Reconciliation Church (Dresden)
The Reconciliation Church is a church building at Schandauer Strasse / Wittenberger Strasse 96 in Dresden-Striesen . The building is an example of Dresden's reform architecture and today one of the three churches of the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Dresden-Blasewitz .
description
The church was designed as a hall church with a functionally connected parish hall building including additional functional rooms in 1902 by Gustav Rumpel and Arthur Krutzsch and built between 1905 and 1909 by Krutzsch and Rumpel's son Fritz. The sacred building combines Romanesque and Gothic motifs with those of Art Nouveau . At the Third German Applied Arts Exhibition in Dresden in 1906, a monumental church interior with paintings was shown, which outlined the pictorial concept used here.
The numerous individually designed ornaments and small sculptures with their large variety of shapes and motifs are particularly characteristic of this building. This decorative richness can be found inside, on the facade and in the window design.
facade
A courtyard with neo-Romanesque arched arcades that opens onto the street leads to a building complex consisting of a church with the community building, including the community hall. The group of buildings is characterized by a large roof landscape with gables, turrets, towers and ridge turrets. The entire structure is crowned by the pointed high tower. This is reminiscent of historical motifs such as medieval palaces , the motif being quoted in a free and associative way. Rumpel and Krutzsch succeeded in reinterpreting the motif and creating a striking, massive and harmonious building complex. The large, smooth sandstone surfaces are unconsciously reminiscent of medieval fortresses and are the result of the material style within the reform architecture. Only a few masonry stones above the ground floor have a pointed surface, which makes them stand out clearly in contrast to their surroundings. In the ground floor zone they were arranged continuously in the masonry. The external design placed particular emphasis on the effect of the material, here the Elbe sandstone , which was used from the base to the top of the tower.
On the gable of the parish hall, a bas-relief shows people praying and taking a break from their work. The stair tower of this building is adorned with an ornamental frieze depicting the muses. This is limited to the eaves by a toothed ornament band. The parish hall has its own entrance on the street side of the church property. Above the arcade , its facade is characterized by three decorative gables and their large round windows. Through them the light falls into the large community hall with its own stage. The window frames, their tracery , gable eaves and parts of the wall surfaces are richly decorated with floral and geometric motifs.
The gable of the church building is also adorned with a bas-relief. It shows the baptism of Jesus under the rays of the sun, with acanthus tendrils in the background. A stone cross forms the top of the gable.
At the foot of the 62-meter-high and slender church tower , above a small apse-like stair tower, there is a life-size Luther sculpture with a Bible in her left hand. Further figural details decorate this building front. At the height of the belfry , below the tower clock , a balcony with an ornamental openwork balustrade protrudes from the smooth wall. Above this clock, the facade tapers on all four sides into gothic decorative gables and continues into the stone spire .
inside rooms
The equipment of the building was under the overall direction of Otto Gussmann . This gave the church its picturesque and decorative concept and provided the designs for the stained glass windows in the choir. His pupil Max Friedrich Helas , who was able to carry out his first major commission here, took on the artistic painting of the church interior . He was then commissioned to decorate the sacristies and stairwells. Some of the window designs come from Paul Rößler (round window) and Max Friedrich Helas (stairwell of the parish hall). The sculptor Georg Wrba created the large sculpture of the good shepherd at the altar, the altar crucifix and its two candlesticks. Karl Groß left numerous sculptures in the building. The baptismal font made of Zöblitzer serpentine with a bronze lid , the bas-reliefs of the pulpit and the lectern on the side of the altar come from him. Other sculptures in the building are works by Oskar Paul Hempel (1887–1957) and Friedrich Wittig .
The decorative heating grilles in the chancel are a metal work by Max Großmann and are each covered by a plate made of a Belgian limestone known at the time, dark gray and white spotted .
Bells
In keeping with its size, the Reconciliation Church has one of the deepest bells in Dresden. In 1907 the Bochumer Verein delivered three cast steel bells in the disposition g – b – c ′. In addition to the three-part » Tē Dĕum « motif, the two-part bell combination can still sound the fourth motif g – c ′, the minor third g – b and the major second b – c ′.
The bells ring on cranked cast iron yokes in a steel chair and weigh a total of 10,118 kg.
organ
The organ of the Church of Reconciliation dates from 1909 and was built by the Dresden organ builder Johannes Jahn . After a reconstruction by Eule in 1939 , the organ was partially brought closer to its original condition by Scheffler in several construction phases. However, the dual function of the remote plant (church / parish hall) was not restored. The remote control received a pneumatic instead of an electro-pneumatic action and the organ a new console based on the Wilhelm Sauer design . The late romantic predisposed instrument has 49 registers ( cone chest ) and two transmissions on three manuals and pedal . The actions are pneumatic.
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Pairing :
- Normal coupling: III / I, II / I, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P
- Super octave coupling: I / I, II / II, III / III
- Playing aids : Choirs (flutes, viols, principals), reed works, crescendo rollers .
Outdoor facilities
There is a fountain in the arcaded forecourt of the church. This facility was built between 1925 and 1928 based on a design by the architect Willy Meyer . The group sculpture of the comforting Christ placed on its edge was made by Selmar Werner and commemorates the fallen of the First World War . On a stair tower behind the group sculpture, the inscription "Ehrenhof - The Victims of World War" was affixed with gold-plated letters. As part of the overall planning (1903) for the church, a Marienbrunnen was planned. The specific design for the fountain system from 1916, created by the sculptors Hans Rödig and Martin Kuntze , was not implemented. After 1918, in view of the deaths from the First World War, the thoughts on the idea of an “honor grove” changed. The design planning for this new conceptual approach was entrusted to Selmar Werner.
The arcades at the church limit the courtyard enclosed on three sides. To the right of the church tower, the arcade allows passage to the rear part of the church property, where a building of the municipal administration is located. The two arcades leading to the church rise slightly following the level of the terrain. The associated slight increase in the central building area was intended to reinforce its overall effect and was already included as a specification in the preparatory design steps. In front of the main entrance of the church with its two portals are two squat-looking columns with a slightly cambered shaft and a capital each , which, thanks to its decoration with animal heads and simple ornamental bands, also takes up elements of Mesoamerican architecture in an associative way.
literature
- Ulrich Hübner et al .: Symbol and truthfulness. Reform architecture in Dresden. Verlag der Kunst Dresden Ingwert Paulsen jun., Husum 2005, ISBN 3-86530-068-5 .
- Gilbert Lupfer, Bernhard Sterra, Martin Wörner (eds.): Architecture guide Dresden. Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-496-01179-3 .
Web links
- Parish Dresden-Blasewitz - owner of the Reconciliation Church
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hübner et al., Pp. 14f
- ↑ Hans-Ulrich Lehmann: The Reconciliation Church as a total work of art . In: Hans-Peter Hasse, Gerd Hiltscher: 100 Years of the Reconciliation Church Dresden-Striesen. Dresden 2009
- ↑ Winfried Werner: The Reconciliation Church in Dresden-Striesen. History, importance and preservation of an outstanding work of reform architecture in Saxony . In: Hans-Peter Hasse, Gerd Hiltscher: 100 Years of the Reconciliation Church Dresden-Striesen. Dresden 2009
- ↑ Commission royale des Monuments (ed.): Pouvoir (s) de Marbres. Liège 2004, p. 45 ISBN 2-87401-169-X
- ↑ Thümmel, Rainer: Bells in Saxony. Sound between heaven and earth. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Leipzig, 2011, p. 291.
- ↑ Information on the history and restoration of the Jahn organ , accessed on March 20, 2014.
- ↑ Lupfer et al., Object no. 237 (Church of Reconciliation, Wittenberger Straße 96, 1905-09. Gustav Rumpe, Arthur Krutzsch).
- ↑ Helmut Steinhäuser: The group of fountains in the courtyard of Selmar Werner. In: Hans-Peter Hasse, Gerd Hiltscher: 100 Years of the Reconciliation Church Dresden-Striesen. Dresden 2009
- ↑ Winfried Werner: The Reconciliation Church in Dresden-Striesen . In: Hans-Peter Hasse, Gerd Hiltscher: 100 Years of the Reconciliation Church Dresden-Striesen. Dresden 2009
Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 32.3 " N , 13 ° 47 ′ 56.8" E