St. Albertus Magnus, Modern Catholic church in Brunswick, Germany

St. Albertus Magnus is a Catholic parish and Dominican monastery church in Brunswick, built from 1958 to designs by Hans Joachim Lohmeyer. The red-brick hall church has concrete pillars and net-like concrete bracing, with a tall, slender bell tower standing separately. Its facade features a large pointed window of white concrete tracery with diamond-shaped glass panes.

The building was designed by architect Hans Joachim Lohmeyer and consecrated in 1958. It was established during the post-war period when many new parishes were being built in expanding city neighborhoods.

The church and convent became a meeting point for spirituality and art from the late 1990s. Gerd Winner made the altarpiece, the Stations of the Cross on the right wall and the chapel altarpiece; his wife Ingema Reuter made the Marienvariationen on the left wall. Jean-Robert Ipoustéguy's sculpture Porte du Ciel (1999) stands in the church, and the parish's Kultur im Kloster initiative grew out of a podcast started by three young parishioners during the pandemic.

The church stands at Brucknerstraße 6, northeast of the old town near the inner ring road, about 75 metres above sea level. The tall bell tower is separate from the main hall, so look for it to find the entrance. The parish also runs a kindergarten north of the church, opened in 1963 in the converted Hagengarten inn.

The Dominican community here is the formal heir of friars installed in Brunswick in the 13th century by Duke Henry the Lion and Duke Albert; their convent, built in 1307, was dissolved during the Reformation, and the last preaching friars left the city in 1536. The present convent was refounded after the war, when Brunswick's Catholic share rose from 2% to 14% through refugees from Silesia.