Salvatorkirche
The Salvatorkirche stands in the Giebel district of Stuttgart, within the borough of Weilimdorf. Hans Herkommer designed this Roman Catholic church together with his son, and builders raised it between 1956 and 1957. It is an example of expressionist architecture, a style with an innovative and artistic approach to design.
Inside, you find a steel skeleton carrying the load, so the room opens up without a single column. The floor plan is trapezoidal, narrowing toward the east where the choir sits. The wave-shaped roof gives the building its signature: it lifts and dips, shaping the structure as much as the appearance. A campanile belongs to the ensemble, and four bells hang in it.
Baden-Württemberg protects the church as a cultural heritage monument, a mark of its standing in the city's architectural and cultural life. Its parish sits in the Stuttgart deanery within the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, active in local religious and cultural life. Rudolf Haegele made the stained glass, and his windows bring the strongest colour in the building.
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