St. Theresa of the Child Jesus (Eschede)
The Church of St. Theresa of the Child Jesus was the Catholic church in Eschede , a municipality in the district of Celle in Lower Saxony . The church named after St. Therese von Lisieux was located at Grünackerstraße 8b and belonged to the parish of St. John the Baptist with its seat in Vorwerk (Celle) , in the Celle deanery of the Hildesheim diocese .
history
In the period around 800, Charlemagne introduced Christianity in what is now Eschede. Around the year 1000 Eschede belonged to the archdeaconate of Beedenbostel .
In 1527, Duke Ernst the Confessor introduced the Reformation in the Principality of Lüneburg , to which Eschede belonged at the time . This made the church and the population of Eschede Evangelical-Lutheran .
After the number of Catholics in Eschede had increased as a result of the Second World War due to the influx of refugees and expellees , a Catholic clergyman settled in Eschede in 1950.
The church was built in 1952/53; a donor from the Netherlands generously supported the financing. On October 11, 1953, the church consecrated by Vicar General Wilhelm Offenstein .
The rectory was built in 1967 and the rectory in 1968. In 1968 the curative community of Eschede got a branch church in Lachendorf with the newly built church house St. Raphael , which however has belonged to the parish of St. Ludwig in Celle since at least November 1, 2006 . During the renovation of the church in 1988, the old, small porch was replaced by the previous one, and the roof and windows were renewed.
On August 1, 2004, the parishes of St. Theresa of the Child Jesus in Eschede and St. Paulus in Unterlüß were joined to the parish of St. John the Baptist in Celle-Vorwerk. In 2015, the 2,250 m² church property in Eschede with its building stock was offered for sale by a real estate agent for around 100,000 euros . In 2017, shortly before his age-related resignation, Bishop Norbert Trelle decided to profane the church. Most recently, over 300 Catholics belonged to the catchment area of the church. On October 18, 2017 the church was profaned by diocesan administrator Nikolaus Schwerdtfeger , the building complex with the church was sold and is to be converted into living space. The closest Catholic church today is the Church of St. John the Baptist in Celle-Vorwerk, about 13 kilometers away , which can be reached via the federal road 191 .
Architecture and equipment
The geostete church was built by the architect speaking man from Celle, designed as a long-plastered house building with ziegelgedecktem gable roof and kreuzbekröntem roof skylights .
The windows show the four evangelists and the sacraments . In a window in the anteroom from 1987/88, a rose was depicted as an attribute of St. Theresa of the Child Jesus . This can be seen as an allusion to the sentence she uttered: "After my death I will rain roses." Other representations in this stained glass window were the Archangel Raphael and Ludwig IX. (France) . It was reminiscent of the St. Raphael branch church in Lachendorf and the main church of the deanery, St. Ludwig in Celle. The tabernacle , ambo and altar were renewed over time. On the altar doors that was the Lamb of God shown, the foot of the altar showed Jesus Christ with the disciples of Emmaus . The church had a relic of St. Theresa of the Child Jesus on the edge of the chancel.
See also
Web links
- Church on the parish website
- Closure of the church on the website of the diocese
- Sale of the church in Cellescher Zeitung
literature
- Willi Stoffers: Diocese of Hildesheim today. Hildesheim 1987, ISBN 3-87065-418-X , pp. 124-125
- KirchenZeitung No. 42/2017 of October 22, 2017, p. 13 (article on profanation)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Church history of Eschede on the website of the Evangelical Johanniskirchengemeinde , accessed on October 21, 2017.
- ^ Parish merger in the deanery of Celle on the diocese website , accessed on October 21, 2017.
Coordinates: 52 ° 44 ′ 11.1 ″ N , 10 ° 13 ′ 48.2 ″ E