East-West Peace Church

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East-West Peace Church

The East-West Peace Church , also known as Father Timofej's Church , is a chapel in Munich - Oberwiesenfeld . It was built by the Russian hermit Timofei Wassiljewitsch Prokhorov and his wife Natascha without a building permit right next to their residential hut, which they also built themselves.

location

The chapel is located on the Oberwiesenfeld , south of the Olympic lake at Spiridon-Louis-Ring 100. The Olympic Stadium is about one kilometer north of the building and the Olympic Tower is just over a kilometer to the northwest.

history

During the Second World War , Timofej said he had a vision of Mary in which he was commissioned to move from Russia to the west to build a church there. For this he left his family. On his journey in 1944 he met his future wife Natascha in Vienna . In 1952 he moved to Munich after another vision. In a third vision, Timofej was commissioned to build a church on Oberwiesenfeld and, together with his wife, began to build the church and the apartment from pieces of rubble from the nearby rubble mountain.

After completion, Timofej offered his church building to both the Catholic Church and the Russian Orthodox Church as a place of worship. However, those responsible refused the offer because the Catholics saw too many elements of the Orthodox in the building and the Orthodox in turn saw too many Catholic elements. Then Timofey himself celebrated the liturgy . He did not dispose of the sacraments of baptism and marriage, but referred to Catholic or Orthodox priests.

When plans were made for the 1972 Olympic Games in 1968 , the Church's square was designated as part of the Olympic site. The illegally built church and the house should be torn down and Timofej should move into a city apartment with his wife. After protests from the population and in favor of the pre-Olympic peace, the Olympic site was planned further north so that the church was preserved.

The site was later described by Munich's Lord Mayor Christian Ude as “Munich's most charming black building”. After Timofej died on July 14, 2004, an association took care of the church. Timofeij's house was converted into a museum after his death. The Tollwood Festival takes place around the grounds of the East-West Church of Peace in summer .

literature

Web links

Commons : East-West-Friedenskirche  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Welcome! In: ost-west-friedenskirche.de. Accessed December 31, 2014 .
  2. ↑ a b Church today. In: ost-west-friedenskirche.de. Accessed December 31, 2014 .
  3. ↑ a b c East-West Peace Church. In: muenchen.de. Accessed December 31, 2014 .
  4. ↑ a b c d story. In: ost-west-friedenskirche.de. Accessed December 31, 2014 .
  5. ↑ a b c Rüdiger Liedtke: 111 places in Munich that you have to see, p. 160.
  6. ↑ a b The man who appeared in a dream. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . Accessed December 31, 2014 .
  7. ↑ Rüdiger Liedtke: 111 places in Munich that you have to see, p. 161.

Coordinates: 48 ° 10 ′ 1.3 ″  N , 11 ° 32 ′ 54.1 ″  E