Aegidienkirche (Hanover)

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The Aegidienkirche is a 14th century church in Hanover . The easternmost of the three old town churches (the other two are Marktkirche and Kreuzkirche ) was named after St. Egidius , one of the 14 helpers in need . It is located in the old town near Aegidientorplatz on the corner of Breite Straße and Osterstraße. In 1943 the church was destroyed by bombs in the air raids on Hanover . The church was not rebuilt, its ruins now serve as a memorial for the victims of war and violence.

history

The church seen from the end of Köbelingerstraße , which no longer exists today ; Postcard around 1910
Church in 1875

In the 10th century there was possibly a village on the site of the church, the existence of which has not yet been verified in archaeological excavations. This assumption is based on a Hildesheim border designation from before 1007 called Tigislehe , in which Helmut Plath saw one of the three settlement centers of the later city of Hanover. A chapel on the site of the later church was replaced by a three-aisled Romanesque church in 1163 . In 1347 the three-aisled Gothic hall church with choir and nave was built using sandstone from the nearby Deister . The tower received a baroque facade designed by Sudfeld Vick in 1703–1711 . In 1826/28 the interior of the church was rebuilt by Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves , using cast iron pillars. The architect Conrad Wilhelm Hase also rebuilt the interior of the church in 1886.

Today there is a limestone sculpture called Humility (1959) by Kurt Lehmann in the church . The zigzag of the shadow line (1993) by Dorothee von Windheim runs across the church floor ; it shows the shadow of the pointed yoke gables overgrown with ivy and wine , as it appears on the ground at a certain hour. A floor plan of the structure can be found in the tower.

Numerous Baroque grave monuments from the 17th and 18th centuries (with the obligatory angels, hourglasses and skulls) can be admired on the outer walls. Very nice on the south side is the wall painting for the child Susanna Magdalena Oldekop, who died in 1648, on which the angel can be seen next to the girl. Particularly noteworthy is the so-called Siebenmännerstein on a supporting pillar of the south-eastern outer wall, a relief plaque with seven praying men, which - according to legend - refers to Hanover's Spartans who, in 1490, were attacked by the Guelph Duke Heinrich in the Döhrener tower to save the city should have sacrificed. Today's stone is a copy, the original is in the Hanover Historical Museum .

Ringing of the peace bell on Hiroshima Day on August 6, 2014 by Mayor Stefan Schostok and Superintendent Thomas Höflich

In 1958 the tower stump was provided with an attachment with a carillon that sounds regularly. In the tower entrance hangs a gift from Hanover's Japanese twin city , the Peace Bell donated by Hiroshima in 1985 . She is posted on August 6 each year at the memorial service for the victims of the atomic bombing on Hiroshima .

The Aegidienkirche is now part of the Marktkirchen community, to which the previously independent four Hanoverian old town communities - Marktkirchengemeinde , Aegidienkirchengemeinde, Kreuzkirchengemeinde and Schlosskirchengemeinde (until 1943 in the Leineschloss ) - joined together.

Personalities

  • David Erythropel (1604–1661) was pastor at the Aegidienkirche from 1643 until the end of his life.
  • Georg Erythropel (1607–1669); the author was pastor of the church from 1639 to 1658
  • Johann Wilhelm Petersen (1649–1727) was pastor of the Aegidienkirche in 1677/78.
  • Franz Hemmen (1670–1731) was pastor of the congregation from 1708, but was released on November 17, 1730 "because of an angry lifestyle".
  • August Müller (1799–1872), 1832–1872 pastor of the Aegidienkirche, since 1837 first preacher.
  • Georg Ludwig Wilhelm Flügge (1808-1883), the founder of the Gustav-Adolf-Verein in Hanover, worked from 1838 to 1883 as a pastor at the Aegidienkirche and senior member of the ecclesiastical city ministry.
  • Wilhelm Blumenberg (1863–1949), father of the social democratic resistance fighter Werner Blumenberg (1900–1965) was pastor of the Aegidienkirche from 1904 to 1936 and from 1924 senior of the ecclesiastical city ministry. The Senior-Blumenberg-Gang next to the Aegidienkirche, which connects Osterstrasse and Marktstrasse, is named after Wilhelm Blumenberg .
  • Heinrich H. Leonhardt , author and parish council of St. Aegidienkirche in 1947

Picture gallery

lithography

literature

  • Conrad Wilhelm Hase . Builder of Historicism. Exhibition catalog. Historisches Museum am Hohen Ufer , Hanover 1968. Page 41: Restoration of the Aegidienkirche 1886–1887.
  • Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Hanover. Art and culture lexicon. Handbook and city guide . 3rd, rev. Edition Hannover: Schäfer 1995, pp. 61–63.
  • Martin-G. Kunze: Marktkirche - Aegidienkirche - Kreuzkirche - Nikolaikapelle. Features of medieval Hanover city history . In: Churches, monasteries, chapels in the Hanover region . Sascha Aust (among others). Photographs by Thomas Langreder. Hanover: Lutherisches Verlagshaus 2005, pp. 13–22. ISBN 3-7859-0924-1 .
  • HH Leonhardt: The St. Aegidien Church in Hanover through six centuries , Hanover 1947.
  • Arnold Nöldeke : The art monuments of the province of Hanover . 1: Hanover district. Issue 2: City of Hanover. Part 1: Monuments of the "old" city area of ​​Hanover. Hanover 1932, pp. 115–130 (the Aegidienkirche before its destruction in 1943).
  • Helmut Plath : The excavation in the Aegidien Church in Hanover. A contribution to the architectural and early history of the city of Hanover . In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter . Neue Episode 6 (1953), pp. 3-86.
  • Birte Rogacki-Thiemann: Aegidienkirche . In: Hanover's churches. 140 churches in and around town . Edited by Wolfgang Puschmann , Hermannsburg: Ludwig-Harms-Haus 2005, pp. 32–35. ISBN 3-937301-35-6 .
  • Wild wine and ivy at the Aegidienkirche. In: Discover, experience, understand Hanover's nature . Working group of the Association of German Biologists (Lower Saxony State Association). Edited by Elisabeth von Falkenhausen (among others). Seelze-Velber: Kallmeyer 1998, p. 20. ISBN 3-7800-5263-6 .

Web links

Commons : Aegidienkirche  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Tobias Gärtner: The beginnings of the city of Hanover in a more recent perspective. In: Lower Saxony Yearbook for State History . Organ of the historical association for Lower Saxony in Hanover. Vol. 77, 2005, pp. 275-288, here pp. 285 f. (PDF) ( Memento of the original from March 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nla.niedersachsen.de
  2. Dirk Böttcher wrongly lists him in the Hanoverian Biographical Lexicon as pastor of the Marktkirche (Hanover) . According to Johann Anton Strubberg , Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund and Daniel Eberhard Baring , however, David Erythropel was a preacher at the Aegidienkirche. See also the unambiguous designation on the title page of his address from 1661, given below.
  3. ^ Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund : Erythropel (Georg). In: ders .: The learned Hanover… Vol. 1, Bremen 1823, p. 575.
  4. ^ Hermann Wilhelm Bödeker : The Reformation of the old town of Hanover in 1533. A preparatory document for the third commemoration of our city's transition to the Protestant church. In addition to a list of the Protestant church servants employed here ... , Hanover: Hahnsche Hofbuchhandlung, 1833, p. 19; Digitized via Google books
  5. Compare this information from the German National Library

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 10 ″  N , 9 ° 44 ′ 21 ″  E