Heaven's door

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Heaven's door
City of Hildesheim
Himmelsthür coat of arms
Coordinates: 52 ° 9 ′ 49 ″  N , 9 ° 54 ′ 50 ″  E
Height : 84 m
Area : 6.58 km²
Residents : 6499  (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 988 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : March 1, 1974
Postal code : 31137
Area code : 05121
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Location of Himmelsthür in Hildesheim

Himmelsthür is a district of the Lower Saxony district town of Hildesheim with around 6,500 inhabitants. Together with the areas in the area of ​​the Sandstraße and the Straße am Kupferstrange north of the B1 and west of the Innerste , which belonged to Hildesheim before the incorporation in 1974, it forms one of 14 localities in the city.

geography

Himmelsthür is located immediately south of the Giesen mountains and north of the Gallberg. It borders in the south on the Moritzberg district , in the east on Steuerwald , in the west on Sorsum and the Giesener district Emmerke and in the north on Giesen . Himmelsthür is roughly bounded in the east by the B 6 , in the south by the B 1 , which grazes the town. It is a former Catholic monastery village (so-called small monastery ).

history

First documented mention in 1022 as Hemethesdoron . Several farms were owned by the Hildesheim bishop Bernward . After he had given away several farms to the Michaeliskloster in Hildesheim in 1022 , the monastery soon built its own farm yard (Klosterhof) and a chapel here . Until around the year 1100, other Hildesheim monasteries, monasteries and churches also acquired some properties in Himdisdore and expanded these farms. The individual farms, of which there were around 30 around 1600, were only connected to each other and to the monastery courtyard by a driveway. Around half of them were destroyed in the Thirty Years War. From 1661 the village, which in contrast to many other villages in the Hildesheim area was not a clustered village but a scattered settlement, was continuously called "Himmelsthür". In 1730 about 500 people lived in Himmelsthür.

During the Second World War, a Wehrmacht storage facility was set up in the monastery property. Perhaps this was the reason that Himmelsthür was repeatedly the target of air raids and suffered extensive destruction: On September 29, 1940, the Lindenhof women's home was damaged by six explosive bombs, so that it had to be evacuated. Two people were injured. In the village, major property damage was done on Schulstrasse and Untere Dorfstrasse. During the first direct air raid on Hildesheim on July 29, 1944, isolated bombs fell on Himmelsthür, causing considerable property damage again. The second attack on the city on August 14, 1944 caused further damage in Himmelsthür: the northern wall of the monastery was damaged, as were houses on Linnenkamp, ​​which was then still called "Hafenstrasse".

Due to a bomb attack on the railway line on March 15, 1945, the place was severely destroyed by high explosive bombs. a. the Catholic parish church of St. Martinus and the school. During the last and heaviest air raid on Hildesheim on March 22, 1945, fire bombs again caused great damage in the village, and three people were killed. Of 224 buildings, 118 were destroyed and another 98 damaged, while eight remained undamaged. No other village in the Hildesheim district was as badly damaged as Himmelsthür during World War II.

From 1971 Himmelsthür was the seat of the Güldener Winkel joint community . The former communities of Emmerke , Groß Escherde, Himmelsthür and Klein Escherde belonged to this joint municipality .

On March 1, 1974, Himmelsthür was incorporated into Hildesheim as part of the regional reform in Lower Saxony . On December 31, 2005, it had 6,704 inhabitants.

religion

The village belonged to the Little Hildesheim Abbey and was therefore always Catholic. In the census of 1895, 1538 people lived in Himmelsthür, which had a Catholic but no Protestant parish church. In 1910, Himmelsthür had 1721 inhabitants, of which 1128 were Catholic and 593 were Protestant. In 1930 Himmelsthür had 1,850 inhabitants, in 1939 the population was 2,239.

With the influx of many expellees after 1945 and the general population exchange with other Hildesheim districts, the Catholics lost the majority of the population. At the time of incorporation in 1974 there were 3,645 Protestants and 2,728 Catholics living in Himmelsthür.

Stand in heaven's door

The Bernwardshof was founded from 1904 to 2015 by the Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy of St. Vincent von Paul in Hildesheim and then converted to residential purposes.

  • St. Martinus Church: destroyed in 1945, rebuilt in 1948

  • Serbian Orthodox Episcopal Church

  • The Paulus Church with its distinctive tower has a decisive influence on the townscape of Hildesheim-Himmelsthür

  • Joseph's Chapel

politics

Himmelsthür is represented by a local council of eleven. The local mayor is Christian Stock (CDU).

coat of arms

The Himmelsthürer coat of arms shows a golden horn (six-enders) on a red background.

Culture and sights

Buildings

Himmelsthür has been known for its Heavenly Post Office (first German Christmas post office ) for more than 30 years . The Himmelsthür post office was closed despite many protests by the Deutsche Post AG , but Christmas letters “To Santa Claus in Himmelsthür, 31137 Hildesheim” are still being answered.

One of the two finders of the Hildesheim silver find came from Himmelsthür and bought property here. The Silberfinderstraße in Himmelsthür is a reminder of this.

The fact that Himmelsthür was originally a predominantly Catholic village is still shown today by several wayside shrines and crosses. B. on Untere Dorfstrasse or on the corner of Jahnstrasse and Breslauer Strasse.

At Oberen Dorfstrasse 12, the Protestant theologian and pastor Bernhard Isermeyer founded a women's home for homeless women in 1888, for which a separate and widely visible church was built in 1902 in the neo-Gothic style. The Diakonie Himmelsthür moved to Hildesheim-Sorsum in 1974 . After various renovations, the church was consecrated as the Serbian Orthodox Episcopal Church for Central Europe in 1979 . There is also the monastery of All Saints Mother of God , diocesan seat.

From the farmyard of the monastery of St. Michael are merely a 1727 built, two-story barn of rubble and a Baroque gate system - both at the Silver Street Finder - get. The farmyard also included the Blumenbergscher Hof half-timbered house in Altenau 12, which was probably built in the 18th century and, according to an inscription, was named after the client.

The most striking building in the middle of Himmelsthür is the Evangelical Pauluskirche with its 42 m high tower that can be seen from afar. Its foundation stone was laid on October 12, 1958 by Regional Bishop Dr. Lilje laid. The topping-out ceremony was on December 18, 1958, and the inauguration took place on November 21, 1959.

The Catholic Church of St. Martinus in the Untere Dorfstrasse / corner of Schulstrasse was built in 1747 in the Baroque style and destroyed by bombs on March 15, 1945. Reconstruction began in spring 1948 and the topping-out ceremony was held on October 24, 1948. The re-inauguration took place on July 16, 1950. Since the number of parishioners increased sharply after the Second World War, St. Martinus was enlarged in the 1960s, the renovation work was completed on April 3, 1965 with the rededication. In the 1990s the church received a new, eleven meter high crossing tower , which was completed in October 1993.

The small corridor chapel St. Joseph in the eastern part of today's Jahnstrasse used to stand almost two kilometers away from the village, but is now surrounded by residential buildings and school buildings. It was built in 1744 with a surface area of ​​6.5 × 4.8 m from local quarry stones and has a slate-covered gable roof on which a small cross is attached. At the entrance to the west, apart from the year 1744, the monograms of the Holy Family can be seen, similar to those on the door beam of the Blumenbergschen Hof. There is an arched window on each long side. Originally the chapel had a rococo interior with a stucco ceiling and a wood-carved altar from the early 19th century, in front of which there were two knee benches on the left and right. Today it serves as a station in processions.

The memorial for those who fell in World War I in the street “Am Osterberg” was redesigned in the 1950s by the architect Christoph Naue and the sculptor Ueckert. In addition to memorial plaques with the names of the fallen and missing from both world wars, there is also a relief that reminds of the destruction of the war and the suffering of the civilian population.

  • Relief on the memorial in the street "Im Kirschenhain" as a reminder and reminder of the world wars

  • Blumenbergscher Hof

  • Alt Himmelsthür: Schulstrasse

Sports

  • Swimming pool
  • various tennis halls
  • four sports halls
  • TuS Grün Weiß Himmelsthür

Economy and Infrastructure

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population of the city of Hildesheim as of December 31, 2019. In: hildesheim.de. Hildesheim Marketing GmbH, accessed on June 3, 2020 .
  2. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 204 .
  3. ^ Local councilor Himmelsthür
  4. ↑ It has been decided to establish a Serbian-Orthodox eparchy for Austria, Switzerland and Italy with headquarters in Vienna and to limit Himmelsthür's jurisdiction to Germany. Handover to the new Serbian Orthodox Bishop. ( Memento of the original from March 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Archdiocese of Vienna, June 27, 2011  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.erzdioezese-wien.at
  5. ↑ Hildesheimer Allgemeine Zeitung, p. 15-25 January 2019