Trinity Church (Hanover)

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The Evangelical Lutheran Trinity Church in Hanover is located in the Oststadt district , directly on Bödekerstrasse between the confluence of Friesenstrasse and Holscherstrasse.

View from the east from Yorkstrasse
View through Yorkstrasse to the church (picture postcard by Karl Friedrich Wunder , around 1898)
Side view
The older Trinity Chapel and Trinity Church in Oststadt (picture postcard by Georg Alpers junior , around 1900)
View through Bödekerstraße towards the church (picture postcard around 1900)
The Hillebrand organ from 1986

Beginnings

In 1859 the nearby towns of Bütersworth and Ostwende were incorporated and the ev.-luth. Garden community attached. The residents of these parts of the city had to walk a long way to the church. 1868 decided parish council for Bütersworth and Ostwende an independent parish to found. In 1876 the Royal Consistory issued the erection certificate . In its first meeting on June 15, 1876, the new church council decided, in accordance with a wish of the exiled last king of Hanover, George V, to name the new parish "Trinity Church".

In the years 1880 to 1883 a representative of the Hanoverian building school of the 19th century, the Hase student Christoph Hehl , built a church in the neo-Gothic style . Because of the special location of the church on the west side of Bödekerstraße, the tower with the main entrance was placed in the east and the chancel was in the west of the church. Above the main entrance is a depiction carved from sandstone by Carl Dopmeyer . The romantic altarpiece “Christ on the Sea” by Bernhard Plockhorst was donated by the church mayor and captain Julius von Alten .

Times of war

In June 1917 had three of four from Bronze existing bells of the church, as well as the tin organ pipes , are given for war purposes. After the last bell one could hear: “It cannot end well if the churches are robbed of their bells.” In 1922 the memorial plaque with the names of the parishioners who died in World War I was inaugurated on the entrance wall of the church and still heralds the horror today of the war. The bells newly acquired in 1926 also had to be returned for armaments purposes in 1942 during the Second World War. In that year of the war, countless parishioners were killed as soldiers and civilian bomb victims. While both parsonages were destroyed by bombs in the air raids on Hanover , the church was saved through the use of parishioners for the fire watch . Therefore, in 1945 the British occupying power chose the Trinity Church for their services. During these years it was also known as a “secret bishop's church ” because Hanns Lilje was introduced here as bishop and also preached here frequently.

present

After the war, donations made it possible to consecrate four new cast steel bells in 1951 . For the 75th anniversary of the church in 1958, the brothers Hans , Werner , Gerhard and Klaus Bahlsen donated the colorful choir windows . During the centenary of the church, numerous special tasks were due. The tower, which had been bent by the weather, had to be removed by 20 meters and rebuilt. The interior of the church has been repainted in the original style. The octagonal candlestick was placed in the crossing of the church, and the new organ, based on Andreas Silbermann , was placed on the gallery . In order to be able to preserve the property of the church and the life of the congregation, the congregation founded the “Trinity Church Foundation” in 2002. Since June 3, 2012, the Holy Trinity Church has been a "reliably open church" that is open five days a week for viewing and for silent prayer.

In 2015 the congregation had around 2,700 members.

organ

The organ was built in 1986 by the Hillebrand (Altwarmbüchen) organ building company. The slider chest instrument has 37 registers on three manuals and a pedal . The playing and stop actions are mechanical.

I Récit C – g 3
1. Wooden dacked 8th'
2. Transverse flute 4 ′
3. flute 2 ′
4th Echocornet III
5. Chalumeau 8th'
Tremblement doux
Tremblement away
II Hauptwerk C – g 3
06th Drone 16 ′
07th Principal 08th'
08th. Reed flute 08th'
09. Viola da gamba 08th'
10. octave 04 ′
11. Gemshorn 04 ′
12. Fifth 03 ′
13. octave 02 ′
14th Cornett V (from c 1 ) 08th'
15th Mixture IV
16. Trumpet 08th'
17th Vox humana 08th'
18th Clairon 04 ′
III Oberwerk C – g 3
19th Principal 08th'
20th Dumped 08th'
21st Quintad 0 08th'
22nd octave 04 ′
23. Reed flute 04 ′
24. Nasard 03 ′
25th octave 02 ′
26th third 01 3 ⁄ 5  ′
27. Larigot 01 1 ⁄ 3  ′
28. Mixture III
29 Dulcian 16 ′
30th oboe 08th'
Pedal C – f 1
31. Pedestal 32 ′
32. Sub bass 16 ′
33. Flood 08th'
34. octave 04 ′
35. trombone 16 ′
36. Trumpet 08th'
37. Clarine 04 ′
  • Coupling : I / II, III / II, I / P, II / P

See also

literature

  • Alfred Röhrbein: The bells of the Trinity . Hanover, 1951.
  • Jochem Heim: Building history of the Trinity Church in Hanover . Hanover, 1983.
  • Burkhard Vietzke: memories from over 100 years . Hanover 1983.
  • Karl-Friedrich Oppermann : Dreifaltigkeitskirche in: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 139
  • Birte Rogacki-Thiemann: Dreifaltigkeitskirche , in Wolfgang Puschmann (Hrsg.): Hanover's churches. 140 churches in the city and the surrounding area , ed. in cooperation with the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung , Hermannsburg: Verlag des Ludwig-Harms-Haus, 2005, ISBN 3-937301-35-6 , pp. 66–69

Web links

Commons : Dreifaltigkeitskirche (Hannover)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Focus February to April 2016, p. 37.
  2. ↑ More information about the organ

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 55 ″  N , 9 ° 45 ′ 11 ″  E