Grave slab of those from the stone house

Grave slab of Johannes de Lapideo Domo Senior and his widow Hildegardis , individualized incised drawing , around 1335, Kreuzkirche

The grave slab of those from the Steinhaus is one of the oldest preserved tombs in the city of Hanover . The current location is below the first north-facing window within the Kreuzkirche in the old town.

Johannes vom Steinhaus the Elder

Johannes vom Steinhaus the Elder ("Johannes de Lapidea Domo senior") († June 11, 1332 in Hanover) came from the vom Steinhaus family , one of the oldest patrician families in the city of Hanover known by name . On March 6, 1323, the city council gave him the right of patronage over a high altar endowed by him in the Nikolaikapelle .

Grave slab

The listed grave slab of those from Steinhaus shows Johannes vom Steinhaus the Elder (see above) and his widow Hildegardis († December 30, 1335). The incised drawing is the oldest known, already individualized group picture of a Hanoverian family: Johannes de Lapideo Domo Senior can be seen as an older man with thinning hair, his eight sons pictured below. Johannes turns with his arms to his wife, "who heads the row of daughters that is no longer fully preserved".

Although incised grave slabs of this type with a circumferential inscription are not uncommon, the depictions are particularly special in the base zone : Instead of the schematic representation of people that was common at the time, the individual family members are shown differently despite the most sparing drawings: the age differences of the different people and their different characters can be read by the viewer.

“Probably” the couple was initially buried in the Nikolaikapelle outside the city fortifications of Hanover . From there the grave slab was later brought to the church of the Minorite Monastery , which was then converted into the castle church of the Leineschloss in the 17th century . At a later time, the grave slab, "facing down", was converted into a floor covering.

After the air raids on Hanover in World War II , the grave slab was recovered from the rubble of the Leineschloss in 1949 and transferred to the Kreuzkirche.

literature

Carl Ludwig Grotefend , Georg Friedrich Fiedeler (ed.): Document book of the city of Hanover. Part 1: From the origin to 1369 (= document book of the historical association for Lower Saxony , volume 5), Hahn , Hannover 1860 (reprint: Scientia-Verlag, Aalen 1975, ISBN 3-511-00418-7 ), No. 11 a / b , 17, 72, 147
Helmut Zimmermann : Hanoverian portraits. Life pictures from seven centuries , illustrated by Rainer Ossi Osswald, Hanover: Harenberg, 1983, pp. 2–4
Klaus Mlynek : STEINHAUS (Steinhus, Stenhus), from. In: Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 347f. (with the image of the coat of arms) and others; online through google books
Klaus Mlynek: Steinhaus (Steinhus, Stenhus), from. 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. 601.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Klaus Mlynek: Steinhaus (Steinhus, Stenhus), from
↑ ^a ^b Ulfrid Müller: Kreuzkirche Hannover , in the series DKV-Kunstführer , No. 373, 2., revised. Edition 2008, Deutscher Kunstverlag GmbH Munich Berlin, Munich Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-02156-3 , here: p. 27
↑ Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, City of Hanover, part 1, vol. 10.1 , ed. by Hans-Herbert Möller, Lower Saxony State Administration Office - publications by the Institute for Monument Preservation , Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1983, ISBN 3-528-06203-7 , center , in addendum to vol. 10.2: List of architectural monuments according to § 4 (NDSchG) (excluding architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation) / Status: July 1, 1985 / City of Hanover , p. 3ff.
^ Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Kreuzkirchhof. In: Hannover Art and Culture Lexicon , p. 160ff.

52.373416 9.73243Coordinates: 52 ° 22 '24.3 " N , 9 ° 43' 56.7" E

[SLH-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Klaus Mlynek: Steinhaus (Steinhus, Stenhus), from

[Ulfried_Müller-2] Ulfrid Müller: Kreuzkirche Hannover , in the series DKV-Kunstführer , No. 373, 2., revised. Edition 2008, Deutscher Kunstverlag GmbH Munich Berlin, Munich Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-02156-3 , here: p. 27

[3] Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, City of Hanover, part 1, vol. 10.1 , ed. by Hans-Herbert Möller, Lower Saxony State Administration Office - publications by the Institute for Monument Preservation , Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1983, ISBN 3-528-06203-7 , center , in addendum to vol. 10.2: List of architectural monuments according to § 4 (NDSchG) (excluding architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation) / Status: July 1, 1985 / City of Hanover , p. 3ff.

[4] Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Kreuzkirchhof. In: Hannover Art and Culture Lexicon , p. 160ff.