Mansions Church

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Mansions Church

The mansions Church in Hanover is a church in neo-Gothic style and belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran parish Herrhausen - Leinhausen . The site of the listed building in the Herrenhausen district of Hanover is Hegebläch 19 .

history

Payment certificate 1923 from the chairman of the church board, Rasch, for master baker Fritz Baumgarten about the “voluntary church tax ” at the time of German hyperinflation

The first Christian church directly in Herrenhausen was the chapel on the Herrenhausen cemetery . The Protestant church, which is not far from the Herrenhausen Gardens , was only built from sandstone by the architect Rudolph Eberhard Hillebrand between 1904 and 1906 for a total of 276,000 Reichsmarks . On May 27, 1906, the work was completed and the church was consecrated. Half of the money for the church building came from the money that the citizens of Herrenhausen had received for the incorporation into Hanover. The other half was brought in through donations and collections. The church measures 72 meters at its highest point. Numerous glass windows were created by the Atelier Rudolf and Otto Linnemann from Frankfurt.

The church was spared in the Second World War during the air raids on Hanover , but the stained windows were destroyed by the air pressure from an air mine . In 2011 the church hall was renovated.

Church interior

inside view

The nave and transept have the same proportions, based on the Greek cross.

The altar window from 1949 shows Jesus and the Emmaus disciples. The glazing on the north and south sides of the church is simple and colorless. The choir is dominated by a large wheeled window which, apart from the dove ( Holy Spirit ) placed in the middle , is abstractly designed with modern stained glass. In the 1960s, the Art Nouveau interior was painted over in gray and white and the wheel chandelier was removed. During a later renovation in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the church got a new chandelier and the Art Nouveau interior decoration was restored. In addition to the wheel chandelier, the round windows are another special feature. While there was still space for 930 believers in the church after the construction period, there are now 650 seats. On the glass door that leads to the sacred space there is a wooden tape with the Our Father written on it in Gothic script. For the Expo 2000 a simple prayer corner was set up.

portal

The entrance to the church is formed by a portal, which has Gothic features with its gable field above the door (also called tympanum ) and the ribbon-like decorations ( archivolts ) in the pointed arch that run to three columns on the left and right of the portal . The pointed gable of the portal is decorated with three roses and the top with a cross.

Church music

Demanding church music is performed in the church. The choir, called Kantorei Herrenhausen, regularly performs the great church music works under the direction of the church district cantor Martin Ehlbeck. A special feature are scenic performances, such as the St. Matthew Passion by Johann Sebastian Bach in 2000 and the St. John Passion by Bach in 2015, both directed by Christoph G. Amrhein. In 2006 Georg Friedrich Handel's Belshazzar and in 2009 Johannes Brahms' Ein deutsches Requiem were performed in conjunction with Frank Martin's Jedermann monologues. In 2012 there was a staged performance of Bach's Christmas Oratorio. In 2017 the Herrenhausen Kantorei performed Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel's Christmas Oratorio together with the orchestra of the Herrenhausen Church .

In 1906 the company P. Furtwängler & Hammer built an organ with a symphonic-romantic sound in the new church . The instrument was badly damaged in World War II. The restoration after the war did not lead to a satisfactory result. The Hillebrand Orgelbau company created a new instrument in 1967 with 40 registers on three manuals and a pedal , including five registers from the previous organ . Heinz Wolff designed the prospectus . In 1993 a restoration by the builder company and the installation of new reeds followed . In addition, the organ was cleaned out and a romantically arranged swell was added by Hillebrand. This was intended to make some of the timbres that were lost with the organ from 1906 available again. The rededication of the extended organ took place in 2019. The organ now has 40 registers.

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerd Weiß: Ev. Church and adjacent buildings (see literature)
  2. ↑ Gitta Kirchhefer: A walk through the Herrenhausen cemetery , brochure with photos by Sergej Stoll and a numbered overview plan, Hannover: Selbstverlag, 2012
  3. ↑ herrenhausen-leinhausen.de ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.herrenhausen-leinhausen.de
  4. ↑ Church music in Herrenhausen website , accessed on January 22, 2016
  5. ↑ Staged projects website , accessed on January 22, 2016
  6. ↑ St. John Passion as an opera  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 22, 2016@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / johannespassion-oper.de  
  7. ↑ Internet site for the Belshazzar performance , accessed on January 22, 2016
  8. ↑ Brahms Opera website , accessed on January 22, 2016
  9. ↑ Internet site for the performance , accessed on January 22, 2016
  10. ^ Meeting point church , parish letter of the Evangelical Lutheran parishes Herrenhausen-Leinhausen, Ledburg-Stöcken, Zachäus (Burg), edition 6/2017, p. 16
  11. ^ Organ Databank: Organ of the Herrenhausen Church , accessed on December 7, 2018.
  12. ↑ Information on the organ of the Herrenhausen Church , accessed on June 1, 2020.

Coordinates: 52 ° 23 ′ 36 ″  N , 9 ° 41 ′ 24 ″  E