Reconciliation Church (Leipzig)

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Reconciliation Church in Leipzig-Gohlis

The Reconciliation Church is an Evangelical Lutheran church in Leipzig-Gohlis , on the corner property at Franz-Mehring-Straße 44 / Viertelsweg, near the Krochsiedlung . It was built from 1930 to 1932 according to a design by Leipzig architect Hans Heinrich Grotjahn in the New Objectivity style and is a listed building .

Building history

Construction site of the Reconciliation Church, 1932

The construction of a new church had been planned in the new, rapidly growing residential area since the end of the First World War . The Evangelical Lutheran parish of Gohlis-Nord was renamed the Reconciliation Community in 1920 , and its board of directors campaigned for the construction of its own house of worship over the long term. At the end of the 1920s, an architectural competition was held in which 73 Leipzig architects took part. The jury decided on the design by Grotjahn. The foundation stone was laid on the corner lot Clausewitzstraße 44 / Planitzstraße (today Franz-Mehring-Straße 44 / Viertelsweg) could be made in 1930, and on March 6, 1932, the church was together with the bells and the organ ordained . The church of reconciliation in Neu-Gohlis, known as the Church of Reconciliation , is an important church building of classical modernism . The facade is kept entirely in white. The functional, functional shape, the striking 43-meter-high tower with vertical ribbon windows and the cross-shaped window in the entrance area led the Nazi rulers to attack the church council from 1933 onwards for allegedly degenerate art . This criticism also referred to the furnishings designed by the artists Max Alfred Brumme , Odo Tattenpach and Curt Metze .

Towards the end of the Second World War , the structure was badly damaged. After 1945, however, a joint effort by the parish and the new German city administration allowed it to be repaired and preserved for church use. After the fall of the Wall , in 1993 a comprehensive, listed building renovation and restoration by the architects Kraus and Krusenbaum began. In 2008, the original colors from the construction period were also exposed during interior work.

Furnishing

The church building consists of the sermon and celebration church, but this cannot be seen from the outside. Both parts of the church contain an altar with a four-meter-high figure of Christ and altar reliefs designed and manufactured by Brumme. The pulpit, baptismal font and sacrament dishes were also made in the workshop of the sculptor Brumme. Tattenpach and Metze carried out colored glass windows and wall decorations.

The organ was installed in 1932 by the organ building workshop P. Furtwängler & Hammer opposite the pulpit gallery and is an important element of the equipment. Their acquisition and integration into the main nave of the church go back to extensive efforts by Herbert Schulze , the first cantor and organist of the Church of Reconciliation. His successor was Werner Buschnakowski , who introduced church music concerts in the Reconciliation Church for over 50 years . The disposition of the organ comes from the Thomas cantor Günther Ramin . The valuable musical instrument has been preserved over the decades; in the new millennium it was extensively restored and rededicated in 2005.

The stained glass window in the entrance area was made in 1970 by the Leipzig artist Matthias Klemm .

In the bell tower there is a ringing made of bronze bells in the striking tones es 1 , f 1 and g 1 .

literature

  • Johannes Herz (introduction): A modern Protestant church building. The Reconciliation Church in Leipzig. Architect BDA Hans Heinrich Grotjahn. Friedrich Ernst Huebsch Verlag, Berlin / Leipzig 1932.
  • Friends of the Reconciliation Church Leipzig-Gohlis eV, Henrike Dietze, Dieter Michel, Sieghard Mühlmann (eds.): The Reconciliation Church in Leipzig-Gohlis. History and present of a building of classical modernism. Pro Leipzig, Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-936508-46-8 .

Web links

Commons : Church of Reconciliation  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c From the announcement of the competition to the renewed organ consecration on January 23, 2005
  2. ↑ Reference to the architects Kraus and Krusenbaum on the homepage of the church development association
  3. ^ Building history and interior views of the Reconciliation Church
  4. ^ History of the Church of Reconciliation on the Leipzig-Gohlis city portal
  5. ^ History of the Furtwängler & Hammer organ from 1932 in the Reconciliation Church in Leipzig-Gohlis , accessed on October 14, 2011
  6. ↑ Homepage of Matthias Klemm, here: picture of the window of the Church of Reconciliation , accessed on October 2, 2010

Coordinates: 51 ° 22 ′ 18.7 "  N , 12 ° 22 ′ 6.8"  E