Kreuzkirche (Gütersloh)

Kreuzkirche

The Kreuzkirche in the park of the LWL Clinic
Basic data
Denomination	Roman Catholic , Evangelical Lutheran ( simultaneous church )
place	Gutersloh , Germany
dedication	Holy cross
Building history
Client	Westphalian Clinic Gütersloh
architect	Günter Schmidt
construction time	1958-1959
Building description
Construction type	Hall church
Function and title
Clinic Church
Coordinates 51 ° 53 '50.5 "  N , 8 ° 20' 57.9"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 53 '50.5 "  N , 8 ° 20' 57.9"  E

The Kreuzkirche in Gütersloh is a church built in 1958/59 on the site of the LWL Clinic Gütersloh . It is a simultaneous church (Protestant and Catholic); there are two sacristies .

The simple hall church with a square floor plan was designed by the architect Günter Schmidt , like the Johanneskirche in Quelle . With the raised altar and the pulpit on the side in front of it, it is structurally suitable for the Evangelical Lutheran as well as the Roman Catholic liturgy .

The lead glass windows (with a total of twelve sacristy windows ) were designed by the Benedictine Erentrud Trost (1923-2004) from Varensell Abbey , who did similar work for the Herz-Jesu-Kirche in Avenwedde and St. Pius in Wiedenbrück . The glass workshop was carried out by the Bernhard company in Telgte . The main window in the chancel is a representation of the word of Jesus from the Gospel of Matthew 11:28 (Come to me, all of you who are troublesome and burdened, I will refresh you).

The organ on the gallery comes from Paul Faust's workshop in Schwelm . The instrument is over 30 years older than the church; It was built in 1926 for the clinic's ballroom, which was used for church services until the Kreuzkirche was built.

The size of the church was tailored to the needs of the clinic as a closed institution (until the end of the 1970s) with around 1000 long-term patients. Up to 200 people attended church services in the 1950s and 1960s. Originally the pews to the right of the altar were for women and those to the left of the altar were for men.

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  The church is embedded in the park of the LWL clinic.

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