St. George's Chapel (Salzgitter)

Profaned Chapel Thiede (2013)

The St. Georg Chapel was a Catholic chapel in Thiede , a district of Salzgitter in Lower Saxony . Most recently the chapel belonged to the parish of St. Bernward , also located in Thiede , in the Salzgitter dean's office of the Hildesheim diocese . The chapel was named after St. George and was located at 5 Thiederhall Street . Today the St. Bernward Church, about two kilometers away, is the closest Catholic place of worship.

history

In 1926 the Hildesheim diocese bought the former inspector's house of the Thiederhall potash plant, which was closed in 1924, and set up a chapel in it. At that time Thiede belonged to the parish of St. Petrus in Wolfenbüttel and had about 300 Catholic residents.

On March 27, 1927, this chapel was benedited by the pastor of St. Petrus , Andreas Engelke. In 1932 a choir was added on the west side. The Thiede Curate was established on July 1, 1938 . In 1946 the building, which is about 92 meters above sea level , was named Joseph Müller House, named after Joseph Müller , the chaplain of the parish of St. Petrus who worked for Thiede from 1926 to 1932 . In the same year, Redemptorists expelled from Silesia also moved into the house. From September 1, 1959, the Thiede Curate belonged to the St. Bernward parish, which had existed since 1954 . In 1959 a nursing station was set up in the Joseph Müller House , which was looked after by Franciscan Sisters until 1979 , as the Redemptorists had meanwhile moved to a newly built monastery. In 1962 the chapel got a little peal, in 1963 a new way of the cross followed . In 1974 and 1989 a new electronic organ was installed.

On October 9, 2004, the chapel was profaned , then sold and converted into an apartment.

literature

Hartmut Alder: Chronicle of Thiede. Waisenhaus Druckerei GmbH Braunschweig, Salzgitter 1991, pp. 164-167.
Department for Public Relations of the City of Salzgitter (Ed.): Church buildings in Salzgitter. In: Salzgitter Forum. Volume 12, 1986, pp. 92-94.