Apostle Church (Hanover)

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Apostle Church

The Apostle Church in Hanover is the church building of the Evangelical Lutheran Apostle parish in the eastern part of Hanover, consecrated in 1884 .

local community

Parish hall attached to the church

The congregation of the Apostle Church was founded on May 1, 1884 as a daughter congregation of the Christ Church . The reestablishment had become necessary because the Christ Church at that time had 30,000 parish members.

In 2015 the Apostle parish had around 2100 members.

Building history

The plans for the church building come from Conrad Wilhelm Hase . The neo-Gothic brick basilica was built on a triangular plot of land between 1880 and 1884 by Karl Börgemann . The three-aisled building has a cross-shaped, vaulted system and a wide transept. The towering church tower in the west has a brick top that was subsequently covered with copper. The tower can be easily recognized from the surrounding streets, which makes the church a prominent urban point of great orientation. The brick building is very puristic and has no glazes or plaster and only a few shaped stones. His appearance is in harmony with Hase's quest for architectural truth , in which form, construction and material have to match. The parsonage , which was built until 1890, and the surrounding residential houses have the same style elements and materials as the church. The buildings thus form a closed ensemble.

As one of the few municipal churches, the Apostle Church remained largely undamaged during the air raids on Hanover in World War II . Only the windows were destroyed. The rest of the furnishings designed by Hase ( pulpit , altar , lectern and baptismal font ) have been preserved in their original form. After the old parish hall was sold, a two-story extension was built on the south side in 2012. The gallery, which was closed in 2005 due to sponge infestation , was renovated during the construction work. Light and sound technology were renewed. After completion of the construction work, all parts of the building will be barrier-free for the first time.

Conservation investigations around 2010 uncovered the original painting of the church from the construction period in some places. In the course of repairing the war damage, the wall surfaces of the church were painted an off-white gray - in the style of the 1950s. It is still unclear whether the original color scheme of the walls should be restored.

Organ and bells

The original organ came from the Elzer organ building company Philipp Furtwängler & Sons . Due to its increasing inability to play, which was partly due to the war damage, it was replaced in 1971/72 by a new 24-register building by the successor company Emil Hammer Orgelbau and inaugurated on March 19, 1972 in a festive service.

New bells were cast in 1977 by the Rincker bell foundry .

Others

Regional Bishop Hanns Lilje (1899–1977) was baptized, confirmed and ordained as pastor in the Apostle Church .

  • Inside the church to the east

  • Choir with upper row of windows

  • altar

  • pulpit

  • Original color version

literature

  • 1884-1984. 100 years of the Apostle Church in Hanover , n.d. [1984].
  • Wolfgang Puschmann : Apostle Church. In: Wolfgang Puschmann (Ed.): Hanover's churches. 140 churches in and around town . Ludwig-Harms-Haus, Hermannsburg 2005, ISBN 3-937301-35-6 , pp. 12-15, 39f.

Web links

Commons : Apostlekirche  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Evangelical Lutheran City Church Association Hanover (ed.): Welcome! The inner city churches of Hanover , information booklet, Hanover 2008, p. 11
  2. ↑ Focus February to April 2016, p. 37.
  3. ↑ a b Wolfgang Neß, Ilse Rüttgerodt-Riechmann, Gerd Weiß (ed.): Architectural monuments in Lower Saxony. 10.1. City of Hanover, Part 1. Friedrich Vieweg and Son, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1983, ISBN 3-528-06203-7 , pp. 161–162.

Coordinates: 52 ° 23 '6 "  N , 9 ° 44' 43"  E