St. Andreas (Mine)
The Sankt Andreas Church is the Roman Catholic church in Meine (Westring 1), a municipality in the south of the Gifhorn district in Lower Saxony . It is named after the apostle Andreas and belongs to the Gifhorn parish of St. Altfrid , in the Wolfsburg-Helmstedt deanery of the Hildesheim diocese .
history
From the end of the 19th century onwards, Catholics returned to the area of Meine, which has been evangelical since the Reformation ; they were workers who found employment in agriculture or the sugar factory. As early as 1939 the pastor of the parish of St. Bernward in Gifhorn, to which Meine belonged at the time, suggested to the Episcopal Vicariate General that a pastoral care station be built in Meine in a barrack that was still to be built.
From 1945 onwards, My Holy Masses were held from St. Bernward in Gifhorn . They took place either in the hall of the Meinersand restaurant or in the Protestant church of St. Stephani . The parish vicarie Meine was established in 1948 , and with Kalixtus Engler the first priest took his official seat in Meine. Holy masses were now held not only in Meine but also in Calberlah (old school or cemetery chapel). Also in the collegiate chapel in Groß Schwülper , which was rented in June 1946 together with a Baptist congregation. In 1960 the rectory was built on today's Westring, and in 1968 a church building association was founded.
The groundbreaking ceremony for the church took place on April 28, 1970, and the foundation stone was laid on June 14 of the same year. On February 21, 1971 the first holy mass took place in the new church, and on March 7 of the same year the consecration by Bishop Heinrich Maria Janssen followed . In 1974 the church got an organ , and in 1985 its bells . In 1987 the last local priest left the community and the pastor of St. Altfrid in Gifhorn took over the priestly duties. From 1990 to 2012 a deacon had his seat in Meine. From October 1, 1992, St. Andreas was an independent parish ( Kuratiegemeinde ).
From March 1, 1996, St. Andreas and the parish in Gifhorn formed the pastoral care unit Gifhorn / Meine , since August 1, 2004, St. Andreas has been part of the parish of St. Altfrid , based in Gifhorn. Since November 1, 2006, the church has belonged to the then newly founded dean's office in Wolfsburg-Helmstedt, previously it belonged to the dean's office in Wolfsburg. In 2013 the Friends of St. Andreas Meine eV was founded to financially support the maintenance of the buildings and the activities of the community.
Architecture and equipment
The church was built as a prefabricated church with a free-standing tower according to plans by Josef Fehlig . It is located almost 82 meters above sea level and has around 164 seats.
A number of other churches of this type were built in the Diocese of Hildesheim, for example in 1969 in Altenwalde and Sudmerberg , 1970 in Dungelbeck , Meckelfeld and Poggenhagen , 1971 in Afferde , Hohegeiß , Luthe , Schwanewede and Winsen (Aller) , 1972 in Gifhorn , Ronnenberg , Stederdorf and Wittingen , 1974 in Vorwerk , 1975 in Dransfeld , Münchehof and Rodenberg , and 1976 in Rhüden .
The artistic interior design of the St. Andreas Church was based on drafts by Hanns Joachim Klug . The north windows, designed by the painter Josef Nienhaus from Ahaus, show scenes from the life of St. Andrew. The two bells, St. Josef and St. Heinrich , were consecrated on September 1, 1985.
organ
The organ was built by the Emil Hammer Orgelbau company as Opus 1702 and consecrated on January 27, 1974 in St. Andrew's Church. In 2014 it was renovated and rebuilt by the organ building workshop Florian Fay from Braunschweig , and equipped with two new registers , Waldflöte 2 ′ and Mixtur II-III 1 1 ⁄ 3 ′. The abrasive loading -instrument with mechanical key action has 5 registers on a manual and pedal .
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See also
literature
- Parish of St. Andreas (Ed.): 25 years of St. Andreas Church Meine. My 1996.
Web links
- Internet presence of the parish
- Organ on the website of the company commissioned with the conversion
Individual evidence
- ^ Karl Theodor Weise: 50 Years of St. Christophorus - Church for the City. Wolfsburg 2001, p. 39
- ↑ The story on the website of the Evangelical Free Church in Schwülper , accessed on September 13, 2017.
- ↑ Catholic Parish St. Altfrid Gifhorn / Meine (Ed.): Parish Letter, Issue No. 42, December 2014, p. 13
Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 39.5 ″ N , 10 ° 32 ′ 4.7 ″ E