73rd German Catholic Day
The 73rd German Catholic Day took place from September 1st to 4th, 1949 in Bochum. 60,000 people came together for the opening event in a hall of the Bochum association . The youth rally had 70,000 participants. Almost 600,000 people attended the closing service. This took place on an open space in Bochum-Hamme, in the area of today's Park Hamme. The altar and the blast furnaces of the Bochumer Verein provided an impressive backdrop. 900 helpers collected around 100,000 DM in donations as the basis for the Katholikentagdorf settlement in Harpen . A temporary new building, the Katholikentagbahnhof , was erected specifically in place of the Bochum main train station that was destroyed in the war .
One of the demands of the Kirchentag was equal rights for women in companies.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Photo of the service ( online )
- ↑ www.ruhrnachrichten.de
- ^ Rainer Prodöhl: The 73rd German Katholikentag of Bochum 1949. In: Reinhard Göllner (Hrsg.): The future of the Ruhr area: structural change of a region and the responsibility of the churches (= theology in contact , volume 11). LIT Verlag, Münster 2003, ISBN 3825874109 , pp. 75–93 ( limited preview in the Google book search).