St. Josef (Vöhrum)

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St. Joseph Church

The Sankt Josef Church is the Catholic church in Vöhrum , a district of the district town of Peine in Lower Saxony . It belongs to the parish " To the holy angels " based in Peine, in the Braunschweig deanery of the Hildesheim diocese . The church, named after Saint Joseph of Nazareth , is located at Burgdorfer Straße 7.

history

House in which the emergency chapel was located

A church in Vöhrum was first mentioned in documents in 1370. In the 16th century the Reformation was introduced in Vöhrum , and the residents and the Vöhrum church became Evangelical Lutheran . In 1543 the clergyman who was then in office in Vöhrum accepted the Lutheran faith.

As a result of the Second World War , the number of Catholics around Peine increased so much through the influx of refugees and displaced persons from the eastern regions of the German Reich that a Catholic parish was formed in Vöhrum. Initially, the Catholics in Vöhrum belonged to the parish in Peine. Catholic church registers were kept in Vöhrum as early as 1946 . At the end of 1947, Vöhrum became the seat of a newly founded parish vicarie ; their services were initially held in the Protestant church. The first priest was Johannes Nögel.

On October 31 In 1948 in Vöhrum by Bishop Joseph Godehard making the blessing of a Catholic Notkapelle at the Kirchvorderner road, already under the patronage of St. Joseph, the patron saint of workers. The emergency chapel was set up in a half-timbered house on a farm, the "Aselmann'schen Hof", built in 1668. ( Location )

Since the structure of the emergency chapel was no longer sufficient, today's church was built. On June 14, 1959, the then Vöhrum Pastor Thomas Meuffels broke ground, and on October 6 of the same year the topping-out ceremony was celebrated. On April 1, 1960, a Catholic parish was established in Vöhrum. On April 30 and May 1, 1960 the church was consecrated by Auxiliary Bishop Heinrich Pachowiak . At that time, in addition to Vöhrum, the villages of Eixe , Hämelerwald , Röhrse and Sievershausen also belonged to the catchment area of ​​the church.

Around 1990 St. Josef was an independent parish and had its own pastor. At that time, the Holy Trinity Church in Hämelerwald , built in 1962, was a branch church of the Vöhrum parish.

Since November 1, 2006, the church has belonged to the parish "To the holy angels" in Peine, the independent parish "St. Josef ”in Vöhrum was canceled in this context. In the last few years before the merger, the church had already received pastoral care from Peine. The church has also been part of the Braunschweig deanery since November 1st, 2006. Before that she belonged to the Deanery Peine, which was dissolved at that time.

Architecture and equipment

The church, located around 66 meters above sea level , was built according to plans by the Paderborn architect Lipsmeier. Your entrance tower is crowned by a cross . Saint Joseph, the patron saint of the church, is shown in a bronze statue in front of the church. He is also shown on the windows on the street side. Once with steel cookers , as the steel industry was the leading industry in Peine at that time. The stained glass window behind the altar shows the Heavenly Jerusalem . The church's equipment also includes a stone statue of the Virgin Mary, in front of which sacrificial candles can be placed.

See also

literature

  • Vöhrumer Ortschronik: From Vorden to Vöhrum. Peine 1983, pp. 208-216
  • Willi Stoffers: Diocese of Hildesheim today. Hildesheim 1987, ISBN 3-87065-418-X , p. 40

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.voehrum-online.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=265:sanierung-der-evangelischen-kirche-voehrum&catid=84:voehrumer-geschichten&Itemid=60
  2. ^ Church registers in the diocese archive in Hildesheim
  3. ↑ http://wiki-bistumsgeschichte.de/wiki/index.php5?title=1948
  4. ↑ http://www.myheimat.de/peine/kultur/aselmannsche-hof-in-voehrum-d99612.html
  5. ^ St. Godehards-Werk (ed.): Der Dom 1991. Hildesheim 1990, p. 123
  6. ↑ Episcopal General Vicariate (ed.): Kirchlicher Anzeiger. No. 10/2006, Hildesheim 2006, pp. 319-322
  7. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 20, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bistum-hildesheim.de

Coordinates: 52 ° 20 '36.6 "  N , 10 ° 10' 39.8"  E