#universitätskirche

[jadore1971]

[hesterretseh]

Salzburg - Kollegienkirche und Dom von Hester

[historisches-freiburg]

Freiburger Bertoldstraße nach 1945 - Eine Darstellung der Bertoldstraße auf der man noch gut die Schäden der Bombennacht vom 27.11.1944 erkennen kann. Und das obwohl die Aufnahme um 1948 entstanden sein soll. Vielen Dank an die Sammlung Oehler für dieses Bild. /* */ - #27111944, #Bertoldstraße, #Universitätskirche 27.11.1944, Bertoldstraße, Universitätskirche #Historisches #Freiburg #HistorischesFreiburg

[architecturalheritage-blog]

Leipzig / Universität / Kirche

The university church of Leipzig. Originally built from 1231.

The church, devoted to St. Paul, withstood WW II but was demolished on command of the SED in Leipzig. The church interior attributes were largely kept safe from this act. At the newly formed space a university complex was erected and named the Karl Marx Universität, next to the Karl Marx Platz. This however, has not been an alteration within the city's texture that lasted. The complex proved either to be to big a confrontation with the past or to large an opportunity for modern city government to appeal to sentiments of the 'lost original' state of the Altstadt, for it not to be taken down. The current building houses the Universität Leipzig and is a design by Erick van Egeraat. Even though the building has been built with the explicit intend to function as a university, the building features a church-like space where originally the Universitätskirche, or Pauliner, stood. The interior of this space is a reconstruction of the original interior stucture of the Pauliner, including a reconstruction of the net vaults, but then with modern materials. 

This is where I would like to point out a very important feature of modern reconstructions. They are mostly, nearly always, created with modern materials. But to recreate an evolved means of construction such as a net vault with concrete and steel is completely contradictory and useless. A building is never only its outershell, the bricks that hold a church together in a specific way are just as important for our understanding of this building as its appearence. I don't know if it's just me, but to recreate a historical building with concrete and portland cement is useless, as it does nothing to improve our knowledge of historical building methods, in fact the recreation of historical buildings dilutes our awareness of the singularity of historical buildings with specific values, whether those values are a certain outward appearance, a historical meaning, or a constructional aspect. 

And it's not even a very pretty sight to see to.