St. Augustine (Wroclaw)
The Roman Catholic Church of St. Augustine in Breslau , ul. Sudecka, was built between 1907 and 1909 as a Protestant St. John's Church. It is a listed building .
history
The church was built on the then Hohenzollernstrasse based on a design by the Wroclaw architects Alfred Böttcher and Richard Gaze . It was badly damaged by shelling during the siege of Wroclaw in April 1945 . The church windows - a work by Robert Engels in Munich - were destroyed. The damage was estimated at 45%. The church was rebuilt in 1959, since then it has been used as a Catholic church by the Polish Capuchin Order and is consecrated to St. Augustine of Hippo .
The church was registered on August 4, 1977 under A / 2492/353 / Wm in the register of architectural monuments of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship
architecture
The neo-Romanesque church was built on the plan of a Greek cross .
The hall church is equipped with a circumferential gallery and large arched windows. The mighty church tower rises above the central crossing , carries a pointed tent roof made of sheet copper and eight small turrets. A lower sacristy is attached to the semicircular apse , the transepts are covered with steep pitched roofs . The facades are decorated in a rustic rustication from sandstone designed.
Above the Art Nouveau main portal is a relief depicting the baptism of Christ by John the Baptist , a work by Richard Schipke, a student of Christian Behrens .
The pulpit of marble is the work of sculptor Theodor von Gosen .
Web links
- Johanneskirche on breslau-wroclaw.de (website offline on December 8, 2019)
- Parafia Sw. Augustyna (St. John's Church) on the website of the Church Building Documentation Office (KIDOK) , last accessed on December 8, 2019
- Pictures on fotopolska.eu
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.nid.pl/pl/Informacje_ogolne/Zabytki_w_Polsce/rejestr-zabytkow/zestawienia-zabytkow-nieruchomych/DLN-rej.pdf
Coordinates: 51 ° 5 '14.9 " N , 17 ° 1' 3.9" E