Stadtkirche Bad Cannstatt

Stadtkirche Bad Cannstatt stands in the Bad Cannstatt district of Stuttgart, capital of Baden-Württemberg. Dedicated to Saints Cosmas and Damian, it serves a Protestant congregation within the Stuttgart district of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg. The State Office for Monument Preservation in Baden-Württemberg records the building as a cultural monument.

Aberlin Jörg designed the late Gothic hall church, built in the 1460s to replace a thirteenth-century forerunner. Heinrich Schickhardt reshaped it between 1612 and 1613. A central nave and two side aisles make up the hall, which buttresses support from outside. The choir turns east and closes in three sides, with a flank tower set against its north wall. That tower keeps five bells in its chamber, with the clock in two storeys added later. A matching tower on the south wall stayed a plan and never rose. Christian Friedrich von Leins renewed the interior from 1858 and rebuilt the vault. A fundamental renewal followed around 1905 under Heinrich Dolmetsch.

The twentieth century greets you at the entrance and in the choir. Ulrich Henn designed the bronze portal in 1962. A year later, Wolf-Dieter Kohler made the three central choir windows. E. F. Walcker & Cie. built the organ in 1963 as Opus 4274. Klaus Kopetzki enlarged it in 1999, and the organ now speaks through 45 registers on three manuals and a pedal.