Russian Orthodox Church (Dresden)
The Russian Orthodox Church of Saint Simeon of the Wonderful Mountains ( Russian Церковь преподобного Симеона Дивногорца) is a 19th century sacred building of the Russian Orthodox Church in the Saxon capital of Dresden .
history
The church was built between 1872 and 1874 by the architect Harald Julius von Bosse , a Russian councilor of German origin who was also the builder of the German church in Saint Petersburg , and by the architect Karl Weißbach on Reichsstraße (now Fritz-Löffler-Straße ) in the Südvorstadt built. The Russian State Councilor Simeon Wikulin donated around seven tenths of the construction cost of 520,000 Reichsmarks, after whose patron saint, Saint Symeon Stylites the Younger , the church was named.
The equipment remained unfinished due to financial problems. The valuable archaic icons of the iconostasis were created by the Dutch painter James Marshall, who became known for his ceiling paintings in the Semper Opera House .
The first archpriest of the church was Alexander Rosanov from Petersburg. In 1875, Tsar Alexander II , who helped finance the church, attended a service in the church.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky , who lived in Dresden between 1869 and 1871, had his daughter Lyubov baptized in the church . The composer Sergej Rachmaninow , who also lived in Dresden for some time, contributed with a large donation to the installation of the gas heating, which is still functional today. Other (temporary) parishioners include Mikhail Bakunin and Ivan Turgenev .
The Russian Orthodox Church, which was built primarily for the Russian legation in the Kingdom of Saxony , is still part of the Moscow Patriarchate . However, in 1939 the National Socialist rulers transferred the church to the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad , while the congregation spoke out in favor of belonging to the Moscow Patriarchate. After the German reunification, this led to a legal dispute that lasted for years, which could not be settled until May 2007 when the two churches were reunified.
Between 1914 and 1921, the church was closed due to "security concerns" about services in Russian.
During the air raids on Dresden in February 1945, the church was the only building in a wide area to remain relatively unscathed.
today
Today the congregation has over 1000 members. The extensive renovation and reconstruction that began in 1985 was completed in 2007. Archpriest Georgi Dawidow estimated the total cost to be around one million euros.
Architectural
The 33 m long and 13 m wide brick building with sandstone cladding and a 40 m high bell tower shows itself with its five onion domes in the style of Russian sacred buildings of the 16th and 17th. Century. The onion domes show Christ and the four evangelists .
Individual evidence
Web links
- Homepage of the Russian Orthodox Church Dresden (German / Russian)
Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 0.6 ″ N , 13 ° 43 ′ 52.6 ″ E