St. Olav Cathedral (Trondheim)

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St. Olav Cathedral from the southeast
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The St. Olav Cathedral in Trondheim is the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Territorial Prelature of Trondheim in Norway .

history

In the second half of the 19th century, Catholic parish life emerged again in Trondheim. When the Norwegian State Railways relocated their Trondheim station, the Catholic community bought the old station area in the Nidelva loop in 1897, not far from Nidaros Cathedral, which has been Lutheran since the Reformation . There was, using parts of the station building, a parish center and the historicist first St. Olav's Church , which on February 23, 1902 ordained was and the name of the holy Norwegian King Olav received. In 1931 it became the main church of the Catholic jurisdiction of Central Norway , today's Territorial Prelature .

When the first St. Olav Church became dilapidated and too small for the congregation, which was growing mainly due to immigration, it was demolished and the second St. Olav Church , which was consecrated in 1973, was a modern square building in glass reinforced concrete construction.

After the turn of the millennium, it was no longer sufficient for the influx of Catholic immigrants, and high investments would have been necessary to maintain the building. Therefore, planning began for a new building. On May 25, 2014, the last Holy Mass took place in St. Olav's Church from 1973, and the demolition work began on the following day. Today's cathedral church was built on the same spot between 2015 and 2016 and was consecrated in November 2016.

Building

The cathedral made of yellowish brick with a free-standing bell tower offers 450 seats. It was designed by the Eggen Arkitekter company after an architectural competition . According to the specifications, it is a three-aisled basilica with a central nave - wide round apse . Access is from the north (city side), the apse faces south.

The interior is characterized by the open roof structure and the brick walls and pillars. The central piece of the economical equipment is a large crucifixus in traditional forms above the cathedra in the apse apse.

Web links

Commons : St. Olav domkirke (Trondheim)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ St. Olav menighed i Trondheim
  2. ↑ Harald Oppitz, Patrick Kleibold: Dismantling and demolition work has started. In: Bonifatiusblatt. Issue 3/2014, pp. 20–22.
  3. ↑ On the dedication of the cathedral (Norwegian)
  4. ↑ eggen-arkitekter.no with interior photos

Coordinates: 63 ° 25 ′ 31.6 ″  N , 10 ° 23 ′ 32.2 ″  E