Parish Church Appearance of Christ (Krefeld)
The parish church Apparition of Christ is part of the Dreikönigenhaus parish center of the old Catholic parish in Krefeld .
history
The originally three-aisled church building was built between 1892 and 1894 and was named Christ Church . Due to severe damage from bombing in June 1943 and January 1945 after the Second World War repaired again, this took place again in November 1951 inauguration .
In 1957, the church was divided horizontally with a bridge-like false ceiling and a large hall for the community center was created from the lower section of the main nave and the two side aisles. In the upper part of the main aisle, the space for the celebration of the services was created and on the square in front of the main entrance a six-storey church tower with a dome as the roof finish.
In 1996 an elevator construction was installed in the area of the former organ loft, which enables handicapped accessible access to all rooms of the church and tower. After the renovation was completed, the church was consecrated for the third time on Epiphany in 1997 and is now called the Appearance of Christ .
In the years from 1998 to 2010, the church received colored windows based on the designs of the Bonn artist Stefan Kandels on the theme of the Trinity . The system of the windows was given new accents by mirror installations.
In 2004 the first columbarium was set up in a Catholic German parish church on the front part of the left aisle .
Prehistory of the building
The old Catholic parish of Krefeld celebrated its services in the Krefeld Mennonite Church from 1872 to 1880 , an unprecedented sign of ecumenical solidarity. The congregation then stayed for fourteen years in the Protestant Old Church and in the neighboring Friedenskirche before their own place of worship was completed. Hostility from ultramontan opponents made it impossible to share a Roman Catholic church building.
literature
- Ruth Reckel: 100 years of the Christ Church - the city's religious climate shaped . In: Rheinische Post (RP) from June 20, 1994
- Sonja Borghoff-Uhlenbroich: The elevator goes to the service . In: Westdeutsche Zeitung (WZ) of January 7, 1997
- Oliver Schaulandt: Last resting place: "Dovecote" . In: Rheinische Post from May 26, 2004
- Hans A. Frei: pioneer . In: Christkatholisches Kirchenblatt, No. 9/2007, p. 16
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Coordinates: 51 ° 19 ′ 49.7 " N , 6 ° 34 ′ 5.7" E