Motorway chapel "Jesus - Bread of Life"
The motorway chapel “Jesus - Bread of Life” is located in the “Heseper Moor” car park on federal motorway 31 ( Emden - Bottrop ) and can only be reached in a north-south direction. It is located in the Geeste municipality in the Emsland .
In November 2000 the chapel, which is ecumenically sponsored, was ceremoniously inaugurated by Catholic and Protestant clergy.
The design of the church comes from the architect Josef Wulf from Geeste. In the middle of the Heseper Moor he created a chapel designed as a "feel-good room" in the architectural style of an Emsland bakery and had it built from original peat fire bricks. The artistic interior design was in the hands of qualified designer and sculptor Dominikus Witte from Belm near Osnabrück.
The name of the chapel fits in with the bakehouse style and refers to a word from Jesus Christ : “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will not go hungry; and whoever believes in me will never thirst ”( Gospel according to John 6:35 ). The chapel offers space for around 50 visitors (seating and standing) and is open day and night.
literature
- Churches in the Evangelical Lutheran Church District Emsland-Bentheim , ed. v. Church service in leisure, recreation and tourism of the Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church of Hanover, Osnabrück Working Group, Emlichheim 2003
- Thomas Ostendorf, Dominikus Witte, The ecumenical Emsland motorway chapel "Jesus, Bread of Life" in " Das Münster ", magazine for Christian art and art history , ISSN 0027-299X , vol .: 65, no. 1, 2012, pages 10-15 [1]
Web links
- Autobahn chapel in the DB from autobahnkirchen.de
- Ecumenical Emsland motorway chapel Jesus, bread of life geeste.de
- Site of the motorway chapel
- Motorway chapel on the site of the sculptor Dominikus Witte in Osnabrück
See also
Coordinates: 52 ° 38 '7.23 " N , 7 ° 11' 20.39" E