St. Matthias (Bottrop-Ebel)
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| Denomination : | Roman Catholic |
| Patronage : | St. Matthias |
| Consecration date : | July 10, 1938 |
| Parish : | St. Joseph ( Batenbrock ) |
| Address: | Hafenstrasse 78, 46242 Bottrop |
Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 1.6 ″ N , 6 ° 56 ′ 48.9 ″ E
The St. Matthias Church is a Roman Catholic church building in the Ebel district of Bottrop .
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Between 1899 and 1904, was created for the mostly from Upper Silesia immigrant miners from Prosper I. colony Ebel . The majority of the population was of Catholic faith . The closest church of St. Dionysius in Borbeck , however, was about five kilometers away. Since 1911, the Ebelaner were looked after by the new St. Michaels Church , which was built to relieve St. Dionysius in Dellwig and was only a good two kilometers away. But the local demand remained high and with the construction of the Rhine-Herne Canal in 1914, Ebel was separated from the rest of the greater Borbeck area, which again significantly lengthened the Kirchwege. In order to meet the needs of Ebelan, a church building association was founded in 1927. From 1931 to 1938 there were also makeshift emergency fairs in the Ebel School . According to a letter from Pastor Matthias Lambertz in Dellwig to the Archbishop in Cologne, 350 to 400 believers are said to have attended masses in the school hall on a regular basis .
1. Church building
According to plans by the architect Josef Franke , who otherwise created sacred and secular buildings in particular in Gelsenkirchen , construction work on the new own church for the settlement finally began in October 1937. On the initiative of the pastor Matthias Lambertz in Dellwig , the apostle Matthias was named after the church, whereby a stone from the Benedictine Abbey of St. Matthias in Trier is worked into the foundation walls and is still visible today. As a subsidiary church of St. Michael, the inauguration took place on July 10, 1938 by the Cologne auxiliary bishop Josef Hammels . The first Ebelan pastor was Peter Wilden . During the Second World War , the hall under the church building was used as a meeting place by the Nazi regime. The bells were also drawn in.
2. Church building
After mining damage was discovered, the church was torn down in 1957/1958 and rebuilt on the old foundation walls. The new building was blessed on December 23, 1958 by the Bottrop dean Wilhelm Bruns . Today's windows also date from this time. The bell tower was only added 25 years after the church was consecrated in 1983.
The structures of the Catholic Church, both professional and voluntary, shaped the social life of the district for decades. With the merger of the parishes in the south of Bottrop in 2008 to form the St. Joseph parish , however, the close-knit network of the church was lost, with consequences for the coexistence of neighbors as well. Less frequent church services or the loss of other church services were the result. A total of eight Ebelan pastors looked after the community. In 2017, the large parish of St. Joseph announced that it would also part with St. Matthias in the medium term in addition to the churches of St. Joseph in Batenbrock , Liebfrauen auf dem Eigen and St. Franziskus in Welheim .
On the occasion of Thanksgiving , there were artistic Thanksgiving rugs made from natural materials such as pine cones , chestnuts , beechnuts , acorns , corn , rose hips and elderberries from 2006 to 2018 . The entire central aisle of the church building, around 12 meters long, was laid out according to an annual motif. The WDR - local time reported on this tradition, which gained well over Ebel awareness. After an ecumenical service, the Thanksgiving carpet was presented to the public and opened daily. Visitors could donate money, which was then used for a good cause.
Matthias House
From 1952, the Matthiasheim was built by community members as a youth home. After the Catholic Church decided to give up the house, the support association Matthiashaus Bottrop-Ebel 2007 eV was founded to support the maintenance of the building in 2007. The diocese promised to keep the house running on a voluntary basis. In addition to maintaining the Matthias House, the sponsoring association is also concerned with maintaining and expanding a livable and lively social space in Ebel. Today the house is the meeting point of a choir community, the KFD, the Protestant church, a miners' guard, a carnival group, the youth welfare office, the Ebel development association and a theater group . The Matthias House is also to have a chapel as a church substitute for St. Matthias' work. The altar, the ambo and the benches from the weekday chapel as well as the figure of Mary from the church should find their place here.
St. Matthias family center
There is also the St. Matthias Catholic day-care center in the immediate vicinity of the church , which has been located at its current headquarters and in its current building since 1972. It is the only day care facility in the district and is now run by the association for Catholic day care facilities for children in the diocese of Essen . The first forerunner of this facility dates back to 1935, when the Rheinische Stahlwerke department Arenberg opened a children's care school in the Evil Colony. Since 2010, St. Matthias has been certified as a family center in association with the St. Barbara day care center ( Lehmkuhle ) . In two groups, 45 children between the ages of two and starting school are currently accepted in Ebel.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Emergency fairs took place in the specially prepared classrooms . In: Borbecker Nachrichten , April 6, 2018.
- ↑ a b Parish of St. Joseph: History lecture by Helmut Brus - 80 years of St. Matthias in Ebel 2018 ( joseph-bottrop.de ( Memento of the original from March 11, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet Checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. ).
- ^ A b c Andrea Kleemann: 75 years Matthias Church in Ebel. In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung. September 5, 2013 ( derwesten.de ).
- ↑ a b c Peter Nocon: Granddaughter of St. Dionysius is 80 years old . In: Borbecker Nachrichten , April 20, 2018.
- ↑ glasmalerei-ev.net Research Center for Glass Painting of the 20th Century eV: Bottrop-Ebel, Catholic Church of St. Matthias.
- ↑ a b c matthiashaus-bottrop.de website of the sponsoring association Matthiashaus.
- ^ Kai Süselbeck: St. Joseph parish gives up four churches. In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung. December 3, 2017 ( waz.de ).
- ↑ Franz Burger: Thanksgiving carpet in Bottrop Ebel 2017 September 27, 2017 ( lokalkompass.de ).
- ↑ Angelika Wölk: Kita teaches respect for cultures In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung. July 1, 2013 ( waz.de ).
