Holy Cross Church (Neuenwalde Convent)

Holy Cross Church
German: Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche N. Low Saxon: Hilligkrüüzkark
Holy Cross Church, northern façade with the tower (truncated)
Holy Cross Church Location within Lower Saxony
53°40′34″N 08°41′30″E / 53.67611°N 8.69167°E / 53.67611; 8.69167Coordinates: 53°40′34″N 08°41′30″E / 53.67611°N 8.69167°E / 53.67611; 8.69167
Location	Neuenwalde (), Geestland
Country	Germany
Denomination	Lutheran
Previous denomination	Roman Catholic
Website	Holy Cross Church(in German) Neuenwalde Church(in German)
History
Founder(s)	Neuenwalde Convent
Dedication	Holy Cross
Architecture
Status	parish church
Functional status	active
Architectural type	aisleless church quire oriented
Style	Gothic Baroque (interior)
Groundbreaking	1330s 1910 (eastern extension)
Completed	by 1400 by 1508 (after 1st fire) by 1636 (after 2nd fire)
Specifications
Materials	brick
Administration
Parish	Neuenwalde Congregation (Kirchengemeinde Neuenwalde)
Deanery	Wesermünde Deanery ()
Synod	Church of Hanover
Clergy
Pastor(s)	Joachim Köhler

The Holy Cross Church (N. Low Saxon: Hilligkrüüzkark; German: Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche, more formal also: Kirche zum Heiligen Kreuz) is the church of the Neuenwalde Convent. Convent and Holy Cross Church are owned by the Bremian Knighthood (), based in Stade. However, church and parsonage (also part of the Convent property), are used per usufruct by the Lutheran Neuenwalde Congregation in Neuenwalde (), a locality of Geestland, Lower Saxony, Germany. Besides the Holy Cross Church, only used, the congregation uses and owns the chapel in Hymendorf ().

After the Convent had moved from Wolde, present Altenwalde (), new church and convent buildings were erected on a land spit in the midst of fens at the brink of the Wesermünde Geest, presently known as Neuenwalde. The church adopted its naming from the Holy Cross, a relic of which remained in the incorporated Chapel of the Holy Cross and St. Willehadus on the Mount (i.e. hill; est. 13th century, abandoned between 1590 and 1629) in Altenwalde. Since 1181, and on until 1648, the area formed part of the Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen. Neuenwalde was made a parish of its own and its precinct was redistricted from that of the St. Dionysius parish () in Debstedt (). The convent Church of the Holy Cross thus simultaneously served as parish church for the Neuenwalders.