Holy Family (Rösrath-Kleineichen)
The Catholic Church of the Holy Family is located in the Kleineichen district of Rösrath .
prehistory
After the Second World War, there was a wooden barrack on Bismarckstrasse in which services were held from 1946 to 1952. A small bell in the attached tower called the believers to Holy Mass. The Protestant Christians were allowed to use the emergency church.
Building history
The foundation stone for the Holy Family Church was laid on September 18, 1951. The inauguration of the new church took place on July 6, 1952. The architect was Philipp Franzen. The bell tower is a makeshift. Originally it was supposed to be 19 meters high. In the 6 meter high tower hangs a bell weighing 11 quintals, which sounds with the tone "g". An inscription indicates that it was cast on May 10, 1652 by Hans Krantz from Troppau .
Under canon law, the church was a rectorate church until June 30, 2007 . The church registers of the rectorate were closed and all other files were transferred to the parish of St. Nikolaus von Tolentino in Rösrath. Since then, all pastoral rights and duties lie with the responsible pastor of St. Nicholas of Tolentino .
Denominational help
As with the emergency church in Bismarckstrasse, the Catholic Christians granted their Protestant fellow Christians the right of hospitality in the Rectorate Church. It was not until 1964 that the Protestant Christians received their own cruciform church .
Web links
literature
- Georg Geist: The Kleineichen churches . In: Kleineichen - A forest settlement is 50 years old , ed. from the history association for the community of Rösrath und Umgebung eV, Rösrath 1984, pp. 16–31, ISBN 3-922413-18-8
- Document No. 187 on the dissolution of the dependent rectorate Holy Family, Rösrath (Kleineichen) in the deanery Overath, pastoral care area Rösrath, published in the official gazette of the Archdiocese of Cologne on September 1, 2007, p. 189
Coordinates: 50 ° 54 ′ 28 " N , 7 ° 9 ′ 14" E