St. Willehad (Wilhelmshaven)

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St. Willehad, Portal (Bremer Straße)

The Catholic Church of St. Willehad in Wilhelmshaven , Bremer Strasse / Mozartstrasse, is the city's oldest Catholic church. It was built in 1910 and 1911 based on a design by the Hanoverian architect Maximilian Jagielski .

history

Before the construction of St. Willehad, the Catholics of the then Prussian city of Wilhelmshaven attended Holy Mass in the St. Mary's Church on Ansgaristraße, built in 1879 on Oldenburg territory .

The consecration of St. Willehad took place on November 8, 1911, the feast of St. Willehad , by Auxiliary Bishop Everhard Illigens .

St. Willehad was initially a chapel community and belonged to the parish association of Jever. In 1913 it was established as an independent parish.

In 1966 to 1972, the communities were St. Michael (1966), Christ the King (1966) and St. Peter abgepfarrt .

Since 2008 it has been the only Catholic parish in Wilhelmshaven. All other formerly independent parishes were merged.

architecture

Detail shot

St. Willehad is built from brick in a neo-Gothic style that has been alienated from the reform architecture . The three-aisled basilica with a transept opens into a four-eighth apse in the north . The portal front in the south is flanked on the left by a small stair tower and on the right by the monumental bell tower. Its upper floor with four ornamental gables and a ridge-like tip is reminiscent of the tower of the Marktkirche in Jagielski's hometown Hanover .

literature

  • Hans-Bernd Rödiger, Waldemar Reinhardt: Frisian Churches - Rüstringen, Friesische Wehde, Butjadingen, Stedingen and City of Wilhelmshaven , Volume 4. Verlag CL Mettcker & Söhne, Jever 1982, p. 29.
  • Willi Baumann, Peter Sieve (ed.): The Catholic Church in the Oldenburger Münsterland. Vechta 1995.
  • Ursula Große Bockhorn: For the consecration still without a pulpit. Anniversary. St. Willehad Church looks back on 100 years on this Sunday. In: Nordwest-Zeitung of February 26, 2011 (online, last accessed on August 27, 2011)

Web links

Commons : St. Willehad (Wilhelmshaven)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Willi Baumann, Peter Sieve (ed.): The Catholic Church in the Oldenburger Münsterland. Vechta 1995, p. 668.
  2. ^ Hospital Wilhelmshaven, history
  3. ^ History of the parish of St. Willehad Wilhelmshaven , accessed on May 18, 2019.

Coordinates: 53 ° 31 '28.8 "  N , 8 ° 6' 55.3"  E