Aisleless church

A hall church is a one-nave church building whose interior is a not divided by pillars hall. Along the hall church, the Basilica and the central building is one of the four basic types of Christian church architecture. However, there is no clear demarcation between the various building forms, and in many churches has evolved over its architectural history, a combination of different types developed.

Due to the relative size, with a single room could be spanned and covered, the dimensions of the historic hall churches were set structural limits. In many places - where the population made ​​it necessary and economic opportunities were given - former medieval hall churches were therefore extended over the centuries and expands with the cultivation of other ships to hall churches or basilicas. With the development of new techniques and better materials but also larger rooms could be spanned from the Renaissance. The basic shape of the hall church is the rectangle, so the simple room, without attachments ( choir, apse, tower). Square church building be counted among the central buildings.

Hall churches are oriented generally longitudinally, altar and choir are located at one of the narrower sides and are in the Middle Ages always oriented to the east ( always faces east ). Less common are so-called querschiffige hall churches, the altar area occupies the long side; they do not occur until after the Middle Ages.

Examples of hall churches

  • Christ Church in Dresden- chasing, Art Nouveau church
  • The Hofkirche by Ludwig Lust
  • The Saviour Church on Port of Sacrow in Potsdam, however, which gives the impression of a basilica by the circumferential passage of outer
  • The largest hall church in Germany is the parish church of St. Vitus in Loeningen.
  • The Providenzkirche in Heidelberg
  • The St. Jacob's Church in Hildesheim.
  • The Seminar Church in Hildesheim.
  • The St. John's Church in Frankfurt -Bornheim, a Baroque hall church.
  • Chapel of St. Agatha Disentis
  • Parish Obritzberg, Lower Austria

Querschiffige hall churches

  • Built The Evangelical Lutheran St. Paul's Church in Dinkelsbühl, 1840-1843 in a historicist, then Byzantine style called
  • The Reformed Church in Lübeck in classical revolutionary architecture
  • The St. Peter's Church in Ratzeburg
  • The Evangelical Reformed Church in Woelfersheim
  • The Protestant chapel in the Old Palace in Stuttgart
  • The Evangelical Lutheran Cross Church in Sehnde
  • Kirchenbautyp
  • Church hall
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