St. Joseph (Eitzum)
St. Joseph was the Catholic chapel in Eitzum , a district of the city of Gronau (Leine) in the Hildesheim district in Lower Saxony . It belonged to the parish of St. Joseph , based in Gronau, in the Alfeld-Detfurth dean's office in the Hildesheim diocese . The chapel was named after St. Joseph of Nazareth and was located on Am Fillerkamp 2 . Today the closest Catholic church is the St. Joseph Church in Gronau, six kilometers away .
history
After the Second World War , Catholic refugees and displaced persons settled in the evangelical Eitzum, so the call for a Catholic church was loud. On 23 December 1951, on the southern edge of the village, around 124 meters above sea level, the Catholic, St. Joseph's Chapel by Vicar General William Offenstein as "Notkirchlein" benediziert . It was a wooden chapel that was built in 1946 in Gronau for the British Air Force, demolished and then rebuilt in Eitzum in 1950/51.
In 1956/57 it was replaced by a new stone building with around 70 seats, a barrel vault and a roof turret provided with slats . On October 13, 1957, the benediction of the new Joseph Chapel took place. Renovations took place in 1965 and 1989–91. Behind the altar from 1965, the large altarpiece, painted in earth colors, is particularly noteworthy: It shows the gathering of displaced people and locals under the cross of Christ, with the Leine valley on the right and the landscape around the Silesian town of Waldenburg on the left .
On October 25, 2013 the chapel was profaned by the pastor Christian Wirz from Gronau.
See also
literature
- KirchenZeitung No. 42/2013 of October 20, 2013, p. 1
Web links
- Pictures of the chapel on the website of the Diocese of Hildesheim
- Website of the parish of Gronau
- Chapel on leinetal24.de
- Dates of consecration of the chapels on Wiki of the Diocese of Hildesheim
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information on St. Josef's Chapel: Information board in the anteroom of the chapel.
Coordinates: 52 ° 4 '36.23 " N , 9 ° 50' 47.01" O