St. Hedwig (Kempten)

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St. Hedwig Church (2012)
Church interior (2003)

St. Hedwig is a Catholic parish church in Kempten in the Allgäu . It was built in the course of the rapid settlement of the Thingers district and is a building that is visible from afar and characterizes the district.

history

At the end of the 1950s there was brisk construction activity in the north of Kempten and the church community grew so that the existing churches were overcrowded. The spiritual councilor Ulrich Hertle († 1985) bought a plot of land for a new parish in 1971, and the parish of St. Michael with around 6000 parishioners was divided. Franz Heumann - the previous chaplain of Ortisei - became the first parish curate . In 1980 the community of St. Hedwig was raised to the status of a parish church.

Planning and construction were associated with difficulties: the size, the tower structure or the bells were constantly criticized. The legal quarrels were carried to the Bavarian Administrative Court in Munich . In the summer of 1980, work began on the four structures of the church (with 350 seats), the rectory and house as well as the church tower.

The cost of the project planned by the Kempten architect Dieter Heiler amounted to ten million Deutschmarks . 1986 Diocesan Bishop Josef Stimpfle consecrated the new church. The Thingers district had around 5200 inhabitants at that time, around 3500 of whom were Catholic.

Since 2010 the church has belonged to the parish of Kempten-West.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Diocese of Augsburg
  2. ↑ Parish of Kempten-West .

literature

Web links

Commons : St. Hedwig  - Collection of Images

Coordinates: 47 ° 43 ′ 59.1 ″  N , 10 ° 17 ′ 34.5 ″  E