St. Elisabeth (Mieste)

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St. Elisabeth Church

The Sankt Elisabeth Church is the Catholic church in Mieste , a district of the town of Gardelegen , in the Altmarkkreis Salzwedel in Saxony-Anhalt . The church belongs to the parish “St. Hildegard ”based in Gardelegen, in the Stendal deanery of the Magdeburg diocese . The church, known after St. Elisabeth of Thuringia, is located on the property at Riesebergstrasse 7 and is listed as a monument under registration number 094 90113 in the list of monuments of the state of Saxony-Anhalt.

history

In the 16th century the Reformation was introduced in the Altmark , with it the population of Mieste also became Evangelical-Lutheran .

Only as a result of the Second World War , triggered by the influx of Catholic refugees and displaced persons from the eastern regions of the German Reich , did a Catholic parish again form in Mieste. Their first pastor was from 1945, from the Sudetenland coming Father Helmuth Fritscher. First of all, a chapel was set up in a residential building that was left to the church by a widow . In 1955 Karljosef Lange took over pastoral care in Mieste from the Archdiocese of Paderborn , to which Mieste belonged at the time. The St. Elisabeth Church was built under his direction. In 1957 the foundation stone of the St. Elisabeth Church was laid on the property , and it was inaugurated during Lent in 1959. In 1969, Hubert Thomas Bazant (1930–2014) became the last local priest to come to Mieste. In 1978 Hubert Bazant was transferred to Köthen and from then on the church was looked after by the pastor from Gardelegen. In Meester rectory then lived to about 2,008 community speakers . On September 17, 1987, a delegation from the Velpk parish of the Immaculate Conception of Mary met in the Miester rectory to re-establish contact with their former mother parish in Oebisfelde after decades of separation through the inner-German border . Since Oebisfelde was then in the restricted area of the GDR and therefore could not be visited by strangers without permission, the meeting took place in Mieste. On July 8, 1994 the diocese of Magdeburg was founded, to which Mieste has belonged ever since.

On November 1, 2007, the parishes of Gardelegen and Oebisfelde , the Kuratien Kalbe and Mieste, as well as the parish vicarages Beetzendorf and Klötze were established to form the current parish St. Hildegard on May 2, 2010. The 2011 census in the European Union showed that of the 23,568 inhabitants of the city of Gardelegen 490, or around 2%, belonged to the Roman Catholic Church.

Architecture and equipment

inside view

The church was built according to plans by the architect Johannes Reuter (1897–1975) from Bitterfeld . It is around 58 meters above sea level and has 84 seats. In its cross-crowned bell pillar there are two steel bells cast in 1958. The stained glass windows in the gables of the church date from the early days of the church; they were designed in 1958 by Lorenz Humburg and four of his students from the grammar school Marianum (Warburg) and executed by the glass painting institute Ferdinand Müller from Quedlinburg . The windows on the southwest side show Mary and the Lauretanian litany . The Eternal Light is integrated into the tabernacle stele . For facilities include further one from the village church Jeggau originating Pietà , a baptismal font and 14 stations of the cross .

See also

literature

  • Rudolf Bielas, Holger Brülls, Günter Lange: Modernism in the village. The St. Elisabeth Church in Mieste (Altmark) and its windows by Lorenz Humburg. Landesheimatbund Sachsen-Anhalt eV (publisher), Halle 2018.

Web links

Commons : St. Elisabeth (Gardelegen)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alfred Hanus: Development of the Catholic parish in Weferlingen. Weferlingen 2005, p. 9.
  2. ↑ http://www.bistum-magdeburg.de/front_content.php?idcat=1374&idart=24192&lang=5
  3. ↑ http://www.bistum-magdeburg.de/front_content.php?idcat=3012&idart=16873&lang=5
  4. ↑ St. Michael parish council, Wolfsburg. Edition February – May 2018, p. 22.
  5. ↑ http://www.bistum-magdeburg.de/front_content.php?idcat=1400&idart=2411&lang=5
  6. ↑ http://www.bistum-magdeburg.de/front_content.php?idcat=2760&idart=14430&lang=5

Coordinates: 52 ° 28 ′ 45.1 ″  N , 11 ° 12 ′ 29.3 ″  E