St. Marien (Schladen)
The Church of St. Marien , sometimes also called Immaculate Conception of Mary , is the Catholic church in Schladen , a district of the municipality of Schladen-Werla in the Wolfenbüttel district in Lower Saxony . It is a branch church of the parish of St. Mary of the Annunciation with its seat in Liebenburg , in the Deanery Goslar-Salzgitter of the Diocese of Hildesheim . The after Marie Title Immaculate Conception named church stands on the property at the Weinberg 3 .
history
In the 16th century, Julius , Duke of Braunschweig and Lüneburg and Prince of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel , introduced the Reformation in Schladen. After the restoration of the Hildesheim monastery , the old village church remained Protestant, but Maximilian Heinrich von Bayern , who was Bishop of Hildesheim from 1650 to 1688 , was able to set up a Catholic official parish again in Schladen Castle in 1667 and consecrate a Catholic church with the patronage of Mary in 1686 . Catholic church registers were kept in Schladen as early as 1679 .
After the secularization in 1802, the episcopal castle became the state domain . That is why the erection of new parish buildings on the vineyard began with funds from secularization compensation. First a parish and school house was built there in 1858 . Between 1864 and 1868 a church dedicated to St. Joseph of Nazareth was built. This church was consecrated on June 29, 1869 by Bishop Eduard Jakob Wedekin . Both buildings were built by Pastor Wilhelm van der Halben, who worked in Schladen from 1854 until his death on December 23, 1885 and was buried in the adjacent cemetery.
In 1869 the baroque statue of Nepomuk , which had previously stood on the gate bridge of the castle (domain), was moved to the new church.
On June 26, 1905, the church burned down after being struck by lightning. In 1906 the church was rebuilt and consecrated on August 18, 1907 by Bishop Adolf Bertram in honor of Mary, St. Joseph became a secondary patron.
After the liturgical reform of the Second Vatican Council , the pulpit was removed and the interior redesigned. From 1981 on, the St. Clemens Church in Hornburg , which had previously been supplied by the parish vicarie St. Bernward in Börßum , was also looked after by the parish of Schladen. At that time, the Schladen parish came to the Wolfenbüttel deanery. Since July 1, 2007, the church has belonged to the then newly established deanery of Goslar-Salzgitter and to the parish of St. Mary of the Annunciation in Liebenburg.
Architecture and equipment
The east-facing church with its cross-crowned bell tower can be seen from the Autobahn 36 due to its elevated position at almost 115 meters above sea level . The nave offers 162 seats and is closed off by a painted wooden ceiling. In the anteroom there is a copy of the bronze statue of St. Peter in St. Peter's Basilica , a mission cross and the scripture stand. A Pietà and the confessional are located under the organ gallery ; next to the Pietà a book of the dead , in which the deceased of the parishes of St. Marien and St. Clemens (Hornburg) are recorded. On the side walls are 15 stations of the Cross, designed as wooden reliefs . The interior also includes a statue of the Virgin Mary, in front of which sacrificial candles can be placed, as well as statues of Saints Elisabeth of Thuringia and Joseph of Nazareth and a small baptismal font . The ambo is provided with the four evangelist symbols, the chancel with a crucifixion group . The organ is the work of P. Furtwängler & Hammer from Hanover . The instrument, equipped with a cone chest and pneumatic action , has 15 stops on two manual works and a pedal and was built in 1907 as Opus 584. In 1956 the organ was rebuilt by the organ builder Hans-Heinz Blöß from Oker .
A little below the church there is a statue of St. John Nepomuk and a stele that was donated by the local Kolping family in 1993 on the occasion of their 40th anniversary. Not far from the church is the Catholic cemetery of Schladen with its own chapel , where the Schladen clergy pastor Wilhelm van der Halben († 1885), chaplain Heinrich Mittstieg († 1903) and dean Gottfried Ohlms († 1909) were buried. In the anteroom of the chapel there is a warrior memorial plaque.
See also
literature
- Willi Stoffers: Diocese of Hildesheim today. Hildesheim 1987, ISBN 3-87065-418-X , p. 168
- Oskar Kiecker , Carl Borchers, Hans Lütgens: The art monuments of the province of Hanover. District of Goslar . Hanover 1937, p. 232
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ St. Godehards-Werk (ed.): Der Dom 1991. Hildesheim 1990, p. 125
- ^ Church registers in the diocese archive in Hildesheim
- ↑ Bischöfliches Generalvikariat Hildesheim (Ed.): Kirchlicher Anzeiger. No. 6/2007, pp. 147-149
Coordinates: 52 ° 1 '29.4 " N , 10 ° 32' 14.1" E