Russian Memorial Church
The St. Alexi Memorial Church for the Russian Honor (Memorial Church of the Holy Metropolitan Alexi of Moscow , Russian Свято-Алексиевский храм-памятник Русской Славы ) is a Russian Orthodox Church near the corner of Philipp-Rosenthala and Semmelweis 51 in Leipzig , on the corner of 51 Philipp-Rosenthala and Semmelweis Street of the German library .
architecture
The church is a free replica of the Resurrection Church in Moscow- Kolomenskoye, built between 1530 and 1532 ( World Heritage Site since 1994 ) with the type of a Russian tent-roof church, which was first realized there, and as a plastered brick structure and the spire as a reinforced concrete skeleton. It serves to commemorate the 22,000 Russian soldiers who died in and around Leipzig during the Battle of Nations in 1813.
The architect of the church was Vladimir Alexandrowitsch Pokrovsky (1871-1931), his buildings are in Saint Petersburg , Nizhny Novgorod and Moscow . Construction of the Novgorod-style church in Leipzig with a 16-sided tent roof began on December 28, 1912. After 10 months of construction, the consecration took place exactly 100 years after the Battle of the Nations on October 17, 1913, the day before the inauguration of the Monument to the Battle of the Nations and the consecration of the church on October 18, 1913 . The construction costs amounted to 1 million gold marks or 250,000 rubles , of which more than half was financed from donations. On December 7, 1912 , the Leipzig architects Georg Weidenbach and Richard Tschammer submitted a simplified, scaled-down design intended for implementation to Pokrowski's original plans to the building police; they also managed the site.
The building consists of a winter church and an upper church. In the 18 meter high siebenreihigen iconostasis , a gift from the Don Cossacks , there are 78 icons of the Russian painter Luka Martjanowitsch Yemelyanov . The icon wall was consecrated on November 18, 2018 after three years of restoration by Bishop Tichon . The 55 meter high tower with its gold-plated onion dome based on the old Russian model can be seen far above Leipzig.
There is also a small community library and a church museum in the building.
War memorial tablets
At the left and right entrance to the Winter Church there are two war memorial plaques that commemorate the Battle of Nations in German and Russian:
The
memory of
the 22,000 Russian
warriors fell
for the liberation of
Germany in
1813 near Leipzig.
The
following took part in the Battle of Nations
in Leipzig from October 16-19,
1813:
Russians 127,000
Austrians 89,000
Prussians 72,000
Swedes 18,000
In these battles
:
22,000 Russians
16,000 Prussians
12,000 Austrians
300 Swedes.
In 2003, the Bashkir memorial stone was erected around 60 meters west of the main entrance to commemorate the participation of Bashkir fighters in the Battle of Leipzig.
Burglary
On the night of December 23rd to 24th, 1990, a break-in was committed in the Russian Memorial Church, during which, among other things, the 17th century icon "Mother of God from Iwersk with Child" was forcibly cut out of a wall from the main room of the church has been.
literature
- The architectural and art monuments of Saxony. City of Leipzig. The sacred buildings. Volume 2, edited by Heinrich Magirius and Hanna-Lore Fiedler, Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich 1995, ISBN 3-422-00568-4 , pp. 925–946.
Web links
- Homepage of the Russian Memorial Church in Leipzig
- Churches in Leipzig ( Memento from November 24, 2003 in the web archive archive.today )
- the Russian Memorial Church. In: arch INFORM .
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 51 ° 19 '26.8 " N , 12 ° 23' 49.9" E