Lutherkirche, Wiesbaden

Lutherkirche
View of Lutherkirche from the North
Basic information
Location	Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany
Geographic coordinates	50°4′13″N 8°14′16″E / 50.07028°N 8.23778°E / 50.07028; 8.23778
Affiliation	Protestant Church in Hesse and Nassau
Year consecrated	1911
Website	lutherkirche-wiesbaden.de
Architectural description
Architect(s)	Friedrich Pützer
Architectural style	Jugendstil Romanesque Revival
Specifications
Direction of façade	west
Height (max)	35–40 m
Materials	brick

The Lutherkirche (Luther Church) is one of four main Protestant churches in Wiesbaden, the capital of Hesse, Germany. It was built between 1908 and 1910 in Jugendstil (Art Nouveau style in Germany) and in accordance with the Wiesbadener Programm, to a design by Friedrich Pützer. With two organs and good acoustics, it is also a concert venue.

By 1903, population growth in Wiesbaden necessitated the building of a fourth Protestant church. The city already had three: the Marktkirche, the Bergkirche and the Ringkirche. The latest of these, the Ringkirche, had been consecrated only nine years earlier; designed by Johannes Otzen the construction of the church had followed the principles of the Wiesbadener Programm. These principles had met with wide acclaim. They were followed again in the planning of the new church. In 1905 the architectural competition the program required was held. After shortlisting three proposals, the congregation decided on a design by Friedrich Pützer from Darmstadt on 8 June 1906. He was an architect and professor at the Technische Hochschule Darmstadt. Pützer was not associated with the Darmstadt Artists' Colony at the Mathildenhöhe, but shared their interest in overcoming historicism. The jury included the architects Hermann Eggert and Franz Schwechten, the Wiesbaden building inspector Richard Saran and the minister Emil Veesenmeyer, who had developed the Wiesbadener Programm with Johannes Otzen.