Old Catholic Church of St. Theresa
The Old Catholic Church of St. Theresa is the parish church of the Catholic Diocese of Old Catholics in Germany for Schleswig-Holstein . It is located on the island of Nordstrand on the Osterdeich, between the Kögen Alterkoog and Osterkoog in the southern district.
history
After the island of Strand sank in the Burchardi flood in 1634 , the survivors were unable to dike back the lost land. 1652 the Gottorf Duke Friedrich III. an Octroy who drew foreign professionals to the region, including numerous Dutch Catholics. The donors, the so-called participants, were granted numerous privileges, which in addition to owning the entire newly won land also included the establishment of a Catholic community and the construction of a church. In 1654, after the first Koog was secured, the first Catholic service was held. In 1662 one of the main participants, the oratorian Christian de Cort from Mechelen , had a church built at his and his order's expense, which was given the name of St. Theresa of Avila as the main patronage . A second patroness was the “holy nun of Oirschot”, the Carmelite Maria Margaretha of the Angels (1605–1658) , who had died only five years earlier . Under canon law the parish was subordinated to the Archdiocese of Utrecht . The pastoral care was initially taken over by oratorians from Mechelen, which also took over the property of the indebted de Cord, including the church, in 1664.
In 1681 the oratory gave pastoral care on Nordstrand to the Archdiocese of Utrecht. This sparked a decade-long dispute from around 1735, the so-called Nordstrander church dispute, which culminated in an assassination attempt on pastor Jacobus de Groot in 1767. The Oratorians were still based on Nordstrand as the main participants, but their priests did not have the right to hold public services in St. Theresa Church. The Oratorians now pleaded that the Archdiocese of Utrecht, after long disputes with Rome over judicial issues and Jansenism, had fallen into a schism in 1723 and could therefore not appoint legitimate priests. The higher court in Schleswig , on the other hand, upheld the right of the main participants, documented in the Octroy, to elect a priest who was subordinate to the Archbishop of Utrecht as pastor. As a result, the Nordstrander municipality split into a " Roman " and a "Utrecht" branch. The St. Theresa Church ultimately remained the property of the congregation independent of Rome, but the dispute was not settled until 1866, when the new Prussian government also allowed the Roman Catholic congregation to build its own church.
German preaching has only been used in the St. Theresa Church since the end of the 19th century. Until 1920, the Nordstrander Theresien-Gemeinde was subject to the Old Catholic Archdiocese of Utrecht , only then did it join the German Old Catholic Church .
In 1887, St. Theresia was given its current appearance during a complete restoration. At this point the church received only one bell. Before that, the Catholics were allowed to use the bell of the Evangelical St. Vincent Church in Odenbüll . The widely scattered old Catholic community now has around 500 members.
Building
The St. Theresa Church, to which the thatched community center connects, is a brick - Saalbau in the forms of the Dutch Renaissance . The side walls and especially the gable front, which supports the roof turret with an octagonal lantern , are richly structured with blind arches. On the tower shaft above the portal is written DOM in large letters , which gave the church the name Theresiendom , but actually means the Latin dedication Deo Optimo Maximo .
Simple renaissance forms also predominate in the interior decoration and painting. The furnishings such as the altarpiece, a depiction of the crucifixion of Christ from the 17th century, were largely taken from the old church.
Trivia
The church served as the backdrop for the film Der Pfarrer von St. Pauli with Curd Jürgens in 1970 .
literature
- Old Catholic parish of Nordstrand (ed.): De Domo Nordstrandica. Festschrift for the 350th anniversary of the old Catholic parish of Nordstrand (1654–2004); North beach 2004; ISBN 3-00-013066-7
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Angela Berlis: Maria Margaretha of the angels. The unknown second church patroness of the old Catholic church on Nordstrand , in: De Domo Nordstrandica; Pp. 111–137 ( excerpt on the church website ); see also under her maiden name Maria van Valkenisse in nl.wikipedia
- ^ De Domo Nordstrandica; Pp. 33-46
- ^ De Domo Nordstrandica; P. 43
- ↑ Cathedral history on the website of the Old Catholic Church in Germany, accessed on June 1, 2017
- ↑ Nordstrander Church becomes a cinema , in: Nordfriesland Tageblatt , August 15, 2011
Coordinates: 54 ° 29 ′ 6.5 ″ N , 8 ° 51 ′ 20.2 ″ E