St. Erich Cathedral Church
The Cathedral Church of St. Erich ( Swedish Sankt Eriks katolska domkyrka ) is the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Stockholm in the Södermalm district of the Swedish capital Stockholm . The cathedral consists of a neo-Romanesque church from 1892 and an attached new building from 1983. Like the historic, now Lutheran metropolitan church in Uppsala , it bears the patronage of St. Erich after the king, venerated as a saint and martyr , who Christianized Sweden in the 12th century completed.
history
After the establishment of the Swedish Lutheran state church in the 16th century, there was a strict ban on worship for other religious communities, which was only gradually and gradually relaxed. In 1781 Catholic foreigners were allowed to freely practice their religion and raise their children in a Catholic way. In 1783 the Holy See dissolved the territory of Sweden as an independent vicariate from the Apostolic Vicariate of the North . After various beginnings, including the previous building of today's St. Eugenia Church (1837), the parish church of St. Erich was consecrated in 1892 , where the vicar apostolic (from 1885 to 1923 Albert Bitter ) also took his seat. But it was not until 1953 that the diocese of Stockholm was founded and St. Erich was made a cathedral.
In the following decades the immigration of foreign Catholics brought strong growth to the Catholic communities in Sweden. The Episcopal Church also no longer met the requirements. In 1976 the renovation and expansion of the clergy and sister house began. A land sale finally provided the financial basis for the extension of the church. Further significant funds came from the German Bonifatiuswerk . The new building was designed by Hans Westman and Ylva Lenormand and consecrated on March 25, 1983.
architecture
The old St. Erichs Church shows the style features of the late 19th century in the return to Romanesque and Byzantine forms. The outward appearance is deliberately kept modest. The facade differs from an upper-class residential building of the time mainly through the column-framed portal with tympanum and eyelashes and two small flanking spiers , which are surmounted by the cross-crowned gable.
The neo-Romanesque furnishings are original and show the taste of their time in color, ornamentation and figure design. The choir and apse of the old church were broken open during the new building so that the old and modern parts can be used together, but also separately.
The modern part of the cathedral is integrated into a multifunctional parish and diocesan center. The cuboid building with a flat roof carries a 27 meter high, light and soaring bell tower made of exposed concrete . The spatial structure inside is variable depending on the occasion. Hans Westman designed a coffered ceiling to regulate the acoustics , the benches and other pieces of equipment. The lighting fixtures were created by Peter Celsing .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Historical overview ( memento of October 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (recent history and description of the new building at the beginning, prehistory below; Swedish)
- ↑ Since Celsing died in 1974, drafts by him were probably used; however, the source ( memento of October 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) does not mention this.
Web links
- Website of the cathedral church (Swedish)
Coordinates: 59 ° 18 ′ 49.4 " N , 18 ° 4 ′ 21.1" E