Immaculate Conception (Hettstedt)

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The Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary is a Catholic church in Hettstedt in the district of Mansfeld-Südharz in Saxony-Anhalt, which was profaned in 2020 . It is under monument protection and is entered in the monument register with registration number 094 65623 as a monument .

View from the west

location

The Catholic Church of Hettstedt is located south of the old town on the Bahnberg hill above Bahnhofsstraße in the Burgörner Neudorf district. A staircase leads up to her. The tracks of the Wetzlar Railway are located directly to the east of the church .

History and architecture

In the course of industrialization , numerous Catholics immigrated to the previously evangelical region of the Mansfeld mountain range . The first Catholic churches were built here as early as the 1860s. In Hettstedt, on the other hand, the attic of the rectory and an inn was initially used. As this quickly proved to be a temporary measure, the foundation stone for the Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary was laid on September 28, 1892 . Only five months later the topping-out crown could be put on and on May 18, 1893 the bell was hung in the tower. The Paderborn bishop Hubert Theophil Simar consecrated the church on May 31, 1894. One day later he performed the same act for the church of St. Joseph in Klostermansfeld . The three - aisled neo - Gothic church has a choir in the east and a roof turret over the entrance facade in the west, on which there is also a stair tower. It was built in the shape of a basilica and has a sacristy extension with an entrance on the south side. The church was renovated in 1953 and 1962, and the roof was re-covered in 1993.

The architect of the church was the Paderborn cathedral and diocesan architect Arnold Güldenpfennig , to whom numerous churches in Saxony-Anhalt are attributed. An old postcard from the Herz-Jesu-Kirche in Bitterfeld shows this church , which was built in 1896, to be identical in construction. The church was later assigned to the re-established Catholic diocese of Magdeburg , in which it belongs to the parish of St. Georg Hettstedt in the Mansfelder Land community. Today it is mostly called St. Marien , less often St. Maria , due to the bulky name . In a contribution to the emergency supply of the Catholic Church in Saxony-Anhalt, the church was cited in March 2019 as an example of how the congregation cannot win a new pastor and has therefore relied on laypeople since November 2017. The church was profaned on July 19, 2020 .

Interior and outfit

While a beam ceiling can be found in the nave of the church, a rib vault was chosen in the choir . The church received its first organ (nine registers ) on March 8, 1903, the current organ (24 registers) was consecrated on June 25, 1967 and is located in the west of the church on the organ gallery. The late Gothic winged altar was acquired by the Church of St. Marien in Oberwiederstedt . It shows the Madonna and Child in the center between Saint Barbara and Saint Catherine. The wings show four relief scenes (Annunciation; Visitation; Birth of Christ; Adoration of the Magi) on the inside and the twelve apostles on the outside.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the state of Saxony-Anhalt (pdf) - answer of the state government to a small question for written answer (the MPs Olaf Meister and Prof. Dr. Claudia Dalbert; Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen) - printed matter 6/3905 from March 19, 2015 (KA 6/8670)
  2. ↑ Eigendorf, pp. 64-66.
  3. ^ Catholic parish of Saint George. Retrieved September 1, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b Dehio, p. 324; Eigendorf, pp. 69-71.
  5. ↑ Beitz, p. 14. A historical view of this church in Bitterfeld (later added a tower) is z. B. at Zegler's postcard album .
  6. ↑ Hagen Eichler: Sheep without a shepherd: Churches in Saxony-Anhalt do not find priests. Focus ( Mitteldeutsche Zeitung ), March 18, 2019, accessed on September 1, 2019 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 38 ′ 21.6 "  N , 11 ° 30 ′ 37.9"  E