Trinity Church (Münster)
The Dreifaltigkeitskirche stands in Münster at the intersection of York-Ring and Grevener Straße.
history
Planning and building the church
The church was built according to plans by the architects Heinrich Benteler and Alfred Wörmann. The foundation stone was laid in March 1937, and on July 23, 1939, it was consecrated by Bishop Clemens August Graf von Galen as a Catholic parish church for the newly emerging residential areas in the north. The original plans were to use the church as a garrison church for the surrounding barracks. It was used as such never, because the resident population in the area grew so fast that the area around the Holy Trinity Church in 1937 by the community of Our Lady / above water only when Rector abgepfarrt was. Franz Rensing became head of the new community. The conditions with which the building permit at that time was covered shows how far the preparations for war had already started: an air raid shelter for the population had to be built under the entire church, and for air security reasons the tower was not allowed to be higher than the ridge of the roof not stand free.
Destruction in war
The second construction did not use much, like the church itself, so the residential buildings around were largely destroyed. The bunker rooms, however, as well as the crypt held, so that there were no deaths here during the bombing. Five years later it was destroyed by incendiary and high-explosive bombs in World War II. Reconstruction began in 1945 and lasted two years. In the meantime, the masses were held in the still intact crypt .
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Reconstruction after the war
Reconstruction began in 1945 with the submission of the plans for the newly built church . These plans came from the architects Benteler and Woermann, who had also directed the first construction of the church. The building was made winter-proof. After the topping-out ceremony in November 1945, however, work was stopped on the orders of the British military government , as material and manpower were needed to restore apartments.
In 1947 the roof was restored, the windows repaired and the youth home in the new, now higher tower was inaugurated. In February 1949, the resolution announced the previous year was implemented and the rectorate parish was declared an independent parish Trinity, Franz Rensing became its first pastor.
The liturgical reform enacted by Vatican II was also implemented in this church in several steps . The final step was the renovation of the choir in 1979. The altar was brought into the congregation from its previously strongly elevated position, so that it surrounded it on 3 sides. The design was largely carried out by Werner-Jakob Korsmeier , who had previously created important individual works for the church.
organ
The organ of the Dreifaltigkeitskirche was built in 1952 by the organ building company Klingenhegel (Osnabrück). Planned was the instrument of 36 registers on three manuals and pedal . Only 14 registers were built on two manuals ( main movement and non-swellable swell movement ) and pedal. In 1962 a new free-standing console was built by the Kreienbrink company (Osnabrück). The instrument had electro-pneumatic action . The whereabouts after the profanation is unknown.
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- Coupling: II / I, I / P, II / P
- Playing aids: two free combinations, two pedal combinations, tutti, roller
Polish community of Munster
From 1963 until the church was profaned on November 7, 2010, the Polish parish of Münster also held its services in the crypt.
In 1948 the Allies set up an assembly camp in Münster for forced laborers and prisoners of war from Poland, where they were supposed to wait and be prepared for their return to their homeland. The political situation in the Eastern Bloc countries made it impossible for many to return home, and those who could not go to third countries had to prepare for permanent residence in Germany. One step towards this was the formation of our own Polish congregation, which offered a home with regular church services in the Polish language, pastoral care and daily help. The congregation stuck to this tradition for two services each week after a church in Münster was made available to it.
Merger and closure
In 2001 the Trinity Congregation was merged into one congregation with St. Bonifatius and Holy Cross . While the Kreuzkirche became the parish church of the new parish, the Bonifatiuskirche was closed in 2005 and converted into a publishing house for the ecclesiastical Dialog Verlag. Church services were celebrated in the Trinity Church until 2007, when the roof was declared in danger of collapsing. The sub-community moved again into the crypt. In November 2010, the church - including the crypt - was profaned and closed under canon law during a service under the direction of Bishop Felix Genn . The property including the church was sold to the housing company of the city of Münster, Wohn + Stadtbau. This has built social housing in the building for over 60-year-old homeless people in need of care, offices and apartments in other buildings on the site.
literature
- The Trinity Church. From the garrison church to the community center. Pascal-Gymnasium, school year 2006/07, specialist work in the basic religion course. Munster 2007.
- Karl Hagemann: Münster - city of churches. Aschendorff, Münster Westphalia 1983, ISBN 3-402-05204-0 .
- Johannes Loy: Deficiency Management: Community Mergers in Münster. In: Westf. News. October 28, 2010.
- Maria Meik: mourning the crypt. In: Westf. News. November 4, 2010.
- Oliver Koch: A church as a house for the homeless? In: Münstersche Nachrichten. June 9, 2010.
- Katharina Engelhardt: Assisted living in the church. In: Münstersche Zeitung. September 11, 2010.
- Daniel Gerber: Better to live in church. In: Day of the Lord . No. 22/2015 of May 31, 2015, p. 7
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Karl Hagemann: Münster - city of churches. Aschendorff, Münster Westfalen 1983, ISBN 3-402-05204-0 , pp. 21-22.
- ↑ More information about the organ ( Memento of the original from December 7th, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on orgelmagazin.de
- ↑ Kath. Kirchengemeinde Hl. Kreuz: History of the community.
- ↑ Flat share for elderly people in need of care: A home for the homeless . Spiegel Online from June 17, 2013.
- ↑ Gerd Felder: Model project: Retirement home for the homeless in a church in Münster: "In Paradise". In: www.katholisch.de. June 25, 2013, accessed July 26, 2020 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 58 ′ 28.4 " N , 7 ° 36 ′ 46.1" E