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."

- Deanery Wolfsburg / Helmstedt :

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
	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
	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
	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
	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

• Provost office Vorsfelde

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

1. ↑ 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. 
2. ↑ municipalities. Methodist Church in Wolfsburg, accessed December 1, 2019.
3. ↑ After 56 years the congregation closes its Church of the Redeemer. In: Wolfsburger Nachrichten. Edition of December 5, 2019.