Liebfrauenkirche (Bad Harzburg)

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Church of Our Lady

The Liebfrauenkirche is the Catholic parish church in Bad Harzburg , a town in the Goslar district in Lower Saxony . The church is named after the Marian title “ Our Lady ” and is located at Liebfrauenstrasse 9 (corner of Reischauerstrasse). Your parish belongs to the pastoral area North Harz in the deanery Goslar-Salzgitter of the Diocese of Hildesheim .

history

In 1388 a castle chapel was first mentioned on the Harzburg , it bore the patronage of St. Matthew. At the beginning of the 16th century the chapel was renamed "Liebfrauenkirche", and with the introduction of the Reformation it became Lutheran . It was demolished in 1650.

After Catholics had settled in the Bad Harzburg area again through mining and industrial settlements, a house was bought on November 16, 1876 at Breiten Straße 110 in Schlewecke , in which a prayer room and a priest's apartment were furnished. The first Holy Mass was held there on January 21, 1877 . In 1880 , the Catholic Church of St. Gregory VII was built in Bündheim , a district of Bad Harzburg since 1972 . Then on December 7th, 1882 the mission house in Schlewecke was sold again. From 1909 catholic services were held in different rooms in Bad Harzburg. In 1931 the pastor from Bündheim in Bad Harzburg acquired the Hildegardishaus on Bismarckstrasse, in which he also held services. From 1940 to 1945 this house was confiscated by the SS .

The settlement of displaced Catholics after the Second World War made it necessary to build a Catholic church in Bad Harzburg in addition to the needs of the spa guests. Construction of the Liebfrauenkirche began on May 17, 1960, and the foundation stone was laid on September 4 of the same year. On December 17, 1961 was followed by Bishop Heinrich Maria Janssen her consecration . During this time Franz Struck († 1983) was pastor of Bad Harzburg. On July 1, 1969, the parish of Liebfrauen was established.

Since July 1, 2007, the parish of Liebfrauen has also included the churches of St. Gregory VII in Bündheim, the Holy Family in Vienenburg and Assumption of Mary in Wiedelah , whose parishes were dissolved at that time. The former Wöltingerode monastery has also been part of the catchment area of ​​the parish of Liebfrauen, previously it belonged to the parish of Vienenburg. Also since July 1, 2007, the parish of Liebfrauen has belonged to the then newly established Deanery Goslar – Salzgitter. Before that she belonged to the Deanery Goslar, which was dissolved at that time. Today the Association for the Promotion of the Catholic Church Community Liebfrauen Bad Harzburg eV supports the parish.

A side chapel was built in 2018 .

Architecture and equipment

The church, which is around 273 meters above sea level and has over 300 seats, was built according to plans by Josef Fehlig . The central building on a square floor plan with a side length of 23 m is a steel frame structure . The roof structure of the pyramid roof is made of softwood and carries a roof turret . Its foundation stone was made from rubble from Hildesheim Cathedral , its outer walls are clad with Obernkirchen quarry stone.

Its interior is characterized by the large windows and the image of Christ designed by Rudolf Kaufhold on the back wall of the chancel. In front of it is the tabernacle . There are 15 stations of the cross on the side walls . Two confessionals are set into the east wall. The altar is made of Roman travertine . In it are relics of the holy Viktor of Xanten and Ursula from Cologne embedded. The pews are the semi-circular dais grouped. Sacrificial candles can be placed in front of the statue of the Virgin Mary in the Marienkapelle, which was made in an Oberammergau carving workshop based on an original from the Aachen Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum .

organ

organ

The Krell organ with 22 registers on two manuals and pedal was inaugurated on September 8, 1968 by dean Johannes Schnackenburg.

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Principal 8th'
2. Reed flute 8th'
3. Octave 4 ′
4th Gemshorn 4 ′
5. Forest flute 2 ′
6th Sesquialtera I-III
7th Mixture IV-VI
8th. Trumpet 8th'
II Swell C – g 3
9. Wooden dacked 8th'
10. Quintad 8th'
11. Principal 4 ′
12. recorder 4 ′
13. Schwiegel 2 ′
14th Sif flute 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
15th Scharff III
16. Krummhorn 8th'
Tremulant
Pedals C – f 1
17th Sub-bass 16 ′
18th Principal bass 8th'
19th Thought bass 8th'
20th Chorale bass 4 ′
21st Rauschbass III
22nd trombone 16 ′

See also

literature

  • Anniversary publication 50 years of the Liebfrauenkirche Bad Harzburg. Publishing house GRIPS media GmbH, Bad Harzburg 2011.
  • Catholic parish office Liebfrauen (Ed.): Liebfrauenkirche Bad Harzburg. Bad Harzburg, undated. (published in the period 1986–1993)
  • Willi Stoffers: Diocese of Hildesheim today. Hildesheim 1987, ISBN 3-87065-418-X , pp. 110-111.
  • Hans-Hermann Wedekind: The Liebfrauenkirche - neighbor of the Luther Church. In: Uhlenklippen Spiegel. of the Harzburger Altertums- und Geschichtsverein eV, issue 67, September 2003, p. 59.
  • Helge Burggrabe among other things: Holy rooms - Bad Harzburg's churches and chapels . Bad Harzburg 2013

Web links

Commons : Liebfrauenkirche  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.katholische-kirche-nordharz.de/kirchorte/liebfrauen-in-bad-harzburg/140-jahre-katholische-kirche-in-bad-harzburg/
  2. ↑ Episcopal General Vicariate (ed.): Kirchlicher Anzeiger. No. 6/2007. Hildesheim 2007, pp. 144-146
  3. ↑ Episcopal General Vicariate (ed.): Kirchlicher Anzeiger. No. 6/2007. Hildesheim 2007, pp. 142-143
  4. ↑ Goslarsche Zeitung : Liebfrauenkirche gets a side chapel , written and accessed on October 5, 2018.
  5. ↑ organindex.de

Coordinates: 51 ° 52 ′ 53.8 ″  N , 10 ° 34 ′ 1.2 ″  E