St. Maximilian Kolbe (Salzgitter)
St. Maximilian Kolbe is the Catholic parish church in Fredenberg , a district of the Lower Saxon town of Salzgitter in the Lebenstedt district . Your parish, St. Maximilian M. Kolbe , belongs to the Goslar-Salzgitter Dean's Office of the Hildesheim diocese . The parish church named after St. Maximilian Kolbe has the address Einsteinstraße 8-14.
history
Large numbers of Catholics again moved to the region, which has been Protestant since the Reformation in the 16th century, as part of the establishment of the Reichswerke AG for ore mining and ironworks "Hermann Göring" , which was founded in July 1937 .
After France declared war on Germany on September 3, 1939 and an offensive against the Saar area began two days later , Saarlanders were evacuated into the interior of the Reich area. As a result, Catholic services were also held in Lichtenberg in the hall of an inn. Catholic services were also held in Lesse and Westerlinde in 1939. The Diocese of Hildesheim then created structures for the pastoral care of the Catholics who had moved there. So the parish vicarie "Reichswerke-Hermann-Göring-West" belonging to the Wolfenbüttel parish of St. Petrus was established with its seat in Krähenriede, to which Bruchmachtersen also belonged. It was affiliated with the local chaplaincy Lesse, which also included Lichtenberg. After the repatriation of the Saarlanders after the campaign in the west, won by the Wehrmacht , in July 1940, Catholic services were again banned by the state authorities in many places in the region. Around 1941, due to the increased number of Catholics, parts of the Wolfenbüttel parish were separated as independent curates . For example, Burgdorf belonged to the “Wolfenbüttel Land III” curate based in Woltwiesche , and Osterlinde to the “Wolfenbüttel Land IV” curate based in Gebhardshagen .
After the end of National Socialism , the Catholic Church could develop more freely. As a result of the flight and expulsion of Germans from Central and Eastern Europe , the number of Catholics in the area of today's parish Fredenberg continued to rise.
In 1945 a church service station was set up in Lichtenberg. A chapel was established in the Lichtenberg domain , which was consecrated in 1950 by Bishop Joseph Godehard Machens . It had the address Burgbergstr. 43.
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, a chapel was set up in Burgdorf Castle.
In Lesse, church services took place in the Schmidt restaurant after a Catholic children's home was moved from Watenstedt to Lesse. In 1949 about 350 of the 2,200 residents of Lesse were Catholic. On the first floor of an existing building at 9 Kleine Straße (renamed Lütge Straße in the mid-1970s), a Marienkapelle with around 50 seats was set up, and on October 2, 1949, Bishop Joseph Godehard Machens gave its benediction.
After the parish had stabilized, the desire arose for an own church, which was planned for Lichtenberg. A church building association was founded and after lengthy efforts, construction work began on July 31, 1966 on Evangelienberg in Lichtenberg. The foundation stone was laid on October 16, 1966 , and Bishop Heinrich Maria Janssen consecrated the Don Bosco Church on October 21, 1967 . A parsonage and a recreation room were also built and the pastor moved from Burgdorf to Lichtenberg.
In the mid-1960s, they moved into the new Fredenberg area, where a Catholic church was planned as early as 1965. Since the Don Bosco Church was built first and the St. Elisabeth Church in nearby Lebenstedt two years later , Fredenberg had to wait a few years for its own church. Construction work did not begin in Fredenberg until August 1975, and the foundation stone was laid on March 6, 1976 by Vicar General Adalbert Sendker. The topping-out ceremony followed on November 18, 1976 , and the church consecration on May 19, 1977, the feast of Christ's Ascension , by Bishop Heinrich Maria Janssen .
With effect from January 1, 1978, the independent Kuratiegemeinde Fredenberg was established with the catchment area mentioned below. Before that, the Catholics in Fredenberg belonged to the parish vicarie Salzgitter-Lichtenberg, which was attached to the parish of St. Michael (Salzgitter-Lebenstedt) .
In 1981 the Catholic Church rented the classroom of the school in Burgdorf, 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. From 1992 to 1995 the parish center in Fredenberg was expanded, as the parish had continued to grow, especially from Eastern Europe.
On October 30, 2007, the St. Maria Rosenkranz branch chapel in Burgdorf was closed again, and the St. Johannes Bosco chapel in Lichtenberg is no longer used for regular services by the parish of Fredenberg.
Architecture and equipment
The church was built according to the plans of the Braunschweig architect Alois Hafkemeyer (1929–1986) , designed as a tower-free central building. Hafkemeyer previously designed the churches of St. Norbert (Grasleben) , Corpus Christi (Rotenburg (Wümme)) , St. Marien (Braunschweig-Querum) , St. Elisabeth (Salzgitter) , St. Bernward (Braunschweig) and the Ecumenical Center St. Stephen .
The choice of materials makes the church building stand out from the surrounding residential and commercial buildings. The architecture of the church symbolizes the tent of God among people. The interior design of the church was done by the artist Hanns Joachim Klug . Relics of the holy martyrs Donatus, Faustinus and Romanus are embedded in the main altar .
Catchment area
In addition to Fredenberg in Salzgitter, the catchment area of the parish of St. Maximilian M. Kolbe also includes the districts of Bruchmachtersen , Lesse , Lichtenberg and Osterlinde . Furthermore, in the district of Wolfenbüttel, the municipality of Burgdorf with its districts of Berel , Hohenassel , Nordassel and Westerlinde . In 2017 the parish had around 3,800 Catholics.
See also
- List of sacred buildings in Salzgitter
- List of churches in the Diocese of Hildesheim
- Maximilian Kolbe Church
literature
- 40 years of St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe, Salzgitter-Fredenberg. May 19, 1977 - May 19, 2017. Salzgitter 2017.
- Willi Stoffers: Diocese of Hildesheim today. Hildesheim 1987, ISBN 3-87065-418-X , pp. 60-61.
- Thomas Flammer: National Socialism and the Catholic Church in the Free State of Braunschweig 1931–1945. Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2013.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bischöfliches Generalvikariat Hildesheim (ed.): Catholic worship in the diocese of Hildesheim. Hildesheim 1966, p. 74.
Coordinates: 52 ° 8 ′ 27.7 ″ N , 10 ° 18 ′ 18.6 ″ E