Heart of Jesus (Oebisfelde)

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The Church of the Heart of Jesus is the Catholic church in Oebisfelde , a district of the city of Oebisfelde-Weferlingen , in the Börde district in Saxony-Anhalt . It is the largest church in the Gardelegen parish “St. Hildegard ”, and belongs to the Stendal deanery of the Magdeburg diocese . The church named after the Sacred Heart of Jesus is located at Bahnhofstrasse 24.

history

With the introduction of the Reformation in Oebisfelde in 1542, the population and the Oebisfeld Church became Evangelical-Lutheran .

Only with the economic development in the 19th century, favored by the Oebisfelde train station built in 1871 , did Catholics settle again in Oebisfelde. On December 26, 1892, parish administrator Heinrich Haehling von Lanzenauer from Gardelegen celebrated the first Catholic service in Oebisfelde, in a hall of the rifle house. Later the services took place in the "Jägerhof". In 1892 around 100 Catholics were already living in Oebisfelde and the surrounding villages. They were initially looked after by the clergy from Althaldensleben , Gardelegen and Helmstedt .

In 1899 the Bishop of Hildesheim sent Vicar Joseph Evers to Oebisfelde because of the many Catholics in Velpke , where at that time no church could be built for political reasons. He initially lived in Gardelegen, but moved to Oebisfelde in 1903 after purchasing a house. After Vicar Evers was transferred in April 1908, the Oebisfeld pastoral care position was filled with priests from the Diocese of Paderborn , to which Oebisfelde belonged at the time. The first of these clergymen was Bernhard Knostmann.

On September 16, 1906, the foundation stone of the church was laid on Kaltendorfer Bahnhofstrasse. It was consecrated on July 28, 1907, and on August 1 or 18, 1908, the episcopal consecration followed by auxiliary bishop Augustinus Gockel . From 1922 to 1926 Lorenz Jaeger , who later became Archbishop of Paderborn, worked as parish vicar in Oebisfelde.

During the GDR the church was in the restricted area, members of the parish living outside the restricted area were not allowed to visit the church. The Oebisfeld clergy held services for them outside the restricted area, in Protestant churches and secular rooms. The GDR authorities renamed the street on which the church is located to Karl-Marx-Strasse, which was reversed after the fall of the Wall . During the GDR, the spire of the church was also demolished due to structural damage; it has not been rebuilt to this day.

On May 1, 1960, the Catholic parish Oebisfelde was established. In 1987 the former subsidiary in Velpke re-established contact with the parish in Oebisfelde, from which Velpke was now also separated by the inner-German border . On September 17, 1987, a delegation from the Velpker parish met in the rectory of St. Elisabeth's Church in Mieste , as Oebisfelde was in the restricted area of ​​the GDR and therefore could not be visited by strangers without permission. Since December 1, 2006, the church no longer has a local priest , but is looked after by the pastor from Gardelegen. On November 1, 2007, the parishes of Gardelegen and Oebisfelde, the Kuratien Kalbe and Mieste , and the parish vicarages Beetzendorf and Klötze were set up to form a community network. On May 2, 2010 today's parish “St. Hildegard ”, to which the Herz-Jesu-Kirche has belonged ever since. The 2011 census in the European Union showed that of the 13,838 inhabitants of the city of Oebisfelde-Weferlingen 480, and thus 3.5%, belonged to the Roman Catholic Church. The most recent renovation of the church took place in 2013. Since the Church of St. Anthony of Padua (Dehre) was closed in 2015, the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus has been the westernmost church in the Stendal deanery.

Architecture and equipment

The church is about 62 meters above sea level , it was built according to plans by Maximilian Jagielski and offers 168 seats. A Sacred Heart statue is in its own side chapel. In the anteroom of the church there is a mission cross that commemorates the popular mission of 1952.

See also

literature

  • Peter Eppert: Chronicle St. Marien / Velpke. Grafhorst 1999, pp. 1-6, 18
  • Peter Eppert: 75 years of St. Marien Velpke. Grafhorst 2004, pp. 5-7, 16, 34-35

Web links

Commons : Herz Jesu (Oebisfelde-Weferlingen)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.kath-kirche-haldensleben.de/Gemeinden/weferlingen/priest.htm
  2. ^ Alfred Hanus: Development of the Catholic parish in Weferlingen. Weferlingen 2005, pp. 9/11.
  3. ↑ http://www.kathpedia.com/index.php?title=Lorenz_Jaeger
  4. ↑ Altmark Zeitung of May 3, 2010 (article on the congregation merger)
  5. ↑ St. Michael parish council, Wolfsburg. Edition February – May 2018, p. 22.
  6. ↑ http://www.bistum-magdeburg.de/front_content.php?idcat=1400&idart=2411&lang=5
  7. ↑ http://www.bistum-magdeburg.de/front_content.php?idcat=2760&idart=14430&lang=5

Coordinates: 52 ° 26 ′ 10 ″  N , 10 ° 59 ′ 9 ″  E