Dreifaltigkeitskirche (Kochendorf)

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Trinity Church in Bad Friedrichshall

The Romanian Orthodox Trinity Church in Bad Friedrichshall- Kochendorf was built in 1950 as a Roman Catholic parish church and profaned as such in 2015. It has been owned by the Romanian Orthodox Church Community of Heilbronn since 2017.

history

In Kochendorf, which has traditionally been evangelical since the Reformation , Catholics were only a small minority until after the Second World War . The influx of expellees increased the proportion of Catholics in the population. In 1950 the Catholic parish purchased a piece of land at Gartenstrasse 8 to build its own church, which was completed in the same year and consecrated by Prelate Hufnagel. An adjacent building was also converted into a community center. Since the church was soon no longer sufficient, the Barbarakirche was built in Kochendorf in 1972 , which later became a parish church and is now used by both Catholics and the Protestant community for church services. The old Trinity Church was already showing severe structural damage around 1980 and was thoroughly renovated in 1982/83. In the course of the renovation, in addition to its two old bells, it received another bell , which was cast at the Bachert bell foundry in the village. The church was consecrated again by Auxiliary Bishop Anton Herre on November 6, 1983.

Until 2007, services were still held by a retired priest in the Trinity Church, but the number of visitors fell to 20 to 30. Since the entertainment of the church would no longer have been acceptable, the center of the Catholic parish is in the parish church of St. Barbara in Tulpenweg and the Kilian's Church still exists, the church was profaned as such in 2015. The holy figures went to St. Barbara's and Kilian's Churches, the organ to Lauffen .

In 2016 the Dreifaltigkeitskirche was supposed to be converted into a refugee shelter , but this was ultimately not realized.

In 2017 the church was acquired by the Romanian Orthodox parish Heilbronn, which has been celebrating services there ever since.

literature

  • Hans Riexinger : The churches of Bad Friedrichshall. In: Bad Friedrichshall Volume 3. City of Bad Friedrichshall 2001, pp. 308–317.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ House of God for sale. In: Stimme.de. Heilbronner Voice, August 1, 2015, accessed on November 12, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Less accommodation for refugees. In: Stimme.de. Heilbronner Voice, July 8, 2016, accessed on November 12, 2017 .
  3. ↑ New Church. Romanian Orthodox Church Heilbronn, accessed April 28, 2019 .

Coordinates: 49 ° 13 ′ 21.1 ″  N , 9 ° 12 ′ 56.1 ″  E