The planned building complex with evangelical church and parsonage by
architect Kurt Hofmann was completed in 1970 in the east of Memmingen. The tent
roof is characteristic for the
church with its free standing bell tower and the use of yellowish bricks for
all exterior walls and copper for the roofs. The parsonage, planned as a
single-storey atrium house, formed a churchyard in combination with the church
and was already occupied six years before the completion of the church. In 2010
the evangelical church decided to replace it with a new building. The ensemble
with its churchyard needed to be preserved, so that the outer walls facing the
churchyard and Schweitzer Strasse were obtained during the demolition of the
atrium house. The L-shaped floor plan of the new building redesigns the access
to the office area and the new parsonage. The living rooms are oriented to the
courtyard. Through the steep pitched roof and green glazed wooden exterior
façade (based on the patinated copper roof of the church), the church buildings
represent a stronger experience as an ensemble.
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