Old Garrison Church (Hanover)

The garrison church in Hanover , initially called the Holy Spirit Church and later also called the Old Garrison Church, was the older of the two garrison churches in the history of the city of Hanover . The location of the sacred building , which was already set up in the Middle Ages , was Schmiedestrasse at the corner of Kniehauerstrasse in the old town , in what is now the center of the Lower Saxony state capital.

history

After the St. Spiritus Hospital, which had been donated by citizens near the Steintor since the middle of the 13th century and built by the City Council of Hanover , had served the lame and blind for care and accommodation for travelers from 1256, an additional church was built in 1297, the former Holy Spirit Church (Sankt Spiritus).

After the Reformation , the church remained unused until after the Thirty Years' War , until in 1656 an Evangelical Lutheran parish was established in the church building for members of the later Electoral Hanoverian army . This existed for more than two centuries until the garrison community was abolished by the annexation of the Kingdom of Hanover by Prussia in 1867. For the members of the then Prussian army , the majority of whom were Protestants , a separate community was formed, which was initially housed in the castle church of the Leineschloss . In the meantime, the city of Hanover sold the building of the old garrison church, which it owned until then, which was finally demolished in 1875.

After the garrison community, including numerous Prussian civil servants, had grown to around 7,000 members by the beginning of the 1890s, the architect Christoph Hehl was commissioned to build the garrison church on Goetheplatz, which was newly built in 1896 .

Tombs and Epitaphs

Epitaph of a still unidentified sculptor for August Friedrich von Sporken , today in the Christ Church in Hanover

• A stone in front of the altar is said to have marked the hereditary burial of the noble family von Ilten , founded in 1740 .
• On the north wall of the church
  • hung the wooden epitaph of General von Swaan, who died in 1738, which was damaged by worm corrosion
  • was the marble memorial of the city commander Johann Georg von Ilten, who died in 1748 or 1749
  • The marble monument of Field Marshal Friedrich von Spörcken, who died in 1776, was found . Before the demolition of the Church of the quadrilateral was Obelisk , at the base of soldierly emblems were shaped and was under the mounted an inscription plate, in the hall of the cemetery Engesohder translocated . The monument was later described as "[...] belonging to the garden church ".

literature

• Arnold Nöldeke (edit.): Hospital St. Spiritus (broken off in 1894) and Holy Spirit Church, later garrison church (broken off in 1875) , in which: The art monuments of the province of Hanover , ed. from the provincial committee and state directorate of the province of Hanover, part 1: Region of Hanover , issue 2 in two parts (= issue 19 of the complete work ), Hanover: self-published by the provincial administration, Theodor Schulzes Buchhandlung, Hanover, 1932, pp. 230-236
• Jürgen Ritter (arr.), Hans-Hermann Brambach et al. (Collaborator.): Garrison church book Hanover 1690-1811 (= special publication , vol. 18), four volumes, Hanover: Lower Saxony Regional Association for Family Studies , 1988–1991
• Werner Trolp: The military chaplaincy in the Hanoverian army. Supervision within the general structures of the church, taking into account the special features of the army (= studies on the church history of Lower Saxony , vol. 45), also dissertation 2012 at the University of Hanover, Göttingen: V & R Unipress, 2012, ISBN 978-3-8471-0067 -6 and ISBN 3-8471-0067-X ; Table of contents and content text

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Rainer Kasties MA: Heilig-Geist-Spital u. Pen. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 280; Preview over google books
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Florian Hoffmann, Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Garrison Church (n). In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 201
3. ^ ^{A b} Martin Stöber (Lower Saxony Institute for Historical Regional Research eV, editing): Stift zum Heiligen Geist. In: Foundations for the poor through the centuries. 750 years of tradition and responsibility in Hanover , documentation for the exhibition of the same name, ed. from Stift zum Heiligen Geist, St. Nikolai Stift zu Hannover, Johann-Jobst Wagener'sche Foundation, State Capital Hannover, Hannover 2008, pp. 22-27
4. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Arnold Nöldeke (edit.): Hospital St. Spiritus (broken off in 1894) and Holy Spirit Church, later garrison church (broken off in 1875) , in which: Die Kunstdenkmäler der Provinz Hannover , ed. from the provincial committee and state directorate of the province of Hanover, part 1: Region of Hanover , issue 2 in two parts (= issue 19 of the complete work ), Hanover: self-published by the provincial administration, Theodor Schulzes Buchhandlung, Hanover, 1932, pp. 230-236
5. ^ Georg Schnath :  Jobst Hermann von Ilten. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 143 ( digitized version ).

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 27 "  N , 9 ° 44 ′ 2.3"  E