Mary Help of Christians (Schöningen)

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Maria Hilfe der Christen (also called St. Marien or Maria-Hilf-Kirche ) is the Catholic church in Schöningen , a town in the Helmstedt district in Lower Saxony . It is named after the Marian title Maria, Hilfe der Christen and is located in Anna-Sophien-Straße 5. Your parish of the same name belongs to the dean's office Wolfsburg-Helmstedt of the diocese of Hildesheim .

history

In November 1892, chaplain Gottlieb Wollborn, the first Catholic priest since the Reformation , began his service in Schöningen. Before that, the Catholics in Schöningen belonged to the parish of St. Ludgeri in Helmstedt, but were looked after by the clergy from the nearby church of St. Josef and St. Augustine in Hötensleben . The services in Schöningen initially took place in the garden room of the Öhlmann inn.

In 1893/94 a mission house with a chapel was built in Schöningen . The first Catholic community in Schöningen was founded as early as 1897 with the men's community. In 1907 the construction of the church began according to a design by the Hanoverian architect Maximilian Jagielski , and the foundation stone was laid on May 12th . It was inaugurated on May 31, 1908 by dean Karl Grube from Braunschweig . After the church was built, a school was set up in the mission house in 1908; it existed, with interruptions from 1939 to 1945, until the mid-1980s. In 1910 they moved into the newly built rectory north of the church.

On August 1, 1956, Schöningen was raised to the status of an independent parish ( Kuratie ), and since April 1, 1960, Schöningen has been a parish. In 1971 the church was extensively renovated, combined with a redesign of the sanctuary after the liturgical reform of the Second Vatican Council . In 1992 and 2011 the organ was renovated .

From 1996 there was a pastoral care unit with the Catholic churches in Büddenstedt , Jerxheim and Offleben . On March 1, 1998, the Helmstedt deanery, to which the church belonged, merged with the Wolfenbüttel deanery to form the new Helmstedt-Wolfenbüttel deanery. Since November 1, 2006, the church has belonged to the then newly founded dean's office in Wolfsburg-Helmstedt, which arose out of the dean's offices in Wolfsburg and the Helmstedt part of the dean's office in Helmstedt-Wolfenbüttel. Also on November 1, 2006, today's parish Maria Hilfe der Christisten emerged from the pastoral care unit . On March 3, 2015, the branch church in Offleben was profaned .

Architecture and equipment

The church, which is around 115 meters above sea level , was built in the neo-Gothic style, its facade is made of sandstone . The church has about 290 seats. The furnishings include a hanging cross above the altar , another crucifix , a statue of the Virgin Mary, a copy of the miraculous image of Our Lady of Perpetual Help , an image of St. Anthony of Padua , a Pietà with memorial plaques of the fallen of both world wars, a baptismal font , 14 Stations of the Cross and three confessionals . The three stained glass windows in the chancel show scenes from the life of Saint Elisabeth of Thuringia , Maria and Bernward von Hildesheim .

organ

The organ was built in 1908 by the Furtwängler & Hammer workshop as Opus 621. The instrument with pneumatic action has 20 stops on two manuals and a pedal . In 1992 Hammer was restored and the organ was inaugurated again on Easter Monday in 1992. In 2011, the organ builder Georg Schloetmann from Emil Hammer Orgelbau carried out cleaning and mold removal .

I main work C – f 3
Drone 16 ′
Principal 8th'
Open flute 8th'
Gamba 8th'
Octave 4 ′
Reed flute 4 ′
Mixture IV
Trumpet 8th'
II Swell C – f 3
Violin principal 8th'
Darling Dumped 8th'
Concert flute 8th'
Salicional 8th'
Aeoline 8th'
Fugara 4 ′
Pedals C – d 1
Sub bass 16 ′
Covered bass 16 ′
Violon bass 16 ′
Principal bass 8th'
cello 8th'
trombone 16 ′

Bells

In 1908 Pastor Brümann ordered three bronze bells for the newly built church. The bells, which together weigh almost 3 tons, were cast by the renowned Otto bell foundry from Hemelingen / Bremen. Only the smallest of the three bells is still in existence today. After the two largest bells had to be given in 1940 for armament purposes, the church received two new steel bells from the Bochum Association for Cast Steel Manufacture (BVG) in 1955 .

See also

literature

  • Bernhard Lohse: 100 years of St. Marien Schöningen 1908–2008. Schöningen 2008.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Episcopal General Vicariate: Document on the abolition of the Catholic parishes Maria Hilfe der Christisten, Schöningen, Hl. Family, Büddenstedt-Offleben, Maria von der Immerwahrendenhilfe, Jerxheim and about the establishment of the Catholic parish Maria Hilfe der Christisten, Schöningen. Kirchlicher Anzeiger No. 10/2006, pp. 49–51.
  2. ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto bells. Family and company history of the Otto bell foundry dynasty . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, here in particular p. 517 .
  3. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, here in particular p. 481 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (doctoral thesis at Radboud University Nijmegen).

Coordinates: 52 ° 8 ′ 4.2 ″  N , 10 ° 58 ′ 15.1 ″  E