St. Martinus (Emmerke)
St. Martinus is the Roman Catholic Church in the village of Emmerke in the Giesen community in the Hildesheim district in Lower Saxony . Today it belongs to the parish of St. Martinus Hildesheim - Catholic Church in the "Güldenen Winkel" in the Hildesheim deanery of the Hildesheim diocese .
history
The parish church of St. Martinus is mentioned as ecclesia Embrike in a document from Bishop Bernhard I from 1151. Your Martinus - patronage has a great age, possibly on a foundation in the wake of the Frankish church organization of the 9th century. A priest in Emmerke is confirmed for the first time in 1151. In this document, Bishop Bernhard I transferred the Martinus Church to the Moritzstift . This gave the archdeacon and provost the patronage rights over the church under the spell of the old monastery (veteris monasterii).
The right of patronage over the main church was controversial, as it was claimed by the archdeacon , who was later closely associated with the cathedral chapter . This unclear legal situation led to disputes at the archdiaconate level, which had an indirect effect on the parishes of the ban. When the cathedral scholaster , Magister Alexander , came into the possession of several benefices of the parish Emmerke in 1183 and therefore also asserted the right of presentation at the St. Martinus church, a legal dispute with the archdeacon ensued. Bishop Adelog decided in the same year that Alexander , on the task of parish benefice and patronage in Heyersum should share with the archdeacon the benefice, but the latter retained the special rights. Both patronage holders later alternately occupied the pastor's office, with the patronage of the main church reserved to appoint the sacrificial man . The good understanding at the priest's presentation was only temporary. In 1313 there was another dispute over the right of presentation between the cathedral scholaster Bernhard von Dorstadt and the archdeacon Matthias von Braunschweig . This time the cathedral chapter decided that the scholaster had the right to propose. Up until the 17th century there had been intermittent disputes between the cathedral chapter and the Mauritian monastery. But when the monastery turned to the Holy See in 1695 , the chapter withdrew its patronage claims.
The municipality of Emmerke belonged to the tax forest office , which was reformed by Adolf von Holstein from 1557. The time of the Reformation in Emmerke can no longer be precisely determined. The statement of Pastor Johannes Licius in the visitation protocol from 1609 gives clues. According to this, his representative was Protestant from 1567 onwards. This information seems doubtful for the introduction of the Reformation, since Bishop Burchard von Oberg had already received the tax forest back in 1564. The assumption of the Reformation is more accurate after the Protestant church visit of 1557. The confessional affiliation of the pastor cannot be clearly clarified from the statement in the visitation protocol. For while he kept trying to renounce the Catholic creed that would have helped him institute office, he taught the community according to Luther's catechism . The few Catholics in his community went to Hildesheim to attend Holy Mass , probably in the baptistery of St. Mauritius. The pastor's statements are almost exemplary of the unresolved confessional relationships in the period between the Confessio Augustana and the Council of Trent . After the visitation in 1609, the pastor was deposed by Auxiliary Bishop von Arensdorff . He was followed by two Catholic office holders and then the Jesuit order, which the parish of St. Martin and its branch communities in Escherde and Sorsum again rekatholisierte . While Klein and Groß Escherde currently belonged to the parish of Emmerke, St. Kunibert in Sorsum became an independent parish. A little later the church, which was probably destroyed in the Thirty Years' War , was renovated and consecrated in 1692 by Auxiliary Bishop Adamus Adami .
The mechanization of agriculture led to a population growth in the farming village of Emmerke. This made it necessary to enlarge the parish church. The nave hall was added in 1840 and the apse was added in 1864 .
After the Second World War , the population in Emmerke rose sharply due to the influx of displaced people , bombed out and evacuees. In 1968 there were 1783 residents registered in Emmerke, 1237 of them were Catholic.
In 2010 the parishes of St. Martinus in Himmelsthür , St. Kunibert in Sorsum, St. Martinus in Emmerke and the Holy Family in Escherde merged and formed the new parish of St. Martinus Hildesheim - Catholic Church in the "Güldenen Winkel". St. Martinus in Emmerke has since been a branch church of St. Martinus in Himmelsthür.
architecture
The church is a quarry stone building with a late classicist nave hall.
literature
August Söding: Home earth. Landscape and settlements in the old district of Hildesheimer Land. Hildesheim 1971
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bischöfliches Generalvikariat Hildesheim (ed.): Handbook of the Diocese of Hildesheim, Part 1 - Region Hildesheim , page 228, self-published, Hildesheim 1992
- ↑ Hermann Engfer: The church visitation from 1608–1609 in the Diocese of Hildesheim , in The Diocese in Past and Present , Hildesheim 1964–1965
- ↑ Bischöfliches Generalvikariat Hildesheim (ed.): Handbook of the Diocese of Hildesheim, Part 1 - Region Hildesheim , pages 228-229, self-published, Hildesheim 1992
- ↑ Hermann Engfer: Auxiliary Bishop Adamus Adami and his work in the diocese of Hildesheim in our diocese in the past and present , journal of the Association for History in the diocese of Hildesheim, Hildesheim 1963
- ↑ Bischöfliches Generalvikariat Hildesheim (ed.): Handbook of the Diocese of Hildesheim, Part 1 - Region Hildesheim , page 229, self-published, Hildesheim 1992
- ↑ Bischöfliches Generalvikariat Hildesheim (Ed.): Kirchlicher Anzeiger. No. 6/2010, pp. 184-187
Coordinates: 52 ° 9 ′ 55.3 " N , 9 ° 52 ′ 15.4" E