List of religious buildings in Wolfsburg
The list of sacred buildings in Wolfsburg includes church buildings as well as two mosques and two assembly rooms for Jews in the city of Wolfsburg in Lower Saxony .
Brief history of the Wolfsburg sacred buildings
The church building in Wolfsburg, founded in 1938 as the "City of the KdF-Wagons near Fallersleben", developed in the 1950s, when many church buildings were built that were designed by different architects. This is why the city is also known as the “Museum of Modern Church Building”. There are also a large number of old churches, as numerous villages and small towns that are now part of the city already existed in the area of today's city of Wolfsburg before the city was founded.
After the city was founded, churches were deliberately not planned for the city.
"In the meantime, documents from the Federal Archives are available that prove that even before the above-mentioned city maps were drawn up, Hitler decidedly rejected the building of churches in the city - but at the same time it was ordered that he should not be associated with this decision wanted to become."
In addition to numerous churches, two mosques and the meeting rooms of two Jewish communities were built.
There are also house chapels in the Missione Cattolica Italiana, in the Edith Stein Center and, since 2015, in the Volkswagen Arena . The Wolfsburg Clinic offers a room of silence that includes a Christian chapel and a Muslim prayer corner.
The following list shows an overview of sacred buildings in Wolfsburg.
Existing church buildings
image | Surname | Denomination | district | architect | Inauguration / year of construction |
Remarks |
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chapel | Evangelical Lutheran | Almke | ? | ? | ||
St. Mary's Church | Evangelical Lutheran | Old Wolfsburg | ? | 1697 | ||
Stephanuskirche | Evangelical Lutheran | Detmerode | Alvar Aalto | 1968 | ||
St. Ludgeri Church | Evangelical Lutheran | Ehmen | Eberhard Julius Eduard Wendebourg | 1897 | ||
Michaeliskirche | Evangelical Lutheran | Fallersleben | Christian Gottlob Long Car | 1805 | ||
Evangelical Community Fallersleben | Evangelical Lutheran | Fallersleben | ? | 1981-83 | belongs to the Ohofer community association | |
St. Nicolai Church | Evangelical Lutheran | Hattorf | ? | ? | ||
St. Pancras Church | Evangelical Lutheran | Hehlingen | ? | 1178 | ||
St. Adrian Church | Evangelical Lutheran | Heiligendorf | ? | 1153 | ||
Parish hall on Reislinger Markt | Evangelical Lutheran | Bright angle | Titus Taeschner | 1964 | ||
St. Anne's Church | Evangelical Lutheran | Hesslingen | ? | 1200 (approx.) | First mentioned in 1302 | |
Kreuzkirche | Evangelical Lutheran | Hohenstein | Gustav Gsaenger | 1957 | ||
St. John's Church | Evangelical Lutheran | Kaestorf | PG Lachmann | 1960-62 | ||
Holy Spirit Church | Evangelical Lutheran | Klieversberg | Alvar Aalto | 1962 | ||
Pauluskirche | Evangelical Lutheran | Laagberg | Gerhard Langmaack | 1960 | ||
St. Peter's Church | Evangelical Lutheran | Exchange | ? | 1235 (approx.) | ||
church | Evangelical Lutheran | Neindorf | ? | ? | ||
St. Nicolai Church | Evangelical Lutheran | Nordsteimke | ? / Gaehlert | 1235/1904 | 1904 the nave demolished and rebuilt by building councilor Gaehlert from Helmstedt | |
St. Mark's Church | Evangelical Lutheran | Reislingen | Friedrich Berndt | 1962-65 | ||
Christ Church | Evangelical Lutheran | Schillerteich | Gerhard Langmaack | 1950-51 | ||
City Mission | Evangelical Lutheran | Schillerteich | ? / Gustav Kannwischer | 1952/2005 | Expanded in 2005 by Kannwischer, belongs to the Ohofer community association |
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St. Mark's Church | Evangelical Lutheran | Sülfeld | ? | 1318 | ||
St. Thomas Community House | Evangelical Lutheran | Pond width | ? | 1968-69 | ||
Martin Luther Church | Evangelical Lutheran | Velstove | Friedrich Berndt | 1961 | ||
St. Peter Church | Evangelical Lutheran | Vorsfelde | ? | 1302 | Provost church | |
Johanneskirche | Evangelical Lutheran | Vorsfelde | Heinz Röcke / Klaus Renner | 1966-67 | 1972 church tower built | |
Holy Spirit Church | Evangelical Lutheran | Wendschott | Werner Taeger | 1971 | ||
Bonhoeffer Church | Evangelical Lutheran | Westhagen | Wilhelm Wacker | 1974/1995 | ||
St. Bernward Church | Roman Catholic | Old Wolfsburg | Robert Otto | 1963-65 | ||
St. Raphael Church | Roman Catholic | Detmerode | Toni Hermanns | 1972-73 | ||
St. Mary's Church | Roman Catholic | Fallersleben | Josef Fehlig | 1953-54 | ||
St. Christophorus Church | Roman Catholic | Schillerteich | Peter Koller | 1950-51 | ||
St. Michael Church | Roman Catholic | Vorsfelde | Josef Fehlig | 1952 | ||
until 2015: St. Joseph Church since then: Church on Wohltberg |
until 2015: Roman Catholic since then: Evangelical Lutheran |
Wohltberg | Peter Koller | 1956-57 | used by the Christ Brothers Congregation | |
Friedenskirche | Evangelical Methodist | City center | Guhl and Winter | 1955 | ||
church | New Apostolic | Koehlerberg | ? | 1955 | later expanded | |
church | New Apostolic | Fallersleben | ? | 1971-72 | ||
Advent house | adventist | Cross heather | Matthias Koller | 1974 | ||
Advent house | adventist | Laagberg | Matthias Koller | 1966 | ||
Evangelical Free Congregation | Baptist | Westhagen | ? | 1984 | Acquired in 2010; until 2007 seat of the Immanuel parish | |
Immanuel Church | Baptist | Westhagen | Carsten Holthuis | 2007 | ||
Church of the Redeemer | Baptist | Wohltberg | Hans-Joachim Valentin / Hans Hinze | 1960/1981 | ||
St. Michael's Congregation | independently evangelical-Lutheran | Westhagen | Peter Koller jun. | 1976 | ||
reformed Church | evangelical reformed | Klieversberg | Hans-Joachim Valentin | 1959-61 | ||
Christian event center Wolfsburg | free church | Fallersleben | ? | ? | Use by the oasis community of Wolfsburg and the German-Brazilian community of Wolfsburg | |
Evangelical Free Church Kreuzheide | Church of God | Cross heather | ? | 2000 | ||
Mennonite Congregation | Mennonite | Westhagen | ? | 1984 | ||
Church / parish hall | Apostle ministry of Jesus Christ | Wohltberg | ? | 1961 | consecrated as the “Johanneskapelle” of the Methodist Church (MK) and used by her until 1968 | |
Kingdom Hall | Jehovah's Witnesses | Hesslingen | ? | ? | Assembly Wolfsburg-Ost | |
Kingdom Hall | Jehovah's Witnesses | Wohltberg | ? | ? | Assembly Wolfsburg-West |
Former church building
image | Surname | Denomination | district | architect | Inauguration / year of construction |
Remarks |
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ark | Evangelical Lutheran | City center | Peter Lehrcke | 1972 | Profaned in 2008 and converted into a youth hostel | |
Church / parish hall | New Apostolic | Vorsfelde | ? | ? | Demolished in 2008 | |
Johanneshaus | Evangelical Lutheran | Rabenberg | ? | ? | Municipal building, demolished in 2016 | |
House chapel of the St. Elisabeth senior center | Roman Catholic | Schillerteich | Töschner / Wacker | 1979 | Profaned in 2016, demolished in 2017 | |
St. Elisabeth Church | Roman Catholic | Westhagen | Josef Fehlig | 1977-78 | Profaned in 2016 | |
St. Heinrich Church | Roman Catholic | Rabenberg | Peter Koller jun. | 1960-61 | Profaned in 2019 | |
Church of the Redeemer | Evangelical Methodist | Ehmen | Hans-Joachim Valentin | 1963 | Closed in 2019 |
Other sacred buildings
image | Surname | religion | district | architect | Inauguration / year of construction |
Remarks |
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Al Salam Mosque | Muslim | Steimker Berg | Koller-Heitmann-Schütz | 2006 | Part of the Islamic Cultural Center, has no minaret | |
Eyup Sultan Mosque | Muslim | City center | ? | ? | Mosque of the Turkish Islamic Community of Wolfsburg eV ( DITIB ) | |
Meeting room | orthodox jewish | Sandkamp | ? | ? | Inaugurated in 2007 | |
Meeting room | liberal-jewish | City center | ? | 2013 |
See also
literature
- Ernst Pauer: Church history and church art. In: Historical-regional excursion map of Lower Saxony, sheet Wolfsburg. Erhard Kühlhorn, Hildesheim 1977, ISBN 3-7848-3626-7 , pp. 110-120.
- Churches in Wolfsburg. Working group of Christian churches in Wolfsburg, Taunusstein 1993
- Ecumenical Church Leader Wolfsburg. Working Group of Christian Churches (ed.), Wolfsburg 2013
- Old churches and chapels in the Gifhorn-Wolfsburg area. Volume 3 of the series on local history of the Sparkasse Gifhorn-Wolfsburg, Gifhorn 1987
- The Catholic churches in Wolfsburg. PEDA art guide No. 173/2001, Passau 2001
Web links
- Internet presence of the Evangelical-Lutheran church district Wolfsburg-Wittingen
- Internet presence of the Evangelical Lutheran Provosty Vorsfelde
- Internet presence of the Catholic Dean's Office Wolfsburg-Helmstedt
- Internet presence of the Methodist Church in Wolfsburg
- Churches after 1945 in comparison on the website of the ev.-luth. Parish of St. Johannis Lüchow
Individual evidence
- ↑ Internet page "Documents prove the prohibition" ( memento of the original from March 18, 2011 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.
- ↑ municipalities. Methodist Church in Wolfsburg, accessed December 1, 2019.
- ↑ After 56 years the congregation closes its Church of the Redeemer. In: Wolfsburger Nachrichten. Edition of December 5, 2019.