Stella Maris (Binz)
Stella Maris ( Maria Meerstern ) is the Catholic Church in Binz on Rügen . The original simple, white plastered hall building with stepped gable from the 1920s was expanded to include a modern circular building in 2009/2010. The old church became a foyer, confessional room and sacristy.
history
The beginnings of the Catholic presence in Binz go back to the Viennese professor Wilhelm Bong († 1938, grave in the Binz cemetery). In 1924, in the time of need after the First World War , he founded a Catholic children's holiday home here. In 1925 the associated small chapel was also completed. Services were held only occasionally in winter and by foreign holiday priests in summer.
The construction work on the KdF holiday complex Prora brought more and more Catholics to the region from 1935 onwards. After the Second World War , the local community grew temporarily to 1,000 members due to displaced persons from the eastern regions. The chapel was made a locality . The first enlargement took place in 1965/66. Borromean women lived and worked here until 1978 . Since 1999, all Catholic churches on Rügen belong to the parish of St. Bonifatius .
Extension
Since the opening of the border in 1989, tourism and construction activities in the Baltic Sea resort of Binz have grown rapidly. In the summer months, the Stella Maris Chapel with 75 seats was no longer sufficient for Sunday masses. So from 2005 the planning for an extension began, a bright round building with 170 seats. The architectural design comes from Burkhardt Eriksson (Stralsund), the furnishings from Evelyn Körber . Since the small community could not afford the financing, it was dependent on the support of the Archdiocese of Berlin , the Bonifatiuswerk , the EU as well as private sponsors and donors.
On January 8, 2011, the enlarged church was consecrated by the Archbishop of Berlin, Georg Cardinal Sterzinsky .
Web links
- Literature about Stella Maris (Binz) in the state bibliography MV
- Information from the parish
- TV report on the consecration service ( memento from March 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), NDR Nordmagazin , January 8, 2011
Coordinates: 54 ° 23 '48 " N , 13 ° 36' 54.2" E