Holy Cross (Dachau)

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The Church of the Holy Cross

The parish Heilig Kreuz is a parish and church in the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising . It is located in the Dachau-Ost district and is known as a (former) displaced community . Together with St. Peter Dachau it forms the Parish Association of Dachau - Holy Cross and St. Peter.

history

In 1945 the former concentration camp inmate Father Leonhard Roth stayed in the former concentration camp in order to provide pastoral care and missionary work to the SS members imprisoned there . Under his direction, the inmates built a camp church next to the “Jourhaus” of the camp, which was inaugurated in 1946. With the conversion of the site as a residential camp for expellees - mainly from the Sudetenland - Father Roth began to set up a parish. Since the camp church was only released for Germans by the US authorities from 1956, he set up a barrack church under the patronage of the Holy Cross . With the gradual relocation of the camp residents to the newly founded district of Dachau-Ost, the community also moved to a cinema on Sudetenlandstrasse. In 1964, today's church was built according to plans by the architect Friedrich Haindl and the two churches in the camp were demolished.

On April 12, 1964, the church was consecrated by Cardinal Julius Döpfner .

In December 2012 the parish association Dachau - Hl. Kreuz und St. Peter was founded, in which the two neighboring parishes were administratively combined.

organ

The organ

The organ was built in 1999 by Anton Staller . It has 27 registers on two manuals and a pedal . The disposition is:

I main work
Bourdon 16 ′
Principal 8th'
Reed flute 8th'
Octave 4 ′
Pointed flute 4 ′
Cornet III 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Super octave 2 ′
Mixture IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Trumpet 8th'
II swell
Covered 8th'
Salicional 8th'
Vox coelestis (from c) 8th'
Coupling flute 4 ′
Fugara 4 ′
Nasard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Flageolet 2 ′
third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Cymbel III 1'
oboe 8th'
Tremulant
pedal
Principal bass 16 ′
Sub-bass 16 ′
Octave bass 8th'
Flute bass 8th'
Chorale bass 4 ′ + 2 ′
Bombard 16 ′
Bass trumpet 8th'

Peal

The bells were cast by the Rudolf Perner company in Passau and consecrated on September 15, 1963.

No.
  		Surname
  		Mass
(kg) 		Chime
  		inscription
 
1 Cross bell 2100 c 1 “ There is salvation in the cross. "
2 Marienbell 1150 e 1 “ Mary, Redeemer of the Prisoners, pray for us! "
3 St. Joseph's Bell 700 g 1 " St. Joseph, patronus ecclesiae, ora pro nobis: Ut omnes unum sint. "
4th St. Hedwig's Bell 500 a 1 “ St. Hedwig, you great Duchess, unite our people and country in peace! "
5 St. Stephen's Bell 350 h 1 “ St. Stephan, you noble king, give us a happy homecoming! "

Pastoral care

The parish of Heilig Kreuz forms a parish association with the neighboring parish of St. Peter. The parish association leader is Pastor Heinrich Denk. He is supported by three community officers.

Web links

Commons : Heilig Kreuz (Dachau)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Camp churches on the site of today's concentration camp memorial, on kirchenundkapellen.de
  2. ^ One community - St. Cross and St. Peter, Dachauer Nachrichten of December 12, 2012
  3. ↑ Bavarian organ database online
  4. ↑ Anniversary newspaper 50 years of the parish church Hl. Kreuz Dachau , Parish Heilig Kreuz Dachau, 2014, pp. 22-23.

Coordinates: 48 ° 15 ′ 44.6 "  N , 11 ° 27 ′ 51.1"  E