Orphanage Church (Dresden)

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Orphanage church with Jewish pond (1840)

Orphanage Church was the name of two Protestant churches in Dresden that stood at today's Georgplatz .

Building history

Almost gesüdeter map with the Jüdenteich and the orphanage church before the present there city walls , about 1759

1713

George Bähr , who later built the baroque Frauenkirche , built the first orphanage church in the years 1710–1713. The rectangular church building had stairs in the four corners and in the surrounding gallery . The second gallery was built in 1725 by the court carpenter Johann Greißner . With the church painting were Christian Benjamin fried fish and Johann David Vogler commissioned. During the siege of Dresden by Prussian troops in the Seven Years' War , the church was destroyed by artillery fire in 1760 . Johann George Schmidt's rebuilding plans from 1768 were not carried out.

1780

The foundation stone for the new church was laid on May 3, 1777. According to the design by Christian Heinrich Eigenwillig , it was a nave with two galleries on three sides. Like the massive outer wall , the nave with its half-columns was of the simplest design. The sculptor Friedrich Wilhelm Müller created the altar , David Benjamin Porsche the glory. The organ was by Johann Christian Kayser . The church was consecrated on October 15, 1780.

Until it was moved to Leipzig (1848), the Dresden Mission sent missionaries from the orphanage church to the Aborigines from 1836 . The Saxon Teachers' Association was founded in the church in 1848 . The Bohemian congregation, which visited the nearby St. John's Church until 1860 , held its services in the orphanage church from 1861 until the consecration of the Church of the Redeemer (1880). Gustav Adolf Merkel was the organist of the orphanage church, which was closed in the 1890s.

Individual evidence

  1. Mention of Johann Greißner in: Hans Heinrich Füssli : Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon. Zweyter Theil, Third Section (G – K), Zurich 1808 ( digitized in the Google book search).
  2. a b c The orphanage church. In: Cornelius Gurlitt : Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 21st issue: City of Dresden. Meinhold, Dresden 1903, p. 293 ( digitized version of the SLUB Dresden).
  3. ^ Ulrich Dähnert:  Kayser, Johann Christian. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-428-00192-3 , p. 383 f. ( Digitized version ).
  4. "From Dresden to the World" - the founding commemoration of the Leipziger Missionswerk on August 17th. ( Memento from March 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony , August 11, 2011.
  5. Inventory 12496 - Saxon Teachers' Association, Statistical Main Office. Saxon State Archive - Main State Archive Dresden , accessed on May 22, 2019 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 49 ″  N , 13 ° 44 ′ 32 ″  E