Thomaskirche (Dresden)
The Thomaskirche on Bodenbacher Strasse in the Dresden district of Gruna is a listed sacred building belonging to the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Gruna-Seidnitz.
history
On October 8, 1891, the foundation stone for a church was laid in the village of Gruna at Bodenbacher Strasse 24. At that time Gruna belonged to the Dresden Kreuzkirche community , the new sacred building was a foundation of two Gruna citizens. The church was designed by Christian Gottfried Schramm as a cladding brick building with a south tower in the neo-Romanesque style. The church was consecrated on August 31, 1892. The construction cost a total of around 34,000 marks. In 1901 Gruna was incorporated into Dresden.
On January 1, 1908, Gruna was removed from the parish of the Kreuzkirche and, since the sacred building was consecrated as the St. Thomas Church, it became an independent St. Thomas Church . The church was expanded until 1932, so that it now held 500 people. During the air raids on Dresden in World War II , the church burned down to the surrounding walls. Only the bell tower remained. On October 29, 1950, the church was consecrated again as the first church in Dresden to be restored after the war.
description
Helmar Helas (1914–1981) designed the altar windows, and in 1955 the pulpit and lectern. The baptismal bowl, baptismal font and stalls of the building, which can hold up to 350 believers today, come from the church of the Ehrlich Peninsula . An altar designed by Edmund Moeller from 1932 to 1934 with the two reliefs “The congregation to be converted” and “The converted congregation” adorns the church. They were made from Untersberg marble . A representation of Satan was removed from the marble reliefs. The artist had inserted these into the reliefs after a lengthy legal battle with the community, from which he emerged as a loser.
In 1952 the Thomaskirche received a Jehmlich organ . It has two manuals, a pedal and 1016 sounding pipes. Three bells, cast from steel in Bochum in 1921, are in the tower.
literature
- Jürgen Helfricht : Dresden and its churches. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-374-02261-8 , p. 67.
- City Lexicon Dresden A – Z. Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1995, ISBN 3-364-00300-9 .
Web links
- The Thomaskirche in Dresden Gruna Website of the Gruna-Seidnitz parish
Individual evidence
- ↑ St. Thomas Church. In: Dresdner-Stadtteile.de. Retrieved May 6, 2013 .
- ↑ Helfricht, p. 67.
Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 3.3 ″ N , 13 ° 46 ′ 54.8 ″ E