All Saints' Church
German: Allerheiligenkirche
The former Allerheiligenkirche in 1875
51°02′18″N 13°44′22″E / 51.03833°N 13.73944°E / 51.03833; 13.73944
AddressWiener Straße, Dresden
CountryGermany
Previous denominationAnglican
History
StatusChurch (former)
Founder(s)Wilhelm Heinrich Göschen
EventsDresden bombings
Architecture
Functional statusDemolished
Architect(s)
Architectural typeChurch (former)
StyleEarly English Gothic Revival
Years built1868 – 1869
ClosedFebruary 1945
Demolished1952

All Saints Church (German: Allerheiligenkirche) was an Anglican church on Wiener Straße in Dresden. It was in the Early English Period of Neo-Gothic architecture.

History

The church was made possible by an endowment from the widow of Wilhelm Heinrich Göschen (William Henry Goschen), a merchant from Saxony living in London. It was built from 1868 to 1869 by August Pieper and the London architect James Piers St Aubyn for the many Anglicans living in Dresden. It was a small three-aisle basilica design, with a low choir and a polygonal apse. To its south was a square tower based on the Marburg Elisabethkirche with a tall octagonal spire. The roof was open on the inside and covered in sculpture. The church was only slightly damaged in the First World War but nevertheless fell out of use.[1][2][3][4]

In 1927, a contractual agreement was reached between the All Saint's English episcopal church eV and the Evangelical-Lutheran St.-Pauls-Gemeinde to transfer the church for use by that congregation.[5]

The church burned down in the Dresden bombings of 13 and 14 February 1945. The ruins were demolished in 1952.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Helas, Volker (1991). "Englische Kirche. All Saints Church". Architektur in Dresden 1800–1900 (in German). Dresden: Verlag der Kunst Dresden GmbH. p. 73. ISBN 3-364-00261-4.
  2. ↑ Lerm, Matthias (1993). Abschied vom alten Dresden. Verluste historischer Bausubstanz nach 1945 (in German). Leipzig: Forum Verlag. p. 232. ISBN 3-86151-047-2.
  3. ↑ Löffler, Fritz (1981). "Neogotik: Die Neogotiker – Neuromanische und neugotischer Kirchenbau". Das alte Dresden. Geschichte seiner Bauten (in German). Leipzig: E. A. Seemann. p. 353. ISBN 3-363-00007-3.
  4. ↑ Englische Kirche. All Saints Church. Wiener Straße / Beuststraße. 1868/1869 von St. Aubyn (in German). Bildnr. p. 186.
  5. ↑ Die Verwaltung der Stadt Dresden 1927 (in German). Dresden: Statistisches Amt der Stadt Dresden. 1929. p. 21.
  6. ↑ "Verlorene Kirchen Dresdens zerstörte Gotteshäuser Eine Dokumentation seit 1938" (PDF). Dresden (in German). 2008. pp. 26–27.
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