Herz-Jesu-Kirche (Bockum-Hövel)

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Bockum-Hövel, Herz-Jesu-Kirche

The Herz-Jesu-Kirche in Bockum is a Roman Catholic branch church . The once independent Sacred Heart Congregation is now part of the Heilig-Geist congregation . The sacred building has been on the city of Hamm's list of monuments since 2006 . On January 15, 2019, the church interior and sacristy were completely smoky or sooty due to a smoldering fire. The church has been closed since then. The diocese of Münster informed the parish on November 21, 2019 that it would be desecrated.

history

The construction of the church became necessary when the population in the communities of Bockum and Hövel, especially in their shared colony of Radbod, rose rapidly at the beginning of the First World War . The St. Stephen's Church in Bockum (similar to the St. Pankratius Church in Hövel) could hardly accommodate the people who went to church on Sundays. Under pastor Bernhard Weckendorf (1901–1920) a second Bockum church in the middle of the colliery colony had been thought of. But the plan only became concrete after the First World War. The upper Hammer Strasse at the western end of the colony, where a business center had been established, was chosen as the location for the new church. The parish of St. Stephanus acquired the land from the parish of Bockum in exchange for parish land.

Church planting and church building

In 1924, a church building association was founded under the chairmanship of the new Bockumer vicar Johannes Wellekötter . In 1925 a collection in the diocese of Münster yielded a total of 20,000 Reichsmarks. At the same time, the province of Westphalia approved a house collection so that five Bockumers could travel through Westphalia to raise money for the church building. Vicar Wellekötter collected in more than ten parishes of the diocese of Münster.

The foundation stone of the new church was laid on June 26, 1927. The walled-in document reads: "This house of worship will be built for around 3000 Catholics from the part of the Radbod miners' settlement belonging to the Catholic parish of Bockum ..." They came mainly from Upper Franconia, Silesia and Poland. The Herz-Jesu-Kirche was the second Catholic church in Bockum - at the same time as the Christ the King Church on Eichstedtstraße in Hövel. Built according to the plans of the diocesan master builder Wilhelm Sunder-Plassmann , it was consecrated on May 2, 1928 by the Bishop of Münster, Johannes Poggenburg . The "Rectorate Herz-Jesu" of the St. Stephen congregation was brought into being. Vicar Wellekötter became the parish rector.

In autumn 1928, the church received three bells with an electric bell system for 9,100 Reichsmarks. A small organ from the Breil workshop in Dorsten was set up on the gallery behind an oversized display for three years. It was to be replaced by a handsome organ from the same company. But it was not until 1956 that the congregation received an instrument suitable for the sacred space: an organ that was built in 1930 by Paul Faust from Schwelm for the Protestant church in Unna-Massen. It has two manuals and 17 registers with additional "upper couplings". Partly hidden by the organ stage, there is a picture of St. Radbod , an archbishop of Trier in the 9th century , in a tower window . The Radbod colliery is said to be named after him. However, this is controversial: Above all, the Frisian Duke Radbod , an ancestor of the archbishop, is named as the namesake.

A spacious parsonage was added to the church in 1927/28, from which the rector and chaplain had direct access to the church's choir. On the opposite side the door led into the sacristy. The first new priest to come from the Sacred Heart Congregation was Heinrich Portmann (1905–1961) in 1931 . In 1938 he became the episcopal chaplain of the Bishop of Münster, Clemens August Graf von Galen . In 1946 he accompanied the bishop to Rome when he was appointed cardinal . On this occasion, Portmann became papal treasurer of honor .

On the edge of the building site intended for the planned church, there was a school barrack in 1926, which the Bockum community no longer needed and which was sold to the St. Stephanus community for 10,000 Reichsmarks. After a renovation, two sisters from the Catholic order of the “Sisters of the Christian Schools of Mercy” in Heiligenstadt (Eichsfeld), the so-called Heiligenstadt School Sisters , moved in there in 1927 . They belonged to the Marienstift of the St. Stephen parish. In 1928 a third sister was added. In addition to the nurses' apartment, a meeting room, a workshop with a handicraft school and above all a kindergarten , known as a child custody school , were built in the barracks .

On November 1, 1938, the rectorate congregation Herz-Jesu was raised to a rectorate congregation "with its own asset management" against opposition from the St. Stephen congregation of the diocese of Münster . On June 1, 1939, it became an independent parish, independent of the St. Stephen's Parish . Rector Wellekötter became its first pastor. In 1943 he left the Sacred Heart Congregation and returned to the St. Stephen's Congregation as a pastor. His successor was Clemens Hörster, who in 1954 was appointed the first dean of the Drensteinfurt deanery and a little later, mainly because of his services to the Catholic workers' movement (KAB), he was appointed " Provost hc".

Consequences of war

On September 26, 1944, during the Second World War , a bomb fell in the garden of the nurses house. The kindergarten's washrooms and toilets were completely destroyed by the explosion. 12 children who had not been picked up in the event of the full alarm were in the basement with the sisters; fortunately not in the collapsing air raid shelter , but in the anteroom. Dusty from soot and mortar, they could get outside. The workshop and kindergarten were unusable. Lessons in the kindergarten could only be maintained temporarily until the destroyed rooms were restored in 1947. In 1953, the now four sisters, who had also provided home nursing care in the community until after the Second World War , received their own sister house. Until 1976 they looked after the kindergarten, for which a sizable building was built in 1974/75. In 1977 the barracks were torn down so that behind the Sacred Heart Church a lawn area was created on which the congregation could hold their celebrations.

The church was also affected by the bomb explosion on September 26, 1944. The roof was damaged and several windows, including all six choir windows, cracked in two. In addition, all the large windows on the east side had cracked glasses. Three more bombing raids on Bockum-Hövel followed in October 1944. After the attacks, the Herz-Jesu-Kirche was "confiscated" by the NSDAP : the bomb victims were wrapped in sacks, taken to the church on horse carts and handcarts . There they were identified, placed in coffins and then taken to the cemetery. Those involved were appalled by the battered and maimed that lay in their blood. Traces of blood stains could be seen on the wooden floor of the church for years. During the war, the bells of the Herz-Jesu-Kirche were also confiscated and melted down for armament purposes. As early as December 1945, the new bells were ready to be picked up from the foundry in Gescher. They rang for the first time at Christmas.

Youth work

Immediately after the Second World War, the Sacred Heart Congregation received a youth home: During the war, soldiers installed their barracks next to a large anti-aircraft battery in the neighboring Stockum . It was no longer needed after the end of the war. Young people were able to "organize" it on their own initiative (bring it in) and set it up as "Michaelsburg" on the square behind the Jesu-Jesu Church. In 1959, the parish youth of the Herz-Jesu congregation called the monthly youth magazine “Die Pauke” into being, which expanded from the Herz-Jesu congregation to the three other three Catholic parishes of Bockum-Hövels. In 1965 the youth of the Sacred Heart Congregation were able to move into the new building of the youth home next to the also newly built chaplaincy.

Soon after the foundation of the Sacred Heart Congregation , the annual Epiphany was created: three “kings” and a star bearer - children and young people - went from house to house on Epiphany on January 6th. They sang a five-verse song that had apparently been composed and composed in their community. They raised money for "poor children in the world". Young people from the Radbod miners' settlement, who did not belong to the Herz-Jesu parish, competed, so to speak, in creating their own “three-wise-play” without a star, which they presented in shops and restaurants to collect for themselves and their working-class families . The Epiphany singing from Bockum-Radbod became a kind of folk culture. In the mid-1930s, the National Socialists banned the Sacred Heart Congregation. In 1946 it was able to be resumed. Epiphany singing has its origins in the 16th century, when poor Latin students were singing and begging for their school and board fees. Nowadays, the “Dreikönigssingen”, also known as the “Sternsinger”, which was launched nationwide in 1959, is the largest solidarity campaign by children for children worldwide.

Church furnishings and renovations

The entrance to the Herz-Jesu-Kirche faces Hammer Strasse. The forecourt has been redesigned several times since 1928. The visitor, who entered the brick building through the massive wooden door, was below the organ loft, the balustrades of which indicate the Art Nouveau style that was still cultivated in the 1920s. In the early days of the church, the visitor looked from there through the relatively small church into the chancel, which appeared massive due to its structure and painting. Above the high altar he saw a picture of the Sacred Heart and two statues of saints. This altar structure was removed in the 1930s and replaced by a large cross hanging on the wall.

To the right of the chancel you saw the Joseph altar carved in 1935, under which the Holy Sepulcher was opened during Holy Week . During the Christmas season, instead of the Joseph altar, there was a tall nativity scene in front of a colorfully painted, imaginative backdrop of the city of Bethlehem 2000 years ago. The nativity scene with the Field of the Shepherds of Bethlehem filled the entire space between the side altar and the first pew.

Around 1953 the interior of the sacred building was thoroughly renovated. The image of Christ blessing above the choir was painted over with a symbolic representation of the Seven Sacraments . Light now poured into the renovated room through the windows that had been damaged by the bomb explosion in September 1944, with the walls and capitals still showing elements of the 1920s. Some time later, the 14 mosaic pictures of the Way of the Cross made of natural stone, marble and clay stone were placed under the side windows. The artist Josef Dieckmann from Bockum-Hövel created it for his home church. After the Second Vatican Council in 1967, a “people's altar” was set up in the choir room as a temporary solution. The side altar on the left has been replaced by a statue of Mary by the internationally known artist Heinrich Gerhard Bücker from Beckum-Vellern, which is impressive in its simplicity .

Since the summer of 1981 the entire interior of the church, in particular the choir, has been redesigned in accordance with the liturgy constitution of the Second Vatican Council. The work was also necessary because the walls on the east side, which had been more severely affected by the bomb explosion in 1944, showed cracks. The high altar, on which the tabernacle from 1928 still stands, was set two steps lower, and the interior was divided up with color. The new celebration altar was created by the couple Gerhard and Barbara Rumpf from Neustadt / Pfalz. For the creative conception of the Protestant Christian Rumpf, the pelican was the decisive symbol that belongs in a Sacred Heart Church; the church fathers and then the Christian Middle Ages recognized the pelican - the bird that sheds its blood for its young - a symbol of Jesus of Nazareth and his bleeding heart on the cross. The result is the pelican with its wide spreading wings, on which the table of the additional celebration altar rests in the middle of the choir.

Like the pelican and the “table legs” of the celebration altar, the ambo is also made of bronze. Similar to the altar, it is decorated with birds. Striving upwards like a slender tree, it should remind us that from the “wood of the tree”, the cross, “life” came. There is a bird's nest in its branches, and snails, fish and mice can be seen in the roots. In the Middle Ages, the lizard looking towards the rising sun was a symbol of people who sought the “sun of justice”. The sculptor couple Rumpf also created the Easter candlestick and the font .

The altar and ambo were consecrated in 1986 by the Bishop of Münster, Reinhard Lettmann .

people

Pastor

  • Johannes Wellekötter (1939–1943; Parish Rector 1928–1939)
  • Clemens Hörster (1943–1967)
  • Norbert Brockhinke (1967–1987)
  • Leonard Rollnik (1987-2004)

Chaplains

  • Johannes Micklinghoff (1931–1934)
  • Hermann Erdbürger (1934–1937)
  • Franz Kötters (1937–1943)
  • Ernst Hüttermann (1945–1946)
  • Friedrich Hauke ​​(1946–1950)
  • Josef Remmersmann (1950–1952)
  • Alois Otremba (1952–1955)
  • Bruno Schischke (1956–1958)
  • Eduard Schotte (1958–1964)
  • Bernhard Hüning (1964–1970)
  • Alfred Bünker (1970–1974)

literature

  • Günter Beaugrand, Friedrich Wilhelm Jerrentrup. Hans Gerd Nowoczin, Ilsemarie von Scheven, Claus Peter: Churches of modern times in Hamm. Westfälischer Anzeiger Verlagsgesellschaft, Hamm 2002, ISBN 3-924966-31-1 .
  • Peter Hertel : In front of our front door. A childhood in the Nazi state - experienced early, explored late, agenda Verlag, Münster 2018, ISBN 978-3-89688-596-8 .
  • Herz-Jesu-Kirche Bockum-Hövel (ed.): 50 years of the Herz-Jesu-Gemeinde Bockum-Hövel, 1928–1978, printed by Albert Löcke, Hamm-Bockum-Hövel, Hamm March 1978.
  • Heinrich Portmann and Clemens Hörster: The little while. 25 years of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Congregation Bockum Hövel, 1928–1953, printed by Albert Löcke, Bockum-Hövel 1953.
  • Leonard Rollnik, Magdalene Wehrenberg, Bernhard Kreienbaum, Meinolf Winzeler: Seeing - Judging - Acting. A reading book for the 75th anniversary of the parish church Herz Jesu zu Hamm-Bockum-Hövel, publisher: Pastor, parish council and church council Herz Jesu, print: Albert Löcke, Hamm, May 2003.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Heinrich Portmann: The foundation stone . In: Heinrich Portmann and Clemens Hörster: The little while. 25 years of the Herz-Jesu-Gemeinde Bockum Hövel . Print: Albert Löcke, Bockum-Hövel 1953, p. 14 .
  2. ↑ a b Heinrich Portmann: The second church. In: Heinrich Portmann and Clemens Hörster: The little while. 25 years of the Herz-Jesu-Gemeinde Boickum-Hövel . Print: Albert Löcke, Bockum-Hövel 1953, p. 13.
  3. ^ Heinrich Portmann: The second church . In: Heinrich Portmann and Clemens Hörster: The little while. 25 years of the Herz-Jesu-Gemeinde Bockum Hövel . Print: Albert Löcke, Bockum-Hövel 1953, p. 13 f .
  4. ^ Certificate of laying the foundation stone cited in: Heinrich Portmann: Der Grundstein. In: Heinrich Portmann and Clemens Hörster: The little while. 25 years of the Herz-Jesu-Gemeinde Bockum Hövel. Print: Albert Löcke, Bockum-Hövel 1953, p. 15 .
  5. ↑ Heinrich Portmann: The house of the Lord . In: Heinrich Portmann and Clemens Hörster: The little while. 25 years of the Herz-Jesu-Gemeinde Bockum Hövel . Print: Albert Löcke, Bockum-Hövel 1953, p. 19th f .
  6. ↑ Clemens Hörster: Timeline . In: Heinrich Portmann and Clemens Hörster: The little while. 25 years of the Herz-Jesu-Gemeinde Bockum Hövel . Print: Albert Löcke, Bockum-Hövel 1953, p. 62 .
  7. ↑ Gisbert Sander: Blind and Invisible . In: Leonard Rollnik, Magdalene Wehrenberg, Bernhard Kreienbaum, Meinolf Winzeler (eds.): See-judge-act. A reader for the 75th anniversary of the parish church Herz Jesu zu Hamm-Bockum-Hövel . Print: Albert Löcke, Hamm May 2003, p. 24 .
  8. ↑ Clemens Hörster: Overview of the development of the parish into a parish. In: Heinrich Portmann and Clemens Hörster, The Little While. 25 years of the Herz-Jesu-Gemeinde Bockum Hövel, 1928–1953 . Print: Albert Löcke, Bockum-Hövel 1953, p. 56 .
  9. ↑ a b c Clemens Hörster: Our sister house. In: Heinrich Portmann and Clemens Hörster: The little while. 25 years of the Herz-Jesu-Gemeinde Bockum Hövel, 1928–1953 . Print: Albert Löcke, Bockum-Hövel 1953, p. 48-50 .
  10. ↑ Clemens Hörster: Overview of the development of the parish into a parish. In: Heinrich Portmann and Clemens Hörster: The little while. 25 years of the Herz-Jesu-Gemeinde Bockum Hövel, 1928–1953 . Print: Albert Löcke, Bockum-Hövel 1953, p. 51 .
  11. ↑ Clemens Hörster: Overview of the development of the parish into a parish. In: Heinrich Portmann and Clemens Hörster: The little while. 25 years of the Herz-Jesu-Gemeinde Bockum Hövel, 1928–1953 . Print: Albert Löcke, Bockum-Hövel 1953, p. 52 f .
  12. ↑ Clemens Hörster: The victims of the war . In: Heinrich Portmann and Clemens Hörster: The little while. 25 years of the Herz-Jesu-Gemeinde Bockum Hövel, 1928–1953 . Print: Albert Löcke, Bockum-Hövel 1953, p. 60 f .
  13. ↑ Annette Jenner: A heart for children . In: Pastors, parish council and church council Herz Jesu (eds.): Leonard Rollnik, Magdalene Wehrenberg, Bernhard Kreienbaum, Meinolf Winzeler: See-Judge-Act. A reader for the 75th anniversary of the parish church Herz Jesu zu Hamm-Bockum-Hövel . Print: Albert Löcke, Hamm 2003, p. 68 .
  14. ↑ a b Peter Hertel: In front of our front door. A childhood in the Nazi state - experienced early, explored late . agenda-Verlag, Münster 2018, ISBN 978-3-89688-596-8 , p. 54 f .
  15. ↑ Herz-Jesu-Kirche Bockum-Hövel (ed.): The new bells are coming, in: 50 years Herz-Jesu-Gemeinde Bockum-Hövel, 1928–1978 . Print: Albert Löcke, Hamm-Bockum-Hövel, Hamm 1958, p. 31 .
  16. ↑ Herz-Jesu-Kirche Bockum-Hövel (ed.): From the Michaelsburg to the youth home, in: 50 years Herz-Jesu-Gemeinde Bockum-Hövel, 1928–1978 . Albert Löcke, Hamm-Bockum-Hövel, Hamm March 1978, p. 29 f .
  17. ↑ Peter Hertel: The four holy three kings . In: Pastor, parish council and church council Herz Jesu (eds.): Leonard Rollnik, Magdalene Wehrenberg, Bernhard Kreienbaum, Meinolf Winzeler: See - Judge - Act. A reader for the 75th anniversary of the parish church Herz Jesu zu Hamm-Bockum-Hövel . Print: Albert Löcke., Hamm May 2003, p. 40-42 .
  18. ↑ Norbert Brockhinke: What does the pelican have to do with the heart of Jesus? In: Pastors, parish council and church council Herz Jesu (eds.): Leonard Rollnik, Magdalene Wehrenberg, Bernhard Kreienbaum, Meinolf Winzeler: See-Judge-Act. A reader for the 75th anniversary of the parish church Herz Jesu zu Hamm-Bockum-Hövel . Print: Albert Löcke, Hamm May 2003, p. 22nd f .
  19. ^ Friedrich Wilhelm Jerrentrup: Catholic parish church Herz Jesu, in: Günter Beaugrand, Friedrich Wilhelm Jerrentrup. Hans Gerd Nowoczin, Ilsemarie von Scheven, Claus Peter: Churches of modern times in Hamm . Westfälischer Anzeiger Verlagsgesellschaft, Hamm 2002, ISBN 3-924966-31-1 , p. 94 .
  20. ↑ Norbert Brockhinke: What does the pelican have to do with the heart of Jesus? In: Pastor, parish council and church council Herz Jesu (eds.): Leonard Rollnik, Magdalene Wehrenberg, Bernhard Kreienbaum, Meinolf Winzeler: See - Judge - Act. A reader for the 75th anniversary of the parish church Herz Jesu zu Hamm-Bockum-Hövel . Print: Albert Löcke, Hamm May 2003, p. 23 .
  21. ↑ Clemens Hörster: Overview of the development of the parish into a parish. In: Heinrich Portmann and Clemens Hörster: The little while. 25 years of the Herz-Jesu-Gemeinde Bockum-Hövel, 1928-1953. Print: Albert Löcke, Bockum-Hövel 1953, pp. 52–54.

Coordinates: 51 ° 41 ′ 40 "  N , 7 ° 44 ′ 44"  E