Immaculate Conception of Mary (Bavenstedt)

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Immaculate Conception of Mary , also called St. Mary , is the Roman Catholic church in the Hildesheim district of Bavenstedt . Today it belongs to the parish of St. Martin with its seat in Achtum in the deanery of Borsum-Sarstedt.

history

The Bavenstedt settlement is documented in the 13th century. In a document from 1264 a Johannes de Bavensteden is mentioned. The manorial power over Bavenstedt owned on the one hand the Dompropstei in Hildesheim and on the other hand the tax forest office . Due to the age of the settlement, which can possibly be traced back to the foundation of the Provost Bava in the 10th century, a local chapel can be assumed for the Middle Ages . The possibility of a double patronage from St. Marien and St. Nikolaus in Drispenstedt is not excluded.

Ecclesiastically, Bavenstedt and Drispenstedt were under the spell of the Hildesheim main and baptistery St. Andreas . The patronage rights over the chapel congregations thus owned the archdeacon of this main church, who often also held the office of provost of the cathedral in personal union. The parish affiliation to St. Andreas was preserved until the 16th century. St. Marien was first mentioned in writing in the 16th century in connection with the Reformation . The patronage of the St. Marien Chapel in Bavenstedt suggests that the church was built early, as the cathedral's patronage spread throughout the diocese of Hildesheim with the construction of the cathedral in the 9th century .

The adoption of the Lutheran faith by the council of Hildesheim's old town in 1542 was linked to the main church of St. Andreas. Already existing structures were referred to and evangelical preachers were sent to the branch communities . In addition, the Lutheran Duke Adolf von Holstein had come into the possession of the tax forest office since 1557, who also decisively promoted the Reformation in Bavenstedt and Drispenstedt in the second half of the 16th century.

The advocacy of Hildesheim Bishop Burchard von Oberg (term of office 1557–1573) for the recatholization of the Lutheran parishes and branches within the tax forest office initially only led to partial success. The parishes of Bavenstedt and Drispenstedt were looked after by a Lutheran preacher until 1609. In 1609, Prince-Bishop Ernst II of Bavaria appointed the Catholic pastor Heinrich Lubeken there. However, the final re-Catholicization of the communities only came to an end after the restitution of the large abbey area in 1643.

In the second half of the 17th century, the canons of St. Bartholomew on the Sülte were given the pastoral care of the Drispenstedt-Bavenstedt parish. The seat of the parish was from 1668 to 1803 St. Nicholas with St. Mary as a branch. From 1663 to 1665 the Marienkapelle in the village was renewed with half-timbering .

In 1803 a new situation had arisen for the parish of St. Nicholas and its subsidiary church of St. Mary due to the secularization of the Sülestift. It was without a pastor. The diocese leadership's plan to add the Drispenstedter parish to Asel and the Bavenstedter branch to Bettmar failed. In Bavenstedt, however, the opportunity arose to set up a parsonage in a former building of the Sülestift . After the state approval for the use of the house by the Catholic Church, the seat of the parish was moved from Drispenstedt to Bavenstedt in 1805, with St. Mary as the parish church and St. Nicholas as the branch church.

Since the village half-timbered church had become dilapidated in the 19th century, the new construction of today's parish church began in 1887. The construction of the church was delayed by the Kulturkampf until 1889. Another reason for the new building was the population growth in Bavenstedt after the coupling in 1858.

In 1904 the branch church of St. Nikolaus was detached from St. Marien and became an independent parish again.

After the Second World War , mainly Protestant Christians came to Bavenstedt with the stream of refugees and displaced persons from the east, who took up residence there and found their ecclesiastical home in the Protestant chapel of St. Martin in the village. The number of members of the Catholic parish of St. Marien therefore increased only slightly during this time.

In 1974 the municipality of Bavenstedt was incorporated into the city of Hildesheim as a district. On the church side, this was taken into account in 1978 with the transfer of St. Marien from the Borsum deanery to the city deanery.

On November 1st, 2014 the new parish of St. Martin was established with its seat in Achtum. In this context, the parish of the Immaculate Conception of Mary was abolished and transferred to the new parish. The Immaculate Conception of Mary has since been a subsidiary church of St. Martin.

architecture

The building of the church, which began in 1887, is built in the neo-Romanesque style. In 1977 the main altar was refurbished. The consecration by Bishop Heinrich Maria Janssen took place on December 18, 1977.

literature

  • 100 years of St. Marien Church, Hildesheim-Bavenstedt. Festschrift for the 100th anniversary of the church consecration, Bavenstedt 1989
  • Wilhelm Machens: The former monastery landscape in the area of ​​today's Hildesheim in Die Diözese Hildesheim 53 , pp. 103-105, Hildesheim 1985

Web links

Commons : Immaculate Conception Church (Bavenstedt)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bischöfliches Generalvikariat Hildesheim (ed.): Handbook of the Diocese of Hildesheim, Part 1 - Region Hildesheim , p. 55 u. 57, self-published, Hildesheim 1992
  2. ↑ Bischöfliches Generalvikariat Hildesheim (ed.): Handbook of the Diocese of Hildesheim, Part 1 - Region Hildesheim , p. 55, self-published, Hildesheim 1992
  3. ↑ Bischöfliches Generalvikariat Hildesheim (ed.): Handbook of the Diocese of Hildesheim, Part 1 - Region Hildesheim , p. 56, self-published, Hildesheim 1992
  4. ↑ Bischöfliches Generalvikariat Hildesheim (ed.): Handbook of the Diocese of Hildesheim, Part 1 - Region Hildesheim , p. 57, self-published, Hildesheim 1992
  5. ↑ Bischöfliches Generalvikariat Hildesheim (ed.): Handbook of the Diocese of Hildesheim, Part 1 - Region Hildesheim , p. 58, self-published, Hildesheim 1992
  6. ↑ Bischöfliches Generalvikariat Hildesheim (Ed.): Kirchlicher Anzeiger. No. 8/2014, pp. 222-224

Coordinates: 52 ° 10 ′ 29.6 ″  N , 9 ° 59 ′ 24 ″  E