List of wooden churches in Germany

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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
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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
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St. Nikolai Altenau Lower Saxony 1669
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Schrotholzkirche wasps Wasps Saxony-Anhalt 1687 Built by immigrants from Bohemia
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St. Thomas Church Wolfshagen in the Harz Mountains Lower Saxony 1731-1739
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Schrotholzkirche Sprey Sprey Saxony 1780
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Napoleon Chapel Tittling , Bavarian Forest Museum Village Bavaria 1828 Built by a survivor of Napoleon's Russian campaign
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Village church Alt Gaarz Larz Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania 1854/55 Architect: Hofbaumeister Friedrich Wilhelm Buttel ; Half-timbered building clad with wooden faceplate
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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
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Village church Upper Harz am Brocken - Rübeland cave village Saxony-Anhalt 1868 1905 extended to the east
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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
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Lindberg wooden chapel Lindberg , Lindberg Farmhouse Museum , originally from Hermannsried near Bischofsmais Bavaria 1885
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Wooden church Neuhaus am Rennweg Neuhaus am Rennweg Thuringia 1892 Architect: Rudolph Brecht; neo-Gothic hall church
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Wooden church in misery Misery ( Oberharz am Brocken ) Saxony-Anhalt 1897; In 1904 the tower was added Interior space 5.0 × 11.0 meters
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Ralswiek wooden chapel Ralswiek Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania 1907 Made in Sweden, the first location was Stockholm
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Gustav Adolf Stave Church Goslar - Hahnenklee Lower Saxony 1907 Free replica of Borgund Stave Church
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Southwest cemetery Stahnsdorf Stahnsdorf Brandenburg 1908-1911 Architect: church builder Gustav Werner (architect) ; modeled on Norwegian stave churches
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Heilandskapelle Frankfurt (Oder) Brandenburg 1915 Built by prisoners of war during the First World War
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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
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Fisherman's Church Born a. Darß Born a. Darß Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania 1934/35 Architects: Bernhard Hopp and Rudolf Jäger
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Barrack Church Saarbrücken Saarland 1945
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Church of the Friedehorst Foundation Bremen - Burglesum Bremen 1947
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Evangelical Methodist Christ Church Berlin-Friedrichshain Berlin 1948 Emergency church built in Sweden
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Schifferkirche Ahrenshoop Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania 1950-1951 Architect: Hardt-Waltherr Hämer
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Wooden church Cologne-Junkersdorf North Rhine-Westphalia 1950s Erected by the Belgian occupation forces, demolished in March 2013
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Schwanheide Chapel Schwanheide Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania 1955 Flat wooden building based on the Swedish model, bell cage 1991, bell 1651 originally from Zweedorf
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Polz Chapel Doemitz Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania 1963 Flat wooden building with bell cage
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Glaisin village church Ludwigslust - Glaisin Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania 1962 Wooden house, free-standing wooden bell chair
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St. Luke Church Bremen - Grolland Free Hanseatic City of Bremen 1963 Architect: Carsten Schröck in collaboration with Frei Otto
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Woosmer Chapel Vielank Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania 1963 free-standing bell tower (1986)
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Wooden church Schönebeck Bremen - Vegesack Free Hanseatic City of Bremen 1964 Montagekirche, based on a type design by the architect Helmut Duncker
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Carpin Chapel Carpin Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania 20th century
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Marienkapelle Eichstegen Calibration bars Baden-Württemberg 1973
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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.
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Klüß village church Brunow Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania 1995 Longhouse clad with wooden panels, free-standing wooden belfry
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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 )
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One world church Schneverdingen Lower Saxony 2000 Built as part of an expo project; Architect: Lothar Tabery
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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 )
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Sheepfold Church Schneverdingen Lower Saxony 2003 In 2003 the Sheepfold Church was re-consecrated after being destroyed by arson for the third time
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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

Romanian Orthodox Church Sf. Maria Munich - pheasant garden Bavaria 2016 carved by masters from the Maramureș

Individual evidence

  1. Berthold Neff: The eye of God. www.sueddeutsche.de, September 11, 2016, accessed on September 17, 2017 .

Web links

Commons : Holzkirchen in Deutschland  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

See also