Liebfrauenkirche

Liebfrauenkirche stands in Stuttgart’s Bad Cannstatt district as a Roman Catholic church built between 1907 and 1909. Joseph Cades designed the building. Its brick cross-basilica combines Neo-Romanesque and Neo-Gothic forms within a structure 60 metres long and 27 metres wide.

A broad central nave, two narrow aisles, a transept and an eastern ambulatory shape the interior. Buttresses support the walls. The 40-metre tower rises from the northwest corner beneath a pyramid roof, while a stair tower marks the southwest side. Above the western portal, Karl Caspar’s tympanum mosaic sits beneath a large rose window. Smaller rose windows brighten the transept gables.

War damage altered the church, whose later restoration preserved its architectural character. Wilhelm Geyer created the stained-glass windows between 1962 and 1964. The rear gallery holds an organ built in three phases by E. F. Walcker & Cie., with 41 registers across three manuals and pedal. Its case frames the large rose window, and the tower’s four cast-steel bells sound the notes cis', e', fis' and gis'.