St. Thomas church Hörnum, Modern church building in Hörnum, Germany.
St. Thomas Church Hörnum was built in 1969–1970 to a design by the Niebüll architect Martin Bernhard Christiansen, on a dune beside the existing parsonage. Its walls are of whitewashed lime-sandstone, and the tall, pointed choir with long slender sound openings reads as a large white sail. Three keeled triangular gables face different directions, and the interior has no right-angled wall surfaces, only triangles and irregular polygons.
The building was designed in 1970 by Martin Bernhard Christiansen as a replacement for an earlier barrack church that had served the community outside the village. This new structure brought contemporary architecture to the growing settlement.
The Hamburg captain Uwe Hoffmann donated the ship model hanging left of the altar, a replica of the paddle steamer "Cobra" built from original plans. The Cobra opened the new seaside route from Hamburg via Helgoland to Sylt's southern tip in 1901. The votive ship is a traditional church offering.
The church stands at Hangstraße 38 on a dune along the Oberer Dünenweg footpath. Visitors can see the 1993 Hillebrand organ inside, which operates through mechanical play mechanisms.
The church has been a listed monument since 1997, making it the youngest protected church in Schleswig-Holstein as of 2008. Its bell hangs behind long, narrow sound openings in the upper part of the pointed choir.
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