Christ Church (Rostock)

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Christ Church, 1953

The Christ Church was a Catholic church in Rostock . It was consecrated in 1909 and destroyed in 1971. The new Christ Church , which was built as a replacement elsewhere, bears the same name .

First church in 1909

The old church was built according to plans by the architect Gotthilf Ludwig Möckel in neo-Gothic style on Schröderplatz and was consecrated on October 24, 1909 by Bishop Hubertus Voss . The pastor of the church was the prelate Wilhelm Leffers during the construction and until his arrest in the time of National Socialism and his subsequent expulsion from Mecklenburg in 1940 . The church was badly damaged in American bombing raids on April 11, 1944. Eight people, including priests and women religious, died in the church.

The church was quickly rebuilt and the tower was closed with an emergency roof. The three bells (d, e, f sharp) remained intact.

"In 1947 the rebuilt Christ Church on the pointed triumphal arch wall by Irma Lang-Scheer received a colossal fresco" The Last Judgment ", which can be referred to as one of the largest frescoes of recent times and caused a sensation in the Russian occupation zone (now GDR)."

- Verlagsgruppe Schnell and Steiner “Das Münster” Munich 1949, year 2

A way of the cross created by her arose later.

Elisabeth Schnitzler wrote a 3-page description and appraisal in 1948.

On May 15, 1949, the church was consecrated again by Archbishop Wilhelm Berning from Osnabrück. The church building allegedly got in the way of a main thoroughfare planned at the end of the 1960s to connect Gehlsdorf with the southern part of the city and it should therefore be demolished. The old Christ Church, the rectory, the residential and office building and the so-called emergency church with the parish hall were blown up on August 12, 1971. The major traffic plans to which the Christ Church was sacrificed were only partially implemented. The site of the church remained undeveloped until 2012. This suggests that political reasons were decisive for the demolition and removal of the church.

A memorial was inaugurated on October 22, 2009 in the immediate vicinity of the old church site. A hotel has been built on the former site of the church since mid-2012. Previously, the foundations of the church that were still in existence had been exposed and documented.

Second church in 1971

New Christ Church

After much protest and after long negotiations between the Catholic Church and the City Council of Rostock, a replacement building was promised after the decision to remove the first church, but in a non-central location. This building was erected in a side street (Borenweg - Häktweg) southwest of the city center by the Rostock construction combine in a nine-month construction period. The church had to bear part of the cost. The new Christ Church is a hypar shell construction by Ulrich Müther . It was consecrated on June 12, 1971 by Bishop Heinrich Theissing . The building is a listed building .

Bells

In the year of the consecration of the church, the Otto bell foundry from Hemelingen / Bremen cast three bronze bells (d ′ - e ′ - fis ′) for the Christ Church in Rostock. Pastor Leffers had ordered them from Otto. The two larger bells were melted down during the First World War. In 1925, Rev. Leffers ordered two new bells (d ′ - e ′) from Otto to replace them. These bells still exist today and hang next to the new Christ Church in a concrete bell carrier.

literature

  • Heinrich Theissing Institute (Ed.), Catholic Christ Church in Rostock: Christ Church, Catholic Church in Rostock through the ages. Heinrich Theissing Institute, Schwerin 2010

See also

Web links

Commons : Christ Church  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Spain's Golden Age: The Velazque Era “As in the times of El Creco, contemporary people were included in the compositions. This merging of celestial and earthly events, of transcendence and reality was also decisive for subsequent generations of artists, not only in Spain ”- and was also implemented here by Irma Lang-Scheer.
  2. “The painting of the altar architecture was entrusted to an artist by the name of Lang-Scheer and it was completed to the point where the work can already be reported as an art event. ... The wall painting, the predominant colors of which are a reddish and a bluish, is not devoid of models .... Nevertheless, the work cannot be described as traditional. On the contrary: in some respects, which were made clear by the description, your own will has come into its own in personal form ... You will have to wait for the design of the inner sanctuary in its relationship to the framing painting ... only then I can say the last word about that altar painting, which is finished in its part and already honestly amazes us. "Democrat August 21, 1948 (?) Dr. Joh. Gü.
  3. Source: Archives of the Christ Congregation
  4. Memorial for Christ Church in Rostock inaugurated Rostock-today, 23 October 2009
  5. ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto bells. Family and company history of the Otto bell foundry dynasty . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 288-291, 401, 443, 517, 526, 588 .
  6. Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 258–261, 372, 481, 488, 556 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).

Coordinates: 54 ° 5 ′ 14 ″  N , 12 ° 7 ′ 37 ″  E