At a distance from the historic center, one may still smell the fumes of nearby production plants. You do not get here if you do not live here! In a cluster of not too well-maintained white prisms, amidst a working-class neighborhood in one of Aachen’s eastern districts, this peculiar Catholic Icon stands lonely. Fronleichnam Church is beautiful and loving, as the architect Rudolf Schwarz once put it in 1930.

“This church is easy to describe, since it has only a few components, in fact only two: the unusually high congregational nave, and one low aisle alongside. Together, in plan, they form a rectangle. Up until the height of the side aisle, the building is windowless and inclosing, its doors are smooth steel plates clad in copper. Behind these closed walls, it is pure interior.”

Rudolf Schwarz, 1960

By leaving the altar at the main church hall and walking quietly down into the tower, crossing a linear dark hallway, you may still hear the buzz from above. When entering a more spacious hall one will start recognizing the deepness and calmness of the space. However, this parish hall looks like a body full of mismatched outfits when you look at the beige-painted walls, the red-upholstered chairs around them, the ceiling's brown wooden strips, and the dull ceramic floor tiles. Here, nakedness is missing! A revealing play, this vivification of the parish hall and its outdoor spaces is an investigation into the primitive situation.