St. Mary's Sorrowful Mother

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Catholic Church of St. Mary's Sorrowful Mother (2013)

The Catholic Church of St. Mary's Sorrowful Mother (also shortened to: Catholic Church and Sorrowful Mother ) in Flensburg was built between 1898 and 1900 in neo-Gothic style according to plans by the architect Heinrich Flügel . The Roman Catholic church is one of the cultural monuments of Flensburg city .

history

With the Reformation , Flensburg had become Protestant . In 1528 the monks of the Franciscan monastery of St. Katharinen were expelled. During the German-Danish War , the Order of Malta was involved in Flensburg (see Government Court (Flensburg) and Borgerforeningen ). After the war, a Catholic community was founded in Flensburg on the basis of the religious freedom that prevailed in Germany . Bishop Paulus von Osnabrück appointed the former military pastor Rudolf Rave as the first pastor of the new community. First, the congregation was allowed to hold its services in the Heiliggeistkirche . Shortly afterwards, the bishop granted the small community funds to purchase several small houses on the corner of Heiligengeistgang / Nordergraben . One of these houses served as a parish apartment. In 1866 one of the houses acquired, which stood on the site of the present church, was converted into a Catholic chapel and consecrated on March 29 of that year. The economic development of Flensburg led to the growth of the congregation to 2,000 members, so that the chapel proved to be too small for the larger congregation at the turn of the century. At Christmas 1897, a large number of the parishioners were forced to attend the service in front of the door in the cold for the last time. For this reason, a new church should be built, for the financing of which thousands of letters were sent in advance with the request for support and collections were collected.

In 1898, under the direction of the Hamburg builder E. Breitschneider, work began on the new church, which was built according to plans by the Bremen architect Flügel. Construction began under adverse circumstances. When excavating, the workers initially encountered the city ​​moat , which consisted of swamp and swampy earth. It was not until March 19, 1899 that the foundation stone could be laid. On 17./18. January 1900 the inauguration of the new church took place. The occasion was celebrated in the Nordischer Hof . At the time of inauguration, the church did not have a spire . Only a simple, flat roof had been placed on the tower. The vault inside and the spire were not completed until 1909. In 1922, despite the inflationary period after the First World War , the community managed to build a new rectory on Heiligengeistgang. During the Second World War , an air raid protection school for air raid guards was set up in the former Catholic school, which was located directly south of the church . The building in question, which visually concealed the main portal, was demolished after the war. There is a parking lot there today.

In 1980/81 a community center was built on the north side of the church. At the same time the sliding apse of the church, which had been built on soft peat and sand, was stabilized by means of a new foundation. The resulting damage to the vault was then repaired. For the 150th anniversary of the foundation of the church, the church received a new roof in 2014. The celebrations for the 150th anniversary of the congregation were celebrated ecumenically .

The church functions as a parish church of a large parish with around 12,000 members, which extends to Kappeln . The Flensburg parish has 9,000 members. In Mürwik there is a second Catholic church in the city area, the St. Ansgar Church . The St. Michael Church in Weiche was closed after the Bundeswehr left . In the suburbs of Harrislee and Glücksburg there are two other Catholic churches ( St. Laurentius (Glücksburg) and St. Anna).

The Catholic Church of St. Mary in Sorrows today has the addresses Nordergraben 36 and Heiligengeistgang 16/18. There is a bus stop in front of the church with the station name “Catholic Church”.

Architecture and equipment

The brick hall church was built in the neo-Gothic style. It is located on a hillside location on the west side above the Flensburg city center, next to the small Villenburg called Burg Schöneck . The polygonal choir faces north. On the western long side, the Nordergraben street leads along the church. The church tower is located in the south-west of the building . In the tower there is a three-part ringing of bronze bells with the following sequence of striking notes: f '- g' - b '. The main portal of the church is on the south side of the tower . There is also a large rose window on the south side . Inside a ribbed vault . From the interior, the pews , wooden figures of saints and pictures depicting the stations of the cross have been preserved. Today the church also includes the small Joseph Chapel, which can be reached from the courtyard entrance.

organ

Today's organ was built in 2001 by the Michael Becker Orgelbau workshop . It has 23 registers on two manuals and a pedal , which are played via sliding chests with a mechanical action . The disposition is as follows:

Main work
1. Principal 8th'
2. Concert flute 8th'
3. Wooden flute 8th'
4th octave 4 ′
5. Dumped 4 ′
6th octave 2 ′
7th Mixture IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
8th. Trumpet 8th'
Swell
9. Dumped 8th'
10. Viol 8th'
11. Beat 8th'
12. Fugara 4 ′
13. Flute 4 ′
14th Piccolo 2 ′
15th Sesquialter II
16. Mixture III-IV 2 ′
17th oboe 8th'
18th Vox humana 8th'
Pedal mechanism
19th Sub-bass 16 ′
20th Octave bass 8th'
21st Thought bass 8th'
22nd Octave bass 4 ′
23. trombone 16 ′
  • Couple : Swell / main unit, main unit / pedal unit, swell unit / pedal unit

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Lutz Wilde : Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany, cultural monuments in Schleswig-Holstein . Volume 2, Flensburg, page 438 f.
  2. ↑ a b c d e Flensburg Mobil, Kath. Kirche St. Marien 'Painful Mother' , accessed on: January 22, 2017
  3. ↑ a b c Flensburger Tageblatt : Church anniversary: ​​A year of celebration under the sign of ecumenism , from: December 1, 2014; Retrieved on: January 21, 2017
  4. ↑ a b c d e f Flensburger Tageblatt : 150 years of city history from a newspaper perspective Kiel / Hamburg 2016, p. 54.
  5. ^ Writings of the Society for Flensburg City History (ed.): Flensburg in history and present . Flensburg 1972, p. 408
  6. ^ Flensburg Journal : Flensburg streets and districts. From the camp school Weiche to the town hall , on: August 29, 2013; Retrieved on: January 23, 2017
  7. ^ Broder Schwensen , Dieter Nickel : Flensburg in the air war 1939-1945. Flensburg 2009, p. 22
  8. ↑ Flensburger Tageblatt : Flensburg and Kappeln become a large parish: Fresh wind in the Catholic Church , from: December 15, 2016; Retrieved on: January 21, 2017
  9. ↑ Flensburger Tageblatt : Catholic Church: Last Supper without a priest , from: September 14, 2013; accessed on: January 22, 2017
  10. ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto bells. Family and company history of the Otto bell foundry dynasty . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, here in particular p. 562 .
  11. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 515 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).
  12. ^ Josefskapelle , accessed on: January 21, 2017; should be a chapel in the parish hall.
  13. ↑ Information on the organ at www.orgbase.nl , accessed on December 17, 2019
  14. ↑ Information about the organ on the website of the builders' workshop , accessed on December 17, 2019

Web links

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Coordinates: 54 ° 47 ′ 16 "  N , 9 ° 25 ′ 53"  E