St. Josef (Dresden)
The St. Josef Church is the Catholic parish church in the Dresden district of Pieschen . It is at Rehefelder Strasse 61.
history
In 1891 a catholic people's association was founded in the evangelical Pieschen. The first Catholic service took place in the Ballhaus Watzke in 1896 . An independent parish office in Dresden-Pieschen was founded in 1904, and the parish's first chapel was located in the Catholic school on Leisniger Strasse. After Bishop Aloys Schäfer and the community had campaigned for the construction of a Catholic church in Pieschen in 1908 , it was built from 1909 to 1910 as the first reinforced concrete church in Dresden in neo-Romanesque style based on designs by Alexander Tandler . Although it was built during the Art Nouveau period, the church shows few stylistic elements. The church tower was added in 1911. The church was founded on October 10, 1910 consecrated .
During the First World War, the bells were melted down and a new chime was consecrated in 1930. In 1942 two of the three bells were melted down again. The church was partially destroyed by the air raids on Dresden in 1945. Splinters and shock waves destroyed the windows and tore doors off their hinges. The reconstruction was completed in 1950. In 1959 the bells were consecrated again.
In 1968 the congregation decided to rebuild the church and, in accordance with the regulations of the Second Vatican Council, to move the altar into the center of the church. Architect Hubert Paul then rebuilt the church from 1970 to 1978. The sculptural work was done by Friedrich Press . For the renovation, there was a stipulation that the state- owned companies could not be used. The reconstruction was carried out by the community, the building material was donated by dioceses in the FRG. In an acoustic project by the Technical University of Dresden , the ceiling was designed so that the celebrant and lecturer could be heard without a loudspeaker system.
In 2000 the church was renovated. New windows were installed on the front of the church in the parish rooms and new heating systems were installed. A skylight was installed in the apse.
In May 2008, new church windows designed by Michael Morgner were inaugurated .
Building description
The church was originally designed as a longitudinal procession church. The altar stood in the apse on a high landing under a gilded stucco canopy. The church windows were wiped dark and burned.
The nave is 12 meters high.
Furnishing
In the chancel the twelve gates of Jerusalem are depicted as six double gates. The essential design of the brick double gates is supposed to represent the heavenly city and connect the community with all Christians.
In a small side chapel stands the tabernacle in the form of a stylized green pillar of fire, above it a crucifix depicting the suffering of Christ in all gravity.
A wooden statue of the Virgin Mary is attached to the right front column in the church. It is reduced to a few attributes like the belly of a pregnant woman.
organ
The organ was purchased in 1995 by the evangelical community in Traunstein . This is a work by the Austrian company Rieger from 1953. The sound pattern follows that of organ building in southern Germany. The organ is based on a principal 8 ′ (main work). It has 21 registers . The prospectus is kept simple and open and is essentially formed by the principal 8 'made of copper. The positive movement is equipped as a swell movement.
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- Coupling: II / I, I / P
Bells
After the first ringing of bells was melted down during World War I and the second partially during World War II, the church now has three bells.
The large Joseph Bell was consecrated in 1959. The congregation of Dresden Neustadt donated the middle bell, the Marienglocke, to the congregation of the Josefskirche. The little bell, the Elisabeth bell, comes from the second ringing of the bell.
literature
- Stadtlexikon Dresden A-Z . Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1995, ISBN 3-364-00300-9 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ More information about the Rieger organ on the municipality's website
Web links
Coordinates: 51 ° 5 '2.5 " N , 13 ° 43' 14.8" E