St. James the Younger (Weetzen)

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St. James Church

The Church of St. Jakobus the Younger was the Catholic church in Weetzen , a district of Ronnenberg in the Hanover region in Lower Saxony . Most recently she belonged to the "Kirchort Ronnenberg" in the parish of St. Maximilian Kolbe , based in Hanover-Mühlenberg, in the Hanover deanery of the Hildesheim diocese . The church named after St. James, son of Alphaeus , was at Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Straße 13. Today the church for the Weetz Catholics is about three kilometers away in Ronnenberg.

history

In 1929 there were 24 Catholic Christians among 788 Evangelical Christians in Weetzen. After 1945, the number of Catholics in Weetzen increased due to refugees and displaced persons from eastern Germany . At that time Weetzen belonged to the parish of St. Bonifatius in Gehrden. In Weetzen, Catholic services were occasionally held in the Protestant chapel. In 1959 there were almost 300 Catholics in Weetzen. In 1958 a building plot was purchased that already contained a hall in which Catholic services were held in the following years. In 1963 a church building association was founded.

The foundation stone of the church was laid on October 28, 1967, and its benediction on March 10, 1968 by Bishop Heinrich Maria Janssen . In addition to James the Younger, Hildegard von Bingen became the second patron saint of the church.

In 1969 the church got two bells with the basic tones F sharp and A. Until the Protestant community built its own church in 1976/77 (today's Reconciliation Church), Protestant services were also held in the Catholic church, as the chapel was too small for the Protestant community had become. In 1979 the church received a statue of the Virgin Mary and a Way of the Cross .

In Ronnenberg and Ihme-Roloven, the Catholics were assigned to the newly formed parish of the Holy Family in Empelde. But due to different beliefs and rites, they alienated themselves from the Empelder Catholics, mainly from Silesia, and in 1969 decided to work with the Weetzen-Vorie district. The congregation of St. Thomas More was created , which in 1972 received a church in Ronnenberg. In 1975 the Ronnenberg district with Ihme-Roloven and the Weetzer district with Vörie and additionally with Linderte were raised to the curative community of St. Thomas More with its seat in Ronnenberg. In 2004 the Ronnenberg-Weetzer St. Thomas-More parish was incorporated into the parish of St. Maximilian Kolbe in Hanover-Mühlenberg.

On May 12, 2009 the Weetz Church was profaned by Hildesheim Bishop Norbert Trelle , and the same year it was demolished. Today there is a single-family house on the property. The parish of St. Thomas More with Ronnenberg, Ihme-Roloven, Weetzen, Vörie and Linderte operates within the parish of St. Maximilian Kolbe under the title of "Kirchort Ronnenberg". The common church is St. Thomas More in Ronnenberg.

Architecture and equipment

The church was built as a prefabricated church with a free-standing tower according to the plans of Josef Fehlig , it was around 69 meters above sea level . After the profanation, the statue of the Virgin Mary and the processional cross found a new place in the Protestant Reconciliation Church, and the bells were placed on the Empelder Kaliberg.

See also

literature

  • Peter Erbstößer: Weetzen village renewal plan. Hanover 2003, p. 12
  • Willi Stoffers: Diocese of Hildesheim today. Hildesheim 1987, ISBN 3-87065-418-X , p. 42
  • Calenberger Zeitung from May 14, 2009
  • Peter Hertel et al. a. (Ed.): Ronnenberg. Seven Traditions - One City. Ronnenberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-030253-4

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Simon: Weetzen, in: Peter Hertel u. a. (Ed): Ronnenberg. Seven Traditions - One City . Ronnenberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-030253-4 , pp. 352 f .
  2. ↑ http://wiki-bistumsgeschichte.de/wiki/index.php5?title=Spezial%3ASuche&search=Weetzen&go=Seite
  3. ↑ Peter Hertel: Ecumenical beginning in the refugee camp, in: Peter Hertel u. a. (Ed): Ronnenberg. Seven Traditions - One City . Ronnenberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-030253-4 , pp. 199 .
  4. ↑ Peter Hertel: Old and New Religions, in: Peter Hertel u. a. (Ed): Ronnenberg. Seven Traditions - One City . Ronnenberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-030253-4 , pp. 247-249 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 17 ′ 43.6 ″  N , 9 ° 38 ′ 7.5 ″  E