St. Benno (Goslar)
The Sankt Benno Church is the Catholic church in Jürgenohl , a district of the Lower Saxony district town of Goslar am Harz . The branch church of the parish of St. Jakobus the Elder , based in Goslar, in the Goslar-Salzgitter deanery of the Hildesheim diocese , was named after St. Benno von Meißen and is located at Marienburger Straße 31.
history
Goslar Airport, located north of the city, was opened in 1927, initially as a regional commercial airport and emergency landing site for international routes. Civil use ended as early as the 1930s, and military use as the Goslar air base began in 1937 . From 1949, the new “Jürgenohl” district was built on the air base's runway. In 1958, air force units of the German armed forces occupied the buildings of the former air base without any flight operations being started.
In 1958, the priest Ewald Bürig (* 1925) settled in Jürgenohl as a pastor, he became the first pastor of the St. Benno Church and military chaplain for the air force soldiers of the Goslar garrison. In 1960 a Catholic congregation was founded in Jürgenohl, initially the services took place in the auditorium of the Georgenberg School. On January 1, 1962, an independent pastoral care district was established in Jürgenohl.
On June 21, 1964 the foundation stone for the St. Benno Church was laid. Her consecration took place on July 10, 1965 by the Apostolic Nuncio of Germany , Corrado Bafile , in the presence of Bishop Heinrich Maria Janssen . Hedwig von Andechs became the second patroness next to Benno von Meißen . The church also served as a Catholic garrison church for the Bundeswehr.
The parish of St. Benno had already been established on July 1, 1965, and on October 1, 1970 it was elevated to a parish. The second pastor was Nikolaus Schwerdtfeger from 1991 until his appointment as auxiliary bishop in 1995 .
In 1996, a pastoral care unit was founded with St. Georg in Grauhof . Since July 1st 2007 the church belongs to the parish “St. Jakobus the Elder ”in Goslar, the parish of St. Benno was canceled in this context. Since then, the church has also belonged to the then newly established Deanery Goslar-Salzgitter, previously it belonged to the Deanery Goslar. In 2007 the interior of the church was redesigned in color. In 2009 the Bundeswehr closed this location so that the church has been used by the local parish only since then.
Architecture and equipment
The church, which is around 255 meters above sea level , was built according to plans by Josef Fehlig , as a towerless nave construction . The cross on the outside of the church comes from the profaned St. Barbara Church in Sudmerberg and was attached to St. Benno Church in 2007.
Your interior offers over 270 seats. The interior was designed by Wilhelm Keudel (1913–1974) from Salzgitter in 1965 , and materials from the Harz Mountains were also used for its manufacture. The Benno reliquary was created in 1965 in the Kevelaer goldsmith's workshop by Wilhelm Polders (1914–1992), the relic comes from the Frauenkirche in Munich and was a gift from Cardinal Julius Döpfner . The canopy above the altar shows the pelican ; a symbol of the Eucharist who tears his chest open to feed his young ones with blood. On the north wall, in which two confessionals are also set, there are 14 stations of the cross .
The statues under the organ gallery represent Saints Hedwig von Andechs and Benno von Meißen, they were acquired around 1980 and initially attached to the rear wall of the altar. The baptismal font also has its place under the organ gallery . The organ was built in 1977 by the organ building company Weise from Plattling for the concert hall of the church music college in Regensburg and was installed in the St. Benno Church in 2006 instead of a previous electronic instrument. The planning comes from Eberhard Kraus .
Today's stained glass windows of the Marienkapelle were designed by Claus Kilian in 2001 . On the east side they depict two apostles on the move and the scene of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary . In front of a Pietà , sacrificial candles can be placed. The windows in the west wall show St. Francis of Assisi with the tree of life, the Annunciation of the Lord and the joyful dance of the prophetess Miriam .
To the north of the church is the Catholic St. Benno day care center, which was called “Kindergarten St. Michael” until July 2015. The name “St. Benno ”originally did not get the facility to avoid confusion with the St. Benno monastery of the Vincentian Sisters, which was still in Goslar at that time.
See also
literature
- Ulrich Schmalstieg: Catholic Church St. Benno Goslar-Jürgenohl. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg im Allgäu 2015, ISBN 978-3-89870-925-5
- Ulrich Schmalstieg: The St. Benno Church in Goslar-Jürgenohl. Short guide through history and equipment. Katholisches Pfarramt St. Jakobi (Ed.), 2nd edition, Goslar 2010.
- KirchenZeitung No. 26/2015 of June 28, 2015, p. 13 (article on the 50th anniversary of the consecration of the church)
- Maria Kapp: Art inventory of the parish church St. Benno in Goslar-Jürgenohl. Goslar 2003.
- Willi Stoffers: Diocese of Hildesheim today. Hildesheim 1987, ISBN 3-87065-418-X , pp. 108-109.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hildesheimer Allgemeine Zeitung of March 8, 2012
- ↑ Episcopal General Vicariate (ed.): Kirchlicher Anzeiger. No. 6/2007, pp. 142-143, 150-152
- ↑ http://www.blattus.de/kaz/texte/p_kaz/polders-wilhelm-III.html
- ↑ http://www.kindergarten-st-michael.com/
- ^ Info letter from the parish of St. Jakobus the Elder, Goslar, from June 6, 2015.
Coordinates: 51 ° 55 '36.4 " N , 10 ° 26' 8.3" E