French Reformed Congregation (Hanover)

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The French Reformed congregation in Hannover was a late 17th century founded parish Reformed Christians known as Huguenots and refugees ( "Réfugiés") from France fled, and by privilege especially in the welfisch -hannoverschen Hof founded Calenberger Neustadt settle allowed .

history

When, after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes on September 18, 1685, more and more Huguenots fled from the France of the Sun King Louis XIV to the states of the Holy Roman Empire , the Duchy of Braunschweig-Lüneburg was a country of their choice, especially after the Duke and later sovereign of the Electorate of Hanover , Ernst August , guaranteed them ecclesiastical, religious and professional privileges when they settled in the Calenberger Neustadt, which after the Thirty Years War developed into the actual residence city of Hanover.

From 1692 and for more than half a century there was also a French clergyman in the person of Claude Guillaumot de la Bergerie , court preacher to the reformed Duchess and later Electress Sophie .

On January 17, 1697, the French Reformed congregation of Hanover was finally founded through the election of a presbytery . But the growing influx of Huguenots to the initially still small court community around Sophie soon exceeded the spatial possibilities, for example the castle church in the Leineschloss , so that they soon had to look for their own real estate .

After the congregation had acquired three houses in Calenberger Neustadt on what was then the street Auf dem kleine Brand at the corner of Wagenerstraße , these were converted into a rectory and a church and could be inaugurated on November 13, 1699 . There experienced the French Reformed congregation that "Réfugiés" which is not in a colony were organized, but wanted to ensure their identity and continuity according to their brought commitment, their practice of faith and their church order an existential link, particularly under the Hofprediger de La Bergerie a heyday.

The integration of those who had fled from France into Hanoverian and German society as a whole also resulted in the decline of the initially French-Reformed community, and even its assimilation into state and society : a good century after its founding, the remaining community members decided in the year 1816 the union with the only slightly younger German Reformed community . The church and rectory were sold and demolished.

Well-known Huguenots in Hanover

See also

literature

In German language:

  • Walter Schneider: Reformed congregation in Hanover , in Hans-Werner Dannowski , Waldemar R. Röhrbein (ed.): Stories about Hanover's churches. Studies, pictures, documents , Hanover: Lutherhaus-Verlag, 1983, ISBN 3-87502-145-2 , p. 22ff.
  • Frauke Geyken : The Huguenot community in Hanover. In: Yearbook of the Society for Church History in Lower Saxony , Vol. 95 (1997)
  • Frauke Geyken: 300 years of the Evangelical Reformed Church Community in Hanover. 1703 - 2003. Anniversary publication , edited by Karin Kürten and Burghardt Sonnenburg. from the presbytery of the Evangelical Reformed Church Community Hannover, Hanover: Presbytery of the Evangelical Reformed Church Community, 2003, ISBN 3-00-010631-6

In French:

  • Jean-Pierre Erman: La famille Dupuis de Sachetot de Sandouville , in ders: Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des réfugiés françois dans les états du Roi , Volume 8, Berlin: Frederic Barrier (publisher), GF Starcke (print), 1794 ; online through google books

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Karin Kürten: Evangelical Reformed Church Community Hanover. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , pp. 168f .; here: p. 169; online through google books
  2. ^ Klaus Mlynek : Calenberger Neustadt. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 105f.
  3. ^ Helmut Knocke : Leineschloss. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 398f.
  4. ^ Walter Schneider: Reformed congregation in Hanover , in Hans-Werner Dannowski , Waldemar R. Röhrbein (Ed.): Stories about Hanover's churches. Studies, pictures, documents , Hanover: Lutherhaus-Verlag, 1983, ISBN 3-87502-145-2 , p. 22ff.
  5. ^ L'Estocq, Jean von in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library , edited on February 16, 2016, last accessed on April 16, 2016
  6. ^ Franz Muncker : Lafontaine, August Heinrich Julius. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie , Vol. 17, Leipzig 1883, pp. 512-520; here: p. 512; online digitization of the Munich Digitization Center (MDZ)

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 '9.9 "  N , 9 ° 43' 35.4"  E