Holy Family (Empelde)

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Church of the Holy Family (2013)
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The Holy Family Church was the Catholic Church in Empelde , a district of Ronnenberg in the Hanover region in Lower Saxony . The church named after the Holy Family was located at Berliner Straße 20. The church belonged to the parish “St. Maximilian Kolbe ”, which has its seat in the Ecumenical Church Center Mühlenberg , and to the Hanover deanery of the Hildesheim diocese .

history

After the Second World War in the area of ​​Hanover, which had been evangelical-Lutheran since the introduction of the Reformation in the 16th century , the number of Catholics had increased significantly due to the influx of refugees and displaced persons , a Catholic parish was formed in Empelde. In the summer of 1946 the order of the "Gray Sisters" established a Catholic nurses' station in the camp. The five nuns opened a kindergarten, but were also active in outpatient nursing in the camp and village. They stayed until 1952. From 1946, Catholic church records were kept in Empelde . First, an emergency church was set up in a refugee camp, in which Catholic and Protestant services took place. Some appliances, including a bell with the inscription Ave Maria in the bog as well as one of Mary and Barbara - statue , taken from the 1947 demolished chapel Maria in the bog in Neudorf-Platendorf . After the camp was closed in 1960, these items were placed in the newly built church.

In 1959 the construction of today's church began, on March 13th 1960 it was consecrated . On April 1st, 1960 the parish of Empelde was established. The former camp pastor Josef Zach was able to move into a new rectory at the new church. Under the common pastor Albrecht Przyrembel, the parish “St. Family ”and the parish“ St. Thomas More ”in Ronnenberg-Weetzen a close cooperation. Together they issued a parish letter, set up the “Ronnenberg Forum” with numerous public events and traveled together. In 1982 the organ was consecrated in Empelde .

From August 1st, 2002 the church belonged to the parish “St. Maximilian Kolbe ”in Hanover-Mühlenberg, the parish“ Hl. Family ”was repealed in this context. As of May 1, 2007, the church belonged to the then newly founded dean's office in Hanover, previously it belonged to the dean's office in Hanover-South / West.

Due to declining financial resources, but also the decreasing number of priests and church-goers, an examination of all churches in the diocese of Hildesheim took place in 2009 according to their future needs. First the church “St. James the Younger ” profaned and broken off in Weetzen . The demolition of another of the two remaining Ronnenberg branch churches , “St. Family "or" St. Thomas More "in the parish" St. Maximilian Kolbe ”(Hanover-Mühlenberg) was to be expected. In November 2014 the pastoral council of the parish “St. Maximilian Kolbe ”decided to open the church“ St. Family ”in 2016. The reason for this was the necessary repair costs for the church building. On January 22, 2016, the church was profaned by Auxiliary Bishop Nikolaus Schwerdtfeger , and the property with the church was sold. After the demolition in 2017, condominiums were built here.

The foundation stone of the Catholic day care center in Ronnenberg was made from the altar , the foundation stone of which was laid in June 2018. The statue of Mary was brought to the baptistery of the evangelical Johanneskirche in Empelde, where catholic services have been held on Sundays since then. The Barbara statue was included in the permanent exhibition on the history of the local potash mining in the Ronnenberg local history museum . The closest Catholic church today is the " Christ König " church in Badenstedt , about two kilometers away , but which belongs to the parish " St. Godehard ".

Architecture and equipment

The towerless church, located around 61 meters above sea level , was built according to plans by the architect Karl-August Muth (Hanover).

  • In the Church Holy Family

  • Mary Altar

  • Measuring bell in the altar area

  • Nave with Stations of the Cross (the baptismal font was in the back of the niche)

  • Gallery with organ

  • Aisle

See also

Web links

Commons : Hl. Familie Ronnenberg  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

literature

  • Peter Hertel et al. a .: Ronnenberg. Seven Traditions - One City, Ronnenberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-030253-4
  • Willi Stoffers: Diocese of Hildesheim today. Hildesheim 1987, ISBN 3-87065-418-X , p. 42
  • KirchenZeitung No. 46/2014 of November 16, 2014, p. 10 (article on the planned closure)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Peter Hertel: Ecumenical beginning in the refugee camp, in: Peter Hertel u. a .: Ronnenberg. Seven Traditions - One City . Ronnenberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-030253-4 , pp. 198-200 .
  2. ^ Church registers in the diocese archive in Hildesheim
  3. ↑ Rüdiger Wala: Maria is still there .... In: KirchenZeitung , edition 9/2019 of March 3, 2019, p. 14
  4. ↑ Karsten Eggeling: Neudorf-Platendorf and the "Great Moor". Volume 2, Sassenburg 1996, pp. 49-50
  5. ↑ http://wiki-bistumsgeschichte.de/wiki/index.php5?title=Spezial%3ASuche&redirs=0&search=Empelde&fulltext=Search&ns0=1
  6. ↑ http://www.chriswegner.de/1633700.htm
  7. ↑ Bischöfliches Generalvikariat Hildesheim (Ed.): Kirchlicher Anzeiger. No. 7/2002, pp. 148-149
  8. ^ Peter Hertel: Old and New Religions - Christians on the Way to a Minority, in: Peter Hertel u. a .: Ronnenberg. Seven Traditions - One City . Ronnenberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-030253-4 , pp. 247-249 .
  9. ^ Diocese of Hildesheim (ed.): Classification of the parish churches and branch churches in the Diocese of Hildesheim. Hildesheim 2009.
  10. ↑ www.haz.de: A new building where the church once stood , January 11, 2018, accessed March 5, 2018
  11. ^ Laying of the foundation stone for a new Catholic day care center. In: Bonifatiusblatt. Issue No. 3/2018, Bonifatiuswerk der deutschen Katholiken eV (Ed.), ISSN  0006-7113 , p. 16.
  12. ↑ Catholic services in the Johanneskirche. www.johanneskirche-empelde.de, accessed on January 2, 2019 .
  13. ^ Ingo Rodriguez: Museum translates old German writings free of charge. www.neuepresse.de, February 9, 2017, accessed on January 2, 2019 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 20 '34.8 "  N , 9 ° 40' 3.4"  E