St. Bonifatius (Wunstorf)
St. Bonifatius is a Catholic parish with the parish church of the same name in Wunstorf , Hanover region . The parish is part of the Hannover deanery of the Hildesheim diocese . The church at Hindenburgstrasse 17 was built in 1954 according to plans by Josef Fehlig .
history
The history of the post-Reformation Catholic community began in the 19th century with the arrival of Catholic agricultural and industrial workers, who were initially looked after from Nienburg and later from Neustadt am Rübenberge .
On January 4, 1884 , the first Catholic church service after the Reformation took place in Wunstorf in a corridor of the Wunstorf Regional Hospital , which was founded in 1880 and is now the KRH Psychiatrie Wunstorf . Later, Catholic services were held in the chapel of the regional hospital.
In 1903 a newly built mission chapel was inaugurated on the southern edge of the historic town center, which was named after St. Boniface . In addition to agriculture, the construction of the Mittelland Canal and the Reichsautobahn 2 as well as the Wunstorf Air Base offered jobs to Catholics who had moved there.
The influx of displaced people from 1946 onwards let the community grow by leaps and bounds from around 100 to around 2,000 believers. The chapel, which had become too small, was demolished in 1954 under Pastor Georg Kliche, and on November 28, 1954, Bishop Joseph Godehard Machens consecrated the new church in the same place. It is a spacious, white plastered hall building with a gable roof , a flat ceiling, a recessed, barrel-vaulted chancel and a high, rectangular bell tower next to the portal front . Pastor Werner Langer after the liturgical reform of the II. Vatican Council made the necessary adjustments and improvements. The design of the altarpiece and the window by the baptismal font was done by the artist Claus Kilian .
The bell of the former chapel from 1907 is still in the tower , as well as the bells of the former Luther branch church since 2014. The ringing was completed in 2014 with a bell cast by the Rincker bell and art foundry in June 2014, which was consecrated on September 19, 2014 by Bishop Norbert Trelle .
In 1956 the parish became a curate and in 1964 a parish . The subsidiary church Heilig Kreuz in Luthe , built in 1970/71, was profaned in 2010 and demolished in 2012. Since September 1, 2008, the parish has also included the churches of St. Hedwig in Steinhude and St. Marien in Rehburg and, since September 1, 2012, the church of St. Konrad von Parzham in Bokeloh .
The community was and is characterized by a lively community life: 1952 foundation of a scout tribe in the DPSG , later foundations of Jungschar and Frohschar , KAB , parish library and church choir. In addition, pastor Langer set up the neighboring house "15" as a community center and created three houses with a total of 24 apartments for the elderly in the Barne residential area. The parish's day-care center is located on the neighboring Frankestrasse. Since the fall of the Wall, there has been a partnership with the community of St. Josef in Wolmirstedt ( Saxony-Anhalt ).
See also
- List of sacred buildings in the Hanover region
- List of churches in the Diocese of Hildesheim
- Boniface Church
literature
- Handbook of the Diocese of Hildesheim , Part 2, 1995, pp. 283–287
- Willi Stoffers: Patronage churches in memory of St. Boniface, the apostle of the Germans, in the Diocese of Hildesheim , Hildesheim 2004, p. 24/25
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Parish of St. Bonifatius turns 111 years old. Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung , December 27, 2013, accessed on January 10, 2019.
- ↑ KirchenZeitung No. 38/2014 of September 21, 2014, p. 15
- ↑ 60th anniversary in 2012 | http://www.dpsg-wunstorf.de/
- ↑ http://www.wunstorfer-stadtanzeiger.de/content/artikel.php?a=125691
Coordinates: 52 ° 25 '27.1 " N , 9 ° 26' 8.6" E