Post-war architecture

Auferstehungskirche (Cologne-Buchforst)

since 1965

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Listed Brutalist church from 1968 with a striking tetrahedral form, now operating as the 'Kulturkirche Ost' cultural venue for readings, music, and cabaret.

Neu St. Alban

since 1958

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Post-war church in the Stadtgarten built from rubble bricks of the destroyed Cologne Opera, with a pentagonal floor plan inspired by Le Corbusier.

St. Franziskus

Catholic parish church in Köln-Bilderstöckchen, built by Hans Schilling as a round red-brick structure between 1957 and 1961 and listed as a historic monument since 2003.

St. Johannes der Täufer

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Listed clinic church of the University Hospital Cologne in Lindenthal, built 1962–1965 by Gottfried Böhm from exposed concrete and connected to the hospital buildings via an underground passage.

St. Joseph (Braunsfeld)

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Roman Catholic post-war church in Köln-Braunsfeld, built between 1952 and 1954 to designs by Rudolf Schwarz and Joseph Bernard, and listed as a protected monument since 1999.

St. Stephan

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A church in Cologne's Lindenthal district: the 1887 Neo-Gothic building was destroyed in the war and replaced in 1961 by a modern glass church that incorporates the old tower.