With the great social reform movements of the 1960s, the church also ventured to make changes. The changes in the order of worship and the more active involvement of the congregation (including the Second Vatican Council) also had an impact on the architecture of new churches. There were no limits to the architects' inventiveness. The churches of the 1950s to 1970s are therefore still among the most unusual buildings to be discovered in the Ruhr area.

Programme:

11:30 o'clock - 12:30 o'clock
Award! - Churches in the Ruhr area 

13:00 o'clock - 17:30 o'clock
Bus Tour "Post-war Churches in the Ruhr Area"

Gain insight into special objects, important master builders:

Christuskirche in Bochum - Dieter Oesterlen

Thomaskirche in Gelsenkirchen - Fred Janowski, Albrecht Egon Wittig

Heilige Familie in Oberhausen, Rudolf Schwarz, Josef Bernard

St. Suitbert in Essen, Josef Lehmbrock, Stefan Polónyi

Johanneskirche in Bochum, Hans Scharoun, Gundolf Bockemühl