St. Josef (Hörnum)
The St. Josefs Church in Hörnum on Sylt was a Catholic branch church . Built in 1962 and 2008, profane small brick - church hall hosts Since 2013 National Park House ark Wadden Sea of protection Wattenmeer .
history
After the Second World War , large numbers of Catholic expellees and members of the armed forces came to Hörnum. For them and the holiday guests, services were initially held in makeshift rooms. The Josephs Church was consecrated on September 9, 1962 . It belongs to the parish of St. Christophorus (Westerland) .
After the church in Hörnum was used less and less and a modern new church was built in Westerland in 1999 , it was profaned in 2008 and the project to use it as a Wadden Sea house was developed. The building with 300 m² of exhibition space was initially leased to the Wadden Sea Protection Station for 30 years . The redesign was financed by the Naturschutzgesellschaft Schutzstation Wattenmeer eV, the ecumenical environmental foundation of the Archdiocese of Hamburg and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany as well as the State of Schleswig-Holstein .
On July 3, 2013, Detlef Hansen from the National Park Administration opened the new Wadden Sea Ark National Park exhibition together with Archbishop Werner Thissen and the bishop's representative in the Evangelical Lutheran Sprengel Schleswig and Holstein Gothart Magaard .
Web links
- Church on Sylt becomes National Park Information Center ( domradio.de , July 2, 2013)
- "Wadden Sea Arche" officially opened on Sylt ( Kieler Nachrichten , July 3, 2013)
- Report from the opening on July 3, 2013 with the speeches by Archbishop Thissen and Pastor Ulrich Hoppe (catholic-kirche-sylt.blogspot.de, accessed on July 4, 2013)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Former church to become National Park Center ( Memento of the original from December 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (epd.de)
Coordinates: 54 ° 45 ′ 47.3 " N , 8 ° 17 ′ 11.3" E