St. Maria (Grießem)

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The St. Maria chapel, named after St. Mary, was the Roman Catholic chapel in Grießem , a district of Aerzen in the Hameln-Pyrmont district in Lower Saxony and was located at 20 Oberer Anger . At last it belonged to the parish of St. Bonifatius with its seat in Aerzen, in what was then the dean's office of Hameln in the diocese of Hildesheim .

history

Werner Joseph Bernhard Freiherr von Canstein (1899–1979) gave up his residence, the Ewig domain near Attendorn , in 1939 because he saw its existence threatened by the construction of Lake Bigge . Instead, he bought an estate in semolina. During his military service in the Soviet Union during World War II, he vowed to build a chapel in the event of a happy return home. In 1943, as a lieutenant colonel in the Battle of Stalingrad , he was taken prisoner by the Soviets. Of the around 110,000 soldiers of the Wehrmacht and allied troops who were captured in Stalingrad, only around 6,000 survived. Freiherr von Canstein was one of them. In 1949 he returned from captivity, and in 1954 the chapel he had built was inaugurated. On June 4, 1979, Baron von Canstein died in Grießem. The chapel existed until at least 1990, its bell tower still stands today.

layout

Original drawing of the " Madonna of Stalingrad "

Behind the altar hung a wooden cross made from an oak from the Canstein castle park. A statue of Saint Agatha set up in the chapel originally came from the community of Gevelinghausen, which gave it to the von Canstein couple for their wedding. The sculptor Christel Nieland, commissioned in 1950, made the clay relief of the “ Madonna of Stalingrad ”, which was embedded in semolina at the front of the chapel. The template for this relief was a copy of a drawing that the senior physician Kurt Reuber drew on Christmas Eve in the Stalingrad basin . The original of the drawing hangs today in the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in Berlin.

See also

literature

  • Manfred Wagenknecht: Elisabeth von Canstein in family custody. In: Yearbook Hochsauerlandkreis 1993.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b History - Elisabeth von Canstein in family custody. bigge-online.de, archived from the original on December 24, 2013 ; Retrieved May 19, 2014 .
  2. ↑ http://www.olsbergwiki.de/wiki/index.php?title=Familie_von_Wendt-Papenhausen_zu_Gevelinghausen&oldid=2706
  3. ↑ St. Godehards-Werk (ed.): Der Dom 1991. Hildesheim 1990, p. 101

Coordinates: 52 ° 0 ′ 45.4 ″  N , 9 ° 12 ′ 19.4 ″  E