Mary of the Holy Rosary (Bad Nenndorf)
Mary of the Holy Rosary is the Catholic parish church in Bad Nenndorf in the district of Schaumburg in Lower Saxony . The parish church, built in 1896 as a mission chapel, was expanded in 1954 and received its present shape in 1999 with a modern extension. The parish area includes the combined communities of Nenndorf and Rodenberg with the other churches of the Assumption of Mary (Rodenberg) , St. Markus (Lauenau) and St. Petrus Canisius (Hohnhorst) . Your parish of the same name belongs to the Weser Uplands deanery of the Hildesheim diocese .
history
prehistory
Since the introduction of the Reformation in the county of Schaumburg , there have been only a few Catholics in the region. Ecclesiastically they belonged to the Vicariate Apostolic of the North . When the Catholic dioceses were rewritten in the 1820s, the Hessian part of the Grafschaft Schaumburg , including Bad Nenndorf, became part of the Electoral Hesse diocese of Fulda . In 1869 the pastoral care station St. Sturmius was founded in Rinteln (1899 parish) for the area .
Beginnings in Bad Nenndorf
From 1888, Catholic services were held in one hall in Bad Nenndorf for the barely two dozen local Catholics, the Polish harvest workers and the spa guests. For this, the priest came out of the Schaumburg-Lippe Stadthagen . In 1891 Obernkirchen received a pastor who was also responsible for the Rodenberg office with Bad Nenndorf. Five years later, the mission station Maria , Queen of the Holy Rosary , a small hall church with an attached school and parsonage, was built in Bad Nenndorf west of the spa park . From 1903 a priest lived there; the community got the status of a curate .
In 1932, the political ties between the Grafschaft Schaumburg district and Hessen-Nassau ended ; the area was incorporated into the province of Hanover . The Catholic parishes of Rinteln, Obernkirchen and Bad Nenndorf had already been assigned to the Hildesheim diocese two years earlier . In 1941 only 200 Catholics belonged to the Bad Nenndorfer Kuratie, plus around 500 “ Eastern workers ”.
After the Second World War
As a result of the expulsion from the East after the Second World War, Silesian Catholics in particular came in large numbers to the north German diaspora as expellees . New pastoral care stations were created in Lindhorst , Barsinghausen and Rodenberg.
The church and parish building in Bad Nenndorf were claimed for the British internment camp Bad Nenndorf from July 1945 to December 1947 . During this time, the congregation celebrated its services in the Protestant St. Godehardi Church .
The expansion of the old mission chapel, which had long been necessary, was realized in 1954 according to plans by Josef Fehlig . The church was extended to the west, a side aisle in the south and a raised chancel with a parish hall below. So it was by Bishop on August 22, 1954 Joseph Godehard making ordained . On January 1, 1962, the elevation to the parish took place .
In the 1950s and 1960s the interior was completed, and in 1971 the sanctuary was adapted to the requirements of the liturgical reform. In the same year the parish hall was built with great commitment from the parishioners.
In the 1980s the church had become too small again. After initial planning for a completely new building, preparations for an expansion began in 1998 with the purchase of a neighboring building for living and office space in 1994 and the demolition of the old rectory and the south aisle from 1954, which was attached to the south of the church. This new square church room, designed by the architects Rossbach, Priesemann & Partner , was added to the southern long side of the old church, on the north wall of which, in the middle of the old nave, the new altar island was located. On March 21, 1999, Bishop Josef Homeyer consecrated the new building and the altar.
The parish of Rodenberg with Lauenau was merged in 2006, the parish of Hohnhorst in 2012 with Maria vom Heiligen Rosenkranz . Today there are 3,675 Catholics in the entire parish.
architecture
The three phases of its creation can be seen in the shape of the Marienkirche. From the north (Wilhelmstrasse) it appears as a typical small diaspora church, a brightly plastered unadorned hall building with a modest cone-helmeted tower above the (old) entrance. Striking on this side is the raised, recessed sanctuary from 1954, on the tent roof of which there is a lantern with the bell.
The modern extension is visible from the south, today the actual area of the assembled community. On a square floor plan, the white plastered walls rise up to a circumferential band of stained glass windows. Above it stands the copper-clad cross gable roof with a pyramid-shaped central lantern. The porch protrudes from the east wall and a chapel-like niche emerges from the west wall, both also clad in copper.
Furnishing
The chancel from 1954 has been divided into a working day chapel by a partition since 1999. Here hangs the former high altar - Crucifixus , on the other side of the partition wall, to the main room, the Mother of God , both Oberammergau wood carvings from the 1950s. During the redesign, the figure of Mary was surrounded by a modern color scheme, part of Claus Kilian's overall artistic concept . Its most conspicuous element is the large mandala on the back wall of the altar, which uses the symbols rose , star and crown of thorns , the numbers 6, 7 and 12 and the red-blue complementarity to illustrate the meaning of the rosary.
The color scheme of the vertical and horizontal window strips of the new building, the center of which is the baptismal font , comes from Walter Maaß (Hanover). He put them under the motto "Baptism of color".
The church has a bell from 1925 and two bronze bells from the Otto bell foundry from 1967. The bells have the chimes c '' and f '' and the following diameters: 782 mm, 585 mm.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Schaumburg-Lippe remained with the Apostolic Vicariate, but was administered by the Diocese of Osnabrück and incorporated into it in 1929. The area only became part of the Hildesheim diocese in 1965.
- ↑ Schematism of the Diocese of Hildesheim, online version of May 29, 2013
- ^ 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, especially p. 561 .
- ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, especially p. 515 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).
Coordinates: 52 ° 20 ′ 7.9 ″ N , 9 ° 22 ′ 15.1 ″ E