St. Barbara (Goslar)

Former church from the northwest (2013)

Former church from the northeast (2013)

Church property in October 2019

The Sankt Barbara Church was the Catholic church in Sudmerberg , a district of Goslar in Lower Saxony . Most recently, the church belonged to the parish of St. Jakobus the Elder , based in Goslar, in the Goslar deanery of the Diocese of Hildesheim . The church, named after St. Barbara of Nicomedia , was located at Sudmerbergstrasse 1/3 (corner of Vienenburger Strasse). Today you will find the nearest Catholic churches in each about two kilometers away villages Goslar, Jürgenohl and Oker .

history

From 1961, Catholic services were held in the Sudmerberg School. In 1969 the St. Barbara Church was built. The foundation stone of the church was laid on June 22, 1969, and already on December 20 of the same year its consecration by Bishop Heinrich Maria Janssen .

On December 17, 2006 the church was profaned by Bishop Norbert Trelle . A cross and the statue of St. Barbara found a new place in St. Benno Church in Jürgenohl. Plans by an entrepreneur to convert the church building into apartments failed due to the low demand for housing in the Goslar area. In September 2017, after an interim use by the Goslarschen Höfe, the sale to a building contractor was announced. At the end of September 2019, the church was demolished in favor of a new garage and a new residential complex.

Architecture and equipment

The church was built by Josef Fehlig as a precast concrete church with a free-standing bell tower, it was around 228 meters above sea level . A number of other churches of this type were built in the Diocese of Hildesheim, for example in 1969 in Altenwalde , 1970 in Dungelbeck , Meckelfeld and Poggenhagen , 1971 in Afferde , Hohegeiß , Luthe , Meine , Schwanewede and Winsen (Aller) , 1972 in Gifhorn , Ronnenberg , Stederdorf and Wittingen , 1974 in Vorwerk , 1975 in Dransfeld , Münchehof and Rodenberg , and 1976 in Rhüden .

See also

• List of profane churches in the Diocese of Hildesheim
• Barbarakirche

literature

• Sudmerberg receives Catholic Church. In: Goslarsche Zeitung of December 14, 1968
• Willi Stoffers: Diocese of Hildesheim today. Hildesheim 1987, ISBN 3-87065-418-X , pp. 108/109

Web links

• Planned closure of the website of the Hildesheim diocese
• Last church service on the website of the Diocese of Hildesheim
• Profanation on the website of the Hildesheim diocese
• Sudmerberg: From the settlement to the district. In: Private internet presence about Sudmerberg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://wiki-bistumsgeschichte.de/wiki/index.php5?title=Spezial%3ASuche&search=Sudmerberg&go=Seite
2. ↑ See Church sold, in: GZ live, September 21, 2017, http://live.goslarsche.de/post/view/59c3871892e89320a1603e03 , access date: September 27, 2017.
3. ^ Goslarsche Zeitung, September 26, 2019

Coordinates: 51 ° 55 ′ 3.8 ″  N , 10 ° 27 ′ 20.6 ″  E