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Domkirche St. Marien (English: St. Mary's Cathedral) is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Sankt Georg, Hamburg, Germany, and the metropolitan cathedral of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hamburg (as of 1995). It was the first new Roman Catholic church built in Hamburg since the Reformation.[1]
| St Mary's Cathedral | |
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| The Cathedral Church of Our Lady | |
Domkirche St. Marien | |
 Domkirche St. Marien in Danziger Straße, west front | |
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| 53°33′27″N 10°00′49″E / 53.5576°N 10.0136°E | |
| Location | St. Georg, Hamburg |
| Country | Germany |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| History | |
| Founded | 1889 |
| Consecrated | 28 June 1893 |
| Architecture | |
| Architect(s) | Arnold Güldenpfennig |
| Style | Neo-Romanesque |
| Completed | 1893 |
| Administration | |
| Province | Hamburg |
| Archdiocese | Archdiocese of Hamburg |
| Clergy | |
| Archbishop | Stefan Heße |
| Provost | Franz-Peter Spiza |
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History
editThe cathedral stands in Danziger Straße and was built between 1890 and 1893 to the designs of Arnold Güldenpfennig. The church was erected in Romanesque revival style at the instigation of Bishop Bernhard Höting of Osnabrück, then simultaneously officiating as Vicar Apostolic of the Vicariate Apostolic of the Nordic Missions of Germany, then competent for Hamburg's Catholics.[2]
Güldenpfennig followed the design of the double tower front of Bremen Cathedral, as requested by Bishop Höting, probably in reference to St. Ansgar, who was archbishop of the double bishopric Hamburg-Bremen. The foundation stone was laid by Bishop Höting on August 15, 1890. Work was delayed during the summer of 1892 because of an outbreak of cholera. Public life in the city came to a halt, factories remained closed, and all work was stopped at the construction site. It was some ten weeks before work could resume. The new church was consecrated on June 28, 1893.[3]
References
edit- ^ (de) Metropolitankapitel des Erzbistums Hamburg (Hrsg.): Der St. Marien-Dom Hamburg. Folder Hamburg 2011.
- ^ Section "Neubau der St. Marien Kirche" Archived March 15, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, p. 6, on: (en/de) St. Marien-Dom Hamburg Archived October 12, 2011, at the Wayback Machine (website of New St. Mary's Cathedral), retrieved on 21 June 2011.
- ^ "Weiter zur Ausstellung, 125 Jahre St. Marien“
Further reading
edit- Kamps, Gerhard (2000) Domkirche St. Marien Hamburg. Regensburg: Schnell & Steiner. ISBN 978-3-7954-6301-4 (in German)
- Archdiocese of Hamburg (2008) Der Neue Mariendom. Besucherinformation (in German)
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