Heilandskirche
Heilandskirche stands in the Berg district of Stuttgart-Ost as a Protestant church in neo-Romanesque style. Ludwig Eisenlohr designed the building, while Josef Zeitler created its sculptural decoration. A courtyard lies between the tower and worship space, giving the architecture an open passage. The building offers wheelchair access alongside its protected heritage status.
Duchess Vera of Württemberg donated the land in 1899 after living nearby at Villa Berg. She later funded the new building after converting from Russian Orthodoxy to Protestantism. An earlier wooden church stood there before the congregation received Eisenlohr’s design. The church was inaugurated on 2 December 1913. Bombing destroyed it on 19 October 1944, while authorities had already melted two bells in 1942. A temporary church followed in 1949, before reconstruction took a modified form in 1964.
Russian Germans found a community home here, while the Gospel im Osten choir began here in 2005. The courtyard between tower and worship space serves various purposes within the rebuilt complex.
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