St. Josef (Zgorzelec)
| Upper Church of St. Joseph and Lower Church of St. Barbara Polish: Kościół św. Józefa Robotnika i Kościół św. Barbary |
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 View of the entrance portal of St. Josef |
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| Start of building: | 1981 |
| Inauguration: | November 9, 1983 (lower church) May 1, 2000 (upper church) |
| Architect : | Wojciech Kurowski, Alina Niedźwiedzka-Kurowska, Jan Niedźwiedzki, Wojciech Marszałk |
| Space: | 800 seats (upper church) |
| Tower height: |
35 m |
| Location: | 51 ° 9 '40.3 " N , 15 ° 0' 33.5" E |
| Address: | Ulica Księdza Jana Kozaka 2 Zgorzelec Lower Silesia , Poland |
| Purpose: | Roman Catholic Church |
| Parish: | św. Józefa Robotnika |
| Diocese : | Legnica |
| Website: | jozef.zgorzelec.pl |
The churches of St. Josef and St. Barbara are a double or storey church in the Polish town of Zgorzelec in Upper Lusatia . St. Josef is the upper church and St. Barbara is the lower church. St. Joseph is the parish church of the Roman Catholic parish of the same name (Polish: Parafia Rzymskokatolicka św. Józefa Robotnika ). The lower church is also incorporated into the parish of St. Joseph. She is a member of the Zgorzelec deanery . This is part of the Diocese of Legnica .
The namesake of the lower church is Saint Barbara of Nicomedia , the patron saint of miners and architects. The patron saint of the upper church is St. Joseph of Nazareth .
location
The church is located in the north of Zgorzelec on Ulica Księdza Jana Kozaka between the residential development on Ulica Lubańska in the south and the municipal heating plant in the northern industrial area on Ulica Groszowa. The new multi-purpose hall for the local basketball club Turów Zgorzelec is to be built in the immediate vicinity by 2014 .
history
In 1978 the prelate and pastor of the Boniface parish Jan Kozak in Zgorzelec asked for permission to build a new church. The architects Wojciech Kurowski and Alina Niedźwiedzka-Kurowska and the engineers Jan Niedźwiedzki and Wojciech Marszałk were commissioned to build the building. The laying of the foundation stone took place on October 26, 1981 in the presence of the Archbishop of Wroclaw Henryk Roman Gulbinowicz . Archbishop Gulbinowicz was able to inaugurate the lower church on November 9, 1983. After being separated from the parish of St. Boniface, the independent parish of St. Josef was founded in 1990. At the turn of the millennium, the choir of the upper church was completed. On May 1st, 2000 the Bishop of Legnica Tadeusz Rybak consecrated the upper church.
The upper church can accommodate up to 800 people. The community has around 9,000 believers. Up to seven Holy Masses are therefore held in the church on Sunday.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ jozef.zgorzelec.pl: O Parafii (Polish). Retrieved August 21, 2012 .
- ^ Bettina Ernst-Bertram: A tour through the St. Josef-Barbara-Church . In: Saxon newspaper . December 24, 2007 ( online [accessed August 21, 2012]).