Christuskirche, Lutheran church in Munich, Germany
Christuskirche is a Lutheran church in Munich built in the Gothic Revival style, featuring pointed arches and ribbed vaults throughout its interior. Colored glass windows fill the walls and create changing light patterns as the day progresses.
Built 1899–1900 by Heilmann & Littmann to plans by Erich Göbel in Gothic Revival style. Severely damaged in July 1944, it was simplified in reconstruction until about 1953 under Bruno Biehler: the spire lost its octagon and the west window donated by Prince Regent Luitpold, by Franz Xaver Zettler, was not restored. The flat coffered ceiling replaced the wooden vault.
The parish, with almost 9,000 members, is Munich's largest Protestant congregation. Six choirs, from the roughly hundred-voice Grosser Chor to the children's Kirchenspatzen, give regular concerts and musicals; the crossover Rock Requiem was created here in 1978. From 2002 to 2020 a Narrenpredigt was held on Carnival Sunday.
The church stands at Dom-Pedro-Platz 4, with its west facade facing the square's green space and the tower at the southwest corner. The parish office is next door at Dom-Pedro-Platz 5, and the congregation's kindergarten at number 3. The 1926 parish hall with a large hall is at Braganzastraße 11.
The tower lost its octagon in the post-war rebuild and is topped by a weather vane of an angel with a trumpet. The four bells, cast in 1955, are tuned cis-e-fis-a, the Dresden Amen motif that opens the Gregorian Te Deum laudamus.
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