Not far from the town of Hitzacker, known for its music weeks, but on the eastern side of the Elbe is the village of Tripkau. It is worth a trip through its St. Mary's Church. The brick-lined half-timbered building with the unusual tower is more than worth seeing from the outside.
But the interior design of the church is even more unusual and surprising: the walls, ceiling, floor and even the windows are covered all over with crosses, all with a side length of one meter and either upright or rotated 45 degrees.
The church was built in 1757 as a replacement for a previous building as a simple hall building - somewhat disrespectfully also called a bed barn - in half-timbered construction. It was not until 1864 that the choir, sacristy and tower were added as extensions and shape the appearance of the “real” church to this day.
After a major overhaul, the Halle graphic professor Ludwig Ehrler redesigned the interior of the church in 1998. The new appearance polarizes to this day - many find the almost innumerable crosses and their seemingly random arrangement much too restless, while others are consistently enthusiastic. In fact, the first impression when you enter the church is one of great restlessness - but if you allow yourself to be involved in the design, the fragments are arranged and you can see the regularity in the arrangement of the crosses, which only seem so chaotically distributed.
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