The consecration of the church on 9 May 2015 ends an odyssey of the Leipzig provost's community that has lasted more than seventy years. With the new building, St. Trinitatis has returned to the centre of the city. It was important to us as architects to develop the new provost's church out of the organism of the surrounding city. It gets its presence from the high church building and the church tower, but above all from the inviting openness of the vicarage. With its shell made of brick Rochlitz porphyry, the building is committed to the region and tradition. Leipzig's first Trinity Church was built in 1847 in the immediate vicinity of the old town. The building was severely damaged in the Second World War, only the outer walls and the church tower remained. With the promise of a new beginning for the congregation in a larger church, the ruins were blown up in 1954. The silhouettes of the church and town hall define an urban gateway situation along the rising topography of the Martin-Luther-Ring. It marks the start of the further development of the adjacent urban space with the Wilhelm-Leuschner-Platz S-Bahn station, the future Unity Monument and the Nonnenmühlgasse area. With the "pouring" of the triangular plot and the emphasis on the opposite poles of the church interior and the church tower, the building spans out. Between the two high points, the vicarage is "cut", a new central meeting place has been created. A special element of the church interior is the large church window (artist: Falk Haberkorn), which arouses curiosity and allows individual approaches from the outside. It opens up and limits the church space at the same time and it serves as a deliberately placed opening, as an interface between the profane and sacred worlds.
Source: Schulz und Schulz Architekten GmbH
Photos: Stefan Josef Müller
