Heart of Jesus (Gommern)

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Sacred Heart Church

The Church of the Heart of Jesus is the Catholic church in Gommern , a town in the Jerichower Land district in Saxony-Anhalt . The church named after the Sacred Heart of Jesus belongs to the parish of St. John the Baptist based in Burg and is the southernmost church in the Stendal deanery of the Magdeburg diocese . It is listed in the monument register of the state of Saxony-Anhalt under registration number 094 76154 as a monument and is located at the address Am Weinberg 1a.

history

In the deed of foundation for the Diocese of Brandenburg from 948, Gommern is officially mentioned for the first time with its place name Guntmiri . At that time it had the position of a castle award and was given as such by Otto I to the Moritzkloster in Magdeburg in 965 . In the 12th century Gommern came under the rule of Albrecht the Bear and thus became part of the Duchy of Saxony . It thus formed an enclave in the Magdeburg-Brandenburg area of ​​influence. A town church is already mentioned in 1192. From 1283 to 1308 Gommern had to be pledged to the Archdiocese of Magdeburg and from 1418 to 1539 to the city of Magdeburg. In the 12th century, the Burgward developed into a village settlement along a road at the foot of the castle.

In the 16th century Gommern became Protestant-Lutheran with the introduction of the Reformation . It was not until the end of the 19th century that Catholics settled in Gommern again in the course of industrialization. This was favored by the Gommern-Zerbst-Dessau railway line, which opened in 1874, and the Gommern sugar factory that went into operation in 1890. The Catholics who moved there also found work opportunities in agriculture and in the quarry. Since no Catholic priest was active in Gommern and the surrounding area, some men founded the Association of Polish Catholics in 1892 . From Easter Monday 1893 on, Catholic services were held in Gommern, initially in a hall of the Hotel Deutsches Haus . From 1894, the services took place in a barn that was poorly furnished for this purpose, and Catholic school lessons also began. On May 1, 1897, the mission vicarie Gommern was established, and the new priest Franz Dunkelberg began his work as mission vicar in Gommern. From this point on, Catholic church registers were kept in Gommern . From 1900, the services were held in the Catholic school that had now been established.

The groundbreaking ceremony for the church took place on April 1, 1902 , and the foundation stone was laid on April 27, 1902 . On July 9, 1903, the Herz-Jesu-Kirche was consecrated by Wilhelm Schneider , the bishop of the Paderborn diocese , to which Gommern belonged at the time. The church got its first organ around 1905, and its prospectus has been preserved to this day.

In 1937 the organ was renewed, and in 1939 the Catholic school had to be closed by order of the National Socialist rulers. Around 1940 Catholic refugees from Saarland came to Gommern, and around 1946 the number of Catholics in Gommern increased considerably due to the influx of refugees and displaced persons . On May 12, 1948, the parish of Gommern was established.

On February 1, 2006, the community association Burg-Gommern-Loburg was established, to which the parish Herz Jesu belonged from then on. In that year the last local priest from Gommern also retired. On May 2, 2010, today's parish of Burg emerged from the community, to which the Sacred Heart Church has belonged since then.

The 2011 census in the European Union showed that 450 of the 10,919 inhabitants of the city of Gommern, around 4.1%, belonged to the Roman Catholic Church. The majority of the inhabitants did not belong to any religious community.

Location, architecture and equipment

The church, built in the neo-Gothic style, has the highest tower in Gommern. The church with its cruciform floor plan is built of red bricks. It was built in 1902/1903 according to plans by the Paderborn master builder of the Archdiocese of Arnold Güldenpfennig . For the brick building, Güldenpfennig only slightly modified the design he developed for the Zeitz St. Peter and Paul Church , which was built from 1894 to 1899 . To the west of the ship is the slightly recessed church tower, the rectangular floor plan of which is arranged across the nave. To the side of the tower are round stair towers. The tower is covered with a hipped roof and is crowned by a lantern , a tower ball and a weathercock . The current windows were designed by Christof Grüger around 1957 , the previous windows were kept darker.

Interior

The interior of the church is spanned by a wooden, partly painted barrel ceiling, the pews offer seats for 140 visitors. The choir has a ribbed vault . The nave is separated from the transept by an arcade of two pointed arches resting on columns. On the west side of the nave there is a gallery , including the confessional and the writing stand . The interior was repaired in 1963/64. Noteworthy is a copper hanging cross above the altar by Hildegard Hendrichs from Erfurt from 1964. In the north aisle there is a slightly smaller carved figure of Our Lady in a halo on the east wall, as well as five small figures depicting female saints, in front of which candles can be placed. The figures date from the first half of the 15th century and probably come from a carved altar retable. The tabernacle and baptismal font , which is crowned by a dove symbolizing the Holy Spirit , have their place in the south aisle . 14 pictures of the Stations of the Cross hang on the side walls .

organ

The organ in the church was originally created in 1904 or 1906 by the Langensalza organ building company Petersilie and renovated in 1937 by the Magdeburg organ builder Brandt. It has five registers ( Gedackt 8 ', Principal 4', Rohrflöte 4 ', Waldflöte 2' and Mixtur 3 f) on a manual and another register ( Subbass 16 ') on the pedal as well as octave couplers .

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Herz Jesu  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.bistum-magdeburg.de/aktuelles-termine/amtsblatt/2006/ausgabe-02-2006/bischof.html
  2. ↑ Mediaprint Infoverlag GmbH (ed.): Citizens' information brochure for the unified community of Gommern. 2nd edition, Mering 2016, p. 6
  3. ↑ http://www.kath-zeitz.de/bild/upload/dom-2-1887-1902-700x900-Missionspfarrei.pdf
  4. ^ Katholische Kirche Gommern, choir and side windows (1957?) Christof-grueger.de, accessed on March 8, 2019
  5. ↑ Information material available in the church.
  6. ^ Folkhard Cremer, Dehio, Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Saxony-Anhalt I, administrative region Magdeburg , Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-422-03069-7 , page 276.

Coordinates: 52 ° 4 ′ 24.6 "  N , 11 ° 49 ′ 27.8"  E