St. Bonifatius, Catholic branch church in Leinefelde, Germany
St. Bonifatius is a Catholic branch church in the Südstadt district of Leinefelde, Thuringia. It is a central building on an irregular polygonal plan with a tent-like roof and an open entrance porch crowned by a cross. The white facade has a tall gable with a fin bearing a cross, a small bell in a niche, and a glazed portal with a rainbow and a mosaic of three angels.
The building was completed in 1993 as the final church construction project under the church development program of the German Democratic Republic. Its completion came during the transition period and marks the end of an era of state-regulated church construction.
The large rose window at the altar side depicts the Heavenly Jerusalem through glasswork created by artist Christof Grüger. This window shapes the interior with its glowing colors and its symbolic representation of the biblical vision.
The glazed main portal opens into an integrated porch, so entry is sheltered; the interior is a single polygonal hall with no side aisles to navigate. The organ, adapted by Jehmlich in 1999, sits on a gallery above a glass wall bearing sketched Stations of the Cross. The glass cross on the altar wall was added in 2006, offset slightly right of the central axis.
Instead of a bell tower, the building holds a single bell in a niche of the entrance roof, crowned by a cross. This solution followed structural and design considerations of the construction period.
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