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Post-war modernism

4 places in Cologne

Christ's Transfiguration Church (Cologne-Heimersdorf)

since 1966
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A Catholic parish church in Cologne-Heimersdorf, built in the 1960s in a Brutalist style by Josef Lehmbrock on a cross-shaped ground plan.

St. Dimitrios (formerly St. Mark's)

since 1973
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A Rum Orthodox church in Cologne's Seeberg district, built in the 1970s by Fritz Schaller as a Catholic branch church and today the seat of a bishop.

St. Hedwig

since 1967
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Award-winning Catholic church of 1966/67 in Cologne-Höhenhaus, a plain natural-stone building with a striking pyramid roof.

Zum Göttlichen Erlöser

since 1955
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Catholic church built 1953–1955 in Rath/Heumar, an early Fritz Schaller design that anticipated post-Vatican II ideas.

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