Saint Andreas Church (Magdeburg)

St. Andrew's Church

The Saint Andrew's Church (also St. Andrew's Church ) is the Roman Catholic Church in Magdeburg district Cracau . The church, which is listed as an architectural monument , is located on Bassermannstrasse, it is the seat of the parish of St. Augustine in the Magdeburg deanery of the Magdeburg diocese .

history

As part of the eastward expansion of Magdeburg in 1930, the area between today's Brückfeld district and the village of Cracau was opened up. In this area, a plot of land in Bassermannstrasse was earmarked for a church in 1933 and acquired. The architect Bernhard Lippsmeier still made drafts in 1933, but the church was not built during the National Socialist era .

St. Andrew's Church (1951)

Construction did not begin until 1950, using stones from the German Reformed Church that was destroyed in World War II as building material . The planning was entrusted to the Magdeburg architect Hermann Lippsmeier . The groundbreaking ceremony took place on May 5, 1950, the foundation stone was laid on August 19, 1950 by Vicar Heinrich Gats. The topping out ceremony already took place on September 15, 1950. Bishop William Weskamm erected on this day the Kuratie Sankt Andreas, appointed vicar Werner Hentrich to Kuratus and benedizierte in memory of the day his own episcopal ordination on 21 December 1951, the Church of St. Andrew.

On November 20, 1970, Bishop Johannes Braun consecrated the building of the church. A relic of St. Andrew the Apostle , the patron saint of the church, was placed in the altar .

On March 1, 2006, the Magdeburg-East community association was established, which, in addition to the parish of St. Andreas, also included the Magdeburg parish vicarie St. Petri and the parish vicarie Hl. Kreuz in Biederitz . In November 2010, the community of parishes became today's parish of St. Augustine , named after St. Augustine of Hippo .

organ

An organ with tin pipes and seven registers from the 14th / 15th centuries that was found in the Wallonerkirche . Century was acquired for 1,000 marks by the city of Magdeburg and installed for 3,000 marks by the Magdeburg organ builder Brandt. The church had the oldest organ in town for a long time. After almost 40 years, the organ was replaced by a more modern one from 1986.

Crosses

Interior in 1951

First of all, a Romanesque cross was procured to decorate the altar wall . It had previously hung in the chapel of Roßla Castle and was removed there after renovation work. Werner Hentrich found the cross under snow and ice. One arm of the corpus was broken off, the face damaged. Since the Mayor of Roßla said the cross would be burned, Hentrich asked that the cross be given to his community. After a restoration, the cross remained in the Sankt-Andreas-Kirche until 1959, then the Roßlaer demanded it back. The St. Marien-Kirche in Sudenburg then loaned a cross made by Moormann from Wiedenbrück in the 1930s , which was no longer needed in Sudenburg after the choir had been redesigned. It is still in the St. Andrew's Church today.

What is remarkable about the work is the lack of a side wound on the corpus. The artist wanted to depict the situation before the push of the lance in which Jesus said: Father, I commend my spirit into your hands. During the American attack on Sudenburg on April 17, 1945, shrapnel struck the cross and wounded the corpus. However, the damage was later repaired.

Bells

The church from Biederitz received its first bell , a bronze bell cast in 1523 from Neudorf east of the Oder in the district of Schwerin (Warthe) , which had been transported to the Hamburg bell warehouse for armament purposes during the Second World War . This bell was not identical to the Christ the King bell, which was also cast in 1523, in the Sankt Stephanus Church in Westerhüsen . A second, smaller bell was purchased from the old people's home on Hans-Löscher-Strasse in Magdeburg .

In 1963, the church received four new steel bells made in Apolda , which were consecrated in the names of St. Peter , St. James , St. John and Mary , Queen of the Apostles and hung in a new bell cage. The first two bells were handed over to Biederitz together with a new bell cage.