List of sacred buildings in Grefrath

The list of sacred buildings in Grefrath lists current and former sacred buildings in the North Rhine-Westphalian community of Grefrath . In addition, meeting houses and rooms (etc.) of religious communities from Grefrath as well as mourning halls in cemeteries are listed here, which are not sacred buildings in the narrower sense.

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Grefrath

Illustration	Affiliation	Name / designation	Location	Coordinates	construction time	description
	Roman Catholic community	St. Laurence	Deversdonk 1, 47929 Grefrath		10th century, 1200, 15th century	→ Main article : St. Laurentius (Grefrath) As early as 977 there was a small wooden church at this point , which burned down several times and was rebuilt. Around the year 1200 a three-aisled Romanesque basilica was built here, which was converted into the current ( Gothic ) church in the 15th century . The tower from the Romanesque period was preserved. Between 1962 and 1963 the interior was renovated.
	Evangelical regional church community	Friedenskirche	At the Evangelical Church 23, 47929 Grefrath		1957 to 1958	Since many Protestant refugees had settled in Grefrath after the Second World War , two Protestant churches were built in Grefrath and Oedt in 1957 and 1958, and the care was provided by the Protestant parish in Kempen . The Friedenskirche was built according to plans by Karl Sander . In 1961 an own parish was founded, which despite the high number of parish members (less than 3,000) is a diaspora parish of the Evangelical parish of Süchteln .
	Free evangelical community	Christ Centrum Kempen				→ Main article : List of sacred buildings in Kempen # Christ Centrum Kempen Church services of the Christ Centrum Kempen also take place regularly in a house group in Grefrath.
	Federation of Free Church Pentecostal Congregations	Christengemeinde Krefeld e. V.				→ Main article : List of sacred buildings in Kempen # Evangeliumshaus Church services of the Christengemeinde Krefeld e. V. also take place regularly in a house group in Grefrath.
	Mourning hall	Schaphauser Strasse cemetery chapel	Schaphauser Strasse 56, 47929 Grefrath		1963

Mulhouse

Illustration	Affiliation	church	Location	Coordinates	construction time	description
	Roman Catholic community	St. Heinrich	Hauptstrasse 84, 47929 Grefrath		1900	The catholic church, originally built in the neo-Gothic style, has glass paintings by Heinrich Dieckmann (1890–1963). On the forecourt is a bronze sculpture depicting a miller with his donkey. The building of the former elementary school, built in 1953, and the Sankt Heinrich kindergarten, which was established in 1975, belong to the Catholic Church.
	Cemetery Chapel (Roman Catholic Church)	St. Heinrich cemetery chapel	Grasheider Strasse, 47929 Grefrath
	Congregation of Papal Law	Congregation of the Sisters of Notre Dame	Hauptstrasse 87, 47929 Grefrath		1888	In 1888 the congregation of the Sisters of Notre Dame, founded in the 1850s, who had emigrated to North America as a result of the Kulturkampf in Prussia in 1874 , built the new motherhouse in Mulhouse after their return . Starting with the first building purchased, the “Villa Bongartz”, an extensive building complex with a monastery , school for women , girls' boarding school and rest home “Haus Salus” was created. In 1941 the Secret State Police confiscated the mother house and drove the sisters away. After the end of the war, Mulhouse became the center of the order again, the congregation expanded rapidly, also in other European countries and overseas . In 1947 the motherhouse with the generalate was relocated to Rome , Mulhouse initially existed as a German, and after the founding of the provinces of Coesfeld and Vechta as a Rhenish province. In 2008 the three German provinces were merged into a single one with headquarters in Coesfeld.
	Benedictine convent	Mariendonk Abbey	Niederfeld 11, 47929 Grefrath		1900	→ Main article : Mariendonk Abbey After (almost) all the monasteries in Prussia were dissolved at the end of the 19th century , many dissolved communities were re-established in the Netherlands , including the Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration from the Bonn - Endenich monastery , who moved to Driebergen near Utrecht , the community grew fast. After the end of the Kulturkampf , the nuns there learned that Johanna Stieger (1848–1904) was ready to give them a piece of land and a certain sum of money to build a monastery near Kempen. On October 23, 1900, the new prioress , mother Ursula Kleberg, came and built a monastery for the Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration with 22 sisters from Driebergen under the patronage of St. Mary . During the Second World War , the monastery was not closed as the nuns did sewing and embroidery work for the military. On March 24, 1948, the conversion from a monastery of Perpetual Adoration to an abbey was completed.

Oedt

Illustration	Religious community / type	Name / designation	Location	Coordinates	construction time	description
	Roman Catholic community	St. Vitus	Kirchplatz 16, 47929 Grefrath		1170, 1901 to 1903	In 1170 is in Oedt first time a Catholic church named "St. Vitus ”documented. In the years 1901-1903 a three-nave was at the same place neo-Gothic brick - pseudo basilica with transept built, the grand opening was celebrated on August 9, 1903rd In 1910, construction work began on the 70 meter high church tower, and it was completed after two years of construction.
	Cemetery Chapel (Roman Catholic Church)	St. Vitus cemetery chapel	Bergweg 2, 47929 Grefrath
	Evangelical regional church community	Church of Reconciliation	Bergweg 2, 47929 Grefrath		1957 to 1958	Since many Protestant refugees had also settled in Oedt after the Second World War , two Protestant churches were built in Grefrath and Oedt in 1957 and 1958, and the care was provided by the Protestant parish of Kempen . In 1961 a separate parish was founded for Grefrath, which despite the high number of parish members (less than 3,000) is a diaspora parish of the Evangelical parish of Süchteln .

Vinkrath

Illustration	Religious community / type	Name / designation	Location	Coordinates	construction time	description
	Roman Catholic community	St. Joseph	Dorfstrasse 8, 47929 Grefrath		1902 to 1903	→ Main article : Vinkrath # Josefskirche In between 1902 and 1903 in Vinkrath a brick basilica in neo-Romanesque style with the name "St. Josef ”, it was consecrated on August 9, 1903 by Auxiliary Bishop Maximilian Gereon von Galen . In the years 1953 and around 1987 to 1988, extensive renovations of the church took place.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ St. Laurentius in st-benedikt-grefrath.de
2. ^ Georg Mörsch: Monuments and preservation of monuments . In: The district of Viersen on the Lower Rhine . Stuttgart and Ahlen 1978, p. 152
3. ↑ Community history in ekir-grefrath.de
4. ↑ The Schaphauser Straße: The last way for many Grefrather in wz.de
5. ↑ St. Heinrich in st-benedikt-grefrath.de
6. ↑ Illustrations , 20th Century Glass Painting Foundation Foundation
7. ↑ St. Heinrich cemetery in st-benedikt-grefrath.de
8. ^ History of the Mulhouse Monastery
9. ↑ St. Vitus in st-benedikt-grefrath.de
10. ↑ St. Vitus, the cathedral on the Niers in rp-online.de
11. ↑ St. Vitus cemetery in st-benedikt-grefrath.de
12. ↑ Community history in ekir-grefrath.de
13. ↑ St. Josef in st-benedikt-grefrath.de

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