Holy Spirit (Sarstedt)
Heilig Geist is the Catholic parish church of Sarstedt in the Hildesheim district . It is located at Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Straße 14, the neighboring parish hall at Bischof-v.-Ketteler-Platz 1. The parish is part of the Borsum-Sarstedt deanery of the Hildesheim diocese .
Architecture and equipment
The church was built in 1912/13 according to plans by Eduard Endler . The foundation stone was laid on June 16, 1912, and the church, located around 63 meters above sea level , was consecrated by Bishop Adolf Bertram on October 5, 1913 . It is a neo-Romanesque , east-facing basilica on a cross plan made of light gray, roughly hewn natural stone. The three-aisled nave has an open vestibule to the west and a choir with a semicircular apse to the east. The transept arms are lower than the central nave. On the south side of the portal front stands the massive tower with a square floor plan and an octagonal upper floor.
The interior impression is dominated by the mighty barrel vault , which spans the central nave and continues to the choir and apse in two triumphal arch-like gradations. The wall surfaces have been kept white since the renovation in 2001 (headed by Christoph Gerlach ), with pale blue fields, reddish grid structures and light gray markings on the arches and niches. The lattice motif is taken up by the high, wing-like dividing elements that separate the tabernacle area , the sanctuary , from the rest of the room. There is a large mosaic ( Claus Kilian , 1969) that depicts the Whitsun event with reference to the Holy Spirit - patronage of the church . In 2001, the altar and sediments were deliberately designed to associate a festive meal. The most important of the saints is the Madonna of the Crescent , the work of an unknown artist around 1700.
history
The Sarstedt post-Reformation Catholic parish is a daughter of the episcopal Hildesheim parish of Ruthe and owes its emergence and growth to the stormy development of Sarstedt since the middle of the 19th century. The establishment of a Catholic school (1898) was followed by the purchase of a church building plot in 1906 and the establishment of the branch parish in 1908 , which, however, only received full parish status on April 1, 1961 . The first half of the 20th century was marked by the flourishing of clubs and associations, the second by the influx of mainly Silesian expellees and repatriates. The community, which became independent in 1958, founded a kindergarten in 1963 and an old people's home in 1982.
Since December 1, 2002, the church has belonged to the then newly founded deanery Borsum-Sarstedt, previously it belonged to the deanery Förste-Sarstedt. Since September 1, 2010, the parish has also included the Catholic churches in Nordstemmen , Poppenburg and Ruthe ; the church Heilig Kreuz in Schulenburg , which has also been part of the parish since January 1, 2009 , was profaned in 2012 .
Catholic institutions
In addition to the church and the parish hall, the following Catholic institutions are located in Sarstedt:
- Kindergarten St. Hedwig (Weichsstrasse 15)
- Altenzentrum Heilig Geist (Burgstrasse 12), it has a house chapel
- Cemetery on Hildesheimer Strasse with the All Saints Chapel built in 1958
See also
literature
- Parish council and parish council of the parish Heilig Geist (ed.): Heilig-Geist-Kirche zu Sarstedt. Hildesheim 2001.
- Parish of the Holy Spirit (ed.): 100 years of the Holy Spirit Church in Sarstedt. Sarstedt 2013.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 14 ′ 8.1 " N , 9 ° 50 ′ 56.3" E