contents of the documentation system
The task spectrum of the church documentation office currently covers
buildings from the end of classicism around 1860, in Germany called "Historismus"
(revival styles)
until the change in architecture "Neues Bauen" (around 1919/1920). The spectrum
also covers Art Nouveau and "Heimatstil" (traditional local style)
Not included in our database are:
- old churches (ie. all medieval domes and basilicas)
- Romanesque and Gothic churches as well as
- famous churches such as churches by Friedrich Schinkel
- all village churches and batch production buildings
- all classicist works of "Neues Bauen" as well as
- postwar sacred buildings made of concrete and glass
For these types of sacred buildings there are other data collections and data bases.
Exceptions can be postwar follow-up buildings or alterations and reconstructions of
older churches lost through war in order to cover the whole history of a building,
especially for our own church parish (first church historist building by August Orth,
destruction 1945 and new church building by Otto Bartning 1956)
