St. Augustine (Hamelin)

St. Augustine is a Catholic church in Hameln , the district town of the Hameln-Pyrmont district in Lower Saxony . It is a parish church in the Weser Uplands deanery of the Hildesheim diocese . The church named after St. Augustine of Hippo is located at Lohstraße 8A (corner of Vizelinstraße).

history

Hameln, which has been Protestant since the Reformation , has been part of the Hildesheim diocese since 1824. Hameln has been the seat of a Catholic clergyman since 1836. In 1866 the first Augustinian church was built at Ostertorwall 5, in the neo-Gothic style. Hamelin has been the seat of a parish since 1890.

On July 1, 1953, the topping-out ceremony of today's St. Augustine Church took place, followed by its consecration on May 2, 1954 . The new building had become necessary because the old Augustine Church had become too small for the Catholic community in Hameln, which had grown considerably after 1945. In 1971 St. Augustine got a branch church with St. Monika in the Hamelin district of Afferde .

In 1985, the first Augustinian church was demolished because it was in disrepair , and the property was not built on again. Since November 1st, 2006 the Church of the Holy Family in Emmerthal has also been part of the parish of St. Augustinus. In 2009 the branch church St. Monika was profaned , it has belonged to the Mennonite Brethren Congregation Lemgo since then .

Architecture and equipment

Today's church was built according to plans by Otto Hodler (Hanover), its free-standing tower has three bells . The tapestry on the altar wall was designed by Ewald Mataré . In 2004 solar cells were installed on the church roof . Next to today's church are the rectory, the St. Augustine day care center and the St. Monika nursing home. The Caritasverband im Weserbergland eV has its headquarters in the building next to the first Augustinian Church .

organ

The organ was built in 1958 by the organ builder Emanuel Kemper & Sohn (Lübeck). The instrument has 36 stops on three manual movements and a pedal (American patent membrane drawer). The playing and stop actions are electro-pneumatic.

I Rückpositiv C–
1.	Singing dumped	8th'
2.	Quintad	4 ′
3.	Principal	2 ′
4th	third	⁴ ⁄ ₅ ′
5.	Scharff IV	1'
6th	Krummhorn	8th'
	Tremulant

II main work C–
7th	Dumped	16 ′
8th.	Principal	8th'
9.	Wooden flute	8th'
10.	Gemshorn	8th'
11.	octave	4 ′
12.	Smalled up	4 ′
13.	Fifth	2 ² ⁄ ₃  ′
14th	recorder	2 ′
15th	third	1 ³ ⁄ ₅  ′
16.	Mixture VI	1 ¹ ⁄ ₃  ′
17th	Spanish trumpet	8th'

III Swell C–
18th	Pointed	8th'
19th	Viol	8th'
20th	Principal	4 ′
21st	Reed flute	4 ′
22nd	Salicional	4 ′
23.	Swiss pipe	1'
24.	Nasat	1 ¹ ⁄ ₃  ′
25th	Seventh	⁴ ⁄ ₇ ′
26th	Scharff cymbal V	¹ ⁄ ₄ ′
27.	oboe	8th'
	Tremulant

Pedals C–
28.	Principal	16 ′
29	Pedestal	16 ′
30th	octave	8th'
31.	Delicately packed	8th'
32.	Chorale bass	4 ′
33.	Night horn	2 ′
34.	Rauschpfeife V	2 ² ⁄ ₃  ′
35.	trombone	16 ′
36.	Dulcian	8th'

Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P.

literature

50 years of St. Augustine's Church in Hameln. 1954-2004. Anniversary chronicle. Hamelin 2004.
Thomas Scharf-Wrede: The Diocese of Hildesheim and the parish of Hameln St. Augustine in the time of National Socialism - a look inside. In: Yearbook of the Society for Church History in Lower Saxony. Vol. 97, Hildesheim 1999, pp. 117-132
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). Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 2002, pp. 191–197
Willi Stoffers: Diocese of Hildesheim today. Hildesheim 1987, ISBN 3-87065-418-X , pp. 144-145

Individual evidence

↑ Bischöfliches Generalvikariat Hildesheim (ed.): Catholic worship in the diocese of Hildesheim. Hildesheim 1966, p. 48
↑ Episcopal General Vicariate: Document on the dissolution of the Catholic parish of St. Augustinus, Hameln, Holy Family, Emmerthal-Kirchohsen, and on the establishment of the Catholic parish of St. Augustinus, Hameln. Kirchlicher Anzeiger No. 10/2006, pp. 98-100.
↑ Information about the organ at orgel-owl.de

Web links

52.102512 9.367256Coordinates: 52 ° 6 ′ 9 ″ N , 9 ° 22 ′ 2.1 ″ E

[1] Bischöfliches Generalvikariat Hildesheim (ed.): Catholic worship in the diocese of Hildesheim. Hildesheim 1966, p. 48

[2] Episcopal General Vicariate: Document on the dissolution of the Catholic parish of St. Augustinus, Hameln, Holy Family, Emmerthal-Kirchohsen, and on the establishment of the Catholic parish of St. Augustinus, Hameln. Kirchlicher Anzeiger No. 10/2006, pp. 98-100.

[3] Information about the organ at orgel-owl.de