Assumption of Mary (Güstrow)
The Catholic parish church of the Assumption of Mary is an expressionist hall church in Güstrow in the Rostock district in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . It belongs to the parish of the Assumption of Mary in the regional dean of Mecklenburg of the Archdiocese of Hamburg .
history
After 1885, regular Catholic services were celebrated in Güstrow for the first time since the Reformation , initially in a room of the old cathedral school in Güstrow . After 1891, catholic services were celebrated twice a month in a hall of the school at Heiliggeisthof. During the First World War, numerous Catholic prisoners of war came to Güstrow, which resulted in the need for larger rooms. After 1919, service was celebrated for the first time in an emergency church on Grünen Strasse. As early as the mid-1920s it became clear that this emergency church was inadequate. Plans for a new building had existed since 1914, but could not be realized during the war. It was not until 1928 that planning for the church on the property on Grünen Straße Güstrow began. After a design by Paul Korff from Laage was available, the foundation stone was laid on May 5, 1929. After only eight months of construction, the consecration was carried out on August 25, 1929 by Bishop Wilhelm Berning from Osnabrück.
Architecture and equipment
The building is a hall church with a high, unclad Zollinger roof over the nave and a retracted, flat-roofed choir with a rectangular end. The external view of the hall church from the Grünen Straße is characterized by the brick gable wall with a parabolic window above the simple portal. Inside, the impressive lighting is achieved through this window and the slit windows on the side in the choir. The low, pointed roof structure, together with the parabolic choir arch and the five slender struts in the windowless choir wall, characterize the interior.
A bronze sculpture of the Assumption of Mary by the Osnabrück sculptor Ludwig Nolde (1888–1958) is attached to the outside of the facade .
Inside the very simple high altar is made of artificial stone. On both sides of the choir on the arch of the choir are the brick altars in honor of St. Mary and St. Joseph, also with sculptures by Ludwig Nolde. The original pulpit is also made of brick. Later, the baptismal font made of Belgian marble with the wooden sculpture of John the Baptist was added, as well as the sculpture of St. Conrad of Parzham and St. Anthony of Padua on the right pillar, both of which were created by Paul Dierkes .
In 1969, in accordance with the requirements of the Second Vatican Council, the Altarmensa was moved further forward from its elevated position on the rear wall of the altar. After a harmonium and an electronic organ were initially used as musical instruments, an organ with 16 registers on two manuals and a pedal was installed by Gerhard Böhm in 1987 .
literature
- Gerhard Bosinski: Güstrow and its churches. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Berlin 1980, pp. 80–83.
Web links
- Literature about the Assumption of Mary (Güstrow) in the state bibliography MV
- Website of the parish of the Assumption of Mary in Güstrow
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information from the municipality's website. Retrieved August 4, 2019 .
- ↑ Information about the organ on the website of the Malchow Organ Museum. Retrieved August 4, 2019 .
Coordinates: 53 ° 47 '53.4 " N , 12 ° 10' 1.6" E