St. Elisabeth (Hameln)

The St. Elisabeth Church is a Roman Catholic church in Hameln , the district town of the Hameln-Pyrmont district in Lower Saxony . It is a parish church in the Weser Uplands deanery of the Hildesheim diocese . The church named after St. Elisabeth of Thuringia is located on the corner plot of Arndtweg 17 / Handelweg.

history

In 1972 the parish was founded as the second Catholic parish in the city after St. Augustine in the north of Hameln. Their services took place from April 8, 1972 on, initially in the Evangelical Martin Luther Church.

The St. Elisabeth Church was built in 1977, at which time Klaus-Ulrich Jung (1934–2015) was the pastor of the parish. In 1978 he moved to the Church of Our Lady in Bad Harzburg as a pastor . On January 1st, 1988 the parish of St. Elisabeth was established. From 1988 to 1993 the later auxiliary bishop Heinz-Günter Bongartz was pastor of the parish of St. Elisabeth. In September 1994 the Ecumenical Working Group was set up in the northern part of the city , to which, in addition to the parishes of St. Elisabeth and Martin Luther , the Evangelical Free Church Community ( Baptists ) also belongs.

From May 1996 St. Elisabeth formed a pastoral care unit with the parishes of St. Bonifatius in Aerzen and St. Vizelin in Klein Berkel . Since 2004 the association Friends and Patrons of the Catholic Church Community St. Elisabeth Hameln eV has financially supported the parish. On November 1, 2006, the three parishes of the pastoral care unit merged to form today's parish of St. Elisabeth , whereby the parishes of St. Bonifatius and St. Vizelin were abolished in this context.

Architecture and equipment

The church was built as a central building based on a design by the architect Roßbach (Hanover).

See also

• List of churches in the Diocese of Hildesheim
• Elisabeth Church

literature

• Willi Stoffers: Diocese of Hildesheim today. Hildesheim 1987, ISBN 3-87065-418-X , pp. 144-145.

Web links

• Internet presence of the parish
• St. Elisabeth Congregation on the website of the Evangelical Martin Luther Congregation

Individual evidence

1. ↑ obituary Rev.. Young in the church newspaper no. 9/2015 of 1 March 2015 p 15
2. ↑ Episcopal General Vicariate (ed.): Kirchlicher Anzeiger. No. 10/2006, pp. 368-370

Coordinates: 52 ° 7 '4.9 "  N , 9 ° 21' 14.4"  E