Parish Church of St. Mary Immaculate Conception

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Saint Mariae Church

The Sankt-Mariae-Kirche is a Catholic church in Oschersleben (Bode) in Saxony-Anhalt .

architecture

tower
portal

The church was built between 1867 and 1869 according to plans by Arnold Güldenpfennig in the neo-Gothic style ; it was consecrated in 1872 by Bishop Konrad Martin . It was built of brick and, in addition to the main nave, has two aisles and five bays . There are buttress arches above the aisles. The choir is polygonal with side extensions. The upper aisle of the main nave has round windows, which are framed by a wide pointed arch.

The tower with its three bells stands on a square floor plan north of the ship, but is included in the ship. A small, also square stair tower leads to the area below the belfry, from where the roof structure can be entered. A window simulated with tracery adorns the entrance to the church above the portal.

Interior design

View to the organ gallery

The nave and choir are vaulted with ribs . The main nave is separated from the two side aisles by rectangular pillars on which wide pointed arches rest. On the north side, the gallery with the organ rises above the main portal , which was created by the organ building company Jehmlich from Dresden . The organ prospect is based on the neo-Gothic style of the church. The organ has 2 manuals , a pedal, 22 registers and a mechanical slide box . The organ consecration took place on December 5th, 1997. Noteworthy is a crucifix , the so-called plague cross from 1360, which can be found in the right aisle, as well as a radiated Madonna in the winged high altar of the church, which was built in the period 1470/80. The side wings of the altar show the Annunciation and the Descent from the Cross . The equipment also includes a baptismal font , 14 stations of the cross , a confessional , and statues of Saints Anthony of Padua , Elisabeth of Thuringia and Joseph of Nazareth . A relief depicts the Lamb of God with the victory flag . In the anteroom of the church there is a Pietà , in front of which sacrificial candles can be placed.

Parish

The Catholic parish of Oschersleben was founded as early as 1858, and the first Holy Mass was held in a restaurant . In the same year an emergency church was built.

Since November 28, 2010, the Immaculate Conception church in Hornhäuser Strasse 30 has belonged to the parish of St. Mary in the Egeln deanery of the Magdeburg diocese . The Catholic churches in Eilsleben , Großalsleben , Hadmersleben , Hamersleben , Harbke , Hötensleben , Klein Oschersleben , Ottleben , Schermcke , Sommerschenburg and Völpke also belong to this parish today . The pilgrimage site Marienborn is also part of the parish territory. The last churches in Barneberg , Hornhausen and Erxleben , which also belonged to the parish , were profaned in 2010, 2012 and 2019 . The St. Bernward Chapel in Neuwegersleben, which was previously profaned, is also located in the parish's catchment area.

In addition to the church, there are also the following Catholic institutions in Oschersleben: the St. Franziskus day-care center, the St. Martin elementary school, the clubhouse, the St. Josef monastery with its own small chapel and the Kardinal-Jaeger-Haus nursing and retirement home with an ambulance station Maltese relief service.

literature

  • Martin Langer, The Catholic Parish Church of St. Marien, Oschersleben. Schnell & Steiner Publishing House, Regensburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-7954-3267-6 .
  • Ute Bednarz in: Dehio manual of German art monuments, Saxony-Anhalt I: Administrative region of Magdeburg. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-422-03069-7 , p. 677.
  • The Catholic community of Groß-Oschersleben in the Prussian province of Saxony. Fredebeul & Koenen, Essen 1868.

Web links

Commons : Sankt-Mariae-Kirche  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 8, 2014 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kathleben.de
  2. ^ Rüdiger Pfeiffer, Hans Schoene, Selected Orgeln im Bördekreis , leaflet, ed .: Landkreis Bördekreis, Oschersleben December 2000
  3. ↑ Festive sequence to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Catholic. Oschersleben community (Bode) on Sunday, May 28, 1933.
  4. ^ Community association letter of the community association Oschersleben, edition autumn 2010.

Coordinates: 52 ° 1 ′ 40 ″  N , 11 ° 13 ′ 11.6 ″  E