Badenstedter Chapel

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The Badenstedter Chapel in Hanover was the oldest known sacred building in what is now the Hanover district of Badenstedt . The last location of the building, which was abandoned in the 1920s, was presumably in the middle of the former “Kapellenbrink” square in Badenstedt.

History and description

As early as 1592, the Calenberg house book identified a church land where the later Badenstedter chapel community met for their ritual acts. But it was not until the second half of the 17th century that sources reflected church activities in what was then the village of Badenstedt: Even before the Reformation , the place was parish off to Linden - similar to the neighboring villages of Bornum and Ricklingen . Even after the Thirty Years' War , each of the three villages had "independent chapel congregations" towards the end of the 17th century, in front of which the Linden pastor held services once or twice a year. On the other Sundays of each year, the residents of Badenstedt also had to visit St. Martin's Church in Linden , for whose congregation they sometimes had to do manual and tensioning services.

Although there are older references to an altar from the 16th century, a separate chapel in Badenstedt was first mentioned in writing in a report by the Linden pastor Hermann Balthasar Vietgen from 1683. The building was kept extremely simple and didn't even have its own seating.

Initially, the religious and social center of the village community didn't even have seating:

"Because there were no benches and chairs in it, but instead who worshiped in it, everyone had to bring a stul with them. Last year, kind-hearted people had the inhabitants make 8 chairs and benches in it themselves from their own resources ... "

Almost a century later, in 1783, a new chapel was built at the “Kapellenbrink” - presumably on the same place as the older sacred building - in the middle of the square; nine meters long and seven meters wide. It soon found an altar from the 17th century, while the bell was hung in the roof turret on the west side of the building. It had a diameter of 40 cm and, according to its inscription, dates back to 1717 and was cast by the bell founder Thomas Rideweg in Hanover for the municipality of Badenstedt.

In the early days of the German Empire , the wooden altar wall from the 17th century was renovated in 1878. But the building itself was still described in 1899 as a “poor, rectangular half-timbered chapel ”. It was presumably identical in construction to the former chapel in Bornum and the chapel in Davenstedt that still exists today .

Only at the time of the Weimar Republic and after the establishment of the Paul Gerhardt congregation in 1926 did the city of Hanover, the last owner of the property, sell the Badenstedter chapel for 100 Reichsmarks in the year , which was then demolished.

Illustrations

A picture of the chapel can be found in: Udo Obal ua: A village becomes a district. History and stories from Badenstedt. ed. from the Kulturgemeinschaft Hannover-West eV 1st edition. HZ-Verlag, Hannover 2008, ISBN 978-3-939659-92-1 , p. 20.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ilse Rüttgerodt-Riechmann: Badenstedt. In: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony. Volume 10.2: City of Hanover. Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn Verlagsgesellschaft, Braunschweig 1985, ISBN 3-528-06208-8 , p. 162.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Udo Obal: Church and Religion. as well as: The Paul-Gerhard-Kirchengemeinde. In: Udo Obal and others: A village becomes a district. History and stories from Badenstedt. ed. from the Kulturgemeinschaft Hannover-West eV 1st edition. HZ-Verlag, Hannover 2008, ISBN 978-3-939659-92-1 , pp. 20, 134f.
  3. ↑ Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (ed.): 1683 in Hanover Chronicle : from the beginnings to the present: numbers, dates, facts , p. 64
  4. ↑ a b Monuments of the incorporated suburbs. In: Carl Wolff (ed.), Arnold Nöldeke (edit.): The art monuments of the province of Hanover. Volume 1: Region of Hanover. Issue 2: City of Hanover. Part 2: Districts of Hanover and Linden. (= Booklet 20 of the complete works). ed. on behalf of the Provincial Commission for Research and Conservation of the Monuments in the Province of Hanover. Self-published by the Provinzialverwaltung, Hanover 1932, p. 1. ( limited preview in the Google book search)

Coordinates: 52 ° 21 '14.3 "  N , 9 ° 40' 9.3"  E