskirche.
The system-critical pastor of the Pauluskirche Kurt Bornitz (1899-1945) was shot in January 1945 by order of the Gestapo in Breslau.
At the end of the Second World War , the church complex was blown up in March in the Battle of Breslau on the orders of Gauleiter Hanke . The rubble was completely cleared away a few years later, similar to most of the more heavily damaged and not listed Protestant churches in Wroclaw.
Today there is a medical and special diagnostic center on the former church property .
architecture
The actual church formed an architecturally closed ensemble with the associated parish and parish house as well as fenced gardens. The church building was a nave with cross wings and two narrow aisles. The external architecture was similar to the Dorotheenkirche in Breslau and the transverse roofs of the Kreuzkirche on the Wroclaw Cathedral Island. The church had 1,400 seats with its two galleries. Above the altar was a life-size crucifix carved in wood . The design of the two gable walls of the Pauluskirche was based on the Unter den Greifen house , a town house on Breslauer Ring .
On the side of the choir was the 65 m high tower, which above the bell chamber dissolved into smaller octagonal twin towers. The model for the spiers in the Renaissance style was the Elisabeth Church in Wroclaw's old town.
literature
- Pauluskirche for Breslau . Leipzig: Seemann 1909. In: German competitions; 23.9
- Ulrich Bunzel: Origin and Decay of the Protestant Churches in Wroclaw . Munich 1964
- Beate Störtkuhl: Modern Architecture in Silesia 1900 to 1939 . Munich 2013, pp. 71–73
Web links
- Filip Maria Muszyński: Protestancki kościół Św. Pawła we Wrocławiu (Polish site with photos and plans)
- historical photos on fotopolska
Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 50 ″ N , 17 ° 0 ′ 11 ″ E