Christ Church (Kaiserslautern)
 Protestant Christ Church in Kaiserslautern |
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| Basic data | |
| Denomination | Protestant |
| place | Kaiserslautern , Germany |
| Building history | |
| architect | Hansgeorg Fiebinger |
| construction time | 1957-1958 |
| Building description | |
| Architectural style | Flat-roofed plastered building in the modern style, reinforced concrete skeleton construction, single-storey sacristy extension, free-standing bell tower |
| Construction type | parabolic floor plan |
| 49 ° 26 '50.4 " N , 7 ° 47' 19.7" E | |
The Christ Church is a Protestant parish church in Kaiserslautern . It is a listed monument as a single monument.
history
The church was built in 1957/58 according to a design by Hansgeorg Fiebinger in the Grübentälchen residential area in the east of the city, after the Luther Church had become too small for the parish, which had grown to over 7,500 members.
In 1982, the Gdańsk glass panes were replaced by double glazing and the tower was renovated. In 1994 the windows of the lower church were enlarged and an entrance suitable for the handicapped was created. In 2011 the outside of the church was renovated because parts of the concrete were in poor condition due to the weather.
architecture
The building, which faces south-west, was built using a reinforced concrete frame construction over a parabolic floor plan. The open side was closed with a slightly stepped and curved wall in which the main entrance to the church sits. The upper two-thirds of the side walls are largely broken up by gridded windows. The outer sand-lime brick walls are plastered. A protruding cornice separates the structure from the flat roof. The longitudinal axis of the ship runs from southwest to northeast and measures 28.6 meters. The greatest width is 22.9 meters. The clear height at the highest point of the hall is 11.3 meters.
On the west side, a single-storey sacristy was added over a trapezoidal floor plan with a curved outer wall. Here is also the stairwell to the basement, in which the community rooms were housed. On the east side, a staircase connects the church building with the bell tower built as a campanile , the outer walls of which are slightly concave.
The bright interior is kept simple and is dominated by the large windows and bare brick walls. You enter the hall through a smaller anteroom. The entrance area is roofed over by a kidney-shaped curved organ gallery on four narrow round columns. The concentrically arranged pews are arranged around the quarter-circle-shaped chancel, in whose back wall accented bricks form a cross-shaped ornamentation.
Furnishing
The organ and was only built in 1967/68 by the Manufacture d'Orgues Muhleisen in the Christ Church. It consists of 1,600 pipes and was completely overhauled in 2007.
literature
- Mara Oexner (arrangement): City of Kaiserslautern . (= Volume 14, Monument Topography Federal Republic of Germany. Cultural Monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate ), State Office for Monument Preservation, Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 1996, p. 40f
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Informational directory of cultural monuments. Independent city of Kaiserslautern , General Directorate for Cultural Heritage, May 4, 2016, p. 3 (PDF)
- ↑ Architectural Guide Kaiserslautern , TU Kaiserslautern