St. Elisabeth (Salzgitter)

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St. Elisabeth Church (2019), view from the south
St. Elisabeth Church (2019), view from the northwest

The Sankt Elisabeth Church was a Catholic church in Lebenstedt , a district of Salzgitter in Lower Saxony . Most recently it belonged to the parish of St. Joseph , based in Salzgitter-Lebenstedt, in the Goslar-Salzgitter deanery of the Hildesheim diocese . The church was named after St. Elisabeth of Thuringia and was located at Neißestrasse 1/3. Today the closest Catholic church is St. Joseph's Church, only 1.5 kilometers away .

history

With further new buildings, especially in the Seeviertel, the need arose for a third Catholic church in Lebenstedt. Initially, the church services took place in the auditorium of the Goetheschule. The foundation stone of the church was laid in November 1967 and its consecration on December 21, 1969 by Bishop Heinrich Maria Janssen . In 1973, parts of the parishes already existing in Lebenstedt became “St. Joseph "and" St. Michael "the independent parish" St. Elisabeth “, in 1976 she was raised to a parish .

On September 1st, 2003 the parish “St. Elisabeth "and together with the also dissolved parish" St. Joseph ”the new parish“ St. Peter and Paul ”. On November 1, 2006, the previous parishes “St. Peter and Paul "and" St. Michael "today's parish" St. Joseph ". From July 1, 2007, the church belonged to the then newly established deanery Goslar – Salzgitter, previously it belonged to the deanery Salzgitter.

On July 3, 2008, the church was profaned by Vicar General Werner Schreer . Efforts to use the church building as a youth church or as an Orthodox church were unsuccessful.

In spring 2019, colored pictures were attached to the tower, which were designed by the artists Wilma Klein as well as Vitalij Gerasimenko and Ronny Knorr in collaboration with children with and without disabilities . The project received financial support from Aktion Mensch .

Today the church building and the parsonage are shared by the neighboring day-care center of the same name (Baltenstrasse 4).

Architecture and equipment

The church was built according to the plans of the Brunswick architect Alois Hafkemeyer (1929–1986), who had already designed the churches of St. Norbert (Grasleben) , Corpus Christi (Rotenburg (Wümme)) and St. Marien (Braunschweig-Querum) and later nor St. Bernward (Braunschweig) , the Ecumenical center St. Stephen and St. Maximilian Kolbe (Salzgitter) designed.

The St. Elisabeth Church, designed as a central building with a bell tower, was around 92 meters above sea level . The hexagonal main room was spanned by a cantilevered roof, which with its size of 31 meters was the largest in Germany at the time of construction. According to the liturgical reform of the Second Vatican Council, the altar was the focus of the community space. The functional rooms, such as the baptistery, the sacrament and Mary's chapel, were arranged around the main room.

Most of the sacred and works of art in the church, such as the altar , tabernacle and baptismal font , were designed by the Braunschweig sculptor Jürgen Weber . In 1985 the church received a new organ that was placed behind the altar. After the profanation, some of the furnishings found a new place in the neighboring St. Joseph Church.

The three bells, consecrated in 1988, St. Mary , St. Elisabeth and St. Vincent by Paul and St. Martin were brought to Hanover in April 2015 and are now being used again in the local St. Joseph Church .

See also

literature

  • Kath. Kirchengemeinde St. Elisabeth (Ed.): Festschrift for the 25th anniversary of the church consecration and the establishment of the parish of St. Elisabeth.
  • Willi Stoffers: Diocese of Hildesheim today. Hildesheim 1987, ISBN 3-87065-418-X , pp. 60-61
  • Church buildings in Salzgitter . In: Department for Public Relations of the City of Salzgitter (Ed.): Salzgitter Forum . tape 12 , 1986, pp. 78-79 .

Web links

Commons : St. Elisabeth Church (Salzgitter-Lebenstedt)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Welcome to St. Joseph, Salzgitter. Catholic parish of St. Joseph, accessed on November 8, 2019.
  2. ↑ St. Joseph's Catholic Parish Office (ed.): St. Joseph in Salzgitter. Chronicle of the Catholic parish on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the church 1957 - 2007. Salzgitter 2007, pp. 32–33
  3. ↑ Episcopal General Vicariate (ed.): Kirchlicher Anzeiger. No. 6/2007, pp. 142-143
  4. ↑ The church tower in Salzgitter has a colorful design. Caritasverband für die Diözese Hildesheim eV, May 20, 2019, accessed on November 8, 2019.
  5. ↑ http://www.st-joseph-hannover.de/bho/dcms/sites/bistum/pfarrei/joseph_hannover/nachrichten.html?f_action=show&f_newsitem_id=22509
  6. ↑ St. Joseph's Church in Salzgitter: Bells picked up from St. Elisabeth , last accessed on June 24, 2015

Coordinates: 52 ° 9 ′ 42.3 ″  N , 10 ° 19 ′ 3.5 ″  E