St. Martin (Osterode am Harz)

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St. Martin Church

Sankt Martin , also called Sankt Martinus , was a Roman Catholic church in Osterode am Harz ( Lower Saxony ). It belonged to the Osteroder parish of St. Johannes Baptist , in the Nörten-Osterode deanery of the Hildesheim diocese . The church named after St. Martin of Tours was located at Bergstrasse 12.

history

After the Second World War , the number of Catholics in Osterode rose sharply, triggered by the influx of refugees and displaced persons from the eastern regions of the German Reich and the Field Marshal Rommel Barracks built in 1960/61 . Therefore, in 1962/63, the second Catholic church in Osterode, in the south of the city and opposite the barracks, was St. Martin's Church. On 21 June 1962, the foundation stone was laid by Vicar General Adalbert Sendker, and on 14 July 1963, followed consecration of the church by Bishop Heinrich Pachowiak . The church community ( Kuratiegemeinde ) of St. Martin was founded on July 1, 1963, and at that time around 1900 Catholics belonged to it. The St. Bonifatius Church in Badenhausen , built in 1961/62, was also a branch church of the St. Martin parish . The detached rectory was built in 1971 , and on December 1, 1977 the Kuratiegemeinde was raised to a parish.

From 1986, when Wilhelm Lipp († 2005), the first priest of the parish, resigned as pastor of the parish of St. Martin , the church was also looked after by the pastor of the parish of St. John the Baptist . From 1994 to 2013 there was a small convent with Dominican Missionaries of St. Heart of Jesus from the Strahlfeld monastery in the rectory of St. Martin . The Generalfeldmarschall-Rommel-Kaserne was closed at the end of 2013. Since March 1, 2004, the church has belonged to the then newly founded Nörten-Osterode deanery , before that Osterode was the seat of its own deanery of the same name. Since August 1, 2004 the church has belonged to the parish of St. Johannes Baptist .

On September 9, 2015, the church was profaned by Bishop Norbert Trelle . The property with the church building, the parsonage and the parsonage was sold to the neighboring Transylvania old people's home , which is to be expanded to include the former church buildings. A large part of the church inventory, including the altar , the tabernacle and the organ , is to go to Krzyżanowice ( Poland ) to equip a new church . The Way of the Cross is to be returned to the artist Claus Kilian , the statue of St. Martin is to be used again in the military chaplaincy in Hamburg .

Architecture and equipment

organ

The church was built according to plans by the architect Wolfgang Tschirschwitz from Braunschweig , it was about 257 meters above sea level . A bell tower was omitted for reasons of cost.

The interior was closed off by a wooden ceiling and offered around 270 seats. Claus Kilian took on the artistic design. A mosaic picture on the back wall of the altar showed the Last Supper with Jesus Christ and eleven apostles , including the tabernacle. A stylized eagle adorned the ambo . To the right of the sanctuary there was a representation of the Virgin Mary, in front of which sacrificial candles could be placed. 14 Stations of the Cross hung on the east side, and a copy of the first side of the Isenheim Altarpiece since 1980 has been on the west side . Under the organ gallery a statue showed Jesus at the scourge column , in front of the gallery there were two confessionals . The organ by master organ builder Karl-Heinz Blöß from Oker was installed in 1967.

In a wall between the nave and the sacristy located chapel a stone was grave Church of St. Martin admitted. The baptismal font and a statue created by the Degen siblings from Höhr-Grenzhausen , which showed Saint Martin on horseback , also had their place there.

See also

literature

  • Festschrift 25 years of the Church and Parish of St. Martin. Osterode 1988
  • KirchenZeitung No. 36/2013 of September 8, 2013, p. 12
  • Willi Stoffers: Diocese of Hildesheim today. Hildesheim 1987, ISBN 3-87065-418-X , pp. 118/119
  • KirchenZeitung No. 36/2015 of September 6, 2015, p. 1 (article on profanation)

Web links

Commons : St. Martin (Osterode am Harz)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Episcopal General Vicariate (ed.): Kirchlicher Anzeiger. No. 10/2005. Hildesheim 2005, p. 227
  2. ↑ Episcopal General Vicariate (ed.): Kirchlicher Anzeiger . No. 2/2004. Hildesheim 2004, p. 35

Coordinates: 51 ° 43 ′ 9.5 ″  N , 10 ° 15 ′ 12 ″  E