St. Joseph (Salzgitter)

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Parish Church of St. Joseph

St. Joseph is a Catholic parish church in Lebenstedt , a district of Salzgitter in Lower Saxony . Your parish of the same name belongs to the Deanery Goslar-Salzgitter of the Diocese of Hildesheim . The church named after St. Joseph of Nazareth is located at Suthwiesenstraße 2 (corner of Ludwig-Erhard-Straße ).

history

In Lebenstedt there was a considerable increase in population at the end of the 1930s, triggered by the need for workers of the Reichswerke AG for ore mining and ironworks "Hermann Göring", founded in July 1937 . A large number of Catholics from different parts of the German Empire and abroad moved to the village, which has been Protestant since the Reformation . At that time, Lebenstedt belonged to the parish of St. Petrus with its seat in Wolfenbüttel, about 17 kilometers away . The pastoral care had to be limited to home visits, as there were no church rooms. According to a decision made by Adolf Hitler in 1939, no churches were allowed to be built in the city under construction, even the designation of church building sites for later church buildings was prohibited. From Ascension Day in 1940 on, Catholic services could be held in the hall of the “Heinemanns Höhe” inn in Lebenstadt. On October 1, 1940, the parish vicarie "Reichswerke-Hermann-Göring-West" (later renamed "Lebenstedt") belonging to the Wolfenbüttel parish was established. Your first parish vicar was Josef Mettler, a chaplain from Wolfenbüttel. He found accommodation in a family's apartment in Krähenriede, and a small house chapel was set up in his room. In autumn 1941, the Gestapo banned church services in the restaurant. In the same year , a wooden barrack built in 1940 in the northern area of ​​Lebenstedt, Section V , was acquired, which was expanded into an emergency chapel . From the 1st Sunday of Advent in 1941 until Maundy Thursday in 1942, church services took place there, after which they were again banned by the Gestapo. In September 1942 the Gestapo approved services in the hall of the Wolf restaurant in Lebenstedt, which was used for this until Christmas 1946. After the end of the Second World War , the number of Catholics in Lebenstedt continued to increase due to the influx of refugees and displaced persons . From May 10, 1945 (Ascension Day), the emergency chapel confiscated by the Gestapo at today's Hasenwinkel could be used again for church services. It received a half-timbered extension, which was consecrated on May 1, 1946, and the patronage of St. Joseph. In the old village of Lebenstedt, the service took place in the Gasthaus Wolf in a barn that had been converted into a further emergency chapel, from which the parish of St. Michael later emerged .

On April 1, 1955, Lebenstedt left the Wolfenbüttel parish and trained as “St. Michael “has its own parish. Since in the 1950s the chapel “St. Joseph ”no longer met the requirements, the church“ St. Joseph ", as the second Catholic church in Lebenstedt after the church" St. Michael “, erected. On April 2nd, 1956 (Easter Monday) the foundation stone was laid by Vicar General Wilhelm Offenstein , followed by the consecration by Bishop Heinrich Maria Janssen on June 2nd, 1957 . Relics of Saints Clarus of Vienne and Eulogius were placed in the altar . In 1958 the barrack chapel was torn down and the rectory was built in 1960. On April 1, 1960, the pastoral care district “St. Joseph ”from the parish“ St. Michael ”and formed its own parish (Kuratiegemeinde). On October 1, 1964, the parish “St. Joseph ”to the parish.

Less than a kilometer away, on the Dolmenkotten road, the day care center “St. Joseph ”. In October 1988 the construction of a new rectory began, which was inaugurated on February 18, 1990. In 1997, the day care center “Dandelion” was built in a former school pavilion of the primary school in Kranichdamm.

On September 1st, 2003 the parish “St. Joseph "and together with the also dissolved parish" St. Elisabeth "the new parish" St. Peter and Paul ”. On November 1, 2006, the previous parishes “St. Peter and Paul "and" St. Michael "today's parish" St. Joseph ". Since July 1, 2007, the parish has belonged to the then newly established Deanery Goslar – Salzgitter, previously it belonged to the Deanery Salzgitter. On July 3, 2008, the St. Elisabeth Church was profaned .

Architecture and equipment

The single-nave hall church was built according to plans by the architect Josef Fehlig and has 360 seats. A steel skeleton forms the load-bearing structure of the church. For cost reasons, a church tower was not built and a roof turret was installed instead . There is a crypt under the choir .

The original interior of the church was designed by Wilhelm Keudel (1913–1974). In the course of renovation work, the interior of the church was redesigned from 1978 onwards, following the recommendations of the liturgical reform of the Second Vatican Council . The artistic design was in the hands of the sculptor Joseph Krautwald . The altar island was moved to the crossing of the building, the altar and the baptismal font were renewed. The tabernacle that previously stood on the altar was built into a stele and set up freely in the chancel. The altar of the redesigned church was consecrated on November 22, 1978 by Bishop Heinrich Maria Janssen. The church's furnishings include statues of Saint Anthony of Padua , Elisabeth of Thuringia , Joseph of Nazareth, Mary (mother of Jesus) and Martín de Porres ; Reliefs show Franz von Assisi and Hedwig von Andechs . In 1984 the church received a new organ built by the Hillebrand Orgelbau company .

See also

literature

  • Catholic Parish Office St. Joseph (Ed.): St. Joseph in Salzgitter. Chronicle of the Catholic parish on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the church, 1957–2007. Salzgitter 2007.
  • Catholic Parish Office St. Joseph (Ed.): 25 years of the parish church of St. Joseph, Salzgitter. Salzgitter 1982.
  • Wolfgang Lorke, Diocesan Building Councilor: Church buildings in Salzgitter . In: Department for Public Relations of the City of Salzgitter (Ed.): Salzgitter Forum . tape 12 , 1986, DNB  880735341 , St. Josephs Church in Salzgitter, p. 80-81 .
  • Archive of the city of Salzgitter, editors: Ursula Wolff, Jörg Leuschner and Sigrid Lux ​​(eds.): From the village to the city center. The development of Lebenstedts in the 20th century (=  contributions to city history . Volume 23 ). Salzgitter 2008, DNB  997721154 , p. 343-344 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Church buildings in Salzgitter , p. 80
  2. ↑ Church buildings in Salzgitter , p. 81
  3. ↑ Chronik Lebenstedt , p. 344
  4. ↑ Episcopal General Vicariate (ed.): Kirchlicher Anzeiger. No. 10/2006, Hildesheim 2006, pp. 57-59
  5. ↑ Episcopal General Vicariate (ed.): Kirchlicher Anzeiger. No. 6/2007, pp. 142-143
  6. ↑ Chronik Lebenstedt , p. 345

Coordinates: 52 ° 9 ′ 56 ″  N , 10 ° 19 ′ 45 ″  E