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Back in 2011, the Catholic Church in Stuttgart had initiated the pastoral development process “Aufbrechen – Katholische Kirche in Stuttgart” (Setting out – Catholic Church in Stuttgart) aiming to position itself well for the future. As a result, many parishes reduced their buildings and explored alternative usage and cooperation models. At St. Johannes Maria Vianney, the decision was made to replace the existing church and parish buildings with new buildings — retaining only the bell tower, which had been moved away from the church itself, as an identity-forming landmark. The new, much more intimate church, with its 110 seats, is tailored to the current parish life.
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In 2017, our office won first place in a competition for the architecture of the new church building, the residential development and the neighbourhood design. Following the demolition work, new construction work commenced in 2020 according to our plans. The heart of the new green and car-free area is a re-designed neighbourhood square, around which the church and the other new buildings are arranged. We finished the cubic, two-storey new church with its single-storey extension, containing a pastoral office, community rooms and hall, with a dark facing brick façade. This colour scheme emphasises the church’s special role in the neighbourhood structure. A pergola in front, made of fair-faced concrete and brick-faced supports, frames the church square.
We also designed the liturgical elements in the church, such as the altar, ambo, baptismal font, tabernacle, credence table, eternal light, and altar of Mary. For the first time in the history of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, architects won the art competition held for this purpose. The transformation from old to new was one of our core themes for both the architectural and the art competition. Therefore, in the liturgical areas, black steel plates hold layers of wood obtained from the old church pews of the predecessor building. Additional traces of the old church can be found throughout the new one. The statue of the Virgin Mary and the crucifix were integrated into the new church hall, while the organ was purchased second-hand from a Bavarian parish and adapted for St. Johannes Maria Vianney.
The construction of a new church has become a rare event. In the Mönchfeld district of Stuttgart, a new Catholic church was consecrated in the summer of 2023, replacing a 1960s building that had become far too large for the current requirements of the parish and was in dire need of renovation. The redevelopment of the area surrounding the new church has resulted in an architecturally distinguished neighbourhood that lends the entire district a new identity.
a+r Architekten stand for solid, environmentally compatible and future-oriented architecture with impressive expertise in the field of sustainable building — also in existing building contexts. Founded in 1985 by Professor Gerd Ackermann and Professor Hellmut Raff, the office with branches in Stuttgart and Tübingen has around 130 employees and is today headed by Oliver Braun, Florian Gruner, Alexander Lange and Walter Fritz. a+r Architekten mainly build for public clients, industry and commerce, municipal housing companies and social institutions. The office focuses on appropriate, ecological, functional and the resulting innovative construction methods. In line with the conviction that “only together as a team can we meet the challenges of the future,” a+r Generalplaner GmbH was founded in 2021 under the leadership of Johannes Weiß.
