Scottish Church (Dresden)

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Scottish Church around 1900

The Scottish Presbyterian Church was a villa-like church building behind the south side of Dresden Central Station at Bernhardstraße 2.

History and architecture

The economic upswing of the founding years led to the emergence of larger foreign communities in Dresden. After the Orthodox Russians ( St. Simeon ), the Anglican English ( All Saints' Church ) and the Episcopal Americans ( St. John's Church ), the Dresden-based Presbyterians also built their own church building in 1884 . The house in neo-renaissance style stood behind the south side of the Bohemian train station (since the 1890s: main station). Until then, a prayer room at Seestrasse  10 was used.

The architectural style suggests the influence of Gottfried Semper . It was a two-story sandstone building in the form of the Dresden villa architecture . The first and second floors had well-articulated window axes, the pitched roof was flat, and there was no tower. The ground floor, clad with marble and oak paneling, had arched windows with Christian symbols. The main room, the parish hall, offered 200 places for prayer and prayer. On the entrance side there was a generously designed porch resting on two columns. An equally elegant outside staircase led to the garden park on the side. The upper floor was also richly decorated, with oak paneling and ornamented stucco fillets. The wooden roof structure was covered with slate shingles.

When the First World War broke out , many parishioners left Germany. The congregation, which continued to exist formally, rented the building from 1915 to the Adventist congregation founded at the turn of the century . Destroyed and burned out during the bombing of Dresden in February 1945, the ruins were cleared and removed in 1953.

literature

  • Hans-Jochen Free Life: The Scottish Church . In: City of Dresden (Hrsg.): Lost churches: Dresden's destroyed churches. Documentation since 1938 . 3rd, change Edition. Dresden 2018, p. 38–39 ( online edition. PDF; 6.4 MB).
  • Paul Schumann: Dresden. Unikum-Verlag, Dresden 2014; Reprint of the original edition from 1909; ISBN 978-3-8457-2138-5 , pp. 274 and 347.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernhardstrasse: Scottish Church. In: dresdner-stadtteile.de. Retrieved February 6, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Hans-Jochen Free Life: The Scottish Church . In: City of Dresden (Hrsg.): Lost churches: Dresden's destroyed churches. Documentation since 1938 . 3rd, change Edition. Dresden 2018, p. 39 ( online edition. PDF; 6.4 MB).

Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 22.6 "  N , 13 ° 43 ′ 47.9"  E