Sacred Heart Church (Thale)

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West side of the church
Interior of the church
Tower of the Sacred Heart Church

The Herz-Jesu-Kirche ( listen ? / I ) is the Roman Catholic church in the city of Thale in Saxony-Anhalt . Audio file / audio sample

architecture

The church building in today's Walther-Rathenau-Straße was built in 1910/11 according to a design by the Paderborn diocesan master builder Arnold Güldenpfennig . On June 10, 1913, the church was inaugurated by Bishop Karl Joseph Schulte from the diocese of Paderborn , to which Thale belonged at the time.

The church, based on the transitional style, has a church hall in the shape of a cross. The massive-looking church building near the Bode is oriented in a north-south direction. The building is plastered, but the architectural details, which are richly structured , have been emphasized by means of stone work .

The church tower is on the north side of the building. The main entrance to the church, which is designed as a stepped portal leading through a pointed arch, is also at its feet. Above the portal in the tympanum , Christ is depicted in the mandorla accompanied by angels. There is a wheel window above this . There are four small wichhouses on the roof of the church tower . The sound arcades at the bell chamber have three lanes.

In the south, the nave merges into a part of the building with a clover-leaf floor plan, a trikonchos .

Interior design

Inside the church is rather simple. The ceiling is designed as a ribbed vault. In the choir there are picture windows designed by the Ferdinand Müller company from Quedlinburg .

local community

The Herz Jesu congregation had belonged to the Quedlinburg - Hedersleben - Thale community association since 2006 , with St. Mathilde in Quedlinburg being responsible for the parish administration. Since 2010 the church has been a branch church of the parish of St. Mathilde in Quedlinburg. Pastor i. On April 1, 2012, R. Wolfgang Janotta (1935–2012) signed the city of Thale's Golden Book for his life's work. In 2016 around 450 Catholics belong to the catchment area of ​​the church.

See also

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Falko Grubitzsch: Monument Directory Saxony-Anhalt, Volume 7.2, Quedlinburg District , State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-86568-072-3 , page 237
  2. ↑ Obituary on the diocese's website , accessed on November 8, 2016.
  3. ↑ Sigrid Dillge: Special page in the Golden Book . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung . Thale April 1, 2012 ( mz-web.de [accessed June 24, 2018]).
  4. ^ Christoph Tretschok: Quedlinburg. Community in the Vorharz. In: Diaspora yearbook 2016/2017. Paderborn 2016, pp. 78–81.

Web links

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Coordinates: 51 ° 44 ′ 39.4 "  N , 11 ° 1 ′ 40.8"  E