Martin Luther Church (Hainburg an der Donau)
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The Martin Luther Church is an Evangelical Lutheran church building in Hainburg an der Donau in Lower Austria .
The church was built according to the plans of the architect Wolf D. Prix ( Coop Himmelb (l) au ) and on April 30, 2011 by the Austrian Bishop Michael Bünker and the Lower Austrian superintendent Paul Weiland in the presence of Miloš Klátik , Bishop General of the Evangelical Church AB in Slovakia, inaugurated.
The Martin Luther Church consists of a church service room, a community hall, a bell tower and office and utility rooms.
The church building on the property of a church that no longer exists is formally based on the height development of the immediate surroundings. The roof and bell tower vary the shape of the nearby Romanesque Karner of the former St. Martin's Church. The idiosyncratic geometry shows a spiritual symbolism, as in the worship room, the shape of which is derived from a huge table.
Three large light inlet openings are built into the roof structure, which rests on the four reinforced concrete pillars, the legs of the "table". When designing the church roof, the architect paid particular attention to the atmospheric lighting of the interior. For the church, every light inlet opening stands for a person of God and is thus a sign of the Trinity of Christian God.
The church looks very open on the main street side. There, the folded, protruding and recessed glass facade invites you into the high church service room. The sacred space maintains its intimacy opposite the street through a wooden wall that stands freely directly behind the glass facade. An illuminated cross, as a translucent recess in this wall, projects the message of the church into the city.
The altar and pulpit take up elements of the church interior. The altar reflects the Trinitarian light inlet openings. The large opening in the lower part symbolizes the empty grave and, together with the cross on the wooden wall behind it, represents the main Christian themes of crucifixion and resurrection . The new form of the pulpit altar created with this altar, in which the pulpit and altar are clearly separated, is also particularly noteworthy are in one plane.
The church stands on a corner lot, where the slender bell tower , which resembles a tuning fork, stands in the corner . The light-flooded church is glazed with the main facade facing the street, incisions between the wall and roof are also open to light, as is the roof with three protruding light openings. The roof, which is rounded on all sides, was manufactured in a North German shipyard. A perforated wooden wall with an incised cross as an altar wall offers passers-by on the sidewalk some insight into what is happening in the church, but for the most part provides privacy.
literature
- Constantin Gegenhuber: Constructed prayers. Christian sacred architecture - new buildings in Austria from 1990 to 2011 . Pustet, Salzburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-7025-0632-2 , chap. Hainburg: Evangelical Church - Martin Luther Church , p. 132-141 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ewald Baringer: About Boundaries in Lower Austria, April 25, 2011
- ↑ Lutheran Service of the Martin Luther Bund, Volume 3, 2011, p. 20
- ^ Maik Novotny: Architecture. A steamship made of light. The Standard Album April 30, 2011.
Coordinates: 48 ° 8 '47.7 " N , 16 ° 56" 34.9 " E