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Hospitalkirche, Stuttgart

Hospitalkirche, Stuttgart

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Hospitalkirche, Stuttgart

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Location: Baden-Württemberg, Germany

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Kristian

March 30, 2025

The Hospital Church received its name in the 16th century, when the adjacent former Dominican monastery was converted into a hospital for the poor. However, its roots go back further. In the 15th century, it is reported that the formerly small chapel on the "Turnieracker" (tournament field) was expanded into a church by Count Ulrich.

Today, only the choir remains of the Gothic church, completed in 1493; the main and side aisles were destroyed in World War II. However, after the renovation and careful modernization of the Hospital Church, the original grandeur of the church can once again be glimpsed through views into the inner courtyard.

Thanks to the Hospitalhof Stuttgart, the directly adjacent Protestant Adult Education Center, the Hospital Church is also considered, among other things, the educational and experimental church of Stuttgart's inner city.

The former baptismal font was located in a wooded area for decades: komoot.com/de-de/highlight/298171

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December 23, 2022

The hospital church was built for the Dominicans at the end of the 15th century in late Gothic style. After being destroyed in World War II, only the chancel and the tower were rebuilt.

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November 10, 2023

The hospital church was initially a towerless, three-aisled late Gothic hall church with a single-nave long choir, which the master builder Aberlin Jörg (collegiate church, Leonhardskirche) had built between 1471 and 1493 for the Dominican Order. After the monastery was dissolved during the Reformation, a hospital was set up in the empty buildings. The church became a parish church of the collegiate parish and received a tower on the south side of the choir in the 17th century. Only a few pieces of the original furnishings have been preserved. These include the Sachsenheim Altar from 1489 and tombs from the 16th and 17th centuries. The choir stalls were set up in the Leonhardskirche after the Second World War.

In 1944 the building was badly damaged by bombs. After the war, only the choir and the tower were restored according to Rudolf Lempp's plans. The nave remained in ruins as a memorial against the war.

In the choir is the original of the crucifixion group from 1501 by Hans Seyfer, which decorated the square behind the Leonhard Church until before the war. There is a copy there today from 1976.

The composer Leonard Lechner is buried in the hospital church.

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