Krönungskirche, Catholic church in Ergenzingen, Germany.
Krönungskirche Maria Königin is a church on the Liebfrauenhöhe in Ergenzingen, built 1961–1966 to a design by Otto Karl Müller and Franz Brümmendorf. Its grey concrete pillars form a pentagonal plan, with coloured glass-concrete windows between them, and a five-fold folded tent roof topped by a large cross. The altar island opposite the entrance holds a roughly hewn white marble altar on a dark natural stone floor, above which hangs a 14-hundredweight cross decorated with rock crystals.
A small Schönstatt chapel consecrated on the Liebfrauenhöhe on 1 May 1952 soon proved too small, so a church was decided in 1953. Financing difficulties delayed the foundation stone until 8 October 1961; architects Otto Karl Müller and Franz Brümmendorf designed it, and Bishop Wilhelm Sedlmeier consecrated it on 31 May 1966.
The church belongs to the Schönstattzentrum Liebfrauenhöhe, seat of the southern German provincialate of the Schönstatt Marienschwestern. Its form follows the idea of Mary's crown, and the altarpiece is the Schönstatt grace image, framed with crown, sceptre and orb set with rock crystals. In the lower church hangs a neo-Gothic Stations of the Cross by Martin Schiestl from 1887, donated to the Liebfrauenhöhe.
The church is located in the Ergenzingen neighborhood and operates under the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart. Its position in the local center makes it easy to find and accessible for visitors from the surrounding area.
The church's folded roof leaves a continuous band of blue glass bricks between the concrete pillars and the roof edge; twelve white round panels in it stand for the twelve pearl gates of the heavenly Jerusalem. A 14-hundredweight cross hangs above the altar.
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