Liebfrauenkirche (Langenhagen)
The Liebfrauenkirche is the older of the two Roman Catholic churches in the city of Langenhagen , Hanover region . It is located at Karl-Kellner-Straße 69, the parish of the same name belongs to the dean's office of Hanover in the diocese of Hildesheim . The Twelve Apostles Church was built a good twenty years later and has been a subsidiary church of Liebfrauen again since November 1, 2006 .
There had been no Catholics in the old farming village of Langenhagen since the Reformation . The industrialization of the 19th century did not change that much either. Only after the First World War did Catholics immigrate in large numbers from other parts of Germany and find work here. At first they belonged to the parish of St. Joseph in Hanover. A church building project from 1938 was prevented by the Second World War. Services and meetings continued to take place in makeshift rooms. The bombing hit Langenhagen hard. After the end of the war, the local Catholic community grew by leaps and bounds due to displaced persons. In 1946 a parish vicarie was established in Langenhagen . In 1950 the long-awaited church was built according to plans by Fritz Filipschack , Peine, and consecrated on December 16, 1951 by Bishop Joseph Godehard Machens in the name of the Assumption .
The church is a wide hall with a hipped roof and sparse architectural decorations on the windows and edges. The tower is inserted on the side of the portal. This in particular shows historicizing forms reminiscent of Italian models.
On March 1, 1954 from the Pfarrvikarie an independent parish (Kuratiegemeinde) that the 1 July 1969, the parish was raised. Since the parish had grown too big in the meantime, a parish vicarie was branched off in the southern part of Langenhagen in 1970, in which the Twelve Apostles Church was built from 1972.
The post-conciliar reconstruction of the interior was completed in 1971. In 1985, with the consent of Bishop Josef Homeyer , the church was given its current name of Liebfrauenkirche . Another redesign took place in 1990 under the artistic direction of Hanns Joachim Klug and Dagmar Gallinger . In 1997 a new organ was built. In 1999, a pastoral care unit was formed from the two parishes "Our Lady" and "Twelve Apostles" . On May 1, 2007, the church's membership of the deanery changed from the Hanover-North deanery to the then newly founded Hanoverian deanery.
See also
literature
- Festschrift on the occasion of the inauguration of the Liebfrauenkirche in Langenhagen-Hanover. 15./16. December 1951. Jacob & Co., Langenhagen 1951.
- Episcopal General Vicariate Hildesheim (ed.): Handbook of the Diocese of Hildesheim. Part 2 - Region Hannover , Hildesheim 1995, pp. 108-112
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Coordinates: 52 ° 26 ′ 43.3 " N , 9 ° 44 ′ 12.6" E