GDR post-war modernism: Altenberg church as a cultural testimony

The Protestant church in Altenberg in the Eastern Ore Mountains, which was only completed after reunification, is now a listed building. It is a testimony to the late phase of GDR post-war modernism, according to the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments. "Embedded in the wooded landscape of the Osterzgebirge, the building combines traditional building forms and materials with modern elements: abstract altar windows, central concrete pillars and a functional floor plan."

According to the state office, the church was built between 1989 and 1991 after the ruins of the parish church, which was destroyed in the Second World War, were demolished in 1953. The new building is a two-storey structure that combines church and community rooms as well as a parish apartment and office.