Herz-Jesu-Kirche (Stettin)
| Sacred Heart Church in Szczecin (Kościół Najświętszego Serca Pana Jezusa w Szczecinie) |
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 Former garrison church and today's Herz-Jesu-Kirche in Stettin in 2012 |
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| Construction year: | 1913 to 1919 |
| Builder : | Building officer Bernhard Stahl |
| Style elements : | Hall church , reinforced concrete construction , neo-baroque and neo-romanesque elements |
| Location: | 53 ° 25 '34 " N , 14 ° 32' 49" E |
| Address: | ul. św. Wojciecha Stettin West Pomerania , Poland |
| Purpose: | Roman Catholic Parish Church |
| Parish: | Parafia Najświętszego Serca Pana Jezusa, ul.Bogurodzicy 3 70-400 Szczecin |
| Diocese : | Archdiocese of Stettin-Cammin |
| Website: | www.nspj.szczecin.pl |
The Herz-Jesu-Kirche in Stettin ( Polish: Kościół Najświętszego Serca Pana Jezusa w Szczecinie ) was the first church in Germany to be built in steel fiber concrete between 1913 and 1919 . It was a Protestant garrison church until 1945 . It has been a Catholic parish church since 1945, dedicated to the veneration of the Sacred Heart of Jesus .
Geographical location
The Herz-Jesu-Kirche is located in the western old town of Szczecin on ulica św. Wojciecha (until 1945: Karkutschstraße) in the immediate vicinity of the Bugenhagen Church, which was built seven years earlier (today in Polish: Kościół Garnizonowy pw. Św. Wojciecha ). Today's plac Gen. to the north of the church. W. Andersa was a military cemetery until 1945.
history
German Protestant garrison church until 1945
The Szczecin City Planning Officer Adolf Stahl created a modern reform architecture with the first public building made of reinforced concrete in what was then Germany. The forms were also influenced by the Romanesque and Baroque periods. The garrison church (today Pauluskirche) in Ulm served as a model for the design.
On October 13, 1913, Prince Eitel Friedrich laid the foundation stone for a garrison church on behalf of Kaiser Wilhelm II . Characteristic of the Garrison Church in Szczecin is its distinctive high and wide tower with a green copper roof, which is still visible from afar . The tower gives the square hall church a special touch, the windows of which are not too high in the outer walls due to the sloping roof. However, this does not give the interior the required brightness. The choir gable wall does not fit seamlessly into the building.
The entrance to the church is through a large anteroom, which is given by the wide tower. In the interior, the gaze is directed towards the choir and its altar - made of ebony until 1945 and decorated with a high cross. An annex to the choir created a space for the sacristy and for events.
Because of the First World War , the garrison church could only be completed in the summer of 1919 and inaugurated with a first service in late summer. It was held by the then incumbent military chaplain, the Secret Consistorial Councilor Caesar.
In the following years the church was expanded further. So the chairs were replaced by rows of benches to make the room more like a sermon church . A new stone pulpit was more in keeping with the interior. On this pulpit was a relief that showed an eagle. Underneath was the slogan “ Nec soli cedit ” (It doesn't even give way to the sun ). What was meant was, unmistakably, the eagle as the heraldic animal of Prussia .
In the summer of 1936 the church received a new painting, which replaced the previously monotonous gray. The nave and the chancel were given the colors reddish brown and gold, and on the rear wall of the altar was written in gold “ God is love ”. In addition, the Lord's Supper elements "bread" and "wine" decorated the room in sophisticated pictures. The vaulted ceiling was kept in a light blue color to make the nave appear open towards the top.
Field Marshal August von Mackensen was one of the regular worshipers at the Garrison Church . He donated the altar Bible to the church.
An organ was installed on the large gallery above the entrance with enough space for the participation of choirs. The purchase of bells, however, could not be realized before 1945.
The first clergyman at the garrison church was parish priest Franz Dohrmann , who served here for 14 years. In 1934, President Paul von Hindenburg appointed him Protestant field bishop . In the same year he gave the funeral sermon for the deceased Reich President.
Most recently, Wehrmacht pastor Gerhard Plathow worked at the church. He was also deputy parish priest in military district II in the ecclesiastical province of Pomerania and adjacent areas of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union .
Polish Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus after 1945
The church remained almost undamaged in World War II . In May it was transferred by the Polish authorities to the Catholic Church in Poland . On June 29, 1945, she was ordained as a Catholic church and the patron saint of the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus transferred. Since then it no longer functions as a garrison church (this task has now been given to the nearby Kościół św. Wojciecha , the former "Bugenhagenkirche"), but as a parish church of the parish of the same name " Parafia Najświętszego Serca Pana Jezusa ". It is located at ulica Bogurodzicy (until 1945 Greifenstrasse ) No. 3 and belongs to the Deanery of Stettin -Inner City (Szczecin-Śródmieście) within the Archdiocese of Stettin-Cammin . The Herz-Jesu-Kirche is the main church of the deanery.
In the years after 1945 numerous changes were made, especially inside the church, in order to adapt it to the Catholic liturgical conditions. In 1986 the church finally got a ring consisting of four bells.
literature
- Hellmuth Heyden : Church history of Pomerania , 2 vol., Cologne-Braunsfeld, 1957.
- Hans Glaeser-Swantow: The Evangelical Pomerania , Part II: Authorities, churches, parish offices, clergy, institutions and associations , Stettin, 1940.
- Dietrich Peitz: The new garrison church on Hohenzollernplatz , in: Stettiner Bürgerbrief 1992, reprint in: Die Pommersche Zeitung, episode 43/13 - October 26, 2013, page 4.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Arvid Hansmann: Transformations in Stettiner Church Building . Ludwig, Kiel 2015. pp. 219-240 (dissertation) table of contents , assigns a national rank to the building
- ^ Szczecin Architektur Szczecin, 6th paragraph, recognizes the architectural importance of the building