List of church buildings in the Deanery Zwickau
The list of church buildings in the Zwickau deanery contains Roman Catholic churches in the deanery in the Erzgebirge district and in the Zwickau district in the Dresden-Meißen diocese .
history
The last bishop of the old diocese of Meißen , Johann IX. von Haugwitz , appointed Johann Leisentrit as diocesan administrator for the remaining Catholic areas in Lusatia in 1559 . With that the old diocese of Meissen in Saxony (Mark Meissen) perished. The remnants of the former diocesan area were named the Apostolic Prefecture of Lusatia with its seat in Bautzen . In 1921 the new diocese of Meißen was founded with its seat in Bautzen, in 1979/80 the name was changed to Diocese of Dresden-Meißen and the bishopric was moved to Dresden.
List of church buildings
The list contains the Roman Catholic parish churches in the Deanery Zwickau and the associated branch churches or chapels. The number of Catholics in the deanery is 10,982 (as of 2016).
Explanations of the status: P = parish church, F = branch church, K = chapel
| image | church | Place / location | status | Remarks |
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Mater dolorosa floodplain |
Aue (location) |
P | built 1913–1915, consecrated September 26, 1915, plus the chapel "Precious Blood of Christ" Eibenstock
Re-establishment of the parish of Mary's Birth in Aue-Bad Schlema on January 6, 2019 (from the previous parishes of Aue, Schwarzenberg, Stollberg, Zwönitz) |
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St. Joseph Eibenstock (now the chapel of the parish of the Birth of Mary in Aue) |
Eibenstock (location) |
K | consecrated in 1999 |
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St. Pius X. Schneeberg (now a branch church of the Birth of Mary in Aue) |
Schneeberg (location) |
F. | consecrated November 20, 1955 |
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Holy Schwarzenberg family
(now a branch church of the Birth of Mary in Aue) |
Schwarzenberg (location) |
F. | consecrated November 30, 1930 |
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St. Petrus Canisius Johanngeorgenstadt (now a branch church of the Birth of Mary in Aue) |
Johanngeorgenstadt (location) |
F. | consecrated August 30, 1964 |
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Mary Immaculate Conception Stollberg
(now a branch church of the Birth of Mary in Aue) |
Stollberg (location) |
F. | The old Gothic church "Beatae Virginis Mariae" from the 15th century. was taken over by the Catholic Church in 1987 and re-consecrated in 1993, formerly the Deanery Aue |
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St. Barbara Oelsnitz / Erzgeb. (now a branch church of the Birth of Mary in Aue) |
Oelsnitz / Erzgeb. (Location) |
F. | consecrated October 3, 1948 |
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Herz-Jesu-Kapelle Lugau (now the chapel of the parish of Mary's Birth in Aue) |
Lugau (location) |
K | Built / consecrated in 1958 |
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St. Peter and Paul Zwönitz
(now a branch church of the Birth of Mary in Aue) |
Zwönitz (location) |
F. | built 1993–1994, consecrated May 23, 1994 |
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Heilig-Geist Thalheim (now a branch church of the Birth of Mary in Aue) |
Thalheim (location) |
F. | consecrated May 10, 1956 |
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St. Francis of Assisi Crimmitschau |
Crimmitschau (location) |
P | consecrated September 29, 2013 |
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Assumption of Mary Glauchau |
Glauchau (location) |
P | built 1954–1956, consecrated November 21, 1956, architect Andreas Marquart |
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St. Pius X. Hohenstein-Ernstthal |
Hohenstein-Ernstthal (location) |
P | built 1996–1998, consecrated September 20, 1998 |
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Church "Maria, Queen of Peace" Kirchberg |
Kirchberg (location) |
P | built 1997–1998, consecrated June 20, 1998 |
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Church of Motherhood of Mary Meerane |
Meerane (location) |
P | built 1966–1969, consecrated October 18, 1969 |
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St. Martin Waldenburg |
Waldenburg (location) |
P | consecrated May 9, 1964 |
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St. Boniface Werdau |
Werdau (location) |
P | built 1926–1927, consecrated May 5, 1929 |
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Holy Family Zwickau |
Zwickau (location) |
P | built 1934–1935, consecrated June 6, 1935 |
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St. Johann Nepomuk Zwickau | Zwickau (location) |
P | consecrated November 23, 1889 |
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Annunciation Mülsen St. Jacob (now branch church of St. Johann Nepomuk Zwickau) |
Mülsen St. Jacob (location) |
F. | consecrated October 31, 1999 |
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St. Francis Zwickau-Planitz |
Zwickau-Planitz (location) |
P | consecrated May 14, 2006 |
Web links
- Overview of the Dean's Office on the homepage of the Diocese of Dresden-Meißen (accessed December 8, 2018)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Statistics 2016 Diocese of Dresden-Meißen (accessed December 11, 2018)
Map with all coordinates: