St. Bonifatius (Süpplingen)
Sankt Bonifatius is the Catholic Church in Süpplingen (Breite Straße 26). The church named after St. Boniface belongs to the Helmstedt parish of St. Ludgeri in the Wolfsburg-Helmstedt deanery of the Hildesheim diocese .
history
In the second half of the 19th century, Catholics settled again in Süpplingen, which has been evangelical since the Reformation , and they found work opportunities in the mining operations in the area and in the neighboring Frellstedt sugar refinery. At first they belonged to the parish of St. Ludgeri in Helmstedt, and from 1894 priests from there held Catholic services in Süpplinger inns.
The church was built in 1899, making it the second oldest church in the Wolfsburg-Helmstedt deanery after St. Ludgeri in Helmstedt. From 1906 a clergyman worked at the church, in 1907 the rectory was built and a curate was established. In 1914 the branch churches St. Maria in Königslutter and St. Joseph in Wolsdorf were built, and in 1917 a youth home was built west of the church. In the 1930s, the bell that had been handed in during the First World War was replaced and an organ was installed. From 1934 to 1937, the priest Joseph Müller, executed in the Brandenburg-Görden prison in 1944, was pastor to St. Bonifatius.
After 1945, the number of parishioners increased significantly as a result of the influx of people displaced from their homeland. At the beginning of the 1950s the church was renovated and some of the furnishings were renewed. On August 1, 1956, the Vicarie Süpplingen was raised to an independent parish. In the 1960s there was another renovation of the church, combined with a redesign of the interior. The pulpit was removed and a new altar and tabernacle erected. In 1978 a new pipe organ was inaugurated. In the 1980s the church was renovated again. Since 1987 St. Bonifatius has had no local priest, the parish was looked after by the pastor from Königslutter until 2008. On March 1, 1998, the Helmstedt deanery, to which the St. Bonifatius Church also belonged, merged with the Wolfenbüttel deanery to form the new Helmstedt-Wolfenbüttel deanery. In 1998 the sanctuary was also given its current design, Auxiliary Bishop Nikolaus Schwerdtfeger consecrated a new altar. Since November 1, 2006, the church has belonged to the then newly founded dean's office in Wolfsburg-Helmstedt, which arose from the dean's offices in Wolfsburg and the Helmstedt part of the dean's office in Helmstedt-Wolfenbüttel. Since September 1st, 2008 the church belongs to the parish of St. Ludgeri in Helmstedt.
Architecture and equipment
The clinker brick church is a hall building with a round apse and portal in the neo-Gothic style . The church, located around 107 meters above sea level , has a tower in the shape of a roof turret and 88 seats. The windows in the nave date from the early days of the church and show the Saints Andrew , Anthony of Padua , Barbara , Boniface, Joseph and a guardian angel . The windows under the organ gallery show the four evangelists , they were designed by Claus Kilian in the 1980s . The tabernacle is in the center of the back wall of the sanctuary, and above it is a crucifix . The layered wooden altar, the ambo and the sediles were added in 1998. To the left and right of the chancel there are statues of Joseph and Mary . Under the organ gallery there is the baptismal font , a mission cross , as well as pictures with depictions of Jesus with the Emmaus disciples , the miraculous image of Our Lady of Perpetual Help and St. Boniface.
organ
The instrument, inaugurated on December 17, 1978 by the dean Leonhard Reinhardt from Helmstedt, has 6 registers on manual and pedal .
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See also
literature
- Catholic parish of St. Bonifatius (Ed.): The St. Bonifatius Church in Süpplingen 1899 - 1999. Süpplingen 1999.
- Willi Stoffers: Patronage churches in memory of St. Bonifatius, the apostle of the Germans, in the Diocese of Hildesheim. Hildesheim 2004, pp. 30/31
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Coordinates: 52 ° 13 ′ 20.3 " N , 10 ° 54 ′ 21.1" E