Corpus Christi Church (Rotenburg (Wümme))
The Corpus Christi Church in Rotenburg (Wümme) in Lower Saxony is a Roman Catholic parish church in the Verden (Aller) deanery of the Diocese of Hildesheim .
Surname
The church bears the patronage of Corpus Christi (Latin, " Body of Christ "). Under the name of the will Eucharistic current form of bread Christ worshiped. The day of patronage is Corpus Christi .
history
Until 1960 there was a very small Catholic wooden church in Rotenburg in the area of Glockengießerstrasse, northeast of the city center. This was looked after by the parish curate Kettenburg-Visselhövede-Rotenburg based in Schloss Kettenburg . After the community moved to the current building, the building was used as a residential building for a while and was finally demolished.
The present church was consecrated in 1961, as there was a strong increase in the Catholic population , especially after the Second World War, due to many refugees from Silesia and Warmia . Other important groups within the community today are ethnic repatriates from Poland and the former Soviet Union , community members of Italian origin and immigrants from southern and western Germany . The care of the Catholic soldiers of the Rotenburg Von-Düring barracks is traditionally important . The catchment area of the municipality includes the city of Rotenburg (Wümme) , the unitary municipality of Scheeßel and the combined municipalities of Sottrum , Bothel , Fintel , Zeven and Tarmstedt .
In the course of the current structural changes in the Diocese of Hildesheim due to declining church tax income and falling numbers of Catholics, the Corpus Christi parish was merged on November 1, 2006 with the neighboring Catholic parish " Christ König " in Zeven . The Corpus Christi Church remained the parish church.
Architecture and equipment
The church is a single-nave, modern hall structure with a rectangular floor plan in Nordstrasse 14, a residential area northeast of the Rotenburg city center, oriented from west to east. The building has neither a tower nor church bells , as this had not been approved by the diocese at the time the church was built due to limited financial resources. The western facade on Nordstrasse with the entrance is defined by a metal sculpture depicting two crosses placed one on top of the other. Architect of the Church Alois Hafkemeyer was from Braunschweig , who is also the churches of St. Norbert (Grasleben) , St. Mary's (Brunswick-Querum) , St. Elizabeth (Salzgitter) , St. Bernward (Braunschweig) , the Ecumenical Center St. Stephen and St. Maximilian Kolbe (Salzgitter) designed.
In the interior, which is bright and sober in the style of the 1960s, there is a Lady Chapel, a Way of the Cross by Hans Dinnendahl from Telgte and, until the renovation in 2009/10, a large wall mosaic on the front side behind the altar depicting the “ Lamb of God ”. From November 2009 to May 2010 the church was fundamentally redesigned. The rededication took place on May 8, 2010 by the Bishop of Hildesheim, Norbert Trelle .
literature
- Norbert Kesseler: Architecture projects in the Diocese of Hildesheim. Bernward Mediengesellschaft, Hildesheim 2012.
- Willi Stoffers: Diocese of Hildesheim today. Hildesheim 1987, ISBN 3-87065-418-X , p. 92.
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Coordinates: 53 ° 6 ′ 54.9 ″ N , 9 ° 24 ′ 37.9 ″ E
