" They toured the archdiocese and collected funds to give the community a home after years in the makeshift church. This gave the “Kleineicheners” a special self-confidence that can still be felt today in the lovingly furnished church.
Prehistory
After the Second World War, there was a wooden barrack on Bismarckstrasse where services were held from 1946 to 1952. A small bell in the attached tower called the believers to Holy Mass. The Protestant Christians were allowed to use the emergency church.
Building history
The foundation stone for the Holy Family Church was laid on September 18, 1951. The new church was inaugurated on July 6, 1952. The architect was Philipp Franzen. The bell tower is a temporary structure. Originally it was supposed to be 19 meters high. In the 6 meter high tower hangs a bell weighing 11 hundredweight that rings with the note “g”. An inscription indicates that it was cast on May 10, 1652 by Hans Krantz from Troppau.
Under canon law, the church was a rectorate church until June 30, 2007. The rectorate's church records were closed and all other files were transferred to the parish of St. Nikolaus von Tolentino in Rösrath. Since then, all pastoral rights and duties have rested with the responsible priest of St. Nicholas of Tolentino.
Denominational help
As with the emergency church on Bismarckstrasse, the Catholic Christians also granted their fellow Protestant Christians hospitality in the Rectorate Church. It was not until 1964 that Protestant Christians received their own church of the cross."