Russian Church (Stuttgart)
The Russian Church (official name: Храм Святителя Николая Штутгарт, transcribed : Chram Swjatitelja Nikolaja Stuttgart , German: St. Nicholas Cathedral Stuttgart ) is in 1895 by the architect firm Eisenlohr & Weigle built Russian Orthodox Church in Stuttgart . The church was financed by the Russian government.
The construction went on a suggestion of Vera Konstantinovna Romanova , an adopted daughter of Württemberg King Charles I back. There were close dynastic ties between the Württemberg royal house and the last Tsar Nicholas II (Russia) , because the funerary chapel on the Württemberg also served as a Russian Orthodox church until 1899.
location
The church is located in the Stuttgart-Nord district, in the Stuttgart-Relenberg district , on the corner of Seidenstrasse and Hegelstrasse and has the address Seidenstrasse 69. The building is a cultural monument . The nearest tram stop was named Russian Church .
architecture
The church is stylistically assigned to a mixture of historicism and freely associated Russian church architecture. It is mainly made of red brick . White sandstone contrasts with this in the base and in a large number of subdivided parts and the grouting. The copper roofs, however, are green. Due to the limited space available and adapted to the small Orthodox parish, the St. Nicholas Church - unlike in the sacred architecture of Russia - was not built with five onion domes, but only with one. The building ensemble has a very compact appearance because the bell tower vaults the open entrance hall and an anteroom, an apse for the altar and a two-storey sacristy are pressed against the cubic nave . The bell tower rises above four prominent balusters . In 1944 the church was badly damaged by a bomb attack. The iconostasis and wall paintings were lost. After the war it was rebuilt.
literature
- Jörg Kurz: Northern history (s). About the dwelling and life of the people in the north of Stuttgart. 2nd edition, Stuttgart 2005, pages 154-156.
- Martin Wörner, Gilbert Lupfer, Ute Schulz, Architekturführer Stuttgart , 3rd edition 2006 ( ISBN 3-496-01290-0 ), p. 66.
Individual evidence
- ↑ The church is located on the border of the northern city district. The other side of Hegelstrasse and the longer part of the Silk Road belong to Stuttgart-West ( Stuttgart-Rosenberg ).
- ↑ http://www.stuttgart.de/img/mdb/publ/15310/23693.pdf ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. P. 41
Web links
- Page about the Russian Church on stuttgart-im-bild.de
- Homepage of the parish
- Annette Schmidt: Russian Church St. Nikolai , published on April 19, 2018 in: Stadtarchiv Stuttgart: Stadtlexikon Stuttgart.
Coordinates: 48 ° 47 '2.4 " N , 9 ° 9' 48.6" E