St. Johannis (evangelisch)
At the corner of Hofstallstraße and Husarenstraße in Germany stands St. Johannis, an Evangelical Lutheran parish church. You meet a modern building of the post-war years, and its walls carry a story that began in the 1890s.
The first church here went up between 1892 and 1895 in the Neo-Gothic style. Destruction came in 1945 and swept the whole building from the corner. The architect Reinhard Riemerschmid answered with a modern new church, consecrated in 1957. The rebuilt church also stands as a memorial to peace. Step inside and you find an organ by Beckerath, dating from 1960.
Ask a local the way, though, and you may hear a different name entirely. In everyday speech the parish answers to the Batman-Kirche, the Batman Church.
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