Holy Family (Vetschau)
The Holy Family Church is the Catholic Church in the city of Vetschau / Spreewald .
The church building was built in 1897. Before that, after the Reformation , the Catholics who immigrated to Vetschau, mainly from Silesia, were looked after by the Neuzelle monastery and later by the parish in Cottbus . The Vetschauer Catholics and above all the farmer and local researcher Alexander von Rabenau got involved in the construction of their own church at the end of the 19th century. The building then finally took place on the outskirts of Vetschau by the master mason Weßlau . The new church became a branch church of Cottbus. In 1948 the church received its own pastor and the status of a parish curate . In 1968, following the guidelines of the Second Vatican Council , major renovations followed. In 1971 a bell tower was built next to the church. A rectory and community center was added in 1973. In May 1981 a Corpus Christi altar was built next to the church. On October 19, 1982, the congregation received a carved Virgin Mary figure, a replica of the medieval Augsburg Virgin Mary figure, as a gift from the Diocese of Speyer .
In 1992 the Vetschau community was merged with that of the city of Calau to form a pastoral care unit. Both shared a pastor. In 1996 the church was renovated in preparation for the church's 100th anniversary. The Vetschauer Parish Curatia was dissolved in 2006 and the Holy Family parish was formed together with Saint Boniface in Calau and Saint Maria Annunciation in Lübbenau / Spreewald .
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Coordinates: 51 ° 47 ′ 29.8 " N , 14 ° 4 ′ 19.5" E