St. Albertus Magnus (Braunschweig)

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St. Albertus Magnus

St. Albert the Great in Braunschweig is a Catholic parish church and the monastery church of the Brunswick Dominicans - Convention . The church is located northeast of the old town not far from the inner road ring (Brucknerstraße 6). The parish of St. Albertus Magnus is part of the Braunschweig deanery of the Hildesheim diocese .

Construction and equipment

In around 75 meters above sea level, located Albertus Magnus church, designed by Hans Joachim Lohmeyer built and on August 10, 1958 Bishop Heinrich Maria Janssen consecrated . It is named after the Dominican and church teacher Albertus Magnus . On October 1, 1958, the parish of St. Albertus Magnus was established, on October 1, 1970 it was raised to a parish.

Lady Chapel
Porte du Ciel, Ipoustéguy

It is a spacious hall church made of brick with concrete pillars and net-like concrete struts as well as a separate tall and slender tower.

In the last twenty years the church and monastery have become a center of encounter between spirituality and art. The current furnishing of the church with artistic objects comes largely from Gerd Winner , such as the altarpiece, the stations of the cross on the right wall and the altarpiece in the chapel. Ingema Reuter created the Marienvariationen on the left wall.

kindergarten

The kindergarten of the same name north of the church also belongs to the parish of St. Albertus Magnus. It was created by converting the former Hagengarten restaurant and opened in 1963. After several renovations and modernizations, around 70 children between the ages of three and six are now cared for in three mixed-age groups.

Youth work

Youth work is an important pillar of the parish of St. Albertus Magnus. Children and young people from the region around Braunschweig are to be addressed with a wide variety of groups and spend time together in the community. Among others there are the following groups:

  • Family and children's music group "Kinderschola"
  • various multilingual crawling and play groups
  • Scouts of the DPSG scout tribe "Martin Luther King"
  • several altar boys' groups

Altar boy

For many years there has been a large number of altar servers in the parish of St. Albertus Magnus Braunschweig. There are currently around 85 children and adolescents on the altar as altar servers, making them one of the largest altar server communities in the Braunschweig region. In addition to the service in church services, there are also many other activities. There is a strong bond with the Dominican monasteries in Vechta , Hamburg , Klausen , Leipzig , Freiburg and Worms . Once a year there is therefore a large acolyte meeting with the altar servers from the congregations, always in a different location.

See also

literature

  • John Paid; Ingema Reuter; Gerd Winner: St. Albertus Magnus - Dominican in Braunschweig . Photogr. Manfred Zimmermann. Hildesheim / Lamspringe 2008

Web links

Commons : St. Albertus Magnus (Braunschweig)  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ wiki-bistumsgeschichte.de

Coordinates: 52 ° 16 ′ 39 ″  N , 10 ° 32 ′ 8 ″  E