St. Mary's Assumption (Westfeld)
St. Mariä Himmelfahrt is the Catholic Church in Westfeld (Hauptstrasse 6) in the Hildesheim district .
The church is an east- facing hall building in the neo-Romanesque style with a round apse in the east and an octagonal roof turret above the portal. It is located around 177 meters above sea level . The outer walls are reddish plastered and structured with white arched friezes and pilaster strips .
The flat-roofed interior contains valuable baroque works of art from the previous church: a crucifixion group , a Pietà and figures of St. Joseph and St. Antony . The Mother of God with Child (around 1740) was acquired in 1990 for the Westfeld Church and restored down to the last detail. The original communion benches were built into the new main altar and two decorative side altars. Noteworthy are the modern windows on the north and south walls, which vary the Mary symbol of the rose.
The Assumption Church was built in 1848/49 and consecrated on November 21, 1849. It replaced a dilapidated half-timbered church that had stood across the main street and was consecrated on the feast of the Assumption in 1698 by Bishop Jobst Edmund von Brabeck . After the liturgical reform and at the end of the 1980s, the interior was profoundly redesigned.
Since December 1, 2002, the church has belonged to the then newly founded Deanery Alfeld-Detfurth, previously it belonged to the Deanery Alfeld-Gronau. From January 1st, 2009 the church belonged to the parish Heilige Familie in Bad Salzdetfurth , since November 1st 2014 it belongs to the parish St. Gallus in Detfurth .
See also
literature
- Thomas Hagenhoff, Hildegard Willers: St. Mariä Himmelfahrt Westfeld (Hildesheimer Chronik; Vol. 2). Diocese archive and cathedral library , Hildesheim 1998.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 2 ′ 31.3 " N , 9 ° 54 ′ 40.8" E