St. Ulrich (Moringen)

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St. Ulrich Church

St. Ulrich is the Catholic church in Moringen , a small town in the Northeim district in Lower Saxony . It is a branch church of the parish of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary , based in Northeim , in the Nörten-Osterode deanery of the Hildesheim diocese . The church was named after St. Ulrich von Augsburg and is located at Tannenbergstrasse 1 (corner of Königsberger Strasse).

history

With the introduction of the Reformation in 1542, the population of Moringen became largely Evangelical-Lutheran. The few Catholics initially belonged to the parish of Nörten-Hardenberg , from which occasional Catholic services were held in the asylum chapel built in Moringen in 1880 (today's hospital church in the correctional center). From 1894 the Moring Catholics belonged to the newly founded parish Northeim, which had a church built in 1886.

In 1944/45 around 50 Catholics evacuated from the Rhineland lived in Moringen, during which time Catholic services were held in the Protestant church of Moringen.

After a result of the Second World War due to the influx of Catholic refugees and displaced persons , the number of Catholics had increased in Moringen to about 450, one belonging to the parish Norten was on August 1, 1946 in Moringen Pfarrvikarie built. In addition to Moringen, it included the towns of Berwartshausen , Blankenhagen , Fredelsloh , Lutterbeck , Nienhagen , Oldenrode and Schnedinghausen with a total of almost 1000 Catholics. Pastor Gerhard Liehr from Alt Warthau ( district of Bunzlau , Archdiocese of Breslau , Lower Silesia ) was commissioned to provide pastoral care . From Easter 1946 until the building of the church, the services took place in the Moring institution chapel.

In 1955 a church building association was founded. The groundbreaking ceremony took place on June 1, 1959, and the foundation stone was laid on June 21. On 19./20. December 1959 followed the consecration of the newly built church by Bishop Heinrich Maria Janssen . On April 1, 1960 the parish (Kuratiegemeinde) Moringen was established, on August 8, 1976 it was raised to a parish.

Moringen has not had a local Catholic priest since 1994 . On August 15, 1997, a pastoral care unit comprising the churches in Kalefeld , Moringen and Northeim was established. Since March 1, 2004, the church has belonged to the then newly founded Nörten-Osterode deanery , previously it belonged to the Nörten deanery. Since November 1st, 2006 the church belongs to the parish of the Visitation of Mary in Northeim.

Architecture and equipment

The church was built according to plans by the architect Josef Bieling from Kassel . Since 1965, the bells made by the Otto bell foundry and consecrated under the names Anna, Barbara and Bonifatius have been located in its 20 meter high tower . You have the strike note series: a - c - d. The three bronze bells together weigh 1010 kg and have the following diameters: 916 mm, 770 mm and 696 mm. The organ , built in 1959 by Herbert Kruse ( Lohne ), was expanded in 1963 by Gebr. Krell ( Duderstadt ).

See also

literature

  • Catholic parish of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary (Ed.): 125 years of the St. Marien parish festival. Northeim 2012, pp. 22, 24-25, 55-60
  • Willi Stoffers: Diocese of Hildesheim today. Hildesheim 1987, ISBN 3-87065-418-X , pp. 138-139

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Episcopal General Vicariate (ed.): Kirchlicher Anzeiger . No. 2/2004. Hildesheim 2004, p. 35
  2. ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto bells. Family and company history of the Otto bell foundry dynasty . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, here especially S 560 .
  3. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, here in particular p. 515 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).

Coordinates: 51 ° 42 ′ 15.5 "  N , 9 ° 52 ′ 29.1"  E