St. Agnes (Lüchow)

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Northeast view
View of the chancel
View to the organ gallery

Sankt Agnes is the Catholic church in Lüchow , a district town in the Lüchow-Dannenberg district in Lower Saxony . It is the easternmost church in the Hildesheim diocese , and the only church in the diocese that is named after St. Agnes of Rome . The church is located at Hindenburgstraße 6 (corner of Dannenberger Straße). Your parish of the same name, which includes the Lüchow-Dannenberg district with around 3,000 Catholics, is part of the Lüneburg dean's office . The parish also includes the St. Peter and Paul branch church in Dannenberg, about 19 kilometers away .

history

With the introduction of the Reformation , Lüchow and the surrounding area became Evangelical Lutheran. Since 1850 the few Catholics in Lüchow belonged to the newly founded parish of St. Marien in Lüneburg , but since 1860 the closest Catholic church has been the Lorenz Church in Salzwedel . From 1863 or 1869, the parishes in Salzwedel, Lüneburg and Uelzen held catholic services in Lüchow, initially in a private house.

The church building site was acquired in 1912, and in 1913 a Catholic vicar settled in Lüchow. On August 14, 1913, the foundation stone of St. Agnes Church was laid, and on March 22, 1914, it was benedicted by Dean Joseph Stolte from Harburg . It was the first post-Reformation Catholic church in the Hanoverian Wendland . A Protestant donated around ten percent of the construction costs on the condition that the new church be named after his late wife Agnes, who was Catholic.

It was not until July 1, 1956, that a Catholic parish was established in Lüchow, and on January 1, 1962, it was elevated to a parish.

Since the number of Catholics in the Lüchow-Dannenberg district had increased significantly due to the settlement of refugees and displaced persons as a result of the Second World War, further Catholic churches were built in Dannenberg (1954), Clenze (1962) and Hitzacker (1964).

On November 1, 2006, the other three Catholic churches in the Lüchow-Dannenberg district also came to the parish of St. Agnes . Of these, St. Maria Königin in Hitzacker 2006 and St. Johannes Maria Vianney in Clenze in 2012 were profaned .

Architecture and equipment

The church, located almost 17 meters above sea level , was built as a neo-Gothic brick building. A statue represents Saint Agnes.

See also

literature

  • KirchenZeitung No. 12/2014 of March 23, 2014, p. 13 (article on the 100th anniversary of the consecration of the church)
  • Renate Kumm: The Diocese of Hildesheim in the post-war period. Investigation of a diaspora diocese from the end of the Second World War to the Second Vatican Council (1945 to 1965). Hahnsche Buchhandlung Verlag, Hanover 2002, pp. 152–155
  • Willi Stoffers: Diocese of Hildesheim today. Hildesheim 1987, ISBN 3-87065-418-X , p. 158

Web links

Commons : St. Agnes (Lüchow)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Willi Stoffers: Diocese of Hildesheim today. Hildesheim 1987, ISBN 3-87065-418-X
  2. ↑ Elbe-Jeetzel-Zeitung of December 23, 2013

Coordinates: 52 ° 58 ′ 0.5 ″  N , 11 ° 8 ′ 52.8 ″  E