St. Johannes (Kempten)

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St. Johannes in Kempten
Trumpet angels turning by the wind on the roof.

The Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Johannes in Kempten (Allgäu) is a modern church building in the southwest of the city.

history

The origins go back to the growth of Protestant parishioners after the Second World War through the resettlement and expulsion of people from the areas occupied by the German Reich . In 1945 the number of Protestants was 10,000. The first beginnings were made at the beginning of the 1950s with a Bible study congregation in the former Haubenschloß café .

In an area on Braut- und Bahrweg, a kindergarten with a parsonage was built in 1956, and in 1959 the Kempten-Südwest subsidiary was founded. A church building association followed a year later . He commissioned the Kempten architect Wolfgang Molitor to design plans for a church building. He was already in charge of the plans for the kindergarten. In 1964, the church, built according to Molitor's plans, was consecrated.

In 1970 the Johanneskirche was equipped with a new organ. In 1994 the low bell tower was renovated and in 1997 the parish hall.

description

The hexagonal church building has two rotating trumpet angels on the roof. The interior is equipped with an altar cross depicting Christ as a lamb.

reception

The home curator and art collector Alfred Weitnauer rated the interior of the church as a "pleasant synthesis [...] of modern objectivity and security".

Individual evidence

  1. ^ City of Kempten (ed.): Kempten im Allgäu. (3rd documentation), Kösel, Kempten 1972, pp. 103, 107.
  2. Volker Dotter Weich, Karl Filser u. a. (Ed.): History of the city of Kempten. Dannheimer, Kempten 1989, ISBN 3-88881-011-6 , plate 65.

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Coordinates: 47 ° 42 ′ 56.4 ″  N , 10 ° 18 ′ 10.1 ″  E