St. Michael (Salzgitter-Lebenstedt)

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St. Michael Church

The Sankt Michael Church is a Catholic church in Lebenstedt , a district of Salzgitter in Lower Saxony . As a branch church, it belongs to the parish of St. Joseph in Lebenstedter , in the Goslar-Salzgitter deanery of the Hildesheim diocese . The church named after the Archangel Michael is located at Salderschen Strasse 1.

history

In Lebenstedt there was a considerable increase in population at the end of the 1930s, triggered by the need for workers of the Reichswerke AG for ore mining and ironworks "Hermann Göring", founded in July 1937 . A large number of Catholics from different parts of the German Empire and abroad moved to the village, which has been Protestant since the Reformation . At that time, Lebenstedt belonged to the parish of St. Petrus with its seat in Wolfenbüttel, about 17 kilometers away . The pastoral care had to be limited to home visits, as there were no church rooms. According to a decision made by Adolf Hitler in 1939, no churches were allowed to be built in the city under construction, even the designation of church building sites for later church buildings was prohibited.

As early as 1938 in Lebenstedt, the later parish of “St. Michael “, kept Catholic church records. From Ascension Day in 1940 on, Catholic services could be held in the hall of the “Heinemanns Höhe” inn in Lebenstadt. On October 1, 1940, the parish vicarie "Reichswerke-Hermann-Göring-West" (later renamed "Lebenstedt") belonging to the Wolfenbüttel parish was established. Your first parish vicar was Josef Mettler, a chaplain from Wolfenbüttel. In autumn 1941, the Gestapo banned church services in the restaurant. In the same year , a wooden barrack built in 1940 in the northern area of ​​Lebenstedt, Section V , was acquired, which was expanded into an emergency chapel . The parish “St. Joseph ". In September 1942 the Gestapo approved services in the hall of the Wolf restaurant in Lebenstedt, which was used for this until Christmas 1946. After the end of the Second World War , the number of Catholics in Lebenstedt continued to increase due to the influx of refugees and displaced persons . In the old village of Lebenstedt, the service took place in the Gasthaus Wolf in a barn that had been converted into an emergency chapel.

In 1951 the church building site was acquired. The foundation stone of the church was laid at the beginning of April 1953, followed by its consecration by Bishop Joseph Godehard Machens on December 20, 1953 . The rectory was built around 1954. On April 1, 1955, Lebenstedt left the Wolfenbüttel parish and trained as “St. Michael “an independent parish, on April 1, 1960 it was raised to a parish. In 1968 the parish hall was built next to the church. In 1975 the church was redesigned in accordance with the liturgical reform of the Second Vatican Council and consecrated anew on May 16, 1975 by Auxiliary Bishop Heinrich Pachowiak . In 1983 the church received its bell tower, on which a clock was attached in 1998.

Since November 1st, 2006 the St. Michael Church belongs to the parish “St. Joseph ”, the parish“ St. Michael “was canceled in this context. Since July 1, 2007, the church has belonged to the then newly established deanery Goslar – Salzgitter, previously it belonged to the deanery Salzgitter.

Architecture and equipment

Depiction of the Archangel Michael on the west gable

The church was built according to plans by the architect Wilhelm Fricke (1890–1964) from Hanover , who also rebuilt the Hildesheim Cathedral , which was destroyed in the war in the 1950s . In 1975 Claus Kilian redesigned the tabernacle , altar , ambo and the main entrance door. The statue of the Virgin Mary (1954) and the Stations of the Cross (1956) were made by Ludwig Nolde (Osnabrück ). A relief shows Saint Hedwig , it was created in 1975 by Erich Jaekel (Frankfurt). The organ was built around 1976 by Gebrüder Hillebrand Orgelbau . The altar windows, designed by Franz Pauli in 1963 , show the second coming of Christ . A depiction of the Archangel Michael, created by Joseph Krautwald , has been on the outside of the west gable since 1977. The 30 meter high bell tower was only erected in 1983, and consecrated together with the five bronze bells in November 1983. A small chapel has been located between the nave and the tower since 1983 . The Catholic daycare center “St. Hedwig ”, which is about 1.3 kilometers away at Swindonstraße 100.

See also

literature

  • Werner Böhmken: St. Michael Salzgitter. Chronicle of the parish 1939–1989. Salzgitter 1989.

Web links

Commons : St. Michael  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Church registers in the diocese archive in Hildesheim
  2. ↑ st-bernward.de: History ( Memento from March 23, 2014 in the web archive archive.today )
  3. ↑ Episcopal General Vicariate (ed.): Kirchlicher Anzeiger. No. 10/2006, Hildesheim 2006, pp. 57-59
  4. ↑ Episcopal General Vicariate (ed.): Kirchlicher Anzeiger. No. 6/2007, Hildesheim 2007, pp. 142-143
  5. ↑ http://www.caritas.de/adressen/kath.-kahrungstaette-st.-hedwig/93213/

Coordinates: 52 ° 8 ′ 53.9 ″  N , 10 ° 19 ′ 37.3 ″  E