Holy Spirit Church (Tychy)

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Holy Spirit Church in Tychy

The Holy Spirit Church (Polish: Kościół Ducha Świętego ) is located in Tychy in the Polish Silesian Voivodeship . It was built by the architect Stanisław Niemczyk from 1979 to 1983 and is one of the most important examples of critical regionalism in Poland.

architecture

The Heilig-Geist-Kirche has the shape of a crooked truncated pyramid with a rectangular floor plan, with the long sides having the largest dimensions. The shape of the church is reminiscent of a tent. On the rectangular top surface of the truncated pyramid there are four small turrets, each in one of the corners of the surface, as well as a small, centrally positioned, irregular pyramid . The roof and the turrets are covered with sheet copper . A few meters to the north-west of the main building is the freestanding bell tower made of brick masonry .

Despite its tent-like shape, the interior of the church could be built using reinforced concrete girders without any disturbing support beams. The wooden ceiling contains paintings by Jerzy Nowosielski .

The Holy Spirit Church is characterized by a modern, but still clearly Polish character. Although the church is one of the interesting churches that were built in socialist Poland , the unusual shape of the building also led to public debate.

Awards

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Krystyna Januszkiewicz: Modern Architecture in Poland after the Communist Era. A new way forward through a Critical Regionalism (=  Architecturae et Artibus . Volume 2 , no. 2014 ). 2014, p. 17 (English, semanticscholar.org [PDF; accessed August 1, 2020]).
  2. ↑ a b c Holy Spirit Church in Tychy Żwaków (Tichau). In: Metropolia Silesia and surroundings. Retrieved August 1, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Anna Maria Wierzbicka: Sacrum - Transcendence of concrete. Sacralization of matter in modern meaningful architecture . In: Kozłowski Dariusz (ed.): Definiowanie przestrzeni architektonicznej. Transmutacje betonu. 2017, p. 51-61 (English).

Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 23.8 ″  N , 18 ° 57 ′ 57.6 ″  E