St. Heinrich (Wolfsburg)
Sankt Heinrich was the Catholic church in the Wolfsburg district of Rabenberg , which was built from 1958. The church was built in 1961 according to plans by Peter Koller jun. Built in 1996 by the State Government's Institute for the Preservation of Monuments and declared a monument and profaned in 2019 .
history
Wolfsburg, which was conceived as Volkswagenstadt during the Nazi era, received numerous modern church buildings after the end of the war, including several Catholic ones. St. Heinrich was the third after St. Christophorus ( Schillerteich , 1951) and St. Joseph ( Wohltberg , 1957). On July 2, 1960, the foundation stone was laid by Vicar General Wilhelm Offenstein ; the topping-out ceremony was celebrated on January 24, 1961. On August 26, 1961, the church was consecrated by Bishop Heinrich Maria Janssen . On April 1, 1962, the parish of St. Heinrich was established, to which around 200 Catholics belonged at the time. In the spring of 1969 the first sod was broken for the neighboring parish center, which was inaugurated on June 17, 1971. In 1971 the sanctuary was also redesigned after the liturgical reform of the Second Vatican Council ; the communion bench was removed and the altar moved closer to the congregation. In 1978 today's stained glass windows were installed and the church was renovated in 1981/82, during which a new wooden ceiling was installed and the lighting was renewed. On December 1, 1985, the parish was elevated to a parish. From November 1st, 2000 the Church of St. Joseph was also subordinate to the pastor of St. Heinrich. In 2000, the church was extensively renovated, including the entire electrical installation.
Since November 1, 2006, the church has been part of the Wolfsburg-Helmstedt deanery; previously it belonged to the dean's office in Wolfsburg, which at that time was renamed and enlarged to include the Helmstedt part of the then-dissolved dean's office in Helmstedt-Wolfenbüttel. In 2008 the church roof was renovated. Since September 1, 2010, St. Heinrich has been part of the overall parish of St. Christophorus with six churches and 14,750 members (2011). The number of parishioners, which peaked at over 2,000, had now dropped to 574. The parish office was closed in August 2011, and the parishioners have been looked after by the parish office at St. Christopher's Church since then. Due to the declining financial resources as well as the lower number of clergy and church visitors, it was decided in 2014 to profane the church and offer it for sale. On June 20, 2018 the council of the city of Wolfsburg decided to draw up the development plan Westlich Rabenberg, 3rd amendment , which includes the St. Heinrich Church including the community center and the kindergarten, in order to enable a change in the use of these buildings. On June 23, 2018, due to the shortage of priests, the last regular Holy Mass took place in St. Heinrich, as the evening mass for the solemnity of the birth of John the Baptist . On March 22, 2019, the church was profaned by Auxiliary Bishop Heinz-Günter Bongartz , who also extinguished the Eternal Light . After St. Maria Goretti (Meinersen) , Holy Family (Helmstedt-Offleben) , St. Joseph (Wolfsburg) and St. Elisabeth (Wolfsburg), this was the fifth profanation of a church in the Wolfsburg-Helmstedt deanery. The church building and the community center were sold to an investor who set up an architecture office and twelve student apartments in the community center. The church building is now available for events of various denominations, including the Eritrean Orthodox Church and the Romanian Orthodox Church . The nearest Catholic churches today are St. Christophorus and St. Raphael , just under three kilometers away.
architecture
The St. Henry - patronage , chosen because of the particular compound of Saxony emperor to Diocese of Hildesheim , inspired jun architect Peter Koller, a son of. Peter Koller , a crown-shaped structure. The floor plan is oval, the church has about 330 seats. From the folded concrete masonry, window strips protrude over the building roof, increasing in length towards the altar. A tower with a high cross originally planned on the west side was not realized. The east-facing church is around 78 meters above sea level .
Furnishing
Outside, next to the side entrance, there is a large bronze crucifix designed by Claus Kilian in 1987 .
In the anteroom of the church, which was originally a baptistery and is lit by a skylight , there is a statue created by Josef Hauke in 1972 , which shows Christ bound . The baptismal font was moved to the sanctuary after the Second Vatican Council.
The interior altar mural, designed by Gerd Winner in 1962 , shows Christ as Pantocrator in the middle of the New Jerusalem , including the book with seven seals . The altar, baptismal font, tabernacle stele, holy water basin and Easter candlestick are made from Italian marble by Wolfsburg stonemason Johann Billen . The altar plate rests on twelve columns. The Wolfsburg master goldsmith Raimund Lange (1928–2006) created the tabernacle decorated with ears of wheat , the ambo and the lid of the baptismal font. Next to the foundation stone, a spoil from the cathedral of the Bamberg diocese , which King Heinrich founded in 1007, is embedded in the wall. The 14 small stations of the cross were made from copper sheet by students from the Eichendorff School in Wolfsburg . There is a confessional under the organ gallery .
organ
After the singing of the congregation was initially accompanied by a harmonium , the church council decided in 1966 to buy a used positive organ. Today's organ was built in 1982 by organ builder G. Christian Lobback and inaugurated on January 30, 1983. The design of the windows in the shape of ears of corn can also be found in the organ. The 7.20 m high and 5.40 m wide slider chest instrument has 23 registers on two manuals and a pedal . The key actions are mechanical, the stop actions are electrical. The gaming table is integrated into the 2.75 m wide lower case.
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Lady Chapel
The Marienkapelle has about twenty seats and is illuminated by a skylight. It contains a statue of the Virgin Mary created by Josef Hauke in 1971 and a celebration altar . Also Opferkerzen can be placed here.
Church institutions
The following Catholic institutions are also located in the Rabenberg district:
monastery
After Hubert Kaltenthaler (1927–2006), the first pastor of the parish, had passed away in March 1965, Fathers of the Montfortan Order took over pastoral care of the parish. In 1969 a small monastery was built next to the church for the fathers . In 2010 the last priest left the monastery.
From 2015 the former monastery building and the parish house of St. Heinrich were rented for three years to the city of Wolfsburg, which used it to accommodate asylum seekers . The first residents moved in in March 2015. The facility had 40 to 45 places and was operated on behalf of the city of Wolfsburg by the Bremen-based private company Human-Care GmbH as shared accommodation at Am Stemmelteich . At the end of 2017, the city of Wolfsburg gave up this refugee accommodation because the number of new asylum seekers had fallen sharply and the rental agreement was expiring.
The St. Heinrich parish hall also hosts the events of the Christ Center Wolfsburg , a Pentecostal-charismatic free church that has existed in Wolfsburg since 1952 and belongs to the Bund Freikirchlicher Pfingstgemeinden . The services of this free church used to take place in the CongressPark ; Her youth group Youth Alive Wolfsburg had their meeting in a mobile building in the school yard of the Goetheschule.
day care center
A kindergarten for ten children was opened next to the church on May 8, 1967. In 2012, 64 children in four groups aged 0 to 6 years were cared for in this facility in daycare and kindergarten. This kindergarten has been preserved as a Catholic institution even after the church was profaned.
Eichendorff School
In 1979, some elementary school classes at the Eichendorff School, located in the neighboring Köhlerberg district , moved to the Rabenberg School. Since the closure of the Rabenberg School (elementary school 11) in 1997, all elementary school students at the Eichendorff School have been taught in the Rabenberg school building; the school kindergarten is still located there today. From October 19, 2014 to March 17, 2019, the regular church services of the Evangelical-Lutheran parish for the Rabenberg district took place in the music room of the Eichendorff School, until they were discontinued due to the lower number of visitors.
Catchment area
The catchment area of the church included the Wolfsburg districts Eichelkamp , Klieversberg and Rabenberg.
See also
- List of religious buildings in Wolfsburg
- List of profane churches in the Diocese of Hildesheim
- Heinrichskirche
literature
- Festschrift for the 20th anniversary of the St. Heinrich Church. Wolfsburg 1981.
- Festschrift for the organ inauguration. Wolfsburg 1983.
- St. Heinrich 1961–1991, 30 years. Wolfsburg 1991.
- The Catholic churches in Wolfsburg. PEDA ART GUIDE No. 173/2001. Passau 2001, pp. 18-20.
- St. Heinrich 1961–2011, chronicle. Wolfsburg 2011.
- Horst Scholz: St. Heinrich Chronicle. Wolfsburg 2015.
- Horst Scholz: The St. Heinrich Church. In: Chris. (Parish letter of the parish of St. Christophorus) Summer 2016 edition, p. 17.
- Nicole Froberg, Ulrich Knufinke, Susanne Kreykenboom: Wolfsburg. The architecture guide. Braun Publishing, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-03768-055-1 , pp. 98-99.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ see church building in Wolfsburg
- ↑ Schematism of the Diocese of Hildesheim 2011
- ^ Catholic parish St. Christophorus Wolfsburg (ed.): Chris. Easter 2014 edition. Wolfsburg 2014, pp. 4–6.
- ↑ Official announcement in Wolfsburger Nachrichten , issue of August 24, 2018.
- ↑ Advent singing in St. Heinrich. In: Wolfsburger Nachrichten. Edition of December 27, 2019.
- ↑ About the organ ( Memento of the original from October 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Organ Points. St. Heinrich, Wolfsburg. Karl Hermann Koch plays the Christian Lobback organ. Music production Dabringhaus & Grimm , Detmold 1984. ( record )
- ↑ Wolfsburger Nachrichten No. 66/2015, March 19, 2015, p. 11
- ↑ City closes refugee shelters. ( Memento of the original from April 16, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Internet presence of the city of Wolfsburg from December 18, 2017, accessed on April 15, 2018
- ↑ Homepage of the Christ Center Wolfsburg , accessed on November 5, 2016
- ↑ Horizons. Community letter from the Evangelical Lutheran City Church Community of Wolfsburg, issue No. 78, March – May 2019, p. 9.
Coordinates: 52 ° 24 ′ 17.1 ″ N , 10 ° 46 ′ 34.6 ″ E