Discussion: Taking a Second Look - Diocesan Museum in Eichstätt
With its cloisters, chapels, churches, and saintly statues placed above entrances, Eichstätt resembles a time-lost monastic republic. A staccato of urban spaces enhances the impression of walking through history, despite numerous cars that rattle along the cobblestone, and students clasping cell phones and laptops. Eichstätt is a "scholar republic", and diocesan architect Karljosef Schattner decisively contributed to its architecture and character throughout three decades, from 1957 to 1991. With his uncompromising buildings, he turned the College of Education, founded in 1958 and later to become the Catholic University Eichstätt, into an architectural landmark. Long since, from the viewpoint of architects and architectural historians, a symbiosis has taken place: Eichstätt is Schattner - and Schattner is Eichstätt. But how does this master architect's work present itself today, two decades later?
