Gemeindehaus Christuskirche, Dresden, Religious community center in Strehlen district, Dresden, Germany.
The Gemeindehaus Christuskirche is a community center building in Dresden's Strehlen district with multiple rooms designed for different purposes. It features a main hall with a stage, smaller meeting rooms, and a garden area that opens to the outdoors.
The Christusgemeinde in Strehlen had its church from 1903 to 1905 but no community house; a competition was announced in 1934 and won by architect Heinz Arnold Götze, who built the house from 1935 to 1937. It is one of the few church buildings erected in Dresden between 1933 and 1945, alongside the Hoffnungskirche and St. Hubertus. After Dresden's destruction in 1945 the hall became a cultural venue for the city until community-only use resumed in the 1990s.
The building serves as a gathering place where locals meet regularly for worship and social events throughout the year. The halls host neighborhood celebrations and community activities that shape daily life in the district.
The building stands at Elsa-Brändström-Straße 1 in Strehlen, opposite the Christuskirche. The main entrance has a covered porch of rubble-stone masonry, with the pointed tower above it. The main wing faces the church; the side wing along the street holds the service flats.
The tower sphere is topped by four small flags; seen from above or below they form a swastika around the globe. This symbol comes from the Deutsche Christen, who dominated the congregation at the time and sought to unite the Christian cross with the swastika.
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