Detail of the project ed. 2016

st-trini­­tatis-leipzig / Schulz und Schulz

Design­er	Pro­fes­sors Ans­gar und Benedikt Schulz
Loca­tion	Non­nen­muehl­gasse 2, 04107 Leipzig (D)
Design Team	Prof. Ans­gar Schulz, Prof. Benedikt Schulz Chris­t­ian Wis­chal­la, Bodo Roßberg, Lothar Wolter, Matthias Hönig, Karsten Lieb­n­er, Peter Gaffron, Jana Gal­litschke, San­dra Nestroi, Flo­ri­an Hei­land, Ste­fan Weiske, René Büt­tner, Thomas Gohr
Year	2015
Pho­to credits	All pho­tos: © Simon Menges

Pho­to external

Project descrip­tion

The bene­dic­tion of the church end­ed the odyssey of the Leipzig parish com­mu­ni­ty that has last­ed over sev­en­ty years. Its per­ma­nent return to the cen­tre of the city is man­i­fest­ed in the con­struc­tion of the new Trini­tatis church.

The new church is devel­op out of the organ­ism of the sur­round­ing city. It obtains its pres­ence through its high church hall, church tow­er and invit­ing open­ness of the parish court­yard. In a promi­nent loca­tion across from the New Town Hall the Trini­tatis church forms a clear­ly dis­tin­guish­able edge along the city cen­tre ring. The parish court­yard was cut into the area between the two high­points of the church hall and church tow­er to cre­ate a new cen­tral meet­ing location.

The Trini­tatis church is pri­mar­i­ly char­ac­terised by light, space and mate­r­i­al. With its inte­ri­or height of over 14 metres, the church hall enables a tran­scen­dent spa­tial expe­ri­ence that is fur­ther inten­si­fied by the large sky­light locat­ed in 22 metres high. Day­light of vary­ing inten­si­ty falls from this along the rear wall of the altar in the church hall and defines the atmos­phere. Anoth­er impor­tant ele­ment is the large ground-lev­­el church win­dow that pro­duces com­mu­ni­ca­tion between the world of the pro­fane and the realm of the sacred. The church hall is sit­u­at­ed cross­wise and cre­ates suf­fi­cient room for the arrange­ment of the com­mu­ni­ty in an open sur­round­ing area whose opti­cal and sceno­graph­ic cen­tre is the chan­cel. Par­ti­tions sep­a­rat­ing the com­mu­ni­ty were elim­i­nat­ed, addi­tion­al­ly open­ing the chan­cel as a mul­ti­di­men­sion­al space usable for var­i­ous forms of liturgy.

With its build­ing enve­lope made of masoned Rochlitz por­phyry, the church acknowl­edges its region and tra­di­tion (the old Bene­dic­tine Pri­o­ry in Wechselburg/Saxony late 12th-cen­­tu­ry). The pro­jec­tions and recess­es in the hor­i­zon­tal lay­er­ing of the var­i­ous heights con­vey the rich tra­di­tion of the region­al archi­tec­ture into an inde­pen­dent con­tem­po­rary build­ing of par­tic­u­lar emo­tion­al value.

Illus­tra­tive project report
Down­load report

Pho­to internal

Tech­ni­cal drawings

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