Trinitatiskirche (Dresden)

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Trinity Church

The Trinity Church is preserved as a ruin church building in Dresden district Johannstadt on Trinity Place between Blasewitzer road and Fiedlerstraße .

history

In the second half of the 19th century, the area east of the Pirnaische Vorstadt , the later Johannstadt, grew due to construction activity. The inhabitants belonged to the congregation of the Johanneskirche founded in 1878 . Since the parish had already grown to 40,000 members in 1884, Johannstadt was spun off from the parish.

The school's gym on Zöllnerplatz was used as a prayer room. At the beginning of 1888 the Trinity Congregation was founded. It numbered almost 10,000 members. The name goes back to the Trinitatisfriedhof , which is located next to the property that was given to the community by the city for the construction of the church.

The architect Karl Barth was commissioned with the construction of the church building. Construction began in September 1891. The topping-out ceremony was in 1892 and construction work was completed in October 1894. The consecration took place on October 17, 1894.

During the First World War, an office for the Dresden war districts was set up in the church. The four bells from the Dresden foundry C. Albert Bierling were given as a metal donation and melted down. After the war, three new bells were cast at Bierling in 1920 that survived the Second World War.

During the bombing of Dresden on 13./14. In February 1945 the nave burned down completely. The surrounding walls and the parish hall were badly damaged. The roof structure and the interior were completely destroyed. Only the tower was little damaged.

The clearing of rubble began in 1945. The bell system was poorly repaired in 1950. The clearing of large areas of the Johannstadt began in the mid-1950s. Only the remains of the Trinity Church and the parish hall remained. The parish rebuilt the parish hall and set up a church kindergarten. At the end of the 1960s, the church ruins were to be torn down. To prevent this, the congregation developed a project for a church service room and a conference center. The parish cleared the church grounds. The remains of the wall and the tower were secured. The clock and the chime were kept functional.

Today, church services are occasionally celebrated in the open air and concerts are held in the nave. The Trinity congregation has become part of the Johanneskirche congregation.

In the meantime, there is concrete planning to convert the church ruins into a new youth church in Dresden, sponsored by the Protestant youth of Dresden. A design by Code Unique Architects Dresden emerged as the winner of the architects' competition at the beginning of May 2018 . Construction of the approximately 6 million euro project began in April 2020 and is to be completed by 2022. After completion, the Trinitatiskirchruine will open as a youth church under the direction of the new Dresden youth pastor Leen Fritz. Under the common motto “Space for Time for You”, rooms suitable for young people for different event formats, the office of the Protestant youth and the open youth work that already exists at the location are combined under one roof.

Building description

Trinitatiskirche Dresden

The church is a single-nave sandstone building in the style of the Italian Renaissance. It holds 1200 people. The bell tower has a height of 65 meters.

Above the main portal was a 2.80 meter high sandstone statue of the inviting Christ. It was created by the sculptor Rudolph Hölbe and executed by the sculptor Anton Schwarz .

Furnishing

Inside was Anton Dietrich's altar painting "Christ, delivering the Sermon on the Mount".

The organ was made by the Dresden organ building company Kircheisen. It had 2547 pipes as well as two manuals and a pedal .

The church originally had four bells that were decorated with neo-Gothic ornaments. They came from the Dresden bell foundry C. Albert Bierling .

After the First World War, three new chilled iron bells were manufactured by the Schilling & Lattermann foundry in 1920 .

literature

  • Stadtlexikon Dresden A-Z . Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1995, ISBN 3-364-00300-9 .
  • Dirk Schumann: The Trinity Church . In: City of Dresden (Hrsg.): Lost churches: Dresden's destroyed churches. Documentation since 1938 . 3rd, change Edition. Dresden 2018, p. 48–51 ( online edition. PDF; 6.4 MB).

Web links

Commons : Trinitatiskirche  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The ruined church becomes the new Dresden Youth Church at jugendkirchen.org, accessed on June 15, 2018
  2. ↑ Youth church for 13 to 23 year olds to be created DNN from May 11, 2019, accessed on November 28, 2019
  3. ↑ Leen Fritz becomes the new city youth pastor at the regional church of Saxony from July 11, 2019, accessed on December 21, 2019

Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 9.5 ″  N , 13 ° 46 ′ 15.3 ″  E