List of sacred buildings in Salzgitter

The list of sacred buildings in Salzgitter includes current and former church buildings and other sacred buildings in the city of Salzgitter .

History of the church in Salzgitter

Grave finds from the area around Salzgitter, which are dated to the pre-Carolingian period, indicate that Christians had already lived in the area around Salzgitter at this time. In 737 Boniface received the papal commission to convert the people north of the Alps to the Christian faith. For this purpose, his student Sturmius founded the Fulda Monastery in 744 and began missionary work in the Sachsenland from here . Many territorial transfers with which the donors wanted to secure their salvation come from this region, for example donations from Beddingen , Drütte , Engelnstedt , Flachstöckheim , grid , Hallendorf and Thiede to the Fulda monastery are documented. The great baptism period began in 778 with a mass baptism at the Okerfurt near Ohrum . In the course of the next ten years the whole of Saxony was Christianized. The missionary task of Fulda ended with the founding of the diocese of Hildesheim in 815 by Ludwig the Pious .

The diocese was to manage in Archidiakonate divided, end of the 12th century, there were 41 such administrative seats, of which the church was exercised from the jurisdiction and visitation took place the churches and monasteries. In the area of ​​today's Salzgitter, the churches of Barum , Ringelheim and grid (replaced by today's Salzgitter-Bad around 1530 ) were the seats of an archdeaconate. The oldest parish churches in the region are also located in these places.

Between 1523 and 1643 the present city area belonged to the Hildesheimer pin feud to the Principality of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel . As a result of the Schmalkaldic War , the Reformation was introduced here for the first time in 1542 . When Duke Heinrich the Younger was able to return to his duchy in 1547 , he ordered a return to the Catholic faith. It was only his son Duke Julius who finally introduced the Reformation in 1568. Even after the Diocese of Hildesheim got back a large part of the areas lost in 1523 in 1643, the inhabitants were able to keep their predominantly Protestant faith.

First there was a Catholic community in today's Salzgitter-Bad as early as 1833, which at the time had 300 members. The St. Mary's Church was consecrated for them in 1889 . A second Catholic parish was founded in Thiede in the 1920s, which has been able to use the St. Georg Chapel since 1927 . With the establishment of the Hermann-Göring-Werke in April 1937 and the simultaneous expansion of ore mining, the number of inhabitants in Salzgitter grew within a short period of time from around 20,000 in 1933 to over 100,000 in 1942. This also increased the number of Catholic residents, their share in the total population rose to 40%.

From the period between 1939 and 1945, the name Salzgitters comes from as a "city without churches". This did not mean the old church buildings in the villages (with one exception, each village had its own church), but referred to the fact that no new church buildings were planned when the town was built. For the believers, this meant that they had to hold their services in restaurants, barracks or private rooms. In addition, the pastors were exposed to multiple harassment and prohibitions, which made it difficult for them to exercise their office.

After the end of the Second World War , the population continued to grow due to the influx of refugees and displaced persons. In March 1950 the Evangelical and Catholic Churches announced their plans to build in order to provide funding. After that the Catholic Church wanted to build five new churches in Lebenstedt , Salzgitter-Bad, Gebhardshagen and Thiede. The Protestant church, which had church buildings in almost all parts of the city, planned new buildings in Lebenstedt and Salzgitter-Bad. A total of eleven Protestant and ten Catholic churches were built by the end of the 1990s, of which one Protestant and two Catholic churches have been closed again to this day (as of 2013). After the war, other Christian denominations also settled in Salzgitter. B. Jehovah's Witnesses, Baptists and the New Apostolic Congregation. There is also a mosque in each of the districts of Salzgitter-Bad and Lebenstedt.

Existing church buildings

image	district	Denomination	Surname	location	Brief description
	Barum	Evangelical Lutheran	St. Nicholas Church		Construction time unknown, first mentioned in 1147. Archdeaconate of the Diocese of Hildesheim in the Middle Ages , special superintendentage after the Reformation . The church tower is probably a defensive tower from the 8th / 9th centuries. Century, nave was added later. Entrance on the north side with half-timbered vestibule from 1677. During the renovation in the early 1970s, the side galleries were removed and the organ was placed on the west gallery.
	Conditions	Evangelical Lutheran	St. Peter's Church		First mention of a pastor in the village from 1273. The time of construction of the first church is unknown, the tower was rebuilt in 1593/94. The nave was destroyed in the Thirty Years War and then rebuilt a little smaller.
	Leg around	Evangelical Lutheran	Village church		The previous building was a Romanesque fortified church made of field stones from the 10th-13th centuries. Century. This was demolished in 1889 because of dilapidation and a new building was built in the neo-Gothic style. Its outer walls are made of sandstone from the Lutter am Barenberge area . The nave is self-supporting, the tower is 37 m high, both are covered with slate. The inauguration took place on August 9, 1891.
	Bleckenstedt	Evangelical Lutheran	Christ Church		The first mention of a church is from 1235, the year of construction of the church building is unknown. The altar wall dates from 1748. The oldest church bell is dated 1574 and comes from the Dutch monastery of St. Peter in Ghent .
	Bruchmachtersen	Evangelical Lutheran	Village church		The church was first mentioned in 1182, the year of construction is unknown. The nave and choir are square, the choir was added later. In 1650 the nave got larger windows. The clock face of the tower clock with only one pointer is also from 1650. The tower was partially demolished in 1829 and integrated into the nave, the bells are hung in the roof turret above the old tower.
	Bruchmachtersen	Jehovah's Witnesses	Kingdom Hall		The community emerged from the division of the Lebenstedter community after it had grown too big. The Kingdom Hall was built from 1982 to 1983.
	Calbecht	Evangelical Lutheran	St. Peter Church		The church was first mentioned in 1548. The previous building was demolished in 1803 due to its disrepair and replaced by the current church from 1803–1805. The church tower, a defense tower from the Middle Ages, was preserved, but the inside was redesigned.
	Drütte	Evangelical Lutheran	Michaelis Church		A first church building (construction time unknown) was demolished in 1797 and the present church was built on its foundations in 1799–1803. Since the funds were insufficient, only a roof turret was built for the church bell instead of a church tower. The bell and church clock were taken over in the new building.
	Engelnstedt	Evangelical Lutheran	St. Cosmas & Damian Church		The quarry stone building in Romanesque style was built around 1313. The church is in possession of what is probably the oldest chalice in the Braunschweig area from the middle of the 13th century. The older of the two bells was cast in 1635, the wooden baroque altar is from 1737. The church was renamed “ Cosmas & ” on June 17, 2007. Damian "baptized.
	Engerode	Evangelical Lutheran	St. Mary's Church		Old pilgrimage church, built in 1236 as a chapel of a monastery. Known for its Gothic vault and wall paintings, which depict stations from the life of Christ. The building consists of the former residential tower (today the bell tower) and two smaller choir squares. The destination of the pilgrimage at the time, a statue of the Virgin Mary from 1236, was moved in 1744 and is now lost.
	Flachstöckheim	Evangelical Lutheran	Village church		A first church has probably been on the Walhof of the village, in the dungeon served as the foundation of the church tower. At the beginning of the 18th century, today's church was built on the old foundations from the rubble stones of the old fortification. The church tower and side annex are half-timbered.
	Gebhardshagen	Evangelical Lutheran	Holy Cross Church		Forerunner of a second pastorate in Gebhardshagen since 1947. Construction began in October 1960, inauguration in December 1961. The bell tower was completed in 1966. The church resembles a tent structure and contains community rooms on the ground floor, the actual church is on the tent-like upper floor.
	Gebhardshagen	Evangelical Lutheran	St. Nicolai Church		Previous wooden building from 1410. Construction of the current church from 1614 to 1619 by Duchess Anna-Sophia von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel . The church tower was not renewed until 1809/11 after being destroyed in 1791. Between 1860 and 1864 the transept was enlarged by an extension.
	Gebhardshagen	Roman Catholic	St. Gabriel Church		Independent Catholic vicarie since 1941 , services initially in a restaurant, after the war in school. The church was consecrated in December 1953, the bell tower financed by the community was completed in 1982.
	Grid	Evangelical Lutheran	Christ Church		The previous building was the "Georgskirche", a fortified church from the 12th century. At that time, grid was the seat of an archdeaconate, which was moved to today's Salzgitter-Bad in the 16th century. 1844–1846 New building of today's church at the same place. 1996 Baptized in the name of "Christ Church".
	Big warning	Evangelical Lutheran	Village church		First mention of a church in 1239, the year of construction of the first church is unknown. Today's neo-Romanesque church was completed in December 1893 after only six months of construction, at that time it offered 350 seats.
	Hallendorf	Evangelical Lutheran	Village church		Year of construction of the church unknown. In 1305 a "people priest " was first mentioned in Hallendorf. The church was partially destroyed in the Schmalkaldic War between 1542 and 1547. Due to dilapidation, the tower was rebuilt in 1798–1802 and the church was extended, and the building has remained essentially unchanged since then.
	Hallendorf	Roman Catholic	Holy Spirit Church		A Catholic congregation in Hallendorf has existed since 1940. The first services were held in the Protestant church in Watenstedt. A room in a former barracks has been used since 1945, which was converted into the chapel “Maria, Königin des St. Rosenkanzes "was designated. A new rectory was built in 1955 and the new Holy Spirit Church was consecrated at Pentecost 1962.
	Army	Evangelical Lutheran	St. Peter's Church		Until the beginning of the 16th century there was only one church in the neighboring Kirchheerte. Then new building in today's Heerte, which is first mentioned in 1542. The nave was bombed in 1945 and rebuilt between 1953 and 1954. The Romanesque tower still preserved today, a former defense tower of the Knight's Court of Heerte, was largely intact.
	Immendorf	Evangelical Lutheran	St. John's Church		First building around 1100. New building / extension around 1740, to what extent parts of the first church were preserved is unknown. The stone altar panel dates from before the Reformation. The bell was made in 1707, the baroque altar wall is from 1740. In 1965 the church was named "St. John's Church".
	Lebenstedt	Evangelical Lutheran	Friedenskirche		Founding of the parish in October 1964. Initially use of the film room of the “Grundschule Am Fredenberg” as a parish room and the Maximilian Kolbe Church. In 1968 the kindergarten was established, then a youth center and parish office. Construction began on the church in December 1986, and the church was consecrated in June 1988. Instead of a church tower, a small tower with a cross was erected on the roof; church bells were not used because of the location in a residential area with many shift workers.
	Lebenstedt	Evangelical Lutheran	Parish Center St. Mark's Parish		Founding of the parish in July 1962. Initially use of the premises of the St. Andreas parish. A first independent church service took place in the Ulmenried School at Easter 1967. A community center with community center and kindergarten was completed in 1972/73.
	Lebenstedt	Evangelical Lutheran	Martin Luther Church		The parish was founded in 1953. Initially a parish hall of the former 2nd parish of Lebenstedt was used. The present church was added to this 1954–56 as the first Protestant church in Lebenstedt after the war and consecrated in May 1956. The building is a reinforced concrete structure, the floor plan of the church is a trapezoid. The church has the largest organ in the city of Salzgitter.
	Lebenstedt	Evangelical Lutheran	St. Andrew's Church		The oldest church in Lebenstedt. First building around the 14th century. Was demolished in April 1857 due to dilapidation. The new building was consecrated in August 1859. War damage to the roof and the windows were repaired in 1949, the interior received its present form in 1968.
	Lebenstedt	Evangelical Lutheran	St. John's Church		The St. Johannes congregation emerged in 1955 from part of the St. Andreas congregation. Construction began in 1954 and the church was consecrated in September 1956. The building was built from prefabricated assembly parts. Characteristic is the curvature of the front and the interior, designed in the form of a parabola, which symbolize the opening hands of God.
	Lebenstedt	Evangelical Lutheran	St. Luke Church		The parish was founded in 1966, the services initially took place in the auditorium of the "Elementary School on Kranichdamm". A kindergarten was completed in 1969, the parish hall in 1971. The church building was erected in 1992–1993.
	Lebenstedt	Evangelical Lutheran	St. Paul Church		The community became independent on January 1, 1960. The rectory and parish hall were consecrated in 1960. The church was built in 1961–1963. The square church building is covered by a folding roof made of reinforced concrete. The church tower is next to the building on the footpath.
	Lebenstedt	Free evangelical	Free evangelical community		The congregation belongs to the “Federation of Free Evangelical Churches” and was founded in 1978. The community center is on the “Am Riesentrapp” street.
	Lebenstedt	Church of God	Chapel of the Church of God		The congregation was founded in Groß Heere at the end of the 1940s, and services were held in private apartments. 1968 move to Lebenstedt. A suitable house was acquired there in 1971 on Konrad-Adenauer-Straße and converted into a community center.
	Lebenstedt	Evangelical Lutheran	Evangelical Lutheran Evangelization and Prayer Association		Former Lutheran regional church of Lithuania . 1941 Relocation of the Germans living in Lithuania to Salzgitter. Church services in Lebenstedt since 1947. Since 1961 the parish hall on Marienbruchstrasse. Today host community of the Evangelical Lutheran. Gebetsgemeinschaft eV in the Protestant regional church.
	Lebenstedt	Free Church Evangelism Congregation	Free Church Evangelism Congregation
	Lebenstedt	Pentecostal	Christian community "Elim"		First meeting in 1946 in a room on Lichtenberger Straße, then changing meeting places. Purchase of a plot of land in 1958, October 1960 inauguration of the new assembly hall with a chapel that seats around 100 people.
	Lebenstedt	adventist	Advent house
	Lebenstedt	Islamic community	Mosque of the Turkish Islamic Community ( DITIB )
	Lebenstedt	New Apostolic	New Apostolic Church		The community was founded in 1939, and the meetings initially took place in private rooms. From 1944 a house in Salder was used, from May 1946 a barrack in Lebenstedt. The current church was consecrated in February 1959.
	Lebenstedt	Roman Catholic	St. Joseph Church		From 1941, the community's premises were initially housed in a barrack. The church was built in 1956/57.
	Lebenstedt	Roman Catholic	St. Maximilian Kolbe Church		The Maximilian Kolbe community in Fredenberg has been using the Don Bosco house in Lichtenberg since 1967 . A separate church for the Fredenberg district was consecrated in May 1977. The building has a square floor plan, is clinkered and covered with a wooden structure.
	Lebenstedt	Roman Catholic	St. Michael Church		The parish became independent in 1955. The foundation stone for this first Catholic church in Lebenstedt was laid in April 1953 and the church was consecrated on December 20, 1953. The construction of the 30 m high church tower was started in August 1983 and consecrated in November 1983 together with five bells.
	Lebenstedt	Romanian Orthodox Church	Chapel "Resurrection of the Lord"		The community was founded in March 1976. The chapel and the parish hall were built between 1978 and 1981.
	Lebenstedt	Russian Orthodox Church	Russian Orthodox St. Nicholas Chapel
	Lebenstedt	Jehovah's Witnesses	Kingdom Hall		The first meetings took place in private rooms in 1946, from 1947 in a barrack of the Schölkeschule and later in the restaurant "Heinemanns Höhe". The Kingdom Hall of Lebenstadt was built in 1958/59.
	Lesse	Evangelical Lutheran	St. Peter and Paul Church		The construction time of a first wooden building is unknown; it was replaced by a stone building around 1200. This was demolished in 1796 due to dilapidation and rebuilt until 1799. The lower part of the church tower was preserved, the upper part with the hexagonal tower dome was not completed until 1868.
	Lichtenberg	Evangelical Lutheran	St. Peter Church		Lichtenberg was formed in 1856 from the towns of Ober- and Niederfreden. The Niederfredener church was built around 1100, that of Oberfreden at the end of the 12th century. Until 1552 there was also a chapel at Lichtenberg Castle. The Niederfredener church was demolished in 1820 and not rebuilt. Between 1709 and 1715 the Oberfredener church was rebuilt and received its present form.
	Lichtenberg	Roman Catholic	St. John Bosco Church		The clinker building was inaugurated in October 1967. The sanctuary protrudes from the rest of the building through a roof pyramid with a gilded cross. The community has been part of the Maximilian Kolbe community in Lebenstedt since 1977. The building is no longer used for regular church services. Today the Don Bosco Catholic youth meeting place is also housed here.
	Praise Makers	Evangelical Lutheran	Village church		The first mention of a pastor is from 1251. All that is known about the first church building is that around 1542 a new nave was added to the old fortified tower. This was demolished in 1823 because of dilapidation and rebuilt, the tower from the 15th century was preserved.
	Ohlendorf	Evangelical Lutheran	Village church		Construction of the first church, a fortified church, around 1145. At the beginning of the 19th century the building was already in disrepair, but it was not torn down until 1869. The brick building in neo-Gothic style was inaugurated in January 1871.
	Osterlinde	Evangelical Lutheran	St. George Church		The tower dates from the middle of the 15th century. The nave was probably added in the 16th century and according to tradition it was not completed until 1782. The church was listed as a historical monument in 1989.
	Reppner	Evangelical Lutheran	St. Jacobi Church		First mention of a pastor in the village from 1220. The construction time of the first church, a fortified church, is unknown. In 1844 the nave was torn down and in January 1847 the new building was inaugurated. The oldest bell in the church is from 1637, a baptismal font from 1684.
	Ringelheim	Evangelical Lutheran	St. John Baptista Church		A first building was made of wood, the time of construction is unknown. Around 1200, the church tower was added as a defense tower. later the present stone nave was added. The crucifix is ​​from 1300, the baptismal font from 1487 and the rest of the interior from 1698. The tower received a new roof in 1819 and the current crowning of the tower. The large arched windows were installed in 1868.
	Ringelheim	Roman Catholic	Monastery church of St. Abdon and Sennen		A previous building was erected when the monastery was founded in 941. 1485–1504 construction of today's Gothic choir. In 1596 the tower and chapels were demolished after a major fire. Reconstruction did not begin until 1694, when the nave and choir were increased. Instead of the former west tower, the church was given today's baroque facade in 1730. The church interior was rebuilt in 1796 by Abbot Godehard Arnoldi in the early classical style. The most important piece of the church treasure is the "Ringelheimer Kreuz", a foundation of Bishop Bernhard around the year 1000. The original is now in the Hildesheim Cathedral Museum, the church received a copy in 1993/94.
	Balance	Evangelical Lutheran	Castle Church of St. Maria Magdalena		A previous church, the year of construction of which is unknown, was abandoned in 1710 due to structural damage. Construction of today's castle church from 1713–1717 by Johann Caspar von Völcker . The floor plan has the shape of a cross, the north and south arms of which are shortened. The bell house, which stands to the west and somewhat apart, was built in 1768–1769 in half-timbered construction.
	Salzgitter bath	Evangelical Lutheran	Mercy Church		In the area of ​​the forest, valley and civil servants' settlement to the north of Salzgitter-Bad, services were initially held in a barrack of the forest school, from 1956 in the anteroom of the school. In 1957 the construction of a separate church was started opposite the forest school, which was inaugurated in autumn 1958. The bell tower stands a little apart and is connected to the nave by a covered walkway.
	Salzgitter bath	Evangelical Lutheran	Holy Trinity Church		Due to the increase in population in the south of the village, the construction of a community center had become necessary. The church center with the 55 m high and widely visible bell tower was built between 1965 and 1967. The facility was built from reinforced concrete, the hexagonal church interior can accommodate around 280 visitors.
	Salzgitter bath	Evangelical Lutheran	Martin Luther Church		The predecessor was the St. Nikolai Church in Kniestedt . Since this had become too small after the construction of the housing estates in Salzgitter-Bad, a new community center was built on Martin-Luther-Platz in 1954. The new church was consecrated in May 1966. The congregation later took the name “Noah Church Congregation”, to which the Gnadenkirche also belongs.
	Salzgitter bath	Evangelical Lutheran	St. Mariae Jakobi Church		The church, also known as the “Old Town Church”, was built after 1480 as a replacement for the two churches “St. Marien "at Marienplatz and" St. Jakobus “in Vöppstedt . The much older tower was integrated as a defense tower into the adjoining wall of the city. The church was rebuilt several times, the interior got its current design in 1988. The oldest of the three bells comes from the construction time of the church, the inscription with the year 1481 commemorates the destruction of the two previous churches.
	Salzgitter bath	Evangelical Free Church ( Baptist )	Church of the Redeemer		The seat of the community was moved from Othfresen to Salzgitter-Bad in 1858 , and the meetings took place in the house of the first priest. The community was temporarily united with Einbeck and became independent again in 1961. In 1957, today's property was acquired and the new church was consecrated in May 1960. After the merger with the Baptist congregation in Lebenstedt, today's church was built between 2004 and 2006.
	Salzgitter bath	Islamic community	Mosque of the Turkish Islamic Community (DITIB)		The Turkish Islamic Culture Association Salzgitter-Bad eV (DITIB) was founded in 1987. The mosque on Braunschweiger Straße was built in 2007.
	Salzgitter bath	New Apostolic	New Apostolic Church		The New Apostolic Congregation in Salzgitter-Bad was founded in 1937. The church was built in 1951 and in 1983 the building was given its current appearance. The “Great Hall” on the upper floor can accommodate 350 people. Function rooms and a "small hall" are located in the basement.
	Salzgitter bath	Roman Catholic	Christ the King Church		After the end of the Second World War, the Catholic community in Salzgitter-Bad grew so rapidly that additional services were held in various schools. In 1951 a piece of land was acquired and a parish and youth home was built. The new church was consecrated in October 1960. In 1961 the Christ-König-Community became independent, the settlements north of Braunschweiger Strasse belong to its area.
	Salzgitter bath	Roman Catholic	St. Mary's Church		The first St. Mary's Church in today's Salzgitter-Bad dates from the 15th century; it was destroyed during the Hildesheim beer feud around 1481 and not rebuilt. There has been a Catholic parish in Salzgitter since 1833, the services first took place in the Kniestedt school and from 1854 in the von Kniestedt family's former widow's house. The building of today's church in the style of a neo-Romanesque three-aisled basilica was consecrated in November 1889. The copper roof of the church tower was added in 1928, and the church was extensively renovated in 1988 for the 100th anniversary.
	Sauingen	Evangelical Lutheran	St. Paul Church		A first church was mentioned at the beginning of the 11th century. The construction time of the tower and the later added church building is not known. In the 17th century, larger windows were installed instead of the small Gothic pointed arch windows. The church was given its current appearance during the renovation in 1803, when a new entrance was created on the west side of the tower.
	Thiede	Evangelical Lutheran	St. George Church		The construction time of the church is unknown. The western part of the nave is of Romanesque origin, the eastern part was built in the early Gothic period. The large windows were installed in 1779. The nave is made of rubble stones, the tower, built in 1858, is made of hewn ashlars. The entrance to the church is on the north side of the tower. In 1970/71 the church was completely renovated and received its current interior.
	Thiede	Evangelical Lutheran	Steterburg Collegiate Church		The previous building from 1070 was demolished around 1160 due to dilapidation. The construction of a second church began in 1165, which was badly damaged in the Thirty Years' War. The present baroque church of the monastery, which was dissolved in 1938, was rebuilt from 1751 to 1758. Until 1980 the church was named “St. Christophorus and St. Jacobus minor ”, since then it has had the former place name.
	Thiede	Islamic community	Imam Ali Mosque		Mosque in Steterburg
	Thiede	Roman Catholic	St. Bernward Church		Since 1926, the Catholic church services have taken place in Thiede in the former inspector's house of the Thiederhall potash plant (later Joseph Müller House). The current church was built in 1953 and the steeple was added in 1959. A Redemptorist monastery was attached to the church in 1954/55 , which was given a new building in 1982/83.
	Ufingen	Evangelical Lutheran	Village church		The first mentions of a pastor in Üfingen come from 1260 and 1299. The old church was first reported in 1729, at that time the church building and the choir were demolished due to disrepair and rebuilt as a half-timbered building. Bell house and roof turret were added around 1840. The interior was redesigned in 1971, and a parish room was created in the church in 1998/99.
	Watenstedt	Evangelical Lutheran	Village church		The current church tower was built around 1000 as a defense tower, a nave was added around 1300. In 1803 the church tower received a clock, in 1852/53 an organ. On March 18, 1945, the roof structure and ceiling of the nave were destroyed and were repaired by December 1947. From 1968 to 1970 the church was extensively renovated.
	Watenstedt	Islamic community	Meeting point of the Islamic Community Milli Görüs (IGMG)

Former church building

image	district	Denomination	Surname	location	Brief description
	Barum	New Apostolic Church	New Apostolic Church		The Barum community was founded in 1909. The services took place in changing rooms. The church property was acquired in 1950 and a separate church was consecrated in June 1973. The church has been closed since around 2003.
	Flachstöckheim	Roman Catholic	St. Pius and St. Barbara Church		The Catholic community was founded in 1938, initially emergency services were held in restaurants and shops. Construction of the church and rectory in 1958/59. The church was profaned in 2008 and the buildings demolished in 2009.
	Gebhardshagen	New Apostolic Church	New Apostolic Church		Church services in Gebhardshagen since 1948, in primary school since 1952. In May 1972 inauguration of the new church building on Zwölfackerweg. The church was closed in late 2007.
	Army	Roman Catholic	Catholic emergency chapel		Between 1945 and 1990 were in Heerte cath. Services held in changing rooms. A plan to build their own chapel was not implemented.
	Hohenrode	Roman Catholic	Margaret Chapel		The only reference to an early church building in Hohenrode can be found in a visitation report from 1571, in which a Margaret Chapel is mentioned. But this had already expired, so that the people from Hohenrode had to go to the church in bars. Since then there has been no church in the village.
	Lebenstedt	Evangelical Lutheran	St. Matthew Church		The St. Matthew Congregation became independent on October 1, 1961. Construction of the church began in July 1964, and the church was consecrated in April 1968. The reinforced concrete structure is dominated by a massive bell tower. Due to high renovation costs, abandonment and demolition were discussed in 2007 but not yet implemented. Divine services no longer take place, the parish is looked after by the apostles' congregation (churches of St. Paul and St. Mark). The church was deedicated on September 24, 2016 and it is planned to sell it.
	Lebenstedt	Evangelical Free Church Congregation ( Baptists )	Christ Church		The Braunschweig branch of the Baptists in Lebenstedt was founded in 1945. A house of worship was inaugurated on the 1st Sunday of Advent in 1962. In 2002 the community of Lebenstedt was merged with that in Salzgitter-Bad, and the Lebenstedt building was sold.
	Lebenstedt	Roman Catholic	St. Elisabeth Church		The church services initially took place in the auditorium of the Goetheschule. Construction of the church began in 1967 and the building was consecrated in December 1969. In 1973 the St. Elisabeth congregation became independent. The church's three bells were consecrated in 1988. On July 3, 2008 the church was profaned , the further use of the building is uncertain.
	Lesse	Roman Catholic	Lady Chapel		The chapel on the upper floor of a house in Lütge Strasse (then Kleine Strasse) was consecrated for the harvest festival in 1949, and services alternated with Burgdorf . The chapel was abandoned before 1987. Today Lesse belongs to the parish of St. Maximilian M. Kolbe in Salzgitter-Lebenstedt
	Salzgitter bath	Evangelical Lutheran	Kniestedter Church		The "St. Nikolai Church", the actual name of the church, was built in the 11th or 12th century on the southern outskirts of Kniestedt . The quarry stone building was extensively renovated in 1814/15. When the parish grew too big after 1938, a new parish center was built on Martin-Luther-Platz in 1954 and a new church next to it in 1966. In 1972 the St. Nikolai Church was given up and later taken over by the city of Salzgitter. The building has been used for cultural events since 1985.
	Salzgitter bath		Vöppstedter ruin		Former St. Mary's Church in Vöppstedt, which was abandoned in the 14th century . This was first mentioned in the 12th century, destroyed during the Hildesheim beer feud around 1281 and rebuilt as a death chapel after 1591. In 1807 the church was occupied by Napoleonic troops and used as a warehouse and military prison. Today the ruin is a memorial for the victims of war and violence.
	Salzgitter bath	Jehovah's Witnesses	Kingdom Hall		The first meetings of Jehovah's Witnesses in Salzgitter-Bad have been taking place since 1946. The meetings initially took place in schools and later in the old saltworks building (on the market square). The Kingdom Hall on Tillystrasse was dedicated in 1982. The hall was given up in September 2016.
	Thiede	New Apostolic Church	New Apostolic Church		Meetings had been going on since 1897. Initially, various rented rooms were used. In 1966 a separate church building was inaugurated. The church was closed in 2010, the building was demolished in 2014.
	Thiede	Roman Catholic	St. George Chapel		In 1926 this chapel was established in the former inspector's house of the Thiederhall potash plant. Since 1946 the building has been named after the chaplain Joseph Müller, who worked in Thiede from 1926 to 1932 . The chapel was profaned in 2004, the house is now privately owned.
	Watenstedt	Roman Catholic	Anna Church		The parish vicarie was founded in 1939 and services were held in different rooms. After 1945 a barrack was rebuilt and used. Annakirche, a prefabricated building with a free-standing bell tower, was inaugurated in 1960. Services stopped in 1989 and the church was later demolished.

literature

• Wolfgang Benz (Ed.): Salzgitter - Past and Present of a German City - 1942-1992 . Verlag CH Beck, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-406-35573-0 , p. 589-604 .
• Church buildings in Salzgitter . In: Department for Public Relations of the City of Salzgitter (Ed.): Salzgitter Forum . tape 12 , 1986.
• Maria Kapp: The inventory of Catholic churches in Salzgitter . In: Geschichtsverein Salzgitter eV (Ed.): Salzgitter Yearbook 2005/2006 . tape 27/28 , 2006, ISSN  0723-757X , p. 103-122 .
• Ursula Wolff, Jörg Leuschner, Sigrid Lux: From the village to the city center. The development of Lebenstedts in the 20th century . Ed .: Archive of the City of Salzgitter (=  contributions to the city's history . Volume 23 ). Salzgitter 2008, p. 184-192 et al. 331-350 .

Web links

• db.romanik.de - Descriptions of the Romanesque churches in the Braunschweiger Land ( Memento from September 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
• www.landeskirche-braunschweig.de - Parishes of the provost of Salzgitter-Bad
• www.propstei-lebenstedt.de - Municipalities of the Provost Office Salzgitter-Lebenstedt
• bistum-hildesheim.de Municipalities of the deanery Goslar-Salzgitter

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.orgelfayfe.de/reierungen/aktuelle-projekte/99-martin-luther-kirche-salzgitter-lebenstedt.html
2. ↑ http://www.salzgitter-zeitung.de/region/christus- sucht-aus-kirche-wird-verkauf- id2441496.html

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