List of wooden churches in Germany
This list includes wooden churches in Germany . The aim is to provide a complete overview of all independent churches that are built using wood . Dependent branch churches and chapels are only included in a selection.
image | church | city | state | construction time | particularities |
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St. Anne's Chapel | Rohrmoos | Bavaria | 1568 | Oldest wooden chapel in the Alpine region; Late Renaissance building with superbly preserved mannerist paintings | |
Market Church of the Holy Spirit | Clausthal | Lower Saxony | 1642 (consecration) | Largest wooden church in Germany, 57 m long hall church; its architecture and interior design make it one of the most important architectural monuments of the north German baroque | |
St. Nikolai | Altenau | Lower Saxony | 1669 | ||
Schrotholzkirche wasps | Wasps | Saxony-Anhalt | 1687 | Built by immigrants from Bohemia | |
St. Thomas Church | Wolfshagen in the Harz Mountains | Lower Saxony | 1731-1739 | ||
Schrotholzkirche Sprey | Sprey | Saxony | 1780 | ||
Napoleon Chapel | Tittling , Bavarian Forest Museum Village | Bavaria | 1828 | Built by a survivor of Napoleon's Russian campaign | |
Village church Alt Gaarz | Larz | Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania | 1854/55 | Architect: Hofbaumeister Friedrich Wilhelm Buttel ; Half-timbered building clad with wooden faceplate | |
Marienklause | Munich - Untergiesing-Harlaching | Bavaria | 1866 | Architect: Martin Achleitner ; Building made of Nagelfluh rock and spruce and birch wood on the steep slope of the banks of the Isar at the level of the southern end of Hellabrunn Zoo | |
Village church | Upper Harz am Brocken - Rübeland cave village | Saxony-Anhalt | 1868 | 1905 extended to the east | |
Bethlehem Church | Kiel-Friedrichsort | Schleswig-Holstein | 1875 | Built as a naval garrison church; Half-timbered building, plastered on the inside, clad with wood on the outside | |
Lindberg wooden chapel | Lindberg , Lindberg Farmhouse Museum , originally from Hermannsried near Bischofsmais | Bavaria | 1885 | ||
Wooden church Neuhaus am Rennweg | Neuhaus am Rennweg | Thuringia | 1892 | Architect: Rudolph Brecht; neo-Gothic hall church | |
Wooden church in misery | Misery ( Oberharz am Brocken ) | Saxony-Anhalt | 1897; In 1904 the tower was added | Interior space 5.0 × 11.0 meters | |
Ralswiek wooden chapel | Ralswiek | Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania | 1907 | Made in Sweden, the first location was Stockholm | |
Gustav Adolf Stave Church | Goslar - Hahnenklee | Lower Saxony | 1907 | Free replica of Borgund Stave Church | |
Southwest cemetery Stahnsdorf | Stahnsdorf | Brandenburg | 1908-1911 | Architect: church builder Gustav Werner (architect) ; modeled on Norwegian stave churches | |
Heilandskapelle | Frankfurt (Oder) | Brandenburg | 1915 | Built by prisoners of war during the First World War | |
Föhrich Church | Stuttgart | Baden-Württemberg | 1929 | Built as a makeshift church | |
Old chapel | Lee break | Brandenburg | 1930 | Expressionist wooden chapel; from 1975 no longer used sacred; Architect: Heinrich Mendelssohn | |
Church of the Resurrection | Ludwigsburg | Baden-Württemberg | 1934 | ||
Fisherman's Church Born a. Darß | Born a. Darß | Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania | 1934/35 | Architects: Bernhard Hopp and Rudolf Jäger | |
Barrack Church | Saarbrücken | Saarland | 1945 | ||
Church of the Friedehorst Foundation | Bremen - Burglesum | Bremen | 1947 | ||
Evangelical Methodist Christ Church | Berlin-Friedrichshain | Berlin | 1948 | Emergency church built in Sweden | |
Schifferkirche | Ahrenshoop | Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania | 1950-1951 | Architect: Hardt-Waltherr Hämer | |
Wooden church | Cologne-Junkersdorf | North Rhine-Westphalia | 1950s | Erected by the Belgian occupation forces, demolished in March 2013 | |
Schwanheide Chapel | Schwanheide | Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania | 1955 | Flat wooden building based on the Swedish model, bell cage 1991, bell 1651 originally from Zweedorf | |
Polz Chapel | Doemitz | Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania | 1963 | Flat wooden building with bell cage | |
Glaisin village church | Ludwigslust - Glaisin | Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania | 1962 | Wooden house, free-standing wooden bell chair | |
St. Luke Church | Bremen - Grolland | Free Hanseatic City of Bremen | 1963 | Architect: Carsten Schröck in collaboration with Frei Otto | |
Woosmer Chapel | Vielank | Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania | 1963 | free-standing bell tower (1986) | |
Wooden church Schönebeck | Bremen - Vegesack | Free Hanseatic City of Bremen | 1964 | Montagekirche, based on a type design by the architect Helmut Duncker | |
Carpin Chapel | Carpin | Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania | 20th century | ||
Marienkapelle Eichstegen | Calibration bars | Baden-Württemberg | 1973 | ||
Sheepfold Church of St. Martin |
Munster (Örtze) , originally from coal bites near Munster |
Lower Saxony | Mid 19th century / 1987 | The former sheepfold was saved from demolition, rebuilt in October 1987 on a field stone foundation at its current location and converted into a church. The building structure consists of a post construction with a thatched half-hip roof . An organ gallery was built in for the new purpose. | |
Klüß village church | Brunow | Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania | 1995 | Longhouse clad with wooden panels, free-standing wooden belfry | |
St. Nikolai | Gifhorn , International Wind and Watermill Museum | Lower Saxony | 1995 | 27-meter-high replica of the Church of the Transfiguration of Christ, built in 1765 in Kosljatjewo in central Russia | |
Blessing Church | Holzkirchen (Upper Bavaria) | Bavaria | 1998 | Architects: Franz Lichtblau and Ludwig Bauer | |
St. Mark's wooden church | Bonn | North Rhine-Westphalia | 20th century | originally Roman Catholic , now Evangelical Lutheran parish church ( SELK ) | |
One world church | Schneverdingen | Lower Saxony | 2000 | Built as part of an expo project; Architect: Lothar Tabery | |
Sønder Brarup danske Kirke | Süderbrarup (Danish: Sønder Brarup ) | Schleswig-Holstein | 2002 | The parish belongs to the Protestant Church of the Danish ethnic group in South Schleswig ( Dansk Kirke i Sydslesvig ) | |
Sheepfold Church | Schneverdingen | Lower Saxony | 2003 | In 2003 the Sheepfold Church was re-consecrated after being destroyed by arson for the third time | |
St. Nikolai | Lübeck-Kücknitz | Schleswig-Holstein | 2007 | Replica of a Norwegian stave church from the 12th century; built by children and young people | |
Roggentin wooden church | Roggentin (near Rostock) | Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania | 2008 | Church of the Seventh-day Adventist Church | |
Russian Orthodox Church | Schwerin | Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania | 2011–2012 | Architect: Rick de Veer, construction management: Jörg Kruse, Niewerth & Partner UG
Erected by Ukrainian experts in traditional Russian construction |
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Romanian Orthodox Church Sf. Maria | Munich - pheasant garden | Bavaria | 2016 | carved by masters from the Maramureș |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Berthold Neff: The eye of God. www.sueddeutsche.de, September 11, 2016, accessed on September 17, 2017 .
Web links
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