St. Stephanus (Dinklar)
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St. Stephanus is the Roman Catholic church in the Dinklar district of the Schellerten community in the Hildesheim district in Lower Saxony .
history
The name of the place Dinklar, called Thinkelar in 1150, contains the Germanic word for thing or thing. Since this legal tradition was adopted by the Merovingians , it can be assumed that Dinklar is one of the oldest settlements in the Hildesheim area . However, the word Dinklar allows a further linguistic interpretation. The Middle High German word spelled denotes a type of grain and the ending lare denotes a meadow or pasture.
Then Dinklar could also be translated as pasture or cornland. From a linguistic point of view, the ending lar indicates that the place originated around 300 AD.
According to the annals of the Pöhlde monastery , the later King Heinrich I is said to have owned a curia dinkelere in Dinklar around the year 919 . The existence of the royal Kronhof in Dinklar is quite possible in view of the later development of the parish church. Around 1150, Count Heinrich von Assel is named as the owner of a country estate in Dinklar . In the following centuries the owners bought and sold their land there. In addition to the later knightly family, Bishop Adelog von Hildesheim , the Kreuzstift , the Marienrode monastery and, in 1308, the cathedral chapter were among the owners within the local villication .
In the years 1294 and 1306 a plebanus is documented in Dinklar , as well as a mother church on which a chapel in Wendhausen was dependent. The patronage of St. Stephen probably already existed in the Middle Ages and was transferred to today's church. In this regard, there could be a connection between King Heinrich I and the relics of Saint Stephen in Aachen , which were exhibited during the royal coronation . Thus, King Henry I could have been the founder of the church. However, he must later have transferred this to the bishop, since the respective bishop is named as the patron of the parish church in the Hildesheim archdeaconate. Like many churches in the diocese originally , St. Stephen's Church became the bishop's own church. It was not until the end of the Middle Ages that the cathedral provost was named as the archdeacon of Hildesheim Neustadt , under whose sovereignty St. Stephen later stood. The building of a church by other secular landlords seems doubtful, as these donors would have claimed the right of patronage for themselves.
In addition to the parish church in Lüneburg and the church in the later deserted area of Lucienvörde , the church in Dinklar is the only church in the diocese of Hildesheim that has a Stephanus patronage.
After the battle of Dinklar the church fell into disrepair. The new church, which cost “5 punth goldes” to build, was built in 1494.
In contrast to other parishes of the tax forest office , where the Reformation was only introduced from 1557 by Duke Adolf von Holstein , an evangelical predicant is mentioned in Dinklar as early as 1550 . This is presumably related to the earlier introduction of the "Teachings of Martin Luther " in Hildesheim. Starting from Hildesheimer Neustadt, with which Dinklar was connected within the archdeaconate, the impulses for the implementation of the Reformation probably also came . The pastoral care of the evangelical preacher on site was promoted not least through the confiscation of the state consistory during the Thirty Years' War . It was not until the restitution of the Hildesheim Monastery in 1643 that Dinklar came back under the sovereignty of the Prince Bishop , who in the same year commissioned a Catholic clergyman with pastoral care. The Catholic faith was only strengthened by the Jesuit order , which from 1655 to 1661, starting from Dinklar, re-Catholicized the surrounding villages .
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From 1733 to 1742, during the reign of Prince Bishop Clemens August , a new, larger church was built in place of the dilapidated small parish church. After belonging to the Archdeaconate Hildesheim, the parish came to the Sülte circle from 1760 . From 1808 to 1838 Dinklar was the center of the circle of the same name, from 1838 the community remained in the deanery of Borsum for a hundred years. In 1939 a new deanery was established with Dinklar as its center, which was merged with the deanery Borsum in 1978. Dinklar has been part of the Borsum-Sarstedt Dean's Office since 2013.
In 1851 Pastor Paul Hottenrott founded a chaplain, which was to become important during the Kulturkampf and the related vacancy of the parish. So the resident chaplain Stübe was able to represent the missing pastor from 1877 to 1886 and provide pastoral care to the Catholics.
After the Second World War , around 600 displaced people came to Dinklar. In 1947, 1,800 Catholics had to be looked after by the parish.
On the occasion of the six hundred year anniversary of the Battle of Dinklar, the Marienkapelle was built in 1967.
On November 1, 2014, the parish of St. Nikolaus was established with its seat in Ottbergen. In this context, the parish of St. Stephanus in Dinklar was abolished and assigned to the newly established parish, which included around 3,400 Catholics when it was founded. St. Stephanus has been a branch church of St. Nikolaus Ottbergen since then.
literature
- Manfred Hamann : The historical significance of the battle near Dinklar. In: The Diocese of Hildesheim in the past and present. Hildesheim 1967.
- Community of Schellerten: discover the unknown - churches and chapels of the community of Schellerten. Schellerten 2010
- Bernhard Gallistl: 'Des Sachsenlandes Stern'. On Henry I's election as a king in Dinklar near Hildesheim , in: concilium medii aevi 20, 2017, pp. 169–197; https://cma.gbv.de/dr,cma,020,2017,a,04.pdf
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bischöfliches Generalvikariat Hildesheim (ed.): Handbook of the Diocese of Hildesheim, Part 1 - Region Hildesheim , page 205, self-published, Hildesheim 1992
- ↑ Bischöfliches Generalvikariat Hildesheim (ed.): Handbook of the Diocese of Hildesheim, Part 1 - Region Hildesheim , page 205 u. 206, self-published, Hildesheim 1992
- ↑ Bischöfliches Generalvikariat Hildesheim (ed.): Handbook of the Diocese of Hildesheim, Part 1 - Region Hildesheim , page 206 u. 207, self-published, Hildesheim 1992
- ↑ Bischöfliches Generalvikariat Hildesheim (Ed.): Kirchlicher Anzeiger. No. 8/2014, pp. 224-226
Coordinates: 52 ° 9 '49.3 " N , 10 ° 3' 58.3" E