Christ König (Woltwiesche)
The Christ König chapel was the Catholic chapel in Woltwiesche , a district of Lengede in the Peine district in Lower Saxony . At last it belonged to the parish of St. Marien with its seat in Lengede, in the Peine deanery of the Diocese of Hildesheim , and was located at Grosse Strasse 36. The nearest Catholic church is now in the neighboring town of Lengede, about two kilometers away.
history
As a result of the Reichswerke Hermann Göring founded in nearby Salzgitter in 1937 , Catholic workers also settled in the Protestant-Lutheran area of Woltwiesche, which has been since the Reformation . From 1940 a priest residing in Lesse looked after the Catholics in Woltwiesche; Services were initially held in the hall of a restaurant in Woltwiesche.
In order not to attract attention from the government authorities, which were hostile to the church at the time, in August 1940 a Braunschweig architect as a straw man , commissioned and financed by the diocese of Hildesheim, bought the building of the former Woltwiesche-Barbecke dairy, built in 1892, which is 89 meters above the ground the sea level . In the summer of 1941 he sold the building to the Vicariate General in Hildesheim. In order to meet the requirements of the Housing Settlement Act in the Free State of Braunschweig , the purchase contract was submitted to the responsible district administrator for approval in September 1941 . In the meantime, the district leader of the National Socialist German Workers' Party in the Wolfenbüttel district , to which Woltwiesche belonged at the time, tried to prevent church authorities from buying the former dairy with the Secret State Police in Braunschweig and with Dietrich Klagges . However, the establishment of a chapel in the former dairy building had already been carried out and was inaugurated on October 5, 1941. From March 1942, the Secret State Police forbade church use of the building, and state authorities tried to buy the building. Only when Catholic refugees and evacuees poured into the Free State of Braunschweig as a result of the advance of the Allied military in 1944, services in the now expropriated chapel were permitted again.
On June 5, 1994, after decades of church use, the last service took place, the chapel was profaned and became private property.
See also
literature
- Willi Stoffers: Diocese of Hildesheim today. Hildesheim 1987, ISBN 3-87065-418-X , p. 65
- KirchenZeitung No. 43/2012, Hildesheim 2012, p. 13
- Thomas Flammer: National Socialism and the Catholic Church in the Free State of Braunschweig 1931–1945. Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2013, pp. 172-174, 187, 194
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Coordinates: 52 ° 12 '4.76 " N , 10 ° 16' 36.69" O