Christi Auferstehung, Catholic church in Lindenthal, Germany.
Christi Auferstehung is a church built from reddish brick and concrete with an irregular polygonal design and a slender spiral stair tower at its northwest corner. The interior features curved walls and concrete columns that support a vaulted ceiling above the altar area.
The church was built between 1968 and 1970 to replace an earlier structure from 1934 that was severely damaged during bombing in 1944. The congregation had already formed in 1920, long before this replacement building was constructed.
The interior spaces incorporate curving walls and dedicated areas for liturgical activities, supported by concrete columns that lead to a vaulted ceiling above the altar.
The church closes the axis of the Lindenthaler Kanal, which runs east–west from the Aachener Weiher towards the Stadtwald. Broad brick and stone steps lead up from the small square at the canal's end to the raised entrances; the site is reached on foot through the tree-lined avenue.
The windows were designed by Gottfried Böhm himself and made from two fused plastic panes with red paint, brass pins and steel nails worked in between them. The crucifix above the altar is only a 16th-century corpus, mounted on a brick wall whose stones form a thin cross. The six-metre tabernacle, in place since 1984, was designed by sculptor Matthäus Winter.
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