St. Nikolaus (Burgdorf)
St. Nikolaus is the Catholic parish church of Burgdorf in the Hanover region (Im Langen Mühlenfeld 19). Your parish of the same name belongs to the Hanover deanery of the Hildesheim diocese .
history
Since the old Burgdorf Church of St. Pankratius became Lutheran during the Reformation , there have been no Catholics in Burgdorf. The few Catholic families who moved there in the following centuries were assigned to the parish of St. Ludwig in Celle in 1825 , and to the parish of St. Bernward in Lehrte in 1895 . After the industrial development had further increased the number of Catholics in and around Burgdorf, Catholic religious instruction was set up at the Second City School and, at first occasionally, then regularly in various halls, St. Mass celebrated.
The decisive impetus for the construction of the long-planned parish church was given by Bishop Nikolaus Bares , who asked for a collection for the church in Burgdorf as a farewell gift from the diocese when he left Hildesheim for Berlin. In memory of him, the church built in 1934/35 was named after his patron saint, St. Nicholas , named. When she on 7 April 1935 consecrated was Bishop Bares had already died, and his successor Joseph Godehard making led the liturgy.
The new building was a small hall church in quasi- Romanesque shapes with a rectangular tower and the altar apse in the north.
Towards the end of the Second World War , St. Nicholas was damaged in bombing, but could still be used and was temporarily available to the Protestant community after their church was more heavily damaged by the effects of the war.
After the war, the expulsion from the east led to a surge in the number of parishioners in the parish, which comprised the current political communities of Burgdorf, Burgwedel and Uetze . In addition, a Silesian clergyman came to Uetze with the refugees, who gathered the community members in the areas of Uetze and Hänigsen . As a result, the construction of St. Matthias Church in Uetze began in 1955 . It was festively consecrated in the autumn of the following year. On July 1, 1956, St. Nicholas became an independent parish. In 1960/61 the church was built and consecrated to the St. Barbara Church in Hänigsen. Until then, Großburgwedel was still looked after by the Burgdorf clergy. On April 1, 1963, the Burgdorf parish was elevated to a parish. In 1966 Großburgwedel finally got its own Catholic church, and from 1969 also its own local pastor.
St. Nicholas itself was extensively rebuilt and expanded in 1971/72 and consecrated for the second time on December 16, 1972 by Bishop Heinrich Maria Janssen . During the renovation, the requirements of the renewed liturgy were also taken into account. Half a transept was added to the left, western side, a spacious aisle to the east, and another annex to the south, which today serves as a weekday chapel and children's church.
The interior has been modernized. Noteworthy are u. a. the windows of the west side of the rose window wall to the east, the Way of the Cross tessellation and another that the Saint Nicholas and Pankratius is in close connection and thus a historical and ecumenical bridges the gap.
In 1996 a pastoral care unit was founded, it comprised the Catholic churches in Burgdorf, Hänigsen and Uetze. On November 1, 2006, the pastoral care unit merged to form today's parish. On November 16, 2012, the church in Hänigsen was profaned .
organ
The new large organ was put into use in 1995. It was built by the Lobback company . The instrument has 19 stops on two manuals and pedal , as well as two transmissions. The disposition is as follows:
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- Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
See also
literature
- Catholic parish of St. Nikolaus Burgdorf (ed.), 60 years of the Catholic parish of Burgdorf , Burgdorf 1995
- Records in the Chronicle of St. Nikolaus, Burgdorf
Web links
- Information from the St. Nikolaus community, Burgdorf
- Information from the St. Paulus Congregation, Burgwedel
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 52 ° 26 ′ 58.5 " N , 10 ° 0 ′ 54.8" E