St. Willehad (Wangerooge)
St. Willehad is the Roman Catholic Church on the North Sea island of Wangerooge .
As early as 1901, there had been a Catholic church for holidaymakers on Wangerooge, whose residents had been Protestant since the Reformation . It was built in the style of historicism and already bore the patronage of St. Willehad , the mission bishop on the Lower Weser . This church was completely destroyed by a bomb hit on April 25, 1945.
Today's Willehad Church was built between 1962 and 1964. It is a hall church made of light concrete with red brick on an almost square floor plan. The pent roof, sloping in the same direction, forms a strong counterpoint to the terrain rising from south to north . At the northeast corner is the rectangular tower with the two-part bell, whose sloping roof corresponds to that of the nave.
The white plastered interior is bathed in colored light through the high stained glass window on the south side with biblical scenes. The windows on the lower north side show seven stations of the cross . The metal sculptor Jakob Riffeler created the baptismal font lid and a hanging cross . In the east is the altar island. In 1997 the church received an electronic organ with 36 registers .
From 1994 to 2015 Kurt Weigel was pastor of St. Willehad. Egbert Schlotmann has been running the parish since 2015.
Web links
- Parish information
- Information about architecture, furnishings, community life and history
- Parish website
Coordinates: 53 ° 47 ′ 32 " N , 7 ° 54 ′ 13" E