St. Elisabeth (Tangerhütte)
The St. Elisabeth Church is the Roman Catholic church in Tangerhütte , a small town in the south of the Stendal district in Saxony-Anhalt . The church named after St. Elisabeth of Thuringia belongs to the parish of St. Anna in Stendal , in the Stendal deanery of the Magdeburg diocese .
history
With the introduction of the Reformation , the region became Protestant. With the construction of the iron works Eisenwerke Tangerhütte , near the river Tanger and the village of Vaethen, which took place from 1842 to 1845 , a large number of workers moved to the previously predominantly agricultural village of Vaethen, which was transformed into an industrial location. In 1928 the village got its current name Tangerhütte and in 1935 town charter .
On December 2, 1906, Dechant Simon from Stendal celebrated the first Holy Mass in a private house, and from November 1907 Catholic Sunday services were held every two weeks in the attic of another private house.
The church was built in 1931, the 700th anniversary of the death of St. Elisabeth. At that time around 100 Catholics lived in Tangerhütte and another 60 in the surrounding villages. Construction began in spring, and on August 2, 1931, dean Karl Platt from Stendal laid the foundation stone . The Church was consecrated on December 13, 1931 .
In 1944/1945 the number of parishioners increased to almost 2,000 due to the influx of evacuees from the Lower Rhine and the eastern regions of the German Reich . 1946 settled with the 1932 in Breslau ordained priest Hartwig from Ziegenhals the first priest in Tangerhütte down and Tangerhuette was the seat of a curacy , which was raised in 1959 for independent Pfarrvikarie. On October 9, 1976, a new altar was consecrated by Bishop Johannes Braun . In 1981 parish vicar Helmut Ladewig, the last local clergyman, left Tangerhütte and moved to the Hl.-Geist-Kirche in Tröglitz .
On February 1, 2007, the community network Stendal - Bismark - Giesenslage - Goldbeck - Meßdorf - Osterburg - Seehausen - Tangerhütte was established, to which, in addition to the St. Elisabeth Church, the churches Heilig Kreuz in Bismark , Immaculate Conception in Giesenslage , St. Bernhard in Goldbeck , St. Mary of the Annunciation in Meßdorf , St. Joseph in Osterburg , St. Johannes Baptist in Seehausen and St. Anna in Stendal. On May 2, 2010, today's parish of St. Anna emerged from the community . The churches in Bismark, Giesenslage, Goldbeck and Messdorf have since been profaned . The 2011 census in the European Union showed that 191 of the 11,665 inhabitants of the municipality “Stadt Tangerhütte”, or around 1.6%, belonged to the Roman Catholic Church. The majority of the inhabitants did not belong to any religious community.
The last service took place in the church on November 16, 2019. What will happen to her after her profanation has not yet been determined. The Catholic parish will in future meet for parish afternoons in the rooms of the Protestant parish hall in Tangerhütte.
Location, architecture and equipment
The church on the corner of Schönwalder Chaussee / Werner-Seelenbinder-Ring is aligned with its longitudinal axis on Schönwalder Strasse. It was built as a plastered building on a clinker base based on a design by the Magdeburg architect Hans Holtey (* 1895) and is now a listed building . Its bellless tower is crowned by a cross and a weathercock. The nave spans a pointed barrel roof, the shape of which is reflected in the interior of the church.
The church stalls leave a central aisle free and offer 96 seats. To austere interior include a statue of the Madonna and Child represents, as well as a confessional . There is a hanging cross above the altar, the tabernacle is embedded in the back wall of the sanctuary, and above it the eternal light has its place. The ambo is decorated with the four evangelist symbols . The nave is illuminated through four round windows located on the long sides. 14 stations of the cross hang on the side walls. There is a crucifix above the holy water font , the church does not have an organ . Representations of St. Elisabeth, the patron saint of the church, can be found at the entrance gate to the church property and in the stained glass window above the main entrance to the church.
See also
literature
- Friedrich Nahrstedt: Tangerhütte in old views. Volume 2. ISBN 978-90-288-6175-6 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.bistum-magdeburg.de/front_content.php?client=4&lang=5&idcat=1410&idart=2469
- ↑ http://www.bistum-magdeburg.de/front_content.php?client=4&lang=5&idcat=2760&idart=14430
- ↑ http://www.volksstimme.de/nachrichten/lokal/osterburg/1081112_Katholische-Kirche-haben-zum-Verkauf.html
- ↑ Birgit Schulze: The last mass for “St. Elisabeth " . In: Stendaler Volksstimme . November 15, 2019, p. 18 .
- ↑ Hans Holtey in the online edition of the Magdeburg Biographical Lexicon of the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, accessed on August 16, 2020
Coordinates: 52 ° 26 '19.2 " N , 11 ° 48' 8.6" E