St. Gregory VII. (Bad Harzburg)
The Church of St. Gregory VII is the Catholic church in Bündheim , a district of the city of Bad Harzburg , in the Goslar district in Lower Saxony . It is a branch church of the parish Liebfrauen with its seat in Bad Harzburg, in the deanery Goslar-Salzgitter of the diocese of Hildesheim . The church, named after Pope Saint Gregory VII , is located at Breite Straße 30 and can be reached via a bridge over the Radau River .
history
The development of the spa business in Bad Harzburg since the middle of the 19th century brought Catholic spa guests to the site and also resulted in the settlement of Catholic employees. Since the nearest Catholic churches were in Vienenburg and Goslar , the desire arose for a church of their own. In 1876 the newly founded community bought the house at Breite Straße 110 in Schlewecke . The first Holy Mass was celebrated there on January 21, 1877 . In the same year commencing church records . In 1879 the church building site was acquired. On 12 and 19 December 1880 which took place Blessing of the newly built church. Their patronage is reminiscent of Pope Gregory VII, a contemporary of Emperor Heinrich IV. The builder of the nearby Harzburg , had repented in 1077 before Gregory VII in Canossa . In Bismarck's Kulturkampf , the patronage was thus a Catholic counterpart to the Wilhelmine-Protestant Canossa column near the Harz castle ruins .
1899–1900, the entrance hall to the west of the tower and the sacristy to the apse were added to plans by Richard Herzig .
In 1900 the first organ , built by Furtwängler & Hammer , was installed.
From 1934 Christoph Hackethal was pastor at the church. When Polish and French forced laborers came to Bündheim during the war , he disregarded their mandatory segregation and made negative comments about the war and the regime in private and in church services. On April 18, 1941, he was arrested by the Gestapo in Bündheim and died the following year in Dachau as a result of the abuse in the concentration camp. Today in Bündheim a street named after him and a memorial in the church commemorate him.
After Catholic refugees and expellees had settled in the Bad Harzburg area as a result of the Second World War , the Bündheim parish was established in 1956 or 1961 and made a parish on October 1, 1965 .
The church has belonged to the parish of Liebfrauen since July 1, 2007 , the parish of St. Gregory VII was dissolved at that time. Also since July 1, 2007, the church has belonged to the then newly established Deanery Goslar – Salzgitter. Before that she belonged to the Deanery Goslar, which was dissolved at that time.
architecture
The geostete hall church , according to the plans of Hildesheim architect Heinrich Sante of clinker in the style of the Gothic Revival was built, is around 221 meters above sea level . The nave over three window axes is covered with a gable roof. Inside it is closed off by a flat ceiling . The five-eighth apse is spanned by the caps of a vault . Constricted in the nave church tower on a square floor plan carries a pointed, eight-sided tent roof that spans the four gables of the tower shaft rises. There are wall templates on the long sides between the windows ; although they indicate a vault in the nave, it is not there.
Furnishing
The stalls from the early days of the church offer 96 seats. The three picture windows in the apse from 1892 show the Lamb of God , flanked by Saints Gregory I (not Gregory VII) and Bernward von Hildesheim . In the spacious anteroom of the church, a memorial has been commemorating Christoph Hackethal since 1992 , and the baptismal font , founded in 1881, is also located there. Sacrificial candles can be placed in front of a bust of St. Anthony of Padua . Stained glass windows show the baptism of Jesus as well as St. Elisabeth of Thuringia and the apostle John . Today's organ on the gallery was built in 1982 by Gebr. Krell from Duderstadt and replaces the smaller previous instrument. To the left and right of the chancel are the tabernacle and a statue of the Virgin Mary, on the side walls 14 stations of the Cross and under the organ gallery the confessional . The ambo is adorned with the four evangelist symbols. There is a hanging cross in the choir arch in front of the altar .
See also
literature
- Helge Burggrabe among other things: Holy rooms - Bad Harzburg's churches and chapels . Bad Harzburg 2013
- Maria Kapp: The Catholic Church of St. Gregory VII in Bad Harzburg-Bündheim. In: Harz-Zeitschrift. 52./53. Volume of the magazine of the Harz Association for History and Antiquity, 2000/2001. Lukas Verlag für Kunst- und Geistesgeschichte, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-931836-81-9 , ISSN 0073-0882 , pp. 241-252.
- Festschrift 75 years of St. Gregor's Church Bündheim-Bad Harzburg 1876–1951. Bad Harzburg 1951.
- Hans-Hermann Wedekind: The St. Gregor Church in Bündheim is 125 years old. In: Uhlenklippen Spiegel. Information from the Harzburger Geschichtsverein eV (HAGV), issue 75, September 2005, p. 59.
- Willi Stoffers: Diocese of Hildesheim today. Hildesheim 1987, ISBN 3-87065-418-X , pp. 110-111.
Web links
- Church on the website of the pastoral area North Harz
- Church on the website of the ecumenical church shop Bad Harzburg
- Church on Wiki about the history of the Hildesheim diocese
Individual evidence
- ^ Church registers in the diocese archive in Hildesheim
- ↑ Episcopal General Vicariate (ed.): Kirchlicher Anzeiger. No. 6/2007. Hildesheim 2007, pp. 144-146.
- ↑ Episcopal General Vicariate (ed.): Kirchlicher Anzeiger. No. 6/2007. Hildesheim 2007, pp. 142-143.
Coordinates: 51 ° 53 ′ 40.1 ″ N , 10 ° 32 ′ 47.9 ″ E