St. Michael (Helgoland)

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Helgoland, Catholic Church St. Michael and community center, back side (from the south)

The St. Michael's Church is the Roman Catholic Church on the North Sea island of Helgoland . It is named after the Archangel Michael and is located on the Oberland ; the address is Karkhiar-Spichal-Goat 584. The parish of St. Michael has around 140 members and belongs to the Itzehoe dean's office in the Archdiocese of Hamburg .

history

The Catholic chapel in the Oberland, after the First World War it also became a guest house

After Holy legends to 700 for the first time by Willibrord the Christian doctrine promulgated on Helgoland and about 790 the first chapel by Liudger have been built. After the Reformation there were Catholics on the island again only from the end of the 19th century through tourism and the navy. Even before the First World War, a chapel was set up in a naval building in the Oberland on Sunset Street for Catholic members of the navy (a church was even planned), which later also functioned as a hostel. In 1929 it is verifiable including the visit of a priest who was occasionally responsible for the Catholic guests on the island in the summer. When the navy took over the chapel building in 1935, the Osnabrück bishop bought the Hamburger Hof restaurant and set up a chapel in the dance hall. The chapel was destroyed in the bombing raid on April 18, 1945.

During the reconstruction after 1952 a Catholic church in the area of ​​the Hamburger Hof was in the planning. From 1959, services could take place in the Protestant Church of St. Nicolai ; the private apartment of a bakery was also used. From 1965 the Catholic Church owned a family house in Heligoland, in which priests held weekday masses. In 1970 the construction of the parish church of St. Michael began. It was consecrated on June 27, 1971. The Rhenish pastor and retired Josef Bernhard (1920–2011) shaped parish life from 1980 onwards until 2008, after the dissolution of the independent parish. The immigration of many Poles to Heligoland has given rise to a new field of activity alongside traditional pastoral care.

Since 1995 St. Michael has been part of the Itzehoe deanery in the then newly founded Archdiocese of Hamburg ; previously the church belonged to the diocese of Osnabrück .

Architecture and equipment

The church was built according to plans by Walter Bunsmann and Paul-Gerhard Scharf . With 120 seats, it is smaller than the Protestant St. Nicolai Church , the other Heligoland church.

literature

  • Bonifatiuswerk der Deutschen Katholiken (Ed.): Diaspora-Jahrheft 2012/2013. Paderborn 2012, pp. 54–56.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berliner Tageblatt of February 10, 1914 and Wolfgang Lüning, No mass from wind force 7, in Bonifatiusblatt 2/1965, page 4ff.
  2. ^ Helgoländer Anzeiger dated July 2, 1932 Advertisement for the Catholic hostel, Sunset Street. 550, A. Jülich
  3. ^ Helgoländer Zeitung of June 4 and 14, 1929
  4. ↑ Wolfgang Lüning, No mass from wind force 7, in Bonifatiusblatt 2/1965, page 4ff. In the pre-war island prospectuses, a Hamburger Hof restaurant with the “gas station” dance venue was last advertised in 1934.
  5. ^ Martin Stünkel, The Last Weeks of the War on Helgoland, Cuxhaven 1945 (typescript), page 2
  6. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt from July 29, 2011 [1]
  7. ↑ https://www.erzbistum-hamburg.de/Helgoland_Kleine-Insel-vor-grossem-Wandel

Coordinates: 54 ° 10 '52.6 "  N , 7 ° 53' 7.8"  E