Reformed Church (Hanover)
The Reformed Church is an Evangelical Reformed church in the Hanover district of Calenberger Neustadt .
location
The church is located at Lavesallee 4 across from the main state archive in Hanover and the state environment and interior ministry .
history
After the Lutheran Reformation was introduced in the Principality of Calenberg , a municipal statute from 1588 stipulated that only Lutherans were allowed to live within the walls of Hanover. However, this provision did not apply to the Calenberger Neustadt, which was built around the middle of the 17th century on the left bank of the Leine. Reformed, Catholics and Jews settled there and built their places of worship.
French Huguenots founded their congregation in 1697 and German Reformed in 1703. The German Reformed Church was consecrated in 1705, largely supported by the Reformed Sophie von Hannover . Towards the end of the 19th century, the church was so dilapidated that a new building was necessary.
The church was built in the neo-Gothic style in 1898 according to plans by Hubert Stier . The three tower bells were donated by Queen Victoria , as she was the great-great-great-granddaughter of Sophie of Hanover. Victoria's nephew 2nd degree Ernst August von Hannover donated the organ . Her grandson Wilhelm II , however, was the greatest patron: he generously financed the church and also equipped it with the glass window and the pulpit .
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The church was almost completely destroyed in October 1943 during World War II. It was eleven years after the war ended before the church was rebuilt in 1956. Dieter Oesterlen only reconstructed the exterior according to the original. The interior has been completely redesigned. The floor was raised so that a kind of cellar was created under the actual church hall. The church tower does not wear a helmet today for warning and structural reasons . Today's organ from 1964 comes from the house of Karl Schuke .
literature
- Ilse Rüttgerodt-Riechmann: Reformed Church. In: Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, City of Hanover (DTBD), part 1, volume 10.1, ed. by Hans-Herbert Möller , Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation , Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Braunschweig 1983, ISBN 3-528-06203-7 , p. 88; as well as Calenberger Neustadt in the addendum to part 2, volume 10.2: List of architectural monuments acc. § 4 ( NDSchG ) (excluding architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation ), status: July 1, 1985, City of Hanover , Lower Saxony State Administration Office - publications of the Institute for Monument Preservation, p. 5f.
- 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 in Hanover. 1703 - 2003 , commemorative publication for the anniversary, with the collaboration of Karin Kürten and Burghardt Sonnenburg ed. from the presbytery of the Evangelical Lutheran Church Community of Hanover, Hanover: Evangelical Reformed Church Community of Hanover, 2003, ISBN 3-00-010631-6
- Christian Weisker: Reformed Church. In: Wolfgang Puschmann , Waldemar R. Röhrbein (ed.): Hanover's churches. 140 churches in and around town. Verlag des Ludwig-Harms-Haus, Hannover 2005, ISBN 3-937301-35-6 , p. 31
- Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Archivstrasse 1 , in Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek (eds.): Hannover. Art and Culture Lexicon , new edition, 4th, updated and expanded edition, Springe: zu Klampen, 2007, ISBN 978-3-934920-53-8 , p. 88
- Karin Kürten: Evangelical Reformed Church Community of 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.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 9.6 ″ N , 9 ° 43 ′ 46.2 ″ E