St. Mauritius (Wroclaw)
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The St. Mauritius Church ( Polish : Kościół św. Maurycego we Wrocławiu ) is a Roman Catholic parish church in Wroclaw . Paul Peikert was a pastor here from 1932 to 1946 .
history
The church is one of the oldest churches in Wroclaw. Around the middle of the 12th century, Walloons settled in the eastern suburbs, which were probably summoned by Bishop Walter (1149–1169). The Walloons brought with them the patronage of St. Mauritius , to whom they soon built a church in honor, which was first mentioned in 1226, but was lost in the Mongol storm. However, the church must have been rebuilt soon, as a pastor near St. Mauritius is mentioned as early as 1245. The roof structure of the nave of the church, which was in place until the end, came from the 2nd half of the 13th century.
In 1530, the now Lutheran Council of Breslau intended to tear down the Mauritius Church and the nearby Lazarus Hospital, but did not receive royal approval for this. Since the Mauritius Church was under the patronage of the Bishop of Wroclaw, it remained Catholic during the Reformation . Only in the Thirty Years War did the Swedes drive the Catholic pastor out and hold Lutheran services from 1633 to 1635.
In 1695 the nave was vaulted, in 1711 a new rectory and in 1723/24 the church tower was built. Since the Mauritius Church only held 600 people, but the number of Catholics had grown to 22,455, a new building was initially planned, but the old church was expanded in 1897 with the addition of a transept and a presbytery . The glass painter Alexander Linnemann from Frankfurt created glass windows for the church at the end of the 19th century.
In order to further relieve the parish church, the Wroclaw suburbs of Klein Tschansch in 1909 and Brockau in 1910/11 received their own church, both were separated from St. Mauritius and became independent parishes. The St. Josefs Church on Ofener Strasse , built in 1932/33, serves to further relieve the burden . The last German pastor, archpriest and archbishop-clerical councilor Paul Peikert , had to leave Breslau on July 11, 1946. The St. Mauritius Church owes to him the new high altar designed by the architect Hans Schlicht and the new baptismal font made by the Adolph company.
The church was badly hit by the strong fighting in Wroclaw in 1945. The roof collapsed from the fire, but the walls and the tower remained standing. The rectory was also badly hit. In his diaries, Pastor Paul Peikert reports that fallen soldiers were simply buried in the parish garden.
literature
- Gerhard Scheuermann: Das Breslau-Lexikon, Volume 2. Laumann-Verlag, Dülmen 1994, ISBN 3-87466-157-1 , pp. 1028-1029.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated February 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ "The Catholic Churches in Wroclaw", Dr. Kurt Engelbert / Josef Engelbert, 1961, 2nd edition
- ^ Paul Peikert: "Fortress Breslau" in the reports of a pastor, January 22 to May 6, 1945, ed. Karol Jonca and Alfred Konieczny, Union Verlag Berlin, 1974
Coordinates: 51 ° 6 '23 " N , 17 ° 2' 48" E