St. Bernhard (Goldbeck)
The St. Bernhard Church was the Catholic church in Goldbeck , a municipality in the Stendal district in Saxony-Anhalt . The church, named after St. Bernard of Clairvaux , was located at Clara-Zetkin-Straße 18 (corner of Ackerstraße). It belonged to the parish " St. Anna " with seat in Stendal , in the deanery of Stendal of the diocese of Magdeburg .
history
With the introduction of the Reformation in the 16th century, the population and the churches in the Altmark became Evangelical Lutheran .
After Catholic workers from eastern areas had settled in the Goldbeck area from the beginning of the 20th century, a church service was set up by the Stendal parish in Goldbeck in 1912. From the beginning of 1918 Goldbeck received pastoral care from Osterburg, since at that time the Stendal chaplain Joseph Hagedorn settled in Osterburg as parish vicar .
The St. Bernhard Church was built in 1929, before services were held in the station restaurant. Around 1930, around 80 Catholics lived in Goldbeck. In 1939 Catholic evacuees from Saarland also came to Altmark for a while. They brought a priest with them who settled in Goldbeck.
After the Second World War , the number of Catholics in the Altmark increased again significantly due to the influx of refugees and displaced persons from the eastern regions of the German Empire . 1946 came with expellees from Silesia her first and only priest to Goldbeck, before the Catholics were in Goldbeck of the parish Osterburg care of. On August 13, 1947 Goldbeck became the seat of a parish vicarie , Pastor Pohler became its parish vicar. The catchment area of the church at that time also included the villages of Baben , Baumgarten , Bertkow , Eichstedt , Groß Schwechten , Häsewig , Lindtorf , Möllendorf , Petersmark , Plätz , Rindtorf , Rohrbeck , Klein Schwechten , Rochau , Schartau , Uchtenhagen , Walsleben and Ziegenhagen . In 1953 Goldbeck was made a curate . Theodor Stolpe (1932-2016), who later became the first vicar general of the newly founded diocese of Magdeburg, worked at the church around 1964/65 .
From 1985 to 2004, Johannes König (1939–2008) was a deacon at the church. In addition to the Goldbeck curate, he also looked after the parish vicarie Giesenslage . On February 1, 2007, the community network "Stendal - Bismark - Giesenslage - Goldbeck - Meßdorf - Osterburg - Seehausen - Tangerhütte" was established, to which, in addition to the St. Bernhard Church, the churches " Hl. Kreuz " in Bismark , " Immaculate Conception ”in Giesenslage,“ St. Mary of the Annunciation "in Meßdorf ," St. Joseph "in Osterburg," St. Johannes Baptist "in Seehausen ," St. Anna ”in Stendal and“ St. Elisabeth ”in Tangerhütte belonged. On May 2, 2010, today's parish “St. Anna ”. The churches in Bismark, Giesenslage, Goldbeck and Messdorf have since been closed. The 2011 census in the European Union showed that 283 of the 9,649 inhabitants of the Arneburg-Goldbeck community, and thus around 2.9%, belonged to the Roman Catholic Church. The majority of the inhabitants did not belong to any religious community.
The last Holy Mass took place in the St. Bernhard Church on July 20, 2013 , the church was closed and sold around 2014. Today the St. Joseph Church in Osterburg, about 13 kilometers away, is the closest Catholic church.
Architecture and equipment
The hall church is aligned on the north-south axis. The nave spans a pointed barrel roof with a cross-crowned roof turret in the north. It is illuminated by six windows in each of the long sides - some arranged in pairs - and accessed through a portal on the north side, above which a pointed arch window is let. The windowless sacristy, which is covered with a pent roof, is attached to the south side.
The two bronze bells were removed from the roof turret after the profanation. The smaller bell, which weighs around 45 kilograms, was given a new place in the roof turret of the St. Josef Church in Wolmirstedt in 2015 . The larger bell is stored in the St. Anne's Church in Stendal.
There was also a detached rectory on the property .
See also
literature
- Hildegard Kliem: Growing and melting using the example of the Goldbeck community. In: Katholische Propstei St. Anna, Stendal (Hrsg.): St. Anna zu Stendal. Stendal 2008, pp. 21-22
- Chronicle of the parish church St. Josef in Osterburg. Pp. 5-9, 13
Web links
- Website of the parish of Stendal
- The church is sold on the Volksstimme's website
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.bistum-magdeburg.de/front_content.php?idcat=1466&idart=2861&lang=5
- ↑ http://www.bistum-magdeburg.de/front_content.php?client=4&lang=5&idcat=1410&idart=2469
- ↑ http://www.bistum-magdeburg.de/front_content.php?client=4&lang=5&idcat=2760&idart=14430
- ↑ http://www.volksstimme.de/nachrichten/lokal/wolmirstedt/1425900_St.-Josef-bekom-groessere-Glocke.html
Coordinates: 52 ° 42 ′ 57.7 " N , 11 ° 51 ′ 45.4" E