Holy Spirit Church Wacken

After all material and organizational difficulties had been resolved, the king approved the construction of new churches in Todenbüttel and Wacken and the establishment of independent parishes on July 22, 1858. Provost von der Heyde laid the foundation stone for the new church building on August 7th, 1861 in the presence of the 86-year-old Provost Callisen. As in Todenbüttel, the construction work was entrusted to the architects Remé and Glüer, whose design came very close to that of the neighboring church. On October 6th, 1863, Bishop Koopmann was able to consecrate the spacious building, which can accommodate 700 visitors, to the name of the Holy Spirit Church.

It is a single-nave, cross-shaped complex with a transverse structure and a roof turret over the crossing, which is kept in the early Gothic style. The roof was initially covered with slate and received a copper roofing in 1910, which however fell victim to the First World War.

In the interior with its flat beamed ceiling there is a realistic crucifix made with great care from around 1600, which comes from the Nicolaikirche in Itzehoe and was donated by the Klahn family. In addition to a painting of the Holy Family from the 17th century, we find here a portrait of H.v. Neergaard from 1888, who can be regarded as the founder of the parish, and also a portrait of the first pastor of the parish, Detlef Rolfs, who worked in Wacken from 1863 to 1873. Baptism, the altar cover and the Lord's Supper are donations from various landlords. A large painting by the painter van Dyck depicting the Holy Family was given to the church by a resident in 1892. Time and again, the church's equipment was enriched by donations and donations from parishioners.

Source and more: kirchengemeinde-wacken.de/ueber-uns/kirchengemeinderat

In the past, the Wacken parish was once part of the Schenefeld parish and became independent together with the Todenbüttel parish in 1863. The two sister parishes owe their establishment to the landowner Harald von Neergaard on Christinenthal, who carried out the separation of the "Wester- und Norderkrooges" from the parish of Schenefeld from 1855 to 1863, because he urgently needed better church support in these very remote parts of the community held.

On July 22nd, 1858 the king approved the construction of new churches in Todenbüttel and Wacken. Provost von der Heyde laid the foundation stone for the new church building on August 7th, 1861 in the presence of the 86-year-old Provost Callisen. As in Todenbüttel, the construction work was entrusted to the architects Remé and Glüer, whose design came very close to that of the neighboring church. On October 6, 1863, Bishop Koopmann was able to consecrate the spacious building, which can accommodate 700 visitors, to the name of the Holy Spirit Church.

The parish newspaper "Kirchenmaus" reports quarterly on topics and events of the parish, which is distributed free of charge to all parishioners. And in the "Keesblatt"; there are references to the next service.

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Beautiful church in Wacken.