Hospital chapel Johannes Wesling-Klinikum Minden
The Johannes Wesling Hospital Chapel in Minden is a hospital chapel in the Johannes Wesling Hospital Minden in the East Westphalian city of Minden . It was built in the course of the clinic's renovation in 2004–2008 and serves to provide pastoral care to the clinic's patients.
The chapel was commissioned by the local hospital and the local Protestant and Catholic Church.
Conception and construction
The chapel was designed in equal cooperation between architects and a contemporary sculptor and the entire interior was realized as a room installation .
The chapel is structurally a solitaire and is located as a kind of island, surrounded by a water circulation, in one of the inner courtyards of the hospital. Seen from the outside, the building corresponds to the transparent aesthetics of the clinic and consists of a glass envelope held by steel girders (area around 140 m²; height 5.30 m), for which the clinic architects were responsible. Inside the glass envelope is the ellipsoidal spatial sculpture designed by the sculptor Susanne Tunn , which forms the actual chapel room (area around 70 m², height 4.60 m). The shape results from the material used, the wooden arches of a riding hall roof from the 19th century. 23 sheets are laid one on top of the other on each side. A distance remains between the arches, so that the interior also has a certain light permeability. Inside the spatial sculpture, on the inner walls of which the visitors can find space, is a stone sculpture, also made by the artist, which serves as an altar during church services.
The chapel building is unprecedented in the history of the hospital chapels due to the spatial sculpture that forms the interior. Nevertheless, there are similarities to other church buildings.
Since the glass envelope and the spatial sculpture form a kind of double interior, there are references to the cloisters of older churches, because one can walk around the spatial sculpture within the glass envelope. In the more recent church architecture a similar principle of double space can be seen in the Herz-Jesu-Kirche in Munich ; As in Minden, the outer covering there is made of glass.
The elliptical shape of the interior can also be found in a few other modern churches, for example in the outer shape of the St. Christophorus Church in Westerland on the island of Sylt or as an elliptical interior in the church "Saint-François-de-Molitor" in Paris.
The chapel offers space for around 50 people.
literature
- Susanne Tunn : Chapel 2004–2008 . Artbook Verlag, Kirchberg (Austria) 2008, ISBN 978-3-9502570-2-1 .
Web links
- Minden Hospital Chapel, photos and texts from Susanne Tunn, Chapel 2004-2008
- Andreas Mertin, invitation to experience. Susanne Tunn's chapel in Minden
- Brief description of the clinic renovation by the architects (PDF; 751 kB)
- Explanations about the chapel; Minden hospital pastoral care
Individual evidence
- ↑ Photo of Saint-François-de-Molitor in Paris ( Memento des Originals from June 5, 2013 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: 52 ° 15 ′ 39.6 " N , 8 ° 53 ′ 23.6" E