Annunciation of St. Mary (Lübbenau)

St. Mary Annunciation Church

The St. Annunciation Church is a Catholic church in Lübbenau / Spreewald in Brandenburg .

location

The church is in the street of peace in the district Lübbenau-Neustadt . The Protestant church Lübbenau-Neustadt is right next to the church .

history

The first significant settlement of Catholics in Lübbenau after the Reformation took place in the first half of the 20th century when Catholic families came to Lübbenau for professional reasons. She received pastoral care from the Lübben community. In 1932 a piece of land in Poststrasse was bought for the construction of a church; however, the approval initially granted for the building was refused in 1933. After the end of the Second World War , the number of Catholics increased significantly as a result of the refugees and displaced persons from Catholic areas. In Lübbenau, therefore, Sunday services and religious instruction were also held regularly. The Protestant cemetery chapel served as the church building.

In 1952 Johannes Langner became pastor in Lübbenau, his grave is today in front of the church. From 1954, the Lübbenau parish curate, which also included around 20 villages in the area, became an independent ecclesiastical administrative area. There was no rectory or other community rooms, apart from the cemetery chapel and an apartment rented on Karl-Marx-Strasse.

Construction of today's church began in 1954. However, there was again no building permit for the original site on Thälmannstrasse. The new church was therefore built at its current location, on the outskirts of the city at that time. The church was consecrated in November 1956. The lignite mining and the construction of the Lübbenau power plant resulted in the new Lübbenau district of Lübbenau-Neustadt in the immediate vicinity of the new church. The Catholic parish also grew significantly again.

In 1965 the interior of the church was redesigned according to the council. A parsonage and a parish hall were built during the GDR era. After the political turning point in 1989 , the number of parishioners fell with the population of Lübbenau to around 750 to 800 members (as of 2000). From 1995 the church facade was renovated. In 2002 and 2003 the parish hall was enlarged. The rectory received a new roof in 2006 and was renovated.

On November 11, 2006, the parish curatia was elevated to the canonical parish Heilige Familie Lübbenau , into which from January 1, 2007 the previously independent parishes Heilige Familie Vetschau / Spreewald and Calau were incorporated.

organ

In 1960 the church received an organ . The organ was built in 1898 by the organ building company Wilhelm Sauer (Frankfurt / O.) For the village church in Sorno . When Sorno was demolished for an open- cast brown coal mine , the organ was moved. The mechanical cone chest instrument has 10 stops on two manuals and a pedal .

See also

• Church of the Annunciation
• List of sacred buildings erected in the Soviet occupation zone and the GDR

literature

• Wolfgang Seeliger : Catholic Christians in Lübbenau. In: History of the City of Lübbenau / Spreewald - 20th Century. , Lübbenau 2004, pp. 252f.

Web links

• Information for the parish

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Information about the organ ( Memento from December 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive )

Coordinates: 51 ° 51 ′ 49.5 "  N , 13 ° 57 ′ 13.7"  E