Empelder Chapel

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The former chapel , now the district - Library in Empelde

The Empelder Chapel in the Ronnenberg district of Empelde , Hanover region , is a building from the first half of the 19th century that was formerly used as a chapel . Location of the historic building, which to archive and district - library has been converted, the silence Straße 6 .

History and description

Today's chapel is the successor to an older building, whose property and income have been sources since 1657.

With the help of the solid, well-founded “Kapelle” assets, the current building could be commissioned at the time of the Kingdom of Hannover . The total costs including the expenses for the purchase of the land came to 2337 thalers , 16 groschen and 1 pfennig . For this purpose a 44- foot- long and 28-foot-wide, rectangular building made of sandstone , which had been calculated for 130 seats, was built - based on a design by the consistorial architect Friedrich August Ludwig Hellner - from the spring of 1842 . On October 30 of the same year, the church commissioners from Empelde were able to report the completion of the chapel to the Hanover consistory . It was inaugurated in 1843 .

In the post-war period was Lutheran church Empeldes so greatly increased mainly through immigration until the 1960s that the old chapel there is not enough space offered. Therefore, the Johanniskirche , consecrated in 1964, was built as a replacement . A bell there reminds of the older sacred building .

In 1973 the congregation bequeathed its old chapel on Stillen Strasse to the city as a gift. As a result, the building was used in different ways, sometimes as a youth center , sometimes as a day care center and for a mother-child group . In 2006, after a two-year search for another location, the library moved into the historic building.

Over the years, a small cultural center has developed around the historic town center. In house number 8, the women's center established itself with offers for advanced training and fitness for women. A daycare center moved in behind it . At the end of 2018, the space around the old chapel with its benches still offered the "seamlessly paved charm of the 1970s."

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  1. ^ A b c d Franz Engel, Theodor Ulrich, Heinrich Mohrhoff, Wilhelm Lücke: History of the village of Empelde (district of Hanover) . In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series 6 (1953), pp. 93-257; Preview over google books
  2. ↑ a b c Christine Wedemeyer: Johanniskirche Empelde , in Wolfgang Puschmann (ed.), Ulrich Ahrensmeier, Thomas Sachtleben (photographs): Hanover's churches. 140 churches in the city and the surrounding area , ed. in cooperation with the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung , Hermannsburg: Ludwig-Harms-Haus, 2005, ISBN 978-3-937301-35-8 and ISBN 3-937301-35-6 , pp. 138f.
  3. ↑ a b c Uwe Kranz: Nachrichten / Ronnenberg / Theo Gassmanns favorite place, the library ... , article on the page of the daily newspaper Neue Presse from October 20, 2018, last accessed on March 21, 2020

Coordinates: 52 ° 20 ′ 27.5 "  N , 9 ° 39 ′ 47.8"  E