St. Martin (apprenticeship)
St. Martin is the Catholic Church in Wendhausen , in the municipality of teaching in the district of Helmstedt in Lower Saxony . The church belongs to the parish of St. Marien , located in the Braunschweig district of Querum , in the Braunschweig deanery of the Hildesheim diocese . The church is named after St. Martin von Tours and is located at 20 Am Dettmersberg .
history
After France declared war on Germany on September 3, 1939 and an offensive against the Saar area began two days later , Saarlanders were evacuated from the Trier diocese to the interior of the Reich area. As a result, the provost community St. Nicolai (Braunschweig) held catholic services in Wendhausen, which had been evangelical-Lutheran since the Reformation , and were held in the evangelical church.
As a result of the flight and expulsion of Germans from Central and Eastern Europe from 1945 to 1950 , the number of Catholics in Wendhausen and the surrounding towns rose again. First a parsonage was built in Wendhausen and a chapel was set up in the basement.
In 1962 the foundation stone was laid for the church. The Wendhausen parish was established on April 1, 1962, and the consecration of the church by Auxiliary Bishop Heinrich Pachowiak followed on December 16, 1962 . On December 1, 1985, the parish was elevated to a parish, and on April 13, 1986 it was given a branch chapel with St. Don Bosco in the neighboring village of Hondelage, about two kilometers away .
Since November 1, 2006, St. Martin has been a branch church of the parish of St. Marien . At that time, the catchment area of St. Martin , including St. Don Bosco , comprised almost 2,200 Catholics.
Architecture and equipment
The towerless church was built according to plans by the architect Philipp from Braunschweig, it is almost 81 meters above sea level and has 168 seats. A mosaic on the back wall of the sanctuary shows the Lord's Supper . The interior of the church also includes a representation of Saint Martin and a tapestry with a Pietà image. The Way of the Cross comprises 15 stations, the last station depicting the resurrection of Jesus Christ . The Marien altar is located in a wall niche .
See also
literature
- Willi Stoffers: Diocese of Hildesheim today. Hildesheim 1987, ISBN 3-87065-418-X , pp. 53, 56, 57
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Thomas Flammer: National Socialism and the Catholic Church in the Free State of Braunschweig 1931–1945. Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2013, p. 158
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 20, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 52 ° 18 ′ 55.41 ″ N , 10 ° 37 ′ 49.3 ″ E