Evangelical summer train church Stuttgart
The Evangelical Sommerrainkirche in Stuttgart-Sommerrain is the parish church of the Evangelical Lenore-Volz Church Community of Bad Cannstatt and thus belongs to the Evangelical Church in Württemberg . It was built according to a design by the architect Heinz Rall and inaugurated in 1966. The church building was partially renovated in 2008/2009.
ensemble
The ensemble on the small property includes the church building and the 36 m high tower as well as a separate building with a kindergarten, parish office and parish apartment; Additional community rooms are also located in a building arm behind or below the church interior. Next to the white church stands the green, tapered and windowless bell tower clad with horizontal copper plates. Locals like to refer to this as “God's toothpick”.
Floor plan and construction
The church is designed as a liturgical space with a separation of sacred and parish areas. In the pentagonal room, the alignment was made towards the altar in one of the corners; it is also emphasized by the course of the room edges, the arrangement of the benches and the opposite of the organ gallery. Exposed concrete and natural materials were used. There are horizontal light strips between the roof and the concrete wall. Vertical ribbon windows give rhythm to the facade on three sides, while the walls flanking the altar have no windows in the sacral area, but are continuously windowed in the lower floor at the back. Below the church, the parish hall and other rooms are fitted into the pentagonal floor plan.
In the neighboring building of the kindergarten with the parish office and parish apartment, concrete belts close the cubic volume above the roof terrace.
Window and portal
Gerhard Dreher's stained glass windows show abstract and abstract motifs. The bronze door handles of the church portal by Sigrid von Liebenstein depict Adam and Eve in a naturalistic way and in well-known iconography.
organ
In 1970 the church received an organ from Orgelbau Friedrich Weigle . The instrument has mechanical slider drawers and 16 registers , which are divided between two manuals and a pedal . The disposition is as follows:
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Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
Web links
- Architecture and history of the Sommerrainkirche. On the website of the Evangelical Lenore-Volz-Kirchengemeinde Bad Cannstatt
Individual evidence
- ^ Organ in Stuttgart, Sommerrainkirche , accessed on July 8, 2020.
Coordinates: 48 ° 49 ′ 4.5 ″ N , 9 ° 14 ′ 39.6 ″ E