Winter church
A winter church is the name given to areas in church buildings that have been separated from the main church in order to create a heatable room in which the congregation can gather for worship if there is little space required in winter. Winter churches are mainly found in Protestant sacred buildings. This route was particularly popular in the GDR when the church building had become too big due to the reduced number of parishioners.
In addition, in churches that were Catholic before the Reformation , side chapels (e.g. Sternberg town church ) or the choir (e.g. St. Mary's Church in Artern , Thuringia ), but otherwise the space under the gallery (e.g. in the Lüskow village church , Western Pomerania) or in the base of the tower (e.g. in the Protestant monastery church in Reinhausen near Göttingen), be it with glass, be it as a completely separate room.
There are also very few winter churches in the Catholic ( parish church of St. Christophorus in Westerland from 1957 to 1997) and Orthodox (e.g. in the Russian Kizhi ) area.
However, a winter church can also be a separate, smaller, heated church building next to the actual church, which is then called the summer church in contrast to it. Examples are known from Russia or from German cities and communities such as the Trinity Church with the St. Wolfgang Church in Schneeberg in the Ore Mountains.
In the Portuguese synagogue in Amsterdam , since the synagogue cannot be heated, a so-called winter synagogue was set up in a former classroom after the Second World War.
Individual evidence
- ^ Winter Church for St. Johannis , Ostthüringer Zeitung, August 11, 2012, accessed August 16, 2014
- ↑ Entrance to the winter synagogue Image taken on April 30, 2017
