St. Joseph (Braunschweig)
The Sankt Joseph Church is a Roman Catholic church in Braunschweig , it is located in the western ring area (Goslarsche Straße 6). The church belongs to the parish of St. Aegidien in the Braunschweig deanery of the Hildesheim diocese . The church, named after St. Joseph of Nazareth , is the third oldest Catholic church in Braunschweig after St. Aegidien and St. Laurentius .
history
Since the number of Catholics in Braunschweig, especially in the west of the city, had increased considerably in the 19th century, the Catholic Church bought properties on Madamenweg and Goslarschen Strasse. In Madamenweg 164, a catholic emergency church was set up in the hall of the former restaurant “Schweizer Halle”, near today's church . On November 24 or 27, 1894, their benediction was given by Dechant Karl Grube. She was the second post-Reformation Catholic Church in Brunswick, was once a daughter church of St. Nicolai Church . Catholic church records have been kept in St. Joseph since 1898 .
About seven years after it was put into operation, the emergency church was so dilapidated that it had to be closed. The foundation stone of today's church was laid in October 1902, and it was consecrated on December 20, 1903. Around 1910 the former emergency church was demolished and replaced by a restoration and residential building. On August 5, 1944 and October 11, 1944, the church was badly damaged by bombing. In 1956 the pastoral care district ( Vikarie ) of the Church of St. Joseph was raised to a parish, on April 1, 1960 to a parish.
Since November 1st, 2006 the church belongs to the parish of St. Aegidien , the parish of St. Joseph was dissolved at that time.
Architecture and equipment
In about 76 meters above sea level located church was as a neo-Gothic three-aisled basilica of brick , designed by Richard Herzig built.
The church stalls offer around 300 seats. The altarpiece shows four scenes from the life of Jesus : his birth , his adoration by the shepherds , his presentation in the temple and his baptism by John the Baptist . The three stained glass windows in the choir represent Mary (mother of Jesus) , the Holy Trinity and Joseph of Nazareth as a carpenter with the boy Jesus is. Above Mary are her Seven Sorrows by seven daggers that in her heart sting, symbolized. The small statuettes on the lid of the baptismal font show John the Baptist at the baptism of Jesus. Other interior decorations of the church include statues of Saints Anthony of Padua , Joseph of Nazareth and Mary; also a confessional on the south wall. Under the organ loft there are memorial plaques in two chapels for the fallen of the two world wars and a copy of the miraculous image of Our Lady of Perpetual Help .
The organ was built in 1903 by the company Furtwängler & Hammer , and modifications were made in 1969 and 1976. The instrument has 24 stops on two manual works and a pedal . In 2015/16 it was restored by the Brunswick organ builder Florian Fay and officially re-inaugurated on November 13, 2016 by Provost Reinhard Heine.
Further Catholic institutions in the catchment area of St. Joseph
Next to the church there is a day-care center of the same name, in Pfingststraße 1A the St. Kjeld day-care center . Both day care centers are sponsored by the Caritas Association Braunschweig.
See also
- List of cultural monuments in the western ring area
- List of churches in the Diocese of Hildesheim
- Joseph's Church
literature
- Thomas Scharf-Wrede (ed.), Gabriele Vogt (ed.): Braunschweig St. Joseph 1903–2003. 100 years of faith. Vol. 11 of the series of publications of the Hildesheim diocese archive, Hildesheim 2003.
Web links
- Internet presence of the parish
- Church on the Internet presence of the western ring area
- Aerial photo of the church on the website of the city of Braunschweig
- History of the church on photo blog "nothing new in the west"
- History of the church on the website of the association “n-21: Schools in Lower Saxony online e. V. "
- Organ on the website of the restorer
Individual evidence
- ↑ Date on the website of the association n-21: Schools in Lower Saxony online e. V.
- ↑ Date on the website of the Association for History and Art in the Diocese of Hildesheim eV
- ^ Church registers in the diocese archive in Hildesheim
- ^ Thomas Flammer: National Socialism and the Catholic Church in the Free State of Braunschweig 1931–1945. Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2013, p. 189
- ^ Organ on the website of the restorer Florian Fay , accessed on May 23, 2017.
- ↑ http://www.caritas-bs.de/kindestagsstaette-stkjeld.html
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Coordinates: 52 ° 15 ′ 42.6 " N , 10 ° 30 ′ 26.1" E