Holy Family (Düsseldorf-Stockum)
Holy Family is the name of a Roman Catholic Church in Dusseldorf-Stockum and also the name of the Catholic parish of Holy Family , with more than 13,000 parishioners in the Düsseldorf districts Golzheim , Lichtenbroich , Lohausen , Stockum and Unterrath .
Church building
The towerless church building is modern with a basic construction made of concrete. The facade consists largely of red brick and glass blocks in partitions made of exposed concrete. In the pillarless, light-flooded interior, the congregation gathers in a semicircle around the altar, the closed east wall in brick counterpoints and invites you to pause for contemplation.
The Holy Family was built between 1960 and 1962 according to plans by the architect Hans Schwippert , who lives in the community . In the years 2002 to 2003, the sanctuary was redesigned by Gisbert Dahmen-Wassenberg in a post-conciliar manner with the floating tabernacle , which is clamped between the floor and the ceiling with steel cables and is intended to symbolize the mediation of the holy of holies between man and God.
The altar cross is by Kurt Schwippert , the Way of the Cross by Fritz Peretti . In 1985 the character of the interior was changed by new colored church windows by Hubert Spierling in the style of the time, the new organ by Franz Breil , installed in 1981, corresponds to the musical ambitions of the parish. The parish center was built on the eastern end wall from 1978–1979, also in a semicircular construction, but only on a single storey. The architects Rolf Bähr and Karl Heinz Gansfort were responsible for this expansion and also for the new organ prospect.
The previous building of the church from 1934 stood west of the current building. From 1962 to 1989 it served the Greek Orthodox community of St. Andreas (since then in Reisholz ) and was demolished in 1991.
Parish Holy Family
Parish
The barren and sandy area of Golzheimer Heide and Heinefeld around today's church was not settled until 1923, when the poor, unemployed, “gypsies” and “wild” people who were thrown off the rails settled on this former military site. The Roman Catholic parish has its origins in an old barracks which had housed a kindergarten since 1930 and which from 1931 also served as a provisional church service room for the almost 1,000 Catholics in the area. In 1934, chaplain Matthias Beckers from the neighboring parish of St. Bruno became rector of the current rectorate of Golzheimer Heide , which in 1940 became the independent rectorate parish of the Holy Family.
Immediately after the end of the war in 1945, Matthias Beckers, harassed by the National Socialists, was appointed rectorate pastor and, when he was raised to a canonical parish in 1951, became the first pastor of the community. His successor was Friedhelm Keuser from 1976 to 2014.
Large parish since 1999/2011
The Catholic parish of the Holy Family has existed in its current form since a merger in 2011. According to the pastoral reform directive of the Archdiocese of Cologne , the parishes in Düsseldorf-Lohausen and -Golzheim were merged into the Holy Family in 1999 , and on January 1, 2011 the parishes in Düsseldorf-Unterrath and -Lichtenbroich . Parish church is the Holy Family Church in Stockum. The current church next to it also includes the five churches of the former parishes of St. Albert the Great , St. Bruno , St. Mary Queen , St. Mary beneath the Cross and St. Assumption . The first pastor until 2014 was Monsignor Friedhelm Keuser. On March 1, 2015, Markus Wasserfuhr (* 1965 in Wipperfürth ) was appointed parish priest.
Literature and source
- Manfred Becker-Huberti (Ed.): Düsseldorf churches. The Catholic churches in the city dean of Düsseldorf. JP Bachem Verlag , Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-7616-2219-3 , p. 50/51.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 15 ′ 51.5 " N , 6 ° 45 ′ 38.8" E