St. Eric's Cathedral, Stockholm
The Cathedral of St. Erich ( swedish St. Eriks Katolska domkyrka ) is the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Stockholm in the district of Södermalm in Stockholm Sweden. The cathedral consists of a Neo-Romanesque church from 1892 and an attached thereto construction of 1983. As the historic, now Lutheran Metropolitan Church in Uppsala she wears the patronal feast of St. Erich after the venerated as a saint and martyr king, who in the 12th century, the Christianization of Sweden completed.
History
After the establishment of the Lutheran Swedish state church in the 16th century there was a strict ban on worship, which was only gradually and progressively relaxed for other religious communities. 1781 was the Catholic foreigners to free exercise of religion and the Catholic education of their children. 1783 sparked the Holy See, the area of Sweden as an independent vicariate from the Vicariate Apostolic of the North. After various origins, including the predecessor of today's St. Eugenia Church ( 1837), was 1892, the parish church of St. Erich be consecrated, where the apostolic vicar took his seat. But only in 1953 the diocese of Stockholm Erich was founded and became a cathedral in St..
In the following decades, the influx of foreign Catholics brought the Catholic communities in Sweden strong growth. The Episcopal Church no longer met the requirements. 1976 began the renovation and expansion of the clergy and nurse's home. A land sale eventually gave the financial basis for the extension of the church. Other major funding came from the German Bonifatiuswerk. The new building was designed by Hans Westman and Ylva Lenormand and consecrated on 25 March 1983.
Architecture
The old St. Eric Church shows in turning back to Roman and Byzantine forms the stylistic features of the late 19th century. The external appearance is deliberately kept modest. The facade is different from an upper middle-class home of the time mainly by the column-lined portal with tympanum and gable and by two small flanking spiers, which are dominated by the kreuzbekrönten gable.
The neo-Romanesque interior is original and shows in color, ornamentation and character designer the taste of their times. Choir and apse of the old church were broken during construction, so that the old and the modern part but can also be used separately.
The modern part of the cathedral is integrated into a multifunctional parish and diocesan center. The rectangular building with a flat roof carries a 27 -meter-high, light and acting Coming bell tower of exposed concrete. The spatial structure inside is variable depending on the occasion. Hans Westman designed the acoustics of a regulatory coffered ceiling, benches and other pieces of equipment. The lighting fixtures created Peter Celsing.