St. Oliver (Laatzen)
St. Oliver is the Catholic parish church in Laatzen (Pestalozzistraße 24), Hanover region . The church with the patronage of Oliver Plunkett , who was canonized in 1975 , was built from 1975 according to plans by Wolfgang Rauck and consecrated on August 27, 1977 by Bishop Heinrich Maria Janssen . Your parish of the same name belongs to the deanery of Hanover in the diocese of Hildesheim .
history
In the Lutheran village of Laatzen, which has been Lutheran since the Reformation , there were only a few Catholics until the end of the 19th century. That changed with the sudden population growth through the settlement of industrial companies after the First and through the development of the exhibition center and the influx of displaced persons after the Second World War .
Initially, the Catholics in Laatzen belonged to the St. Bernward Church in Döhren , consecrated in 1893 , then from 1922 to St. Michael in Wülfel .
1937 in Laatzen-West laid the foundation for the St. Mathilde Church was laid, followed on March 13, 1938 Bishop Joseph Godehard making their consecration . The church at Eichstrasse 16 was named after St. Mathilde . On October 1, 1954, St. Mathilde became a curate and on October 1, 1965, the parish church.
Around this time, today's Laatzen-Mitte district emerged , while new building areas grew on Kronsberg and Bemerode . This development made it necessary to build a new large church further east. On December 22, 1975, the 4th Sunday in Advent, the foundation stone was laid by Vicar General Adalbert Sendker. The St. Oliver Church, consecrated in 1977, has been the parish church for the area of the city of Laatzen including Gleidingen ( Filialkirche St. Josef ) and some neighboring villages with currently (2011) 5890 Catholics since 1982 . From 1993 to 2006, the later auxiliary bishop Heinz-Günter Bongartz was pastor at St. Oliver's Church. Since 2008 the parish has been supported by the "Friends of the Catholic Church Community St. Oliver, Laatzen eV".
Architecture and equipment
St. Oliver is a towerless central building on the ground plan of an irregular hexagon. The basement is made of brick , the upper floor of exposed concrete . Large stained glass windows bathe the room in colored light. The tent roof, the highest point of which is shifted towards the side of the altar, is clad with wood on the inside. Claus Kilian created the entire artistic equipment . Its organ was inaugurated on April 13, 1985 by Bishop Josef Homeyer . The parish also includes the St. Mathilde Kindergarten, founded on September 1, 1947, next to the church of the same name.
literature
- Handbook of the Diocese of Hildesheim. Part 2 - Region Hannover . Hildesheim 1995. pp. 59-63
See also
Web links
- Current internet presence of the parish
- St. Oliver Church on the parish's website
- St. Mathilde Church on the parish's website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Schematism of the Diocese of Hildesheim 2011
- ↑ http://www.foerderverein-st-oliver.de/
Coordinates: 52 ° 18 ′ 32.8 " N , 9 ° 48 ′ 56.3" E