Joseph the Worker Church (Breslau)
The Josef-der-Arbeiter-Kirche (Polish: Parafia rzymskokatolicka św. Józefa Rzemieślnika ) is a Roman Catholic parish church in Wroclaw .
history
The idea of building a church to relieve the parish church of St. Mauritius and to provide better pastoral care for the Catholics in the eastern suburb on Ofener Strasse goes back to 1916. The plot of land owned by the nursery owner Richard Senzky was considered, which should cost 80,000 marks . The acquisition was delayed by the death of the well-deserved Dome of Honor Wilhelm Velkel and the subsequent replacement of the parish of St. Mauritius. Archpriest Kobel was the first to acquire the property in 1917, which is about 1.6 km from St. Mauritius.
World War I and inflation delayed the beginning of the church building. It was not until 1928 that the church council was able to approach the project again. At that time a church building association was founded, which was chaired by the drugstore owner Bruno Sahm. A church service room was temporarily set up in the auditorium of the Ofener Strasse school.
Several years passed before the architect Freiherr von Ohlen was commissioned with a design in 1931. Because of the restricted location of the building site between a fire station on one side and a factory site on the other side, the latter planned the construction of two front buildings. Only behind this is the church in the form of a hexagon, each 8 m long. The apartment of the clergyman and the nuns as well as a kindergarten were housed in the front buildings.
In 1932 the construction of the church began, which Archpriest Paul Peikert , who took over the Mauritius parish on September 28, 1932, was able to complete without having any influence on the design. The solemn consecration took place by Cardinal Adolf Bertram on September 25, 1933.
The pastoral care of the community, which already had 3,200 souls, was taken over by Kuratus Walter Laßmann until 1947. The total construction costs amounted to around 155,000 Reichsmarks . The St. Josef branch parish remained in the parish of St. Mauritius until 1942. Alongside Brockau and Klein Tschansch, St. Josef is the third branch of the extensive parish of St. Mauritius, which in 1938 still had 15,000 souls.
On March 29, 1945, during the Battle of Breslau , the church and the buildings belonging to it were set on fire by members of the German Wehrmacht . The church, restored by Pastor Laßmann, was rededicated by Auxiliary Bishop Joseph Ferche on March 19, 1946.
literature
- Gerhard Scheuermann: Das Breslau-Lexikon, Volume 1. Laumann-Verlag, Dülmen 1994, ISBN 3-87466-157-1 , p. 695.
Individual evidence
- ^ Kurt Engelbert, Josef Engelbert: The Catholic Churches in Breslaus. 2nd edition, o. O. 1961.
- ↑ Website with historical building data ( Memento of the original from February 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 51 ° 5 ′ 39 " N , 17 ° 3 ′ 37" E