St. Maria Rosenkranz (Burgdorf)

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Former school, former chapel on the ground floor

The St. Maria Rosenkranz Chapel was the Catholic chapel in Burgdorf , a municipality in the Wolfenbüttel district in Lower Saxony . Most recently, the chapel belonged to the parish of St. Maximilian Kolbe , based in Fredenberg , in the Goslar-Salzgitter deanery of the Hildesheim diocese . The chapel bore the patronage of Maria Rosenkranz and was located in Burgstrasse 1. The closest Catholic church with regular services is today St. Maximilian Kolbe in Salzgitter-Fredenberg, about five kilometers away (part of the Salzgitter- Lebenstedt district ).

history

Around 1941, due to the increased number of Catholics in the area in which the Reichswerke AG for ore mining and ironworks "Hermann Göring" was founded in 1937, parts of the Wolfenbüttel parish of St. Petrus were separated from the Diocese of Hildesheim as independent curates . Burgdorf came to the “Wolfenbüttel Land III” curate based in Woltwiesche .

As a result of the flight and expulsion of Germans from Central and Eastern Europe , the number of Catholics continued to rise in the Burgdorf area after 1945. Catholics who arrived in Burgdorf initially orientated themselves towards the Church of the Immaculate Conception of Mary in Grasdorf . After a Catholic priest from the Trier diocese settled in Burgdorf in 1947 , a chapel was set up in Burgdorf Castle. At times Catholic services were also held in the Evangelical Church of Burgdorf. In 1948 Pastor Moik moved back to his home diocese of Trier, and chaplain Otto Nowak, himself an expellee from Waldenburg (Silesia), was his successor. During Nowak's term of office, further Catholic chapels were built in Lesse in 1949 and in Lichtenberg in 1950 . In May 1951 Pastor Nowak was transferred to the Church of St. Paulus (Unterlüß) and Pastor Emil Slawik, also from Silesia, succeeded him. After the church of St. Johannes Bosco and a parsonage had been built in Lichtenberg in the 1960s , the seat of the Burgdorf pastor was relocated there. With effect from January 1, 1978, the Kuratiegemeinde St. Maximilian was founded with its seat in Fredenberg, to which the Catholics in the political community of Burgdorf were also assigned.

In 1981 the Catholic Church rented the classroom of the school, which was closed in 1976, and set up the St. Maria Rosenkranz Chapel there . On June 23, 1981, it was consecrated by Bishop Heinrich Maria Janssen .

The chapel was closed on October 30, 2007, and the room is now used by the political community as a storage room.

See also

literature

  • 40 years of St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe, Salzgitter-Fredenberg. May 19, 1977 - May 19, 2017. Salzgitter 2017.
  • Thomas Flammer: National Socialism and the Catholic Church in the Free State of Braunschweig 1931–1945. Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2013.


Coordinates: 52 ° 8 '41.27 "  N , 10 ° 13' 1.73"  O