Garrison church on Goetheplatz

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1896: The Garrison Church on a picture postcard from Karl F. Wunder
Around 1900 the Goetheplatz in front of the church was designed almost like a park.

The garrison church in Hanover was built in 1896 according to plans by the architect Christoph Hehl on Goetheplatz in Calenberger Neustadt as a three-aisled basilica in neo-Romanesque style with a transept and a two-towered westwork. The site church for the soldiers stationed in Hanover was demolished in 1959/60.

history

The first Evangelical-Lutheran garrison parish in Hanover was established in 1656, the services of which took place in the chapel of the Heilig-Geist-Hospital on the corner of Kniehauerstrasse and Schmiedestrasse , which had not been used since the Reformation . After the battle of Langensalza and the dissolution of the Hanoverian army as a result of the annexation of the Kingdom of Hanover , the church was abolished in 1867, the church building owned by the city was sold in 1869 and demolished in 1875.

The members of the now Prussian army stationed in Hanover, the majority of whom were Protestants, founded their own congregation in 1867, the services of which initially took place in the castle church . In 1890 the community already had around 7,000 members, including numerous Prussian civil servants.

The collapse of one of the towers during construction in 1893 caused a sensation due to inadequate foundations: the supporters of the Guelph Party mocked their antipathy for everything Prussian with glee that a schoolboy had the melody of Üb 'always loyal and honesty in passing ! whistled - the tower couldn't cope with that.

In the Weimar Republic the community became Lutheran, but was not directly subordinate to the regional church. At that time, one of the central functions of the church was the memory of the dead, especially the First World War .

The church was damaged but not destroyed by the air raids on Hanover in World War II. Wehrmacht church services have been held together with the civil parish in the Trinity Church and Bothfeld Church since 1944 .

In 1945 the church, which had previously belonged to the Reich Military Treasury, was confiscated by the British military government and later placed under the Federal Property Administration.

The unprotected interior (pulpit and altar) was largely destroyed by vandalism. Further damage occurred as a result of the flood disaster of 9/10. February 1946 a. However, it would have been possible to restore the building. Plans for a use for the inner city communities, in particular for the residents of Calenberger Neustadt, were discarded in favor of rebuilding the more damaged Neustadt church . The church council of Neustadt Church and city superintendent Wolckenhaar, among others, had spoken out in favor of rebuilding both churches. The city of Hanover and its city planning officer , Rudolf Hillebrecht , campaigned for the garrison church to be demolished.

Increasing loss of importance, disagreement about its future use, progressive decay and a lack of funding for a renovation led in the 1950s to the sale of the property to the adjacent Friederikenstift . The church was demolished after its deed in 1959/60 amid numerous demonstrations and strong protests.

Exhibitions

  • From December 3, 2012 to March 1, 2013, an exhibition of the Hanover regional church archive was shown in the Hanover regional church office. Under the title “Unloved and gladly destroyed ?!”, “Photos, archives, original objects and a 3D model of the garrison church” and remains of the church from “unusual places” were brought together.

literature

  • Fr. W. Engelhardt: The Garrison Church in Hanover; designed and executed by Christoph Hehl , 1896
  • Garrison church book Hannover: 1690–1811 , edited by J. Ritter and H.-H. Braubach, 1988
  • Hans Otte : The Hanover Garrison Church 1896–1959. Construction and destruction of a symbol . In: K. Kreiner, G. Schneider (Hrsg.): City and tradition. Festschrift for Klaus Mlynek , 1999, pp. 247–268
  • Florian Hoffmann, Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Garrison Church (s). 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 , p. 201.
  • Klaus Mlynek , Waldemar R. Röhrbein (Ed.): Garrison Church In: Hannover Chronik : ( Online )
  • Franz Rudolf Zankl : The Garrison Church on Goetheplatz. Photography around 1900. In: Hanover Archive , sheet S 95 (The cityscape of Hanover)

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Hanover Chronicle: from the beginnings to the present: numbers, dates, facts . Schlütersche, 1991, ISBN 978-3-87706-319-4 ( google.de [accessed on June 13, 2018]).
  2. ^ Dieter Brosius : The industrial city. From the beginning of the 19th century to the end of World War I , here: Welfen und Nationalliberale , p. 345, in: Geschichte der Stadt Hannover , Vol. 2 From the beginning of the 19th century to the present , ed. by Klaus Mlynek and Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Schlütersche , Hannover 1994, ISBN 3-87706-364-0
  3. ^ Johannes Neukirch: Exhibition opening on December 3rd: Unloved and gladly destroyed ?! , Press release of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover , last accessed on March 22, 2016
  4. ^ Johannes Neukirch: Exhibition opening on December 3rd: Unloved and gladly destroyed ?! , Press release of the Regional Church of Hanover , last accessed on March 22, 2016

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 20.4 "  N , 9 ° 43 ′ 25.8"  E