St. Christophorus (Westerland)
St. Christophorus is the Roman Catholic Church in Westerland on Sylt . It was built between 1997 and 1999 according to plans by Dieter Georg Baumewerd .
history
The first post-Reformation Catholic church on Sylt was built in 1896 in the center of Westerland for summer vacationers. The small building in the style of historicism on Neue Straße bore the patronage of the Heart of Jesus . It was demolished in 1959. Today there is a small green area at this point.
As early as 1957, a church with the name of St. Christopher , the patron saint of travelers, was built on the current site . At the time, it was considered to be architecturally trend-setting. In the 1980s, however, it was so badly in need of renovation that it was finally demolished in 1997. The four bells and the stained glazing of the round windows by Emil Wachter were taken over from the previous building in the current new building.
Architecture and equipment
The church building is made of four semi-oval brick shells, the outer half-height and individual porthole windows, the inner ones in the upper part with long windows and in the lower part with pier passages, so that on the outside the impression of a two-storey ship's hull - like an ark -, inside the three aisles. The bell tower with a triangular floor plan stands free and is laterally offset from the axis of the nave.
The elliptical interior, which is closed on the narrow sides by two dark blue cones , is oriented towards the altar and ambo as opposing focal points. The benches are arranged parallel to the long walls. In the middle, the cross-shaped baptismal font is embedded in the floor , which enables the baptized to descend and immerse. The interior design was designed by the Cologne artist W. Gies .
organ
The organ was installed in 2009 by the Jehmlich company from Dresden and consecrated on April 13th of the same year by the Archbishop of Hamburg, Werner Thissen .
The slider chest instrument has 27 stops on two manuals and a pedal . The game actions are mechanical, the stop actions are electric.
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- Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
Individual evidence
- ↑ From the history of the Catholic parish of St. Christopherus on Sylt. (No longer available online.) In: www.nord-katholiken.de. Dean's pastoral conference, archived from the original on May 4, 2015 ; Retrieved June 23, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ More information about the organ
Web links
Coordinates: 54 ° 54 ′ 20.2 " N , 8 ° 18 ′ 5" E