Window 2

The second window in the cycle dates from 2003. Here, light slowly emerges from darkness. In the lower four panels, which are covered by the open altar wings for most of the year, the dark blue from the previous window has been pushed back. In the middle row, starting with the fifth panel from the bottom, i.e., above the horizontal line, the red tones are complemented by lighter tones.

The artist Karl-Martin Hartmann was inspired by Feynman diagrams, graphical representations from nuclear physics that illustrate the interactions between elementary particles. A white horizontal line separates the light area at the top from the rest of the window. Here, red and yellow tones can be seen in more delicate motifs.

The tracery of the window features a seven-pointed star, reminiscent of the seven days of creation, the seven-branched candelabrum of the Jews, and the seven sacraments celebrated in the church. In the church, the number seven symbolizes the connection between the divine number three and the earthly number four.

Within the star, thin curved lines depict a so-called three-jet event, a phenomenon from particle physics.

Through this window, questions about the origin and source of all existence enter into dialogue with the themes of the high altar, which represents the redemption of the world and shows the future path of humankind.