Holy Cross (Füchtenfeld)

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Holy Cross in the weeks before the demolition

The Heilig Kreuz church was the Roman Catholic church in the Füchtenfeld district of the Wietmarschen community in the Grafschaft Bentheim district in Lower Saxony . It was a branch church of the Wietmarschen pilgrimage church .

history

After the Second World War, religious celebrations took place for the many refugees and displaced persons in a barrack that had belonged to Emslandlager 13. Evangelical and Catholic Christians alternated their services in the temporary church building. With great commitment from the community of Wietmarschen, the Diocese of Osnabrück and the Bonifatiuswerk of the Catholics, the Heilig Kreuz church was built on Potsdamer Strasse in 1966. It was only to last for 44 years. After the participation in the masses had steadily decreased over the years, the church was de-dedicated in June 2010 and demolished in October 2010.

Cross and bell

The large cross of the church remained in Wietmarschen. It was set up with appropriate protection at the St. John's day-care center. The bell came back to the pilgrimage church in 2014. It was made in 1819 as an angelus bell for the Wietmarsch church. After the Second World War she was sent to the refugee camp in Füchtenfeld. First she was in the barrack church. Then the bell, only 50 cm high, rang from a wooden bell tower next to the newly built Catholic church, and finally in the bell tower of the new church. After the church was demolished, it was first stored in a museum before it was given its old purpose in the tower of the pilgrimage church.

literature

  • Clemens Honnigfort: Wietmarschen. Monastery, monastery and village. Published by the Heimatverein Wietmarschen, Bad Bentheim 1994, p. 89 u. 339.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Church only existed for 44 years in the Osnabrücker Zeitung , accessed on February 17, 2017
  2. ^ Cross in Füchtenfeld is now on Fürstenring , Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung, May 10, 2011, accessed on January 31, 2017
  3. ↑ Glocke returns to Wietmarschen , Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung, April 22, 2014

Coordinates: 52 ° 33 '35.9 "  N , 7 ° 7' 14.8"  E