Wiesbadener Programm

It contradicted an older Eisenacher Regulativ [de] (Eisenach rule) from 1861 which demanded that new church buildings had to follow Romanesque Revival style or Gothic Revival style.

The program was initiated by Emil Veesenmeyer, minister of the Bergkirche, and Johannes Otzen, an architect who designed the Ringkirche (1892–94) as the first church following the principles of the program.

A focus is the unity of pulpit, altar, and organ, which should be together and visible from every seat for the congregation.

Churches which follow the program include in Wiesbaden also the Lutherkirche (1907–10), in Hannover the Lutherkirche [de] (1895–98), in Elberfeld the Cemetery Church [de] (1894–98), in Basel the Pauluskirche (1898–1901), and in Bern the Pauluskirche (1902–05), among several buildings throughout Germany and also in Switzerland.

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