Simeon Church (Hanover)

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Simeon Church. The pentagonal floor plan is not noticeable in the front view.
Simeon Church with forecourt

The Simeon Church in Hanover is a mid-1960s erected Evangelical Lutheran church of the old center of Henriettenstiftung with pentagonal. The building named after the prophet Simeon is located on Schwemannstrasse in the Hanover district of Kirchrode .

history

In place of the present church was in the 19th century by Consul Dietrich Wilhelm Schwemann in 1867 the Henriettenstiftung surrendered former extract house , the first as a waiting school should be converted using the Kirchröder village youth, but then due to the high demand as a result of industrialization as a hospice for "[...] incurable female patients" was used.

It was not until almost a century later that the building was demolished in 1964 in favor of the planned Simeon Church , which was then built between 1964 and 1965 according to plans by the architect Hanns Hoffmann .

architecture

The floor plan of the church is pentagonal with unequal legs ; the pentagonic construction is also reflected in the pentagonal square in front of it. The bell tower as a campanile is hexagonal on steel stilts. On the right side there is a rectangular annex.

inner space

Daylight falls into the interior from all sides through the all-round glazed upper parts of the walls and the corners glazed down to the floor; only the corner opposite the entrance is not glazed, which prevents backlighting for the audience.

Furnishing

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Works on the doors of the Simeon Church

The old man Simeon is depicted twice on and in the church:

  1. On the outside of the church door designed by the sculptor Siegfried Zimmermann , Simeon can be found at the top left as he enters Jerusalem . When the doors are closed, the connection with the depiction of Jesus on the right door can be seen. In the lower area there are formulations of diaconal tasks: on the left a visit to the sick, on the right the calming of a storm as a symbol for the relief of pain, fear and distress.
  2. inside on the tapestry made by the parament workshop of the Henriettenstiftung based on designs by Helge Michael Breig . This also forms the in-house bronze crucifix, also designed by Siegfried Zimmermann.

organ

Gallery with organ

The organ comes from the Hanover-based organ building company Schmidt & Thiemann .

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
Reed flute 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Forest flute 2 ′
Mixture 4f.
II breastwork C – g 3
Wooden dacked 8th'
Pointed flute 4 ′
Principal 2 ′
Sesquialtera 2f.
Cymbal 3f.
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
Sub bass 16 ′
Pipe pommer 8th'
Trumpet 8th'

Bells

Bell tower of the Simeon Church

The four-part bell ringing in a 1 - d 2 - e 2 - g 2 comes from the Heidelberg bell founder Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling .

Web links

Commons : Simeonkirche (Hannover)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Simeon Church. In: Wolfgang Puschmann (Ed.): Hanover's churches. 140 churches in and around town. Verlag des Ludwig-Harms-Haus, Hannover 2015, ISBN 978-3-937301-35-8 , p. 101.
  2. ↑ A dog biscuit manufacturer built villas in Kirchrode. In: Helmut Zimmermann : The small Hannoversche history book. Anecdotes, incidents, legends. 1st edition. Leuenhagen and Paris, Hannover 2003, ISBN 3-923976-43-7 , pp. 104-109; here, p. 107
  3. ↑ a b A journey through the past and present of the Henrietten Foundation in Kirchrode. In: Michael Hümpel (Ed.): The city district in words and pictures. Chronicle Kirchrode - Bemerode - Wülferode. 1st edition. Verlag Michael Hümpel, Hanover 2003, pp. 143-147.
  4. ↑ a b Wolfgang Neß: The old village. In: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, city of Hanover. Part 2, Volume 10.2, ISBN 3-528-06208-8 , pp. 92f.
  5. ^ Organ in the Hanover pipe organ register

Coordinates: 52 ° 21 ′ 43.4 "  N , 9 ° 49 ′ 43.2"  E