Immanuel Church (Cologne-Stammheim)
Multiple award-winning timber church of the evangelical Brückenschlag congregation in Cologne-Stammheim, consecrated in 2013.
The Immanuel Church in Cologne-Stammheim is the place of worship for the evangelical Brückenschlag congregation Cologne-Flittard/Stammheim. The timber building, consecrated in 2013, has received several architecture and timber construction awards.
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At a Glance
- Type
- Evangelical church of the Brückenschlag congregation Cologne-Flittard/Stammheim
- Location
- Stammheim district, Mülheim borough
- Consecrated
- 3 March 2013
- Architect
- Sauerbruch Hutton (Berlin), modernist style
- Construction cost
- €3.7 million
- Awards
- Cologne Architecture Prize (2014), German Timber Construction Prize and German Architecture Prize (2015)
The organ of Immanuel Church is hidden behind a wall-filling 'screen' of nearly 4,000 differently colored wooden slats — the instrument has no visible façade, making the colorful wooden wall simultaneously a work of art and a disguise.
History
The congregation belongs to the Evangelical Church Association Cologne and Region within the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland. The site was previously occupied by the Dietrich Bonhoeffer House community centre, which was demolished in early 2012. Because the Flittard St Luke's Church had already been torn down in 2009, the congregation spent a year without its own place of worship. The new building emerged from an architectural competition; the foundation stone was laid on 30 June 2012, with the topping-out ceremony following on 30 August 2012.
Architecture
The complex comprises the church, a bell tower and a small chapel. Internally the structure is built from Finnish spruce, while Finnish larch clads the exterior. The bell tower stands as a freestanding campanile beside the church and is likewise faced in timber. The layout allows the church and its side rooms to be used for a variety of events.
Awards
In 2014 the building was one of five projects to receive the Cologne Architecture Prize. In 2015 the ensemble was awarded one of the three German Timber Construction Prizes; that same year the German Architecture Prize, worth €30,000, went to the firm Sauerbruch Hutton.
Organ and Furnishings
The organ was built by the Freiburg organ maker Späth. The tracker-action instrument with no visible pipe façade has 23 stops and is concealed behind a wall-filling "screen" of nearly 4,000 wooden slats in varying colours, which at the same time shapes the character of the nave. From the former Bonhoeffer House, parts of the furnishings were retained, including the pulpit, altar, font and the textile hangings of the chancel.
Bells
The three bells come from the demolished St Luke's Church in Flittard and were cast in 1963 by the bell foundry Rincker in Sinn. The prayer bell rings twice daily — at noon and at 7 pm — calling the faithful to prayer; every Saturday, after the evening prayer bell, Sunday is rung in with all three bells together.
Timeline
- 1963Three bells cast for Lukaskirche Flittard at Rincker bell foundry
- 2009Lukaskirche in Flittard demolished; congregation without a church space
- Anfang 2012Community centre Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Haus demolished
- 30. Juni 2012Ceremonial foundation stone laying of Immanuel-Kirche
- 30. August 2012Topping-out ceremony of Immanuel-Kirche
- 3. März 2013Consecration of Immanuel-Kirche
- 2014Cologne Architecture Prize awarded to the building
- 2015German Timber Construction Prize and German Architecture Prize (€30,000) for Sauerbruch Hutton
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