St. Barbara (Helbra)

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View from the northwest
View to the organ gallery
Main altar

The Church of St. Barbara is the Catholic Church of Helbra ( Verbandsgemeinde Mansfelder Grund-Helbra ) in the district of Mansfeld-Südharz in Saxony-Anhalt . It is under monument protection and is entered in the monument register with registration number 094 75343 as an architectural monument.

location

Just a few meters from the Protestant Church of St. Stephen is the Catholic Church of St. Barbara in Pestalozzistraße in Helbra.

History and architecture

In the 19th century, Catholics, in particular from Poznan and Upper Silesia, moved into the previously Protestant Mansfeld region . In addition to the cities, some villages soon received Catholic sacred buildings. One such case is Helbra, which in 1885 received a wooden church designed as a small basilica. Before that, the congregation had grown rapidly to around 1,500 people, so that the pastor from Eisleben, who had been looking after them up until then, hired a vicar from Westphalia, who initially gathered the congregation in a dance hall. This Christian Schwermer founded various Catholic associations and also supplied the communities in the surrounding area, until there were separate communities (from around 1890 Burgörner (Hettstedt) and Klostermansfeld or 1902 in Hergisdorf).

Soon this church became too small, but above all it was insufficiently protected from heat and cold, and so on July 12, 1911, the new construction of the parish church began (since February 1, 1911), the design of which was already started in 1909 Leipzig architect Clemens Lohmer was able to win. On February 18, 1912, the new, significantly larger church was ready to move into. This neo-Romanesque basilica is a detailed, plastered brick building with a tower south of the east apse and extensions on the south and west sides.

Interior and outfit

In addition to the lead glass windows, there are altars, a baptismal font, an organ and a sculpture of the Virgin Mary in the church.

literature

  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Saxony Anhalt II. Administrative districts Dessau and Halle. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-422-03065-4 .
  • List of monuments Saxony-Anhalt , Volume 16.1, District Mansfeld-Südharz (I), Altkreis Eisleben, prepared by Anja Tietz and others, Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg, ISBN 978-3-7319-0130-3 .
  • Eberhard Eigendorf: Churches in the Mansfelder Land - construction processes in the 19th and 20th centuries. (= Journal for Local Research; Supplement 7), André Gursky Verlag, Halle 2002, ISBN 3-929389-38-X .

Web links

Commons : St. Barbara  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the state of Saxony-Anhalt (pdf, 9.9 MB) - answer of the state government to a small question for written answer (the delegates Olaf Meister and Prof. Dr. Claudia Dalbert; Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen) - printed matter 6/3905 from March 19, 2015 (KA 6/8670)
  2. ↑ Eigendorf, pp. 64–66, 68. A historical photo of the interior can be found on the parish website.
  3. ↑ oA: parish leaders Helbra. (pdf; 2.2 MB) Parish Saint Georg, 1929, accessed on September 2, 2019 (excerpt).
  4. ^ Catholic parish of Saint George. Parish of Saint George, accessed on September 2, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Eigendorf, pp. 73-74. Dehio, p. 318. The construction dates in the Dehio (built 1908–1911 ) are obviously wrong.
  6. ↑ List of monuments, 16.1, p. 52.

Coordinates: 51 ° 33 ′ 26.6 "  N , 11 ° 29 ′ 36.5"  E