St. Johannes Evangelist (Hildesheim)
Sankt Johannes Evangelist , also called St. Johann , is a Roman Catholic church in the northern part of Hildesheim . Today it belongs to the parish of Mariä Lichtmess in the Hildesheim deanery of the Hildesheim diocese .
history
The roots of St. Johann go back to the official parish of Steuerwald , which was abolished with the secularization in 1803 and whose Catholic Christians were transferred to the parish of St. Martinus in Himmelsthür .
Until the onset of industrialization in the second half of the 19th century, there had hardly been any points of contact between the independent domain of Steuerwald and the city of Hildesheim. With the construction of the railway lines (1846–1888) and later the canal and port (1920–1928) with Hildesheim as a traffic junction, as well as the establishment of the iron foundry and other factories , the city had expanded considerably to the north. The state reacted to this in 1912 with the acquisition of the Steuerwald domain and its incorporation into the city.
Just one year later, the Catholic Christians were parished on the domain of St. Martinus in Himmelsthür in the parish of St. Bernward in Hildesheim. Their pastoral care district was the entire northern city, in which mainly railway and industrial workers were resident, including the tax forest.
After the Second World War , Hildesheim expanded in all directions with new residential areas. In the northern part of the city, it was mainly local workers and fewer expellees who moved from the inner city to the northern part of the city. This resulted in new settlement areas in the immediate vicinity of Martin-Luther-Straße.
During the reconstruction of the parish church of St. Bernward , which was destroyed in the war , the church of St. Johann, consecrated in 1950, was also built in the center of the developing settlements. On July 1, 1950, a parish was formed and on April 1, 1961, it was elevated to the parish of St. John (Evangelist) . The parish of St. Johann encompassed the northern part of the city beyond the Bundesbahn and beyond the actual residential areas of the northern part of the city, the industrial centers on Römer- and Cheruskerring as well as the port area and the airport .
Since industrialization, the northern part of the city, and later also the parish of St. Johann, has been dominated by the local workers and the relatively high proportion of Catholic Christians from other European countries.
On November 1st, 2006, the parish of Mariä Lichtmess was established in the north of Hildesheim. In this context, the parishes of St. Nikolaus in Drispenstedt and St. Johann were abolished and assigned to the newly established parish, which included around 5,200 Catholics when it was founded. Since then, St. Johann has been a subsidiary church of the Virgin Mary.
Architecture and equipment
The church was built according to plans by the architect Wilhelm Fricke (1890–1964) from Hanover , who also rebuilt the Hildesheim Cathedral , which was destroyed in the war in the 1950s . The east-facing , towerless church is modeled on a three-aisled Roman basilica . Above the main portal is a semicircular tympanum with a relief of the church patron and the year MLM - 1950. Bronze stations of the cross (1985) and stone figures of the twelve apostles as well as the apostle Paul and the bishop Boniface on the pedestals of the supporting columns (1989) were made by Joseph Krautwald created.
Further Catholic institutions in the catchment area of St. John Evangelist
The Johannishof was opened in 1952 and existed as a children's home until 1984. Since then, the building has been used by Caritas as a residence for people with intellectual disabilities .
literature
- Walter Achilles: Hildesheim castles, bases of episcopal territorial policy. In: From home . Supplement to the Hildesheimer Allgemeine Zeitung , Hildesheim 1970
- Willi Stoffers: Diocese of Hildesheim today , pages 14–15, ISBN 3-87065-418-X , Bonifatiuswerk, Hildesheim 1987
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bischöfliches Generalvikariat Hildesheim (ed.): Handbook of the Diocese of Hildesheim, Part 1 - Region Hildesheim , pages 33–34, self-published, Hildesheim 1992
- ↑ Bischöfliches Generalvikariat Hildesheim (ed.): Handbook of the Diocese of Hildesheim, Part 1 - Region Hildesheim , page 34, self-published, Hildesheim 1992
- ↑ Bischöfliches Generalvikariat Hildesheim (Ed.): Kirchlicher Anzeiger. No. 10/2006, pp. 7-9
- ↑ a b bistumsjubilaeum.de ( Memento of the original from December 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Homesteads for hundreds of young people. In: KirchenZeitung , issue 46/2018 of November 18, 2018, p. 11
- ↑ Johannishof caritas-wohnen-hildesheim.de, accessed on November 16, 2018
Coordinates: 52 ° 9 ′ 51.6 ″ N , 9 ° 56 ′ 47 ″ E