St. Cosmas and Damian (Wöhle)
St. Cosmas and Damian is the Roman Catholic church in the Wöhle district of the Schellerten community in the Hildesheim district in Lower Saxony . Today it belongs to the parish of St. Nikolaus Ottbergen in the deanery Borsum - Sarstedt of the diocese Hildesheim .
history
Wöhle is mentioned in a document in 1178 as Walete and in 1554 as Woilde . There the Lamspringe Monastery acquired property there in 1178 , the Godehardikloster in 1227 and the Kreuzstift in Hildesheim in 1478 . The tithe came from 1232 to the Hildesheim cathedral chapter . In documents from Bishop Konrad II of Riesenberg and his successor, Bishop Heinrich I von Rustenberg , the Knights of Wöhle are named, who owned three Hufen land as an episcopal fiefdom in the village until 1227, when Knight Heinrich von Wöhle fell ill with the plague .
The doctors Cosmas and Damian were especially venerated at this time. The relics of the saints had Bishop Altfrid brought to Hildesheim. They are secondary patrons of the Hildesheim Mariendom and many churches in the Hildesheim diocese bear their names.
The medieval church construction cannot be exactly proven. The parish belonged to the Archdeaconate Nettlingen , whose main and baptismal church was built by Bishop Godehard .
A priest at the Wöhler Church is documented in 1328, its patronage in 1383. Although Wöhle remained in the office of Steuerwald under the suzerainty of the bishop after the Hildesheim collegiate feud (1519–1523) , the place came under the political influence of the Protestant dukes of Braunschweig during the feud . This later favored the introduction of the Reformation .
The right of patronage over the parish church in Wöhle was owned by the von Linde family in the middle of the 16th century . During the reign of Bishop Friedrich von Holstein, the Protestant patron saints enfeoffed the preacher Barthold von Holstein and, from 1552, Heinrich Harbort with the parish. The Protestant church visit in 1557 in the tax forest office did not bring the hoped-for clarification of the denominational relationships. With the "real patronage" over the parish church, Duke Heinrich the Younger enfeoffed the Braunschweig family von Stopler . After Johann Stopler's death , the teacher of the deceased's underage sons, Andreas Wehner , exercised their patronage rights. This gave rise to a dispute with the episcopal government and the heirs, who had placed themselves under the protection of the Dukes of Braunschweig, as the pastoral position was occupied by an evangelical parish administrator. In 1609, the episcopal councils handed over the parish to the Catholic pastor from Ottbergen. From 1612 he received the support of a confrere from Dingelbe. However, the resistance of the population through the influence of Duke Georg von Lüneburg and his successors was so great that from 1632 to 1643 the parish again became Lutheran. Only after the restitution of the monastery in 1643 was the Catholic cult at the parish church of St. Cosmas and Damian reintroduced.
Since the parish church in Wöhle was dilapidated, today's church was built in the village in 1717. On May 25, 1719, Auxiliary Bishop Maximilian Heinrich von Weichs zu Rösberg consecrated the church . In the 17th century the estates in Steuerwald (Hildesheim) and Nettlingen were owned by the Catholic von Wobersnow family . In his capacity as district administrator and Drost zu Steuerwald, Johann Rudolf von Wobersnow promoted the construction of the church.
From a denominational point of view, Wöhle has been an almost exclusively Catholic village since the Counter-Reformation of the 17th century. Integrated into the medieval archdeacon structure of Nettlingen, the parish came to the Derneburg circle in 1760 and to the Dinklar circle in 1808. With the deanery order of 1838 Wöhle was admitted to the deanery Borsum. It was not until a hundred years later that the parish came into the newly constituted Dinklar deanery. From 1978 to 2014 it was the parish of the merged deanery Borsum Dinklar.
On November 1, 2014, the parish of St. Nikolaus was established with its seat in Ottbergen. In this context, the parish of Cosmas and Damian in Wöhle was abolished and assigned to the newly established parish, which included around 3,400 Catholics when it was founded. Since then Cosmas and Damian has been a branch church of St. Nikolaus Ottbergen.
architecture
The baroque church, built between 1717 and 1719, has an octagonal steeple that is adorned with eight dormers . The baroque altar and two side altars partly date from the 17th century, and a crucifix even dates from the first half of the 16th century. The pulpit is from 1748, the organ was built towards the end of the 17th century. She has a sundial with Rococo decoration . There is a Lourdes grotto next to the church .
literature
- Community of Schellerten: discover the unknown - churches and chapels of the community of Schellerten . Schellerten 2010
Web links
- Catholic parish office of St. Nikolaus Ottbergen
- History on the website of the parish of St.Nikolaus Ottbergen
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bischöfliches Generalvikariat Hildesheim (ed.): Handbook of the Diocese of Hildesheim, Part 1 - Region Hildesheim , page 212, self-published, Hildesheim 1992
- ↑ Alfred Pothmann: Cosmas and Damian - They healed humans and animals. Booklet 6, Small series for research on church history of the Diocese of Essen. Mülheim ad Ruhr 1982
- ↑ Bischöfliches Generalvikariat Hildesheim (ed.): Handbook of the Diocese of Hildesheim, Part 1 - Region Hildesheim , page 212, self-published, Hildesheim 1992
- ↑ Bischöfliches Generalvikariat Hildesheim (ed.): Handbook of the Diocese of Hildesheim, Part 1 - Region Hildesheim , page 213, self-published, Hildesheim 1992
- ↑ Bischöfliches Generalvikariat Hildesheim (Ed.): Kirchlicher Anzeiger. No. 8/2014, pp. 224-226
- ↑ Kurt Dehio: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler , p. 1383, Munich 1992.
Coordinates: 52 ° 8 ′ 47.1 ″ N , 10 ° 7 ′ 41.1 ″ E