All Saints Church (''Allerheiligenkirche'') was an

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church Church may refer to: Religion * Church (building), a building for Christian religious activities * Church (congregation), a local congregation of a Christian denomination * Church service, a formalized period of Christian communal worship * Chris ...

on Wiener Straße in

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. It was in the

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architecture.

History

The church was made possible by an endowment from the widow of Wilhelm Heinrich Göschen (William Henry Goschen), a merchant from

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living in

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. It was built from 1868 to 1869 by August Pieper and the London architect

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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

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but nevertheless fell out of use. In 1927, a contractual agreement was reached between the ''All Saint's English episcopal church eV'' and the

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''St.-Pauls-Gemeinde'' to transfer the church for use by that congregation. The church burned down in the Dresden bombings of 13 and 14 February 1945. The ruins were demolished in 1952.http://www.dresden.de/media/pdf/denkmal/VerloreneKirchen_72ES.pdf Verlorene Kirchen Dresdens zerstörte Gotteshäuser Eine Dokumentation seit 1938. PDF, Dresden 2008, S. 26-27

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References

External links

Deutsche Fotothek, Plan von Dresden. Blätter 1 und 6 (Altstadt), 1938
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