Holy Family (Klein Escherde)

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The Holy Family is the Roman Catholic Church in the Klein Escherde district of the Nordstemmen community in the Hildesheim district in Lower Saxony . Today it belongs to the parish of St. Martinus Hildesheim - Catholic Church in the "Güldenen Winkel" in the Hildesheim deanery of the Hildesheim diocese .

history

In the 13th century, the localities Groß Escherde and Klein Escherde are often treated as a unit in the sources. The first written mention of Escherde goes back to the traditions of the Corvey monastery , where it is mentioned that a nobleman named Dietmar gave his son Wichard to the monastery in 972. As the son's trousseau , he gave the monastery a family in Hesschehirithi with a yoke of 24 . Whether these were ancestors of the later knightly family von Escherde , who were ministerials of the Hildesheim bishop , cannot be proven. However, there is evidence that knight Lippold von Escherde founded a Benedictine monastery in 1203 . The monastery temporarily took on the name Neu Escherde until it was called Escherde Monastery . The founder not only transferred property to the monastery, but also transferred patronage rights to the parish church in Escher , with the consent of the bishop . Art historians suspect that the parish church, which existed until 1891 and whose medieval patronage is unknown, could have been built around the year 1200. The monastery was detached from the parish association of Betheln and the archdeaconate of Rheden in 1236 by Bishop Konrad II . However, his independence was restricted by the von Escherde family , as it was reserved for the sons of the founder to be elected as bailiff by the convent of the monastery .

The documented differentiation between Groß and Klein Escherde began in 1258. Klein Escherde probably only received a chapel through the archdeacon and provost with the foundation of the Vicarie St. Martin, which probably had taken over the patronage of St. Martin. A chaplain of the chapel is confirmed for 1380. Ecclesiastically, Klein Escherde belonged to Groß Escherde as a branch parish, which in turn belonged to the monastery church of St. Maria, from which the pastor looked after his parish. Economic difficulties of the Escherde monastery were remedied by donations from Bishop Magnus von Sachsen-Lauenburg in the middle of the 15th century. In order to be able to examine the religious conditions of the monastery, the church reformer Johannes Busch was commissioned with a later successful reformation of the monastery in 1441 . The Quedlinburg Recess in 1523 was significant for the denominational relationships in both towns.

Former half-timbered church

While large and small Escherde remained under the influence of the prince-bishop in the tax forest , the monastery Escherde was in the bishopric of Hildesheim and thus came into the possession of Erich I of Braunschweig-Calenberg , whose wife Elisabeth von Calenberg reformed it in 1545 . In 1600, Duke Julius II of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel claimed the right of patronage over the branch church in Groß Escherde. After the church visitation between 1608 and 1609, Escherde Monastery and the Groß Escherde community were reformed. In 1609, however, the inhabitants of Klein Escherde had partially got used to the Catholic cult again. In order to be able to strengthen the Catholic religious relations again, Klein Escherde was relocated to the parish of Emmerke. After the restitution of the monastery in 1643, Prince-Bishop Ferdinand had the monastery temporarily occupied by male religious. A half-timbered chapel with the patronage of the Holy Family was built in the Catholic branch community of Klein Escherde in 1699 . The original church was probably destroyed in the Thirty Years War . In 1760 the Escherde monastery parish even became its own circle. In view of the impending secularization of the monastery, the Escherdensis circle was dissolved in 1808 and the Emmerke circle was set up instead. The secularization of the monastery was carried out under the rule of King Jerome in 1810. At the same time, the monastery parish, which in 1803 still looked after 257 Catholic Christians, was dissolved. had re-established the Catholic religious relations, which is also confirmed by the visit report from 1657.

In Klein Escherde, Holy Mass was celebrated in the chapel on Sundays and public holidays . Since the Catholic population there had increased considerably after 1945 due to refugees , the half-timbered church soon became too small for the approximately 140 people attending church services. In 1973 the diocese leadership of the Escherder Kapellenvorstand decided to hand over the church to the museum village of Cloppenburg , where it was rebuilt. In the same year a new chapel was built in its original place, which has been taken over by the patronage of the Holy Family. It remained a branch church of St. Martinus in Emmerke until 2010.

In 2010 the parishes of St. Martinus in Himmelsthür , St. Kunibert in Sorsum , St. Martinus in Emmerke and the Holy Family in Escherde merged to form the new parish of St. Martinus Hildesheim - Catholic Church in the "Güldenen Winkel". The Holy Family has since been a branch church of St. Martinus in Himmelsthür.

architecture

  • Modern hexagonal building with high altar from 1670 in the Renaissance style

literature

  • Helmut Ottenjan (Ed.): The half-timbered church of Klein Escherde in Museum Guide Cloppenburg , 9th edition, Cloppenburg 1988
  • Willi Stoffers: Diocese of Hildesheim today , page 20-21, ISBN 3-87065-418-X , Bonifatiuswerk, Hildesheim 1987

Web links

  • Holy Family on the side of the parish of St. Martinus in Hildesheim.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bischöfliches Generalvikariat Hildesheim (ed.): Handbook of the Diocese of Hildesheim, Part 1 - Region Hildesheim , page 229, self-published, Hildesheim 1992
  2. ↑ Bischöfliches Generalvikariat Hildesheim (ed.): Handbook of the Diocese of Hildesheim, Part 1 - Region Hildesheim , pages 229–230, self-published, Hildesheim 1992
  3. ↑ Bischöfliches Generalvikariat Hildesheim (ed.): Handbook of the Diocese of Hildesheim, Part 1 - Region Hildesheim , page 230, self-published, Hildesheim 1992
  4. ↑ Bischöfliches Generalvikariat Hildesheim (Ed.): Kirchlicher Anzeiger. No. 6/2010, pp. 184-187

Coordinates: 52 ° 9 '37.6 "  N , 9 ° 50' 11.7"  E