St. Clemens (Hornburg)
The Sankt Clemens Church is the Catholic church in the town of Hornburg , a district of the municipality of Schladen-Werla in the Wolfenbüttel district in Lower Saxony . It is a branch church of the parish of St. Mary of the Annunciation with its seat in Liebenburg , in the Deanery Goslar-Salzgitter of the Diocese of Hildesheim . The church is named after the holy Pope Clemens I , in memory of Pope Clemens II , who was born in Hornburg , and is located on the property at Anemonenweg 5 .
history
Hornburg Castle was built in the 10th century by order of the Halberstadt bishop , and in 994 it was first mentioned in a document as Hornaburg . Services took place in the Marienkapelle of the castle and from at least 1140 in the Hornburg St. Stephen's Chapel.
The Reformation was introduced in Hornburg in 1553 and the Hornburg population became Evangelical-Lutheran. In 1821, Hornburg was assigned to the diocese of Paderborn on the Catholic side, while the Catholics in Hornburg belonged to the parish in Osterwieck founded in 1842 . As a result of the Second World War , the number of Catholics in Hornburg increased significantly due to the influx of refugees and displaced persons from the eastern regions of the German Empire , while the inner-German border was drawn between Hornburg and Osterwieck . As a result, the Hornburg Catholics were cut off from their parish St. Joseph in Osterwieck, which necessitated the establishment of a parish in Hornburg. In 1946 a priest who had been displaced himself was appointed parish vicar in Hornburg, and the services initially took place in the Hornburg refugee camp. In 1950, a Catholic chapel was set up in a half-timbered house on the property at Breslauer Straße 2 (renamed Heinrich-Bäthmann-Straße in 2015), which existed until 1978. In 1954, the two parish vicarages Hornburg and Semmenstedt were merged to form the Börßum Curatie , and in 1959/60 the St. Bernward Church was built in Börßum, which belonged to the Hildesheim diocese .
In April 1977, Bruno Kresing , Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Paderborn, laid the foundation stone for today's St. Clemens Church in Hornburg . She was consecrated on December 17, 1977 by Archbishop Johannes Joachim Degenhardt from Paderborn, in the presence of Hildesheim Bishop Heinrich Maria Janssen and a cathedral capitular from Bamberg. The church was named after Pope Clement I to commemorate Pope Clemens II, who was born in Hornburg, but who was not canonized, so no church could be named after him. The construction costs were borne by the Archdiocese of Paderborn, to whose territory Hornburg still belonged at that time, and the Bonifatiuswerk . From 1981 the pastoral care of the St. Clemens Church was no longer carried out from Börßum, but from the Schladen parish . When the diocese of Magdeburg was founded in 1994, Hornburg also left the archdiocese of Paderborn and moved to the diocese of Hildesheim, which in 1995 established the curative community of St. Clemens in Hornburg, which is part of the Schladen parish of St. Marien . Since July 1, 2007, the church has belonged to the then newly established deanery of Goslar-Salzgitter and to the parish of St. Mary of the Annunciation in Liebenburg.
Architecture and equipment
The church is around 88 meters above sea level . It was built according to plans by Josef Fehlig , designed as an octagonal tent-shaped central building with a free-standing tower in which there are two bells .
The interior is closed off by a wooden ceiling and offers around 90 seats. The stained glass windows show the Holy Spirit with flames of fire. The high altar comes from a monastery in Bavaria . The ambo is decorated with the four evangelist symbols . The mosaic cross is a replica of the cross in the mosaic in the apse of the Church of San Clemente in Rome . It was originally supposed to hang over the high altar, but it turned out to be too big for it. The doves represent the twelve apostles . The Clement statue, a replica of the grave figure from Bamberg, was donated in 1977 by the Archbishop and the Cathedral Chapter of the Archdiocese of Bamberg and erected in Hornburg in 1978, since Pope Clemens II is buried in Bamberg Cathedral . There are 15 stations of the cross on the north wall of the church . The chanting of the church service is supported by an electronic instrument. The interior also includes a baptismal font and a statue of St. Joseph . The Marienkapelle offers six seats and is equipped with a statue of the Virgin Mary and an image of the Sacred Heart . The stained glass window from 1977 designed by Nikolaus Bette shows Maria as an ivory tower , based on an invocation from the Lauretanian litany .
See also
literature
- The St. Clemens Church in Hornburg. Leaflet, 2013.
- Willi Stoffers: Diocese of Hildesheim today. Hildesheim 1987, ISBN 3-87065-418-X , pp. 170-171.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bischöfliches Generalvikariat Hildesheim (Ed.): Kirchlicher Anzeiger. No. 6/2007, pp. 147-149
Coordinates: 52 ° 2 ′ 5.8 " N , 10 ° 36 ′ 28.2" E