Sacred Heart Church (Bitterfeld)

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Sacred Heart Church

The Herz-Jesu-Kirche is a listed Roman Catholic church in Bitterfeld-Wolfen in Saxony-Anhalt .

The church belongs to the parish of the Holy Family Bitterfeld of the diocese of Magdeburg .

location

It is located in the city center of Bitterfeld at the address Röhrenstraße 2 on the northwest side of Röhrenstraße directly at the confluence with Binnengärtenstraße.

Architecture and history

The three-aisled basilica was built in 1896 in neo-Gothic style as a brick building. On the east side there is a choir with a five-sided end. It is spanned by a groin vault. The windows of the church are lancet-shaped. Buttresses are arranged between them .

In 1928, a 58-meter-high bell tower was built southwest of the ship. It was created based on designs by Johannes Reuter (senior) and was torn down in 1991 and replaced with clinker- reinforced concrete .

It is very likely that the design for the church came from the Paderborn cathedral and diocesan architect Arnold Güldenpfennig , to whom numerous Catholic churches in Saxony-Anhalt are attributed, as he held this office for 50 years. The main reason for the assignment to Güldenpfennig's work is the identical construction with the Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary in Hettstedt, which can be proven from Güldenpfennig . Güldenpfennig has built identical churches in different cities several times.

Inside the church there is an organ gallery in neo-Gothic style, apart from the choir and side windows designed by Christof Grüger in 1971 with industrial motifs, the furnishings are kept simple.

In the local register of monuments , the church is registered as a monument under registration number 094 95335 .

literature

  • Holger Brülls: Church building and ecclesiastical art of modernity in the Catholic diaspora. In: The St. Elisabeth Church in Mieste (Altmark) and its windows by Lorenz Humburg (= meeting point monument; 4), ed. from the Landesheimatbund Sachsen-Anhalt, Halle 2018, p. 40.
  • Sabine Oszmer: Monument Directory Saxony-Anhalt, Volume 13, Bitterfeld District , Michael Imhof Verlag Petersberg, ISBN 3-937251-53-7 , page 56.

Web links

Commons : Herz-Jesu-Kirche  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Brülls, p. 40.
  2. ^ Martin Beitz: Arnold Güldenpfennig - a forgotten church builder? , in: Sachsen-Anhalt-Journal 28 (2018), no. 2, pp. 12-14. A historical view of the church in Bitterfeld without a tower is z. B. at Zegler's postcard album .
  3. ↑ Short question and answer Olaf Meister (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Prof. Dr. Claudia Dalbert (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Ministry of Culture March 19, 2015 Printed matter 6/3905 (KA 6/8670) List of monuments Saxony-Anhalt , page 37

Coordinates: 51 ° 37 ′ 20.2 "  N , 12 ° 19 ′ 38.3"  E