St. Margareta (Munster)
The St. Margareta Church is a Catholic church building in Münster . It is located in the southeast of Münster, outside the city ring, on the other side of the Dortmund-Ems Canal on Wolbecker Straße.
history
Planning for the construction of the Church of St. Margareta began in 1959. In that year, part of the parish of the Herz-Jesu parish, east of the canal, was parish off and raised to an independent parish under the patronage of St. Margaret. After the Second World War, the number of Catholics in this area, which until 1959 had the status of a rectorate of the Herz-Jesu parish, rose to over 4,000 people. An emergency church built in 1955 on Mondstrasse was no longer sufficient as a church space.
In November 1961 the foundation stone for the new church was laid. On May 3, 1963, the church was consecrated by Bishop Joseph Höffner . The upstream tower was not completed until 1964.
The church was built according to plans by the architects Eberhard Michael Kleffner and Christa Kleffner-Dirxen . Since the construction of the church and the subsequent interior furnishings fell into the time of the Second Vatican Council , the construction of the church in particular is clearly shaped by the ideas of the council: It is laid out in the shape of a heart. The altar is set up in the "apex of the heart", surrounded by benches for the community gathered around the altar. The church is about 32 m long, 31 m wide and has 450 seats.
Furnishing
The decor of the church was largely the responsibility of the sculptor Eberhard Hellinge (Enger). The stained glazing was created in the years 1969–1970 by the glass painter Robert Köck (Mainz). The Way of the Cross was created in 1965 by the artist Hildegard Wüstefeld (Münster-Angelmodde); it was supposed to be set up in a monastery in Dachau.
The organ was built in 1960 by the organ building company Franz Breil (Dorsten). The instrument was initially in the Münster seminary and was adopted by the community in 1975. The abrasive loading -instrument has 12 registers two manuals (main work, C-g 3 : Pipe flute 8 ', Principal 4', Gemshorn 2 ', mixture IV 1 1 / 3 '; Brustwerk, C-g 3 : Gedackt 8 ', recorder 4 ′, principal 2 ′, sif flute 1 1 ⁄ 3 ′, Schalmey 8 ′, tremulant ) and pedal (C – f 1 : subbass 16 ′, octave bass 8 ′, quintad 4 ′). The actions are mechanical.
In 1966 four bells were hung in the church tower.
literature
- Information on the website of the parish of Sankt Mauritz Münster
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information on the organ ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Web links
Coordinates: 51 ° 57 ′ 0.9 ″ N , 7 ° 40 ′ 18 ″ E