Good Shepherd (Hildesheim)

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The Good Shepherd Church

Guter Hirt is the Catholic Church in the northern part of the eastern part of Hildesheim , the so-called Fahrenheit area . The church bears the church title Good Shepherd after the I-am-word of Jesus I am the good shepherd ( Jn 10.11  EU ). The church is located at Altfriedweg 1 (corner of Fahrenheitstraße). It is a branch church of the parish of Mariä Lichtmess in Drispenstedt .

history

Planning for the church began in the 1960s with the rapid development of the surrounding area, which is delimited by arterial roads but also divided by railway lines. In 1966, the “Guter Hirt” daycare center was built, where services were initially held. In 1968 the rectory was built, and in 1969 the rectory.

The church was also built in 1969, and its consecration took place on December 21, 1969 . On September 1, 1970, the new parish was established from parts of the St. Johannes and St. Elisabeth parishes, and on December 1, 1982, it was elevated to a parish.

From August 1, 2004 the church belonged to the parish of St. John Evangelist , the parish of Guter Hirt was dissolved in this context. Since November 1st, 2006 the church, like the St. John's Church, has belonged to the parish of Mariä Candlemas .

The residential area is one of the socially weaker urban areas with high fluctuation and a high proportion of migrants . Therefore, from the beginning, church life had a charitable accent. The social lunch menu, a daily open offer, has become a household name in the city and region. In 2009 it was expanded to include a social warehouse .

Architecture and equipment

The church, designed by Josef Fehlig , is a towerless central building made of exposed concrete on an irregular polygonal floor plan. The rising and falling lines of the walls and, in the opposite direction, the window areas give the building a sense of movement. A large concrete relief above the entrance indicates the Whitsun event . The interior was designed in 1969 by Hildesheim artist Paul König (1932–2015).

See also

literature

  • Willi Stoffers: Diocese of Hildesheim today. Bernward-Verlag, Hildesheim 1987, ISBN 3-87065-418-X , pp. 16-17

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bischöfliches Generalvikariat Hildesheim (ed.): Catholic worship in the diocese of Hildesheim. Hildesheim 1966, p. 55
  2. ↑ Paul König on the website of the Diocese of Hildesheim , accessed on March 19, 2016

Coordinates: 52 ° 9 ′ 40.8 ″  N , 9 ° 57 ′ 59.8 ″  E