Ecumenical Church Center in the Olympic Village
The Ecumenical Church Center in the Olympic Village is a joint church center of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Munich and Freising and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria at Helene-Mayer-Ring 23, in the Olympic Village , Am Riesenfeld in Munich. The Catholic community is called Peace of Christ ; on the evangelical side, the center is called the Olympic Church.
history
After Christ & Karg's design won first prize in the 1969 architectural competition, Archbishop Julius Cardinal Döpfner and Regional Bishop Hermann Dietzfelbinger jointly laid the cornerstone on September 16, 1970.
During the 1972 Olympic Games , international church services were held in 14 languages. The ecumenical, Catholic, Protestant, Ukrainian-Catholic and Ukrainian-Orthodox were held in the church rooms, those of the Jewish and Islamic religious communities in the current Catholic kindergarten.
On March 31, 1974, Bishops Döpfner and Dietzfelbinger consecrated the two church rooms of the center as a Catholic and Protestant parish church. It became the first ecumenical church center in Bavaria .
architecture
The center was realized by the Munich architects Christ und Karg. It contains the Catholic and Protestant church rooms as well as the meeting center with halls and group rooms under one roof. A reinforced concrete skeleton with supports, beams and slabs serves as the primary structure. On the pedestrian level, three 27 × 27-meter structural units made of three-dimensional frameworks span 12 supports. The church center rests on 12 pillars like the church on the twelve apostles .
Web links
- Peace of christ (catholic)
- Olympic Church (Protestant)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Olympic Church
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 48 ° 10 ′ 56 ″ N , 11 ° 33 ′ 8 ″ E