Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Kirche
The Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Kirche rises in Germany as a deliberate contrast to the high-rise blocks that surround it. Peter Danner designed the church, which opened in 1985. Together with its adjoining community house, it frames a sheltered courtyard that has become the heart of communal life. Festivals and celebrations fill that open space, and the building is accessible for wheelchairs.
Inside, six stained-glass windows by the artist Gisela Dreher-Richels carry words from Dietrich Bonhoeffer's letters, written in prison between 1943 and 1945. The narrow, upright lettering runs down the panes like the bars of a cell. A crown of thorns winds through the lettering, and the martyr's rose appears beside it five times. The symbols join the suffering of Christian martyrs to Bonhoeffer's own resistance. On one wall hangs Franz Bucher's oversized wooden crucifix, confronting everyone who enters. Music belongs to the room as well: Marc Garnier, a master from Burgundy, built the organ in 1993. Its ten stops spread across two manuals and pedals.
Day to day, a lively and diverse congregation fills the church for worship and for special events. In a quiet hour, a sentence written behind bars looks back at you from one of the panes.
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