Neustädter Hof- und Stadtkirche St. Johannis

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Neustadt Church

The Protestant-Lutheran Neustädter Hof- und Stadtkirche St. Johannis in the Hanover district of Calenberger Neustadt is the oldest example in Lower Saxony of the Protestant ideal of a hall church . The church is the sermon church of the state superintendent for the district of Hanover .

The Neustädter Kirche shows the characteristics of a strict early baroque style , which is still clearly based on ancient models. It is a long and spacious hall church that ends with an only slightly narrower sanctuary to the east.

The church is located on Neustädter Markt , on the so-called Street of Tolerance .

history

The church around 1850 with the “Britisch Hotel”, the Neustädter Markt in the foreground , the Fürstenhof in the background ; Steel engraving by Johann Poppel after a drawing by Georg Osterwald
Church interior

The church is the successor of the chapel St. Galli and the St. Gallen chapel , originally by the counts of the castle Lauenrode for the castle Lauenrode founded, in 1241, first mentioned ecclesia Galli . After the castle was destroyed in the War of the Lüneburg Succession , Cord von Alten built a new building within the city wall of Hanover on the Rosmarinhof as Marienkapelle (beatissime Marie virginis) before 1388 . Bishop Otto von Minden elevated this to the collegiate and parish church of the Calenberger Neustadt (with Lauenrode and the Brühl ) around 1396 .

Oil painting in a magnificent baroque frame with coat of arms and Latin inscription: Portrait of David Wilhelm Erythropel in the church

After Duke Georg took residence in Hanover in 1636 during the Thirty Years' War and the city had to be expanded west of the Leine for the court, its officials, servants and craftsmen, the chapel for the Protestant communities of Calenberger Neustadt and the castle church in 1665 raised to the parish church. The occasion was the re-Catholicization of the castle church in the Leineschloss 1665–79 by Duke Johann Friedrich , the founder of the Great Garden .

In return, after the chapel was demolished and the Jewish pond was filled in, the Lutheran sermon church Neustädter Hof- und Stadtkirche St. Johannis was built in the baroque style at its current location in 1666–70 , probably based on plans by the Venetian architect Hieronimo Sartorio . The financing took place with the support of the sovereign by the estates of the Calenberg countryside and to a large extent by the early capitalist merchant and councilor Johann Duve .

The rubble of the former St. Gallen Chapel from the old town was reused during the construction .

Since the original half-timbered tower was in danger of collapsing, a new tower with a square substructure, octagonal upper storey and a copper-covered tower dome with a lantern and cone top was built over the west portal in 1691–1700 .

When the palace church became Lutheran again under Duke Ernst August , later Elector of Hanover (1679–98), the Neustädter Kirche remained the court church for Protestant court officials who were not part of the immediate vicinity of the sovereign. It only lost this function with the construction of the Welfenschloss planned as a new residence and a matching residential church: In 1859 King George V took over the patronage of the Christ Church and renounced his royal patronage of the Neustädter Church in favor of the Magistrate of the City of Hanover.

In the air raids on Hanover in World War II, the church was destroyed except for the outer walls. The reconstruction took place in 1956/58 in initially simpler forms under the direction of Wilhelm Ziegeler. The renovation of the interior in 1992-94 then approached the original concept again.

Instead of restoring the baroque furnishings, preserved parts of the original furnishings, figures of Christ, angels, saints and allegorical figures, portraits and tombs - were combined with modern elements and rearranged.

Furnishing

Bells

The two bells made of cast steel were cast by the Bochumer Verein in 1923 and sound in the chimes c 1 and e 1 .

organ

Tombs

Grave of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Outside the church, epitaphs and numerous tombs of court officials, court preachers and general superintendent as well as their relatives have been attached to the walls since 1902 , which originally covered the entire floor inside the church.

Among the 35 grave slabs and epitaphs attached to the outer walls are about those for

The most significant graves (inside) are

literature

Web links

Commons : Neustädter Kirche (Hannover)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.landeskirche-hannovers.de/evlka-de/presse-und-medien/frontnews/2013/03/03
  2. ^ A b Arnold Nöldeke : St. Gallenkapelle in the old town. In: Die Kunstdenkmäler der Provinz Hannover Vol. 1, H. 2, Teil 1, Hannover, Selbstverlag der Provinzialverwaltung, Theodor Schulzes Buchhandlung, 1932 (Neudruck Verlag Wenner, Osnabrück 1979, ISBN 3-87898-151-1 ), p. 211f .
  3. ↑ Stadtlexikon Hannover ..., p. 468
  4. ↑ Video recording of the peal (YouTube, as of March 17, 2010 at 10:15 a.m.).
  5. ↑ a b Annette von Boetticher : Gravestones, epitaphs and memorial plaques of the Evangelical Lutheran. Neustädter Hof- und Stadtkirche St. Johannis in Hanover , brochure ed. by their church council, Hanover: self-published, 2002
  6. ↑ Leibniz's final resting place has an eventful past: Leibniz grave ( memento of the original from September 26, 2016 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. , hannover.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hannover.de
  7. ↑ Robert von Lucius: Universal genius with deep eye sockets , September 7, 2011
  8. ^ Skull of a universal genius , Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover , September 4, 2012

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 16 ″  N , 9 ° 43 ′ 43 ″  E