Evangelical Church Center Kronsberg
The Evangelical Church Center Kronsberg is a church building on the western slope of the Kronsberg in Hanover , which belongs to the St. Johannis parish in Hanover- Bemerode . The Evangelical Free Church Community of Hanover-Kronsberg ( Baptists ) has been using the premises for their services since 2005. The church center is located on the main square (Thie) of the Expo settlement in the vicinity of the municipal cultural and social center KroKuS . The church center Kronsberg has around 2000 members (as of 2010). The Stadtkloster-Kirche der Silence project has been located in the church center since September 2014 .
history
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On June 14, 1990, Hanover was awarded the contract for the world exhibition Expo 2000 , after which the Expo settlement was built on the Kronsberg in the late 1990s . From the mid-1990s within the Ev.-luth. Regional church of Hanover thought about a church on the Kronsberg. On Ascension Day on May 25, 1995, the first ecumenical service was celebrated at the waterworks forest on the Kronsberg.
Construction planning
In a selection process on May 26, 1998, the design by the Hamburg architect Bernhard Hirche for the church center on the Kronsberg was selected. All seven final designs were presented to the public in June 1998 in Hanover's New Town Hall . The Kronsberg Church Center was initially planned as an ecumenical project. After the Roman Catholic Diocese of Hildesheim withdrew , the Evangelical Lutheran City Church Association of Hanover became the sole sponsor in cooperation with the Society for Building and Living Hanover (GBH).
start of building
On May 17, 1999, work on building the church on Kronsberg began with the groundbreaking ceremony . On March 28, 1999, Pastor Hans Joachim Schliep (* 1945), who until then had worked as head of the office for community service and department head ( Oberlandeskirchenrat ) in the regional church office in Hanover , took up his post as Kronsberg pastor in the St. John's Church in Bemerode has been introduced. On April 1, 1999, he officially took up his office and began to build a parish in the Expo settlement. During the construction period, he moved into a church container on the building site and performed his duties from there. With a service in which the former Lutheran Bishop Margot Käßmann preached, and a hard the Church Center was founded on October 8, 2000 inaugurated and put into use. About 800 people had gathered in and around the church.
Church building
The construction costs of the church center amounted to 11 million DM (approx. 5.5 million euros ). They were supported by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hanover and the Evangelical Lutheran City Church Association in Hanover, as well as the GBH housing association. The Hamburg architect Bernhard Hirche received several awards for his design. There is room for around 180-200 visitors in the church, and up to 400 people when the flexibly usable community rooms are opened. When construction began, the church center was one of the few new church buildings and the congregation was one of the youngest church congregations in Germany. The Kronsberg church center is considered a model for church buildings in the 21st century.
The church center was built under the motto of living differently on the Kronsberg - living in a modern monastery . The Landeskirche Hannover acquired the 3750 square meter property back in 1997. A sacred space was then created in a building based on the old monastery shape, which was kept simple in concrete and glass. A total of 25 handicapped accessible, social and condominium apartments as well as apartments for the sexton and the pastor were built around an open fountain courtyard ( paradise ). The building complex, accessible to the public from all sides, appears as a modern monastery , at the same time as a shelter . A frame made of exposed concrete encompasses the church and parish rooms, the rectory and the other buildings as high as the building. The outer walls of the two residential buildings and the pastorate are painted differently: red (social housing), yellow (condominiums) and blue (pastorate).
Bells
The bells for the church center were taken over from the St. Ansgar Church in Hanover. The bells were presented in a service on the 2nd of Advent 2001.
- Bell 1: a '(610 kg) - Off. Joh. 21,5 + 6; Christ says: See I am making everything new! I am the alpha and omega, the beginning and the end.
- Bell 2: h '(383 kg) - Romans 12,12b: Be patient in tribulation.
- Bell 3: d "(290 kg) - Romans 12,12c: stop in prayer
- Bell 4: e "(219 kg) - Romans 12,12a: Be happy in hope
inner space
The church interior is glazed on three sides. On the front side, the glass is held in differently tinted translucent blue. In sunny weather, a moving band of light falls through a hidden window over the altar wall in the afternoon. The room flooded with light in this way was designed by the glass artist Jochem Pönsgen from Soest . He also made a glass door in front of which a meditation area was set up. This area was used from autumn 2000 for the Kronsberg night church.
The simple altar is made of smooth concrete and is freely suspended. It rests on one side on the darker font; the baptismal font itself is set into the altar. The Easter candle is on a stone from the Sea of Galilee .
Brunnenhof
In the green courtyard of the fountain ( paradise ) there is an artfully designed stone (granite bleu de vire from Normandy) by the sculptor Ulrich Rückriem , which was mainly financed by donations. The stone, together with the spring and a pond set in concrete, form a relaxation area and the center of the well-courtyard called Paradise . The Brunnenhof is used for events. The ensemble of stone, spring and pond can also be viewed from the inside through the glazed cloister.
organ
The organ was inaugurated on October 5th, 2003 . It was built in 1992 by master organ builder Karl Lötzerich and redesigned by Rudolf von Beckerath Orgelbau from Hamburg according to plans by the architect Hirche . The costs amounted to around 45,000 euros. An organ building association was founded to finance the Kronsberg organ. The banker Hannes Rehm took over the management and as deputy the former MEP Barbara Simons ( SPD ). Through numerous individual donations and a grant from Ev.-luth. Regional church of Hanover (20%), the financing was quickly secured. The instrument has seven registers (576 pipes) on a manual mechanism and pedal.
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Outside area in front of the entrance to the sacred space
View into the sacred space
Easter candle and door by the glass artist Jochem Poensgen
Organ on the gallery
Pastors
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- 1999–2008: Hans Joachim Schliep
- 2008–2012: Susanne Krage-Dautel
- since 2013: Mirjam Schmale
- since 2014: Maike Ewert ( City Monastery - Church of Silence )
Events and miscellaneous
The services take place at unusual times, for example the Kronsberg Evening Church at 6 p.m., the Midday Church at 12:15 p.m. and the Night Church (until 2007) on Fridays from 10 p.m. to 10.30 p.m. Church services are often linked thematically to other events. The offerings of the church center include, for example, the children's church, children's and youth groups, literary circles, and men's breakfast. The community works closely with other institutions on the Kronsberg and in Bemerode, for example with the municipal cultural and social center KroKuS and the Bemerode-Kirchrode volunteer fire department.
In the Kronsberg church center, there are also film and literary services (for example on The Miracle of Bern or Babette's Festival ), radio services and other events such as exhibitions and concerts. Were previously in the church known religious leaders, such as former President of the Council of the EKD Bishop Emeritus Martin Kruse and the abbot of Loccum Horst Hirschler , a preacher or speaker guest.
The pastoral sociological work center (PSA) of the regional church of Hanover (merged in 2004 in the social science institute of the EKD and in the work area community counseling / development in the house of church services) accompanied the development of the community in social science .
Since 2004 there has been a loose partnership with the parish Christ the Church in Bristol-Bradley-Stoke . At Expo 2000 the church center was one of the EXPOs of the world exhibition. The Christ Pavilion built on the exhibition grounds belonged to the church of the Kronsberg pastor Schliep. The pavilion was used, among other things, for baptisms .
At the German Evangelical Church Congress 2005 in Hanover, the congregation, together with the Bursfelde Monastery and the Hanstedt I Missionary Center, presented the topic of pilgrimages . The church center is the start and finish point of a 5-kilometer (pilgrim) reflection path ( pilgrims through the Expo city ) through the Expo settlement.
On January 1st, 2006 the City Church Association of Hanover donated the building complex to the St. Johannis parish in Bemerode.
As part of the exhibition of the picture cycle Apocalypse by Jacques Gassmann in 2007 in the St. Johannis Church in Bemerode, some pictures of the cycle were exhibited in the church center.
Until 2008, water from the Jordan River was baptized in the church center , which was made available in bottles by the Jordanian Expo Pavilion in 2000 .
On October 10, 2010 the church center celebrated its 10th anniversary. City Superintendent Hans Martin Heinemann preached in the festival service.
Since September 2014, the church center has been home to the city monastery - the Church of Silence , where courses and events take place where people can try out and deepen ways of silence and meditation . As part of the project, four students live in the former pastor's apartment in a monastery for a time .
literature
- Hans Joachim Schliep: 10 years of the Evangelical Church Center Kronsberg - writing for the 10th anniversary of the inauguration of Ev. Church center Kronsberg , publisher: Ev.-luth. Parish of St. Johannis Bemerode
- Angelika Nollert, Matthias Volkenandt, Rut-Maria Gollan, Eckhard Frick (eds.): Church buildings of the present, architecture between sacredness and social reality, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 204, ISBN 978-3421034946 , p. 84
- Matthias Ludwig, Reinhard Mawick: God's new houses. Church building of the 21st century in Germany. Hansisches Druck- und Verlag-Haus, Frankfurt a. M. 2007, ISBN 978-3-938704-05-9 , p. 48ff. (Edition Chrismon)
- Till Wöhler: New Architecture - Sacred Buildings. Braun Publishing, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-935455-75-5 .
- Christian Weisker: Kronsberg Church Center. in: Hanover's churches. 140 churches in and around town . Edited by Wolfgang Puschmann . Ludwig-Harms-Haus, Hermannsburg 2005, ISBN 3-937301-35-6 . P. 105
- Hans Joachim Schliep: A stone by Ulrich Rückriem in the Ev. Church center Kronsberg. In: Markus Zinn (ed.): See! Contemporary art in Protestant churches. Frankfurt / M. 2007. pp. 139-144
- Dirk Riesener : People's Mission-between People's Church and Republic. 75 years house of church services - formerly the office for community service - of the Evangelical Lutheran regional church of Hanover . Lutherisches Verlagshaus , 2012, ISBN 978-3-7859-1080-1 , pp. 556–559: Community development on the Kronsberg.
Web links
- Official website of the Evangelical Lutheran Congregation
- Official website of the Evangelical Free Church Community
- Official website of the Church of Silence
- Architect's description of the church building
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.landeskirche-hannovers.de/evlka-de/presse-und-medien/nachrichten/2014/09/2014_09_14_2
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from March 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://architekt-b-hirche.de/projekte/319/index.htm
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from July 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://lbib.de/Kirchenbauten-der-Gegenwart-Architektur- Zwischen- Sakralitaet- und- sozialer- Wirklichkeit- 63326
Coordinates: 52 ° 20 ′ 21 ″ N , 9 ° 50 ′ 8.9 ″ E