St. Joseph (Greifswald)
The Roman Catholic provost church Sankt Joseph in Greifswald is a neo-Gothic brick building and is located on the southern edge of Greifswald's old town on the corner of Bahnhofstrasse and Rubenowstrasse. It belongs to the deanship of Western Pomerania of the Archdiocese of Berlin .
The church is dedicated to St. Joseph of Nazareth , the bridegroom of Mary , the mother of Jesus .
history
On the initiative of Catholic students from Westphalia , the Rhineland and Silesia , the St. Josephs Church was built in 1869, the year the foundation stone was laid, according to plans by the architect Hugo Schneider as a mission church in honor of Pope Pius IX. erected in Greifswald. Catholic professors and students from the University of Greifswald, as well as the harvest workers, mainly from Poland, who worked in large numbers in the agriculture of Pomerania during the harvest , donated the financial means for the construction of the church. The benediction took place on November 15, 1871. On this occasion, the Holy Mass was preached in German and Polish.
From 1929 to 1943 the theologian and resistance fighter Alfons Maria Wachsmann was pastor at the church. He arranged for a expressionistic oriented transformation of the church, then on May 1, 1932 by Bishop Christian Schreiber consecrated was. Wachsmann took a stand against National Socialism early on , in which he saw an “instrument of torture of bondage”. Because of his open rejection of National Socialism, he was denounced by students in connection with the " Stettin case ", arrested by the Gestapo in 1943, sentenced to death by the People's Court and executed on February 21, 1944 in Brandenburg-Görden . He was buried in a grave of honor at St. Joseph's Church in 1984.
In 1992 the church was raised to the status of a provost church in order to create a center for the Catholics of Western Pomerania. The first provost was Msgr. Georg Bengsch (1969–1996), the brother of the former Berlin Archbishop Alfred Cardinal Bengsch .
Architecture and equipment
The church is a neo-Gothic brick building with a transept , a polygonal closed choir , with a west tower with narrow side halls. The sacristy is located between the choir and the south wing of the transept . An open polygonal baptistery adjoins the east wall of the north wing of the transept. The west tower has four storeys and a pointed helmet, which is transferred upwards from the square to the octagon. The figures of the teaching and blessing Jesus Christ are on the western pointed arch portal .
Inside the church, a ribbed vault is supported by pilasters in Baroque style , the choir vault is six-part. Large flat pointed arches are embedded in the walls of the choir and the transept.
The furnishings mainly come from the time in office of Pastor Alfons Maria Wachsmann. The tabernacle , the cross , the altar with the inscription “ Et iterum venturus est ”, an expressionist figure of the risen Christ and a Way of the Cross painted by Martin Pautsch have been preserved .
The chancel was redesigned between 1974 and 1977, and a new gallery and new stalls were installed. In 1986 the church received a new organ. In 1990/1991 three altar windows with scenes from the life of Mary were installed, based on designs by Rudolf Brückner-Fuhlrott from 1970 with a different color scheme.
In 1999 the church was renovated again, a new warm air heating system was installed, the floor renewed and the chancel slightly changed.
organ
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An interior renovation and the new construction of the organ gallery meant that today's organ could only be installed in 1986 by VEB Orgelbau Dresden ( Jehmlich ); it is Opus 1056 from the Jehmlich company. Today the instrument has 17 stops on two manuals and a pedal .
The organ has the following disposition :
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- Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
Pastors / parish administrators
The following pastors and parish administrators were (are) active in the parish:
| Surname | Term of office |
| Rev. Carl Thomas | 1851-1866 |
| Rev. Joseph Priesnitz | 1866-1884 |
| Rev. Carl Florian | 1884-1887 |
| Rev. Joseph Bachstein | 1887-1889 |
| Rev. Josef Struif | 1890-1905 |
| Rev. Paul Jüttner | 1905-1907 |
| Rev. Robert Grelich | 1917-1924 |
| Rev. Robert Plonka | 1925-1928 |
| Rev. Alfons Maria Wachsmann | 1929-1943 |
| Complete Heinrich Endres parish administrator |
1943-1946 |
| Rev. Johannes Opfermann | 1946 |
| Rev. Gerhard Lorenz | 1946-1969 |
| Rev. Msgr. Georg Bengsch | 1969-1996 |
| Rev. Michael Pietrus | 1996-2010 |
| Complete Bruno Monn Parish Administrator |
2011–2012 |
| Rev. Frank Hoffmann | since 2012 |
literature
- State Office for Monument Preservation Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Hrsg.): The architectural and art monuments in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Western Pomerania coastal region. Henschel Verlag, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-89487-222-5 , p. 405.
- Markus T. Funck The organs of the Hanseatic city of Greifswald - A contribution to the history of Pomeranian organ building. Thomas Helms Verlag, Schwerin 2009, ISBN 978-3-935749-93-0 , pp. 197-201.
- Matthias Brühe 125 years of St. Joseph Church Greifswald 1871–1996 - a commemorative publication for the anniversary. - Greifswald 1996
Web links
- Literature about St. Joseph (Greifswald) in the state bibliography MV
- St. Joseph Greifswald. Retrieved April 11, 2013 .
- The Roman Catholic parish of Greifswald. Retrieved January 29, 2012 .
- Home page of the Roman Catholic parish of St. Joseph Greifswald - home page. Retrieved May 3, 2012 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ A new Catholic Church. In: Deutsche Bauzeitung . 3rd year 1869, p. 388 ( Google books )
- ↑ The origins of our St. Joseph Church in Greifswald , accessed on February 2, 2018.
- ^ Pastor Alfons Maria Wachsmann on the Propsteigemeinde website
- ↑ Diocesan Archives Berlin: Holdings of Dr. Alfons Maria Wachsmann (1896–1944) , accessed February 2, 2018.
- ↑ Information on the organ
- ^ Matthias Brühe: 125 years of St. Joseph Church Greifswald 1871–1969: a commemorative publication for the anniversary ; Greifswald, 1996
Coordinates: 54 ° 5 ′ 36 ″ N , 13 ° 22 ′ 34 ″ E