Winkelkirche
The Winkelkirche (also: Winkelhakenkirche ) represents a special feature in the history of church construction. It consists of two naves, which are at right angles to each other. The altar of such a building is in the corner.
Winkelkirchen were either planned as such because of the shape of the building site or were created through the expansion and extension of existing churches. The first category includes the angular Church St. Concordia in Ruhla , located on a rocky mountain slope, and the Town Church in Freudenstadt that their shape in a corner location on the central square in connection with the square urban planning, not , however, because of the alleged intended equality of confessions who received those invited to the settlement .
In the Reformed sacred building , angle churches were occasionally planned as such for liturgical considerations. Examples of this are the Reformed Church of Wintersingen and the Reformed Church of Binningen (St. Margarethen) near Basel .
Today there are other Winkelkirchen in Freckleben , Elsfleth , Küblingen and Unterschüpf . In the monastery church of Herstelle Abbey , the nurses' choir stands at right angles to the public church space.
literature
- Art guide through Switzerland. Volume 3. Bern 2006.
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.st-concordia.de/bauwinkel.htm
- ^ Ehrenfried Kluckert: Heinrich Schickhardt - architect and engineer ; Herrenberger Historische Schriften Volume 4, Herrenberg 1992, pp. 127-133
- ↑ For reasons see Christoph Seeger: “It doesn't always have to be Schickhardt!” On the importance of Heinrich Schickhardt for church building in Württemberg at the beginning of the 17th century . In: Kretzschmar, Robert (ed.): New research on Heinrich Schickhardt - Publications of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg B 151, Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 2002, pp. 111-143
- ^ Pictures of the sister choir , public church space
