Alte Kirche Klotzsche, Cultural heritage church in Klotzsche district, Dresden, Germany.
Alte Kirche Klotzsche is a plastered rubble-stone church built in 1810–1811 under carpenter Georg Samuel Höring, with a steep saddle roof and a square roof turret topped by a cupola, sphere and cross. The flat-roofed Neoclassical hall has three segmental-arch windows per long side, two-storey galleries on three sides, and a white-and-gold wooden pulpit altar from the building period.
The building originated during a period when Saxony underwent religious transformation and architecture embraced Neoclassical forms. Its construction reflects the development of Protestant church design in the 19th century.
The three damaged wooden figures in the north-wall shrine, dated around 1500, survived the 1802 fire that destroyed the earlier church and its winged altar. Two are male, probably bishops, and the female figure may be Saint Rosalia; all are just over 90 cm tall, with arms and some legs broken off. In the vestibule, a metal cross by Berlin smiths Fritz and Achim Kühn commemorates the dead of both world wars.
The location is situated at Altklotzsche 63a and can be viewed from outside or visited inside depending on opening hours. The worship space accommodates about 300 people across its ground level and gallery areas.
The three wooden figures in the north-wall shrine, dated around 1500, survived the 1802 fire that destroyed the previous church. They are damaged, with arms and some legs broken off, and were long stored on the sacristy floor. Cornelius Gurlitt took the two male figures for bishops and the female one possibly for Saint Rosalia.
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