The Autobahnkirche Siegerland in Wilnsdorf, NRW, Germany on the A45 is a highway church designed to look like the symbol on highway church-signs when viewed on approach from the highway. [1200x720px] (Design by Schneider + Schumacher; Photo by Jörg Hempel)
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The Autobahnkirche Siegerland in Wilnsdorf, NRW, Germany on the A45 is a highway church designed to look like the symbol on highway church-signs when viewed on approach from the highway. [1200x720px] (Design by Schneider + Schumacher; Photo by Jörg Hempel)

Photo of a highway church-sign for reference.

The Autobahnkirche Siegerland opened in 2013 and is an is an ecumenical Christian road church at the Bundesautobahn 45 near Wilnsdorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Over the years it has won numerous awards including but not limited to

  • Iconic Awards 2013
  • DAM Preis für Architektur in Deutschland 2013 [DAM Prize for Architecture in Germany 2013]
  • Best architects 14 Awards (category: public buildings)
  • NRW Architekturpreis 2015 [NRW Architecture Prize 2015]
  • American Architecture Prize in Gold 2016

and more.

u/GeniusPlayUnique — 11 days ago

All new rank-icons are available for your user flairs now!

    
Cadet   Admirable Admiral   Ranger, Eagle Class
Level 1 to Level 4   Level 70 to Level 79   Level 190 to Level 199
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Space Cadet   Commander   Ranger, Bald Eagle Class
Level 5 to Level 9   Level 80 to Level 89   Level 200 to Level 209
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Sergeant   Galactic Commander   Divemaster
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Master Sergeant   Hell Commander   First Divemaster
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u/GeniusPlayUnique — 21 days ago

Persistently high death rate, nigh always increasing, often surpassing both immigration and births combined, all despite not being a Hive City from 40k instead providing near paradisial living conditions.

Outside of my city I have dozens upon dozens of crematoriums but somehow they are still getting overwhelmed despite hearses making up literally 80+% of all the city's traffic congestion.

My city's death rate is consistently at an utterly insane ~7%/mo. For comparison the annual death rate of Berlin for example is just around 1%. My city with less than half a million inhabitants has more people kicking the bucket per month than a metropolis of 3.7 million has in a year.

The death rate has persistently risen over the past few years and that negligible little dip at the end is the first and only time I have seen it decrease at all.

I literally have buildings with a hundred corpses just strewn about, my thousands of hearses are completely overwhelmed and frankly I don't know what to do anymore. Even buying services from outside the city to compliment my massive cremation capacity isn't helping.

I know about "death waves" etc. but this isn't even "just" a "death tsunami" but more akin to a biblical death flood that simply won't abate.

u/GeniusPlayUnique — 3 months ago

Liberating X-45 and VEGA BAY will put three planets under siege and clear two sectors, all with minimal effort.

After MEISSA is liberated and VERNEN WELLS defended all Helldivers in the Automaton-theatre should continue the advance through the Ymir sector and liberate X-45 and VEGA BAY as that will put WASAT, MOX and WEZEN under siege simultaneously, clear both sectors entirely, put the last known magma world back firmly under Super Earth control with minimal effort and cut almost a quarter out of the clankers' territory.

This is an extremely rare opportunity and failing to seize it will haunt us...

u/GeniusPlayUnique — 5 months ago
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The fall of CLASA to the Jet Brigade has been a heavy blow to our defences in the Tanis sector, threatening the Deep Mantle Forge Complex on neighbouring CLAORELL, but thankfully a blow that can still be fairly easily reversed if we act decisively: All Helldivers in the Automaton-theatre should deploy to YED PRIOR and liberate it in order to isolate CLASA thus putting it under siege by regular SEAF forces which will liberate the planet within a week and two hours.

Afterward liberating WEZEN in the Ymir sector would be the first step to putting MOX under siege which would be liberated by regular SEAF forces within 8d 8h and would finally put not only the last known magma planet under our control but also clear the entire Trigon sector of clanker bridgeheads.

u/GeniusPlayUnique — 6 months ago