St. Joseph (Bielefeld)
Coordinates: 52 ° 1 ′ 54.8 ″ N , 8 ° 32 ′ 25.8 ″ E
St. Joseph is the parish church of the Roman Catholic parish of St. Joseph in Bielefeld . It is located at August-Bebel-Strasse 7 in the Ostmann tower district , on the northern edge of the city center in the Mitte district .
church
Building history
The neo-Romanesque church with style elements of Gothic and Art Nouveau was built from 1908 in a new building area in what was then Kaiserstraße, around 25 years later as the nearby neo-Gothic Protestant Pauluskirche . Through the industrialization in Bielefeld at the end of the 19th century a great need for housing for factory workers emerged. The Catholic population increased significantly and with it the need for a new church. Until then, the Jodokuskirche was the parish church for all Catholics in what was then Bielefeld. Their number was 4600 in 1890. One of the motives for building the church was “the anti-church activities of the Social Democrats, which Bielefeld has always regarded as its very own territory”. Because of the nature of the parish as a workers' parish, St. Joseph , patron saint of workers, was chosen as the parish patron .
First, in 1901/1902, the St. Joseph Welfare Home was built for morally endangered and neglected children , in whose chapel services were also celebrated for the residents. The home for around 100 girls was run by the Order of the Aachen Franciscan Sisters . It existed until 1932 and was then converted into a nursing home as well as a kindergarten and a day care center run by the parish. The nuns served in these institutions until 1968. Also in 1901 was the Joseph Church Choir, a male choir, as the first grouping of a future parish.
Since the chapel of the home was immediately much too small, the construction of a church began in 1906; the property had already been reserved when the home was built. The church was designed by the Cologne architect Carl Moritz , the site manager was the architect Waltermann. It consists of a high main nave with a coffered round barrel vault and two side aisles, today with baptismal font , stations of the cross and confessional room (right) and tabernacle (left). The tower is designed as a gable tower. Chapels are added to the entrance area under the tower on both sides, which were created in 1929 by closing the side entrances and which were initially designed as a Marienkapelle and war memorial. One is now used as a meditation room. There was a round baptistery on the south side. The St. Josephs home was connected to the gallery of the church by a covered archway.
The foundation stone was laid on November 8, 1908, the benediction by Dechant Meyer from Minden and the start of services followed on March 20, 1910. The consecration of the church on October 11, 1915 was carried out by Paderborn Auxiliary Bishop Heinrich Haehling von Lanzenauer . The church got a Klais organ in 1914 and two side altars in 1917, which were consecrated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Holy Family . From 1922 to 1929 four new bells were purchased, followed by confessionals , a stations of the cross and a pulpit . The church was renovated in 1929 and was painted in the style of the Nazarenes by the church painter Heinrich Repke since 1933 .
On September 30, 1944, the church and the interior were largely destroyed in a bomb attack, as was the rectory. Only the tower with the four bells remained.
The services took place first in the rubble, then in the gym of the Joseph School and for several years in an emergency church made of wood. The church was rebuilt almost in its old form in 1952/1953, but the original floor plan was extended by 12 m because the community had grown due to a large number of people who had been displaced from their homeland. The side aisles were built lower than before the destruction, and the baptistery was dispensed with. The benediction of the church after the reconstruction took place on May 3, 1953 by Archbishop Lorenz Jaeger . A new three-winged, carved altar in the style of the Wiedenbrück school , surmounted by a crucifixion group, dominated the choir. It was designed by the artist Heinrich Pütz . In 1957 the church received a Klais organ again, which was thoroughly overhauled in 1967 and 2009.
From 1998 to 2000 the church building was renovated and the interior redesigned. The artistic design for this comes from Heinz Hollenhorst , the building supervision was in the hands of the architects Wolfgang Krause. Heinz Hollenhorst designed a stainless steel cross with a spherical body made of red alabaster , plus an altar , an ambo and four sediles made of shell limestone, which set special accents in the otherwise unadorned, white church interior. The cross as the central eye-catcher in the choir room symbolizes the globe at the point where the body of the crucified Jesus can otherwise be seen on the crucifix . The design takes up the inscription on the foundation stone in the choir of the church, the (slightly modified) motto of the Carthusian order:
- Stat crux dum volvitur terra. - The cross stands still while the earth turns.
The crypt under the parish church was converted into a parish hall in 1968, which has been available as the Augustinian hall for celebrations and gatherings since 1991 . The kindergarten received a new building in 1972, the old people's home from 2007. The sponsorship of both institutions has meanwhile been transferred from the parish to sponsoring companies.
organ
The church received its first organ at Easter 1914. It had 32 registers and 1886 sounding pipes , came from the Johannes Klais Orgelbau company in Bonn and was destroyed in the bombing in 1944.
Today's organ was rebuilt in 1957 as Opus 1126 by the Klais company. It is one of the last organs from this company with an electrically controlled cone store or Pocket shop system . The organ was consecrated on September 8, 1957. In 2009 the organ was renovated by the Friedrich Kampherm Orgelbau company in Verl. It has 2329 pipes in 34 registers.
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- Coupling : III / I; I / II; III / II; I / P; II / P; III / P.
- Playing aids : hand register; 2 free combinations; Tutti; 1 free pedal combination; 7 individual parking spaces; Roller with storage.
Bells
A three-part chime , cast by Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock in Gescher , rang for the first time at Christmas 1912. The bells were confiscated in 1917 for war purposes.
In the 1920s, the church received its current bell, four new cast steel bells , which were manufactured by the Bochum Association for Cast Steel Manufacture (BVG) . While most churches had to make their bronze bells available as a valuable raw material for the armaments industry during the Second World War, steel bells were excluded. The bells also survived the destruction of the church by bombs in 1944 unscathed.
| Surname | Peter and Elisabeth | Jesus Salvator | Maria | Joseph |
| Casting year | 1928 | 1928 | 1923 | 1922 |
| Diameter (mm) | 1574 | 1387 | 1170 | 1016 |
| Weight (approx kg) | 1494 | 955 | 610 | 390 |
| Chime | c sharp '+2 | e '+1 | f sharp '+8 | a '+2 |
Parish of St. Joseph
The parish of St. Joseph forms with St. Maria Königin in Baumheide and Heilig Kreuz in Brake the pastoral association Bielefeld-Mitte-Nord-Ost in the dean's office Bielefeld-Lippe ( Archdiocese of Paderborn ) with a joint pastoral team and a joint parish council .
It existed from 1910 to 1933 as a subsidiary parish of St. Jodokus, from 1924 as a parish vicarie with its own asset management, and was elevated to an independent parish on January 1, 1933 . In 1910 the community had over 3000 Catholics, 1928: 3500, 1932: 3000, today: 2.197. In 1936 an average of 1400 visitors to the mass were counted on Sunday.
From 1969 to 1991 there was an Augustinian convent in the parish with up to four fathers, two of whom each as pastor and vicar provided pastoral care in St. Joseph and who otherwise had cross-parish tasks, e.g. B. Pastoral care for the deaf, old people's home and hospital pastoral care, popular missions and science.
In the church, the services of the Tamil community, the Hungarian community and the Catholic Deaf Association Epheta take place regularly. In 2008/2009 the church also had the function of a youth church for Bielefeld.
Groupings and institutions in the community
- Caritas Conference St. Joseph
- Catholic women's community ( kfd ) St. Joseph
- Kolping family Bielefeld-Zentral
- St. Joseph Singing Circle
List of pastors at St. Joseph
| 1910-1928 | Anton Franke, rector, from 1924 parish vicar / parish rector |
| 1928-1966 | Friedrich Mittrop, parish vicar / parish rector, pastor from 1933 |
| 1966-1983 | P. Gebhardt Maulhardt OSA |
| 1983-1989 | P. Egbert Reil OSA |
| 1989-1991 | P. Ansgar Wehr OSA |
| 1991-1999 | Stanislaus Walczak |
| 2000-2007 | Bernhard Haaken |
| since 2008 | Blaž Kovac |
Pictures from the history of the church
Corpus Christi
service in the ruins
Provisional altar after reconstruction
High altar from 1953
until the renovation in 1998/2000
See also
- List of architectural monuments in the Bielefeld-Mitte district
- List of religious buildings in Bielefeld
