Religions in Detmold

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The majority of Detmold's Christians belong to the Reformed Church , which has merged with the Evangelical Lutheran Church to form the Lippe Regional Church . A Jewish community had existed in Detmold for centuries , but it was forcibly dissolved shortly before the start of the Second World War. The first organized Islamic community in Detmold was founded in 1996.

Christianity

Lippe regional church

Market Church in the city center

Detmold initially belonged to the Archdiocese of Paderborn before the Reformation under the rule of Bernhard VIII Graf zur Lippe (1536–1563) spread in Detmold and throughout the area and the Lutheran creed was introduced. At the beginning of the 17th century the Reformed Confession gained influence. Today Detmold is the seat of the Lippe regional church .

  • Evangelical Reformed Church Congregations:
    • Detmold-Ost, parish I – III (city center, Spork-Eichholz, Remmighausen, Herberhausen)
    • Detmold-West, parishes I – III
    • Pivitsheide, parish I – III
    • Berlebeck,
    • Holy Churches
    • Heidenoldendorf
    • Hiddesen
    • Vahlhausen

The Church of the Redeemer on the market square belongs to the Protestant Reformed community of Detmold-Ost. Before the Reformation , the church, built in the 8th century, was still called St. Vitus . The tower was only built in 1564 after the Reformation. In its current form it corresponds to a three-aisled Gothic hall church. At that time, the church initially belonged to the Lutheran church before the change to the Reformed creed was carried out in 1605.

The Christ Church on Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz belongs to the Protestant Reformed community of Detmold-West . It was built in the neo-Gothic style by Otto Kuhlmann in 1905–1908 . The last ruling lord of the Lippe region, Prince Leopold IV , and his wife Bertha have found their final resting place in the crypt . The church can be visited daily. Are held there regularly evening church services .

  • Evangelical Lutheran parishes:
    • Detmold, parish I – IV
    • Hiddesen

The most famous Evangelical Lutheran church in Detmold, the Martin Luther Church , is centrally located on Schülerstrasse. It was built on the site of the first Lutheran church, built around 1740, whose late baroque pulpit can be viewed in the Lippe State Museum. The new church was built between 1896 and 1898 in a neo-Gothic style. In the church there is a room of calm , in which everyone can withdraw from the hectic city center, to pray for a few moments in peace or to enjoy the silence. Church services are sometimes held there in Korean .

In the north of the city is the Evangelical Lutheran Trinity Church on Wittenberger Weg , to which the house of the church in Herberhausen also belongs. The house of the church was built in a social hot spot to create a place where people of different origins could meet. There are offers for childcare and drug advice.

There is also an Evangelical-Lutheran community center built in 1972 on Emil-Peters-Strasse, to which the Senfkorn daycare center also belongs. Community meetings and children's Bible weeks take place there regularly.

Evangelical Free Churches

There are a number of Protestant free churches in Detmold. Many communities grew in the 1990s due to the influx of ethnic German repatriates from Russia , primarily from Russia and other CIS countries . In 2009, the various Protestant free churches in the city came to a joint Detmold Free Church Day for the first time under the motto One in Christ .

The number of Methodist (Wesleyan) Christians grew when many British soldiers were stationed in Detmold after the Second World War. In the so-called Engländerviertel in Detmold-Nord, many Britons of Methodist creed lived until it was evacuated in October 2014.

Catholicism

  • Catholic parishes :
    • Pastoral Association Detmold
      • Holy cross
      • St. Mary
      • St. Stephanus (Hiddesen)
      • Holy Spirit (Pivitsheide)
      • All Saints' Day (Heiligenkirchen / Berlebeck)

After there was no more Catholic life in Detmold after the Reformation , Maximilian Freiherr von Laßberg , who had come to Detmold as a post counselor, began collecting the Roman Catholic residents from 1847. In 1850 the first mass could be read in the spinning room of the former prison. In 1850 he bought a narrow piece of land between the moat and the city wall and began building a church hall and a pastor's house. The Bonifatius Church is consecrated in 1852. In 1854 the "Mission Detmold" was raised to a parish and is allowed to raise its own church tax. Established a school community in 1905. In 1946 there were already 6,500 Catholics living in Detmold, many of whom were war refugees from the eastern regions .

On March 11, 1951 ( Passion Sunday ) the Archbishop of Paderborn Lorenz Jaeger consecrated the Holy Cross Church on Schubertplatz, where the Sunday masses of Detmold's Catholics still take place today.

In 1953 the Catholic old people's home Bonifatius was founded. In the same year 60 people moved there. In 1973 the number of Catholics living in Detmold was just under 11,000.

In 2002 the Catholic parishes celebrated their 150th anniversary.

The pastoral network includes u. a. the St. Elisabeth Foundation , the German Scouting Society St. Georg , the Catholic children's living group Bent II in Hiddesen and the Caritassozialstation St. Elisabeth .

orthodoxy

Orthodox Christians also live in Detmold , mainly Russians , Serbs and Greeks , who also regularly gather for church services. The Russian Orthodox church service takes place every third Saturday of the month in the Catholic St. Mary's Church on Bergstrasse.

Also in the cath. Holy Cross Church on Schubertplatz, in addition to Catholic services, holy liturgies are held at irregular intervals .

New Apostolic Church

The congregation of the New Apostolic Church in Detmold was founded in 1905. Since 1971 she has had her own church building on Annastraße. A church building in Pivitsheide , Im Nieleinen, has also been used for the meetings since 1971 . In February 2017, however, the second building was given up due to excessive renovation costs. The members were distributed among the surrounding communities.

Judaism

Jews lived in Detmold for centuries. The most important part of the Jewish cultural heritage in Detmold was a synagogue on Lortzingstrasse, which was completely destroyed by the Nazis during the Night of the Reichspogrom . Today there is a stone memorial at the site of the synagogue, which is supposed to commemorate the Jews who were murdered and disenfranchised in the night of the pogrom. Nevertheless Jews live in Detmold; they belong to the Jewish community of Herford-Detmold , an amalgamation of the communities of Herford and Detmold. The union had become necessary in 1970 because of the small number of members.

Islam

In the 1970s, an increasing number of migrant workers came to Germany from Turkey and thus also to Detmold, creating the first notable Muslim minority in Detmold. The number of Muslims also increased when numerous Kurdish migrants came to Detmold at the end of the 1980s and beginning of the 1990s, the majority of whom were Sunni-Islamic denominations.

The first organized Islamic community in Detmold was founded in 1996 on the initiative of DİTİB . The Detmold Central Mosque ( Merkez Camii in Turkish ), in which the Friday sermon is held, is located on Lemgoer Straße.

There is also the IGMG mosque of the Islamic community Millî Görüş , located on Industriestraße.

The Islamic Communication Center (IKZ e.V.) is located on Industriestrasse. The association was founded in 1991 as a free and independent association. The original name AMGT e. V. was changed in order to break down prejudices and barriers with a purely German name. Outsiders should already recognize from the name that encounters and dialogue are desirable here. The original intention of only satisfying the religious needs of the Muslims in Detmold was later joined by the need for an integration-promoting association policy. Today the association carries out various integration projects with local cooperation partners. In 2008 the association actively worked on the development of an integration concept for the city of Detmold. Language courses for women, youth work and homework support are further fields of activity of the association.

Buddhism

Since there are numerous students from Asia (especially from Japan ) at the Detmold Music Academy , there are two small Buddhist communities in Detmold . One is a meditation center in the Hiddesen district and the other is a cultural center run by German converts. The center is a member of the German Buddhist Union , half of which consists of German converts .

Other religious communities

There have been regular meetings of Jehovah's Witnesses since 1932 - first in Pivitsheide , later also in Detmold.

See also

Web links

Protestant communities
Catholic parishes
New Apostolic congregations
Jewish community

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Augustinus Reineke: Catholic Church in Lippe 783-1983 . Bonifatius-Druckerei, Paderborn 1983, ISBN 3-87088-354-5 , p. 166 .
  2. ↑ Guntmar Wolff: Costs for the renovation of the church are too high | Detmold . In: Detmold . ( lz.de [accessed on September 13, 2017]).
  3. ^ Moscheesuche.de: Detmold

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