Wiesbadener Programm Explained

The German: Wiesbadener Programm (Wiesbaden program) is a program for Protestant church architecture developed in Wiesbaden, the capital of Hesse, Germany, in the late 19th century. It contradicted an older (Eisenach rule) from 1861 which demanded that new church buildings had to follow Romanesque Revival style or Gothic Revival style.

The program was initiated by Emil Veesenmeyer, minister of the Bergkirche, and Johannes Otzen, an architect who designed the Ringkirche (1892–94) as the first church following the principles of the program. A focus is the unity of pulpit, altar, and organ, which should be together and visible from every seat for the congregation.

Churches which follow the program include in Wiesbaden also the Lutherkirche (1907–10), in Hannover the (1895–98), in Elberfeld the (1894–98), in Basel the Pauluskirche (1898–1901), and in Bern the Pauluskirche (1902–05), among several buildings throughout Germany and also in Switzerland.

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