Germany
Lower Saxony
Cloppenburg
Löningen
St. Vitus Church Löningen – Germany's largest pillarless hall church
Germany
Lower Saxony
Cloppenburg
Löningen
St. Vitus Church Löningen – Germany's largest pillarless hall church
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Location: Löningen, Cloppenburg, Lower Saxony, Germany
Wonderfully idiosyncratic church building with old baroque furnishings from the Franciscan monastery in Vechta.
Considered to be the largest pillarless hall church in Germany.
From Wikipedia:
"The cubic structure of the sacred building with an internal width of 21.50 meters and a hipped roof on all sides was originally connected to a bell tower on the eastern side of the choir, which collapsed soon after it was built and was replaced by several wooden towers, each of which also quickly became unstable , until 1960, when today's massive, 54-meter-high tower, which stands free next to the church in the style of a campanile, was completed."
Since you want to know more than I can write:
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Vitus_(Löningen)
Current information here:
st-vitus-loeningen.de/startseite.html
May 27, 2017
The patronage already indicates the Abbey of Corvey, where the relics of St. Vitus came in 836. Since then, St. Vitus has been the patron saint of the Löningen Church. According to tradition, a separate church building was erected on the ground described around this time; the first church building in Löningen, however, is only proven in the 13th century.
August 25, 2020
Stop and look inside. The expanse of space in the church is great.
May 21, 2023
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