St. Mary's Church (Hainholz)
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The Evangelical Lutheran St. Mary's Church is a listed church building in Hanover-Hainholz . She belongs to the Ev.-luth. Parish of Hanover-Hainholz.
history
The St. Marienkirche is a subsidiary of the Kreuzkirche parish . It was built as a pilgrimage church in 1409–1424. Some sources say that there was a church there even before 1394, because a document dated June 11, 1425 confirms that Duke Otto II of Braunschweig-Lüneburg - like his predecessor (died 1395) - from the pastor of the Kreuzkirche in Hanover 3. Pfennig of the sacrificial money of the Chapel Beate Virginis Marie zu Hainholz should receive. The income from the pilgrimage must have been considerable: part of it went to the sovereign, the second to the Kreuzkirche and the third to the city of Hanover with the obligation to maintain the chapel and the roads leading there. People from all over the country came to the wooden miraculous statue of Mary. Even the Bishop of Minden (from the diocese responsible for Hainholz at the time) visited it.
In 1492 the "Liebfrauenbruderschaft vom Hayn-Holtz" was founded and since then services have been held in the chapel. The Marienkirche was a place of worship for the villages of Hainholz , Vahrenwald , Herrenhausen and List .
In 1533 the Reformation came to the city of Hanover (see History of the Reformation in Hanover ). The area around the city initially remained Catholic until Elisabeth von Brandenburg commissioned the reformer Antonius Corvinus to change that. He ensured that the previous sexton of St. Aegidien , Johann Rüden, got the first Protestant pastor's position in Hainholz in 1543. The new form of Lutheran worship required the congregation to gather for common prayers and songs and to listen to a sermon. The old pilgrimage chapel was too small for that. That is why the first nave and tower were built at the end of the 16th century. The miraculous image of the Virgin Mary was kept in a tabernacle until the Catholic Duke Friedrich Ulrich sent his wife to Hainholz to buy the image of Mary back for the Catholic Church. It was set up in the (Catholic) castle church in Hanover until the Capuchins had to leave Hanover after the Duke's death in 1634. They took the miraculous image of Mary with them to their church in Hildesheim. There it was destroyed in a fire in the church in 1761.
The gardens around Hanover city center and around the surrounding villages were settled. There were decades of legal disputes about the affiliation of the new settlements until 1756 it was decided that the villages in front of the Aegidientor should finally be parish of the garden church founded in 1746 . The villages in front of the stone gate and the Clevertor came to the Hainhölzer St. Marienkirche (Fernrode, Königsworth, Nordfeld and Schlosswende). Extensive repairs were necessary there by the end of the 17th century. Part of it was also added - not very solid and without a real plan. The existing benches were owned by the Hainholz villagers and the other half of the community had no seating. When King Georg IV visited Herrenhausen in 1821, the Hainhölzer pastor König wrote a petition to him and, after tough negotiations, received subsidies for the construction of a new ship and a new tower.
In 1825 the now dilapidated nave was torn down and rebuilt by master builder Ludwig Hellner . In 1828 the renovation work was completed. The shape of today's nave and tower date from 1895. The Gothic choir has been preserved. The tower got its current shape with bay windows and a pointed spire and the mechanical tower clock from the Weule company that still exists today . The spire of the Hellner Church was preserved as a roof turret.
In 1859 the Hainhölzer Friedhof was laid out for the parish.
In 1901 the choir of the church was painted and given a colorful tile floor.
During the Second World War, in January 1945, a bomb destroyed the roofs of the nave and the choir. Since there were no building materials for the repair for a long time, the church suffered further damage (rot and sponge). In 1948 all wooden parts of the old roof were finally removed and a new roof covered. The wooden barrel vault of the nave was not reconstructed, the Gothic vault was not reconstructed until 1951. Until 1963, parts of the interior of the church had to be renewed again and again because damage that had not been discovered until then had been revealed. Pulpit, altar and lectern have been renewed in line with the taste of the 1960s. In 1992 the inside of the church was next thoroughly renovated. The painting in the niches of the choir room from 1895 was exposed again, as was the tiled floor. There was new, modern equipment with a pulpit, altar and lectern.
St. Mary's Church is the mother of all Evangelical Lutheran parishes from the area of the old villages of Herrenhausen, Vahrenwald and List, which were built in the 19th and 20th centuries as a result of population explosion, rural exodus and immigration. The Christ Church Congregation was founded in 1859 - with its daughter Luther Church Congregation in 1895. (Since 2006, the Christ and Luther Church Congregation have merged to form the North City Church Congregation). The Matthäuskirchengemeinde (List) was founded in 1893 with daughter Heilig-Geist in Vahrenwald in 1962 - for a long time in temporary rooms. In 1904 the Herrenhausen parish was founded with the daughter Gustav-Adolf (Leinhausen) in 1966, (in 2007 the church building was de-dedicated and handed over to the Liberal Jewish Congregation of Hanover, the Evangelical Lutheran congregation reunited with Herrenhausen to form the Evangelical Lutheran . Parish of Herrenhausen-Leinhausen). The second daughter of Herrenhausen is the Zachhäusgemeinde (Burg) from 1969. In 1924 the Vahrenwalder parish was founded, most recently in 1965 the Ansgar parish. Due to the increasingly scarce finances of the Evangelical Lutheran regional church of Hanover , the Ansgar Church was converted into a regional church archive. Since 1999 the Ansgar parish and the St. Marien parish have been part of the Ev.-luth. Hannover-Hainholz parish, whose only church is St. Mary's Church. Due to further austerity measures, the Hainhölzer parish is now working increasingly closely with the St. Andreas parish in Vinnhorst (founded in 1939 as a daughter of the Engelbosteler church).
literature
- Wolfgang Puschmann (ed.): Hanover's churches. 140 churches in and around town. Ludwig-Harms-Haus, Hermannsburg 2005, ISBN 3-937301-35-6 , p. 189.
- Karl-Heinz Grotjahn: Marienkirche, St. M. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (ed.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 425.
- Pastor Rasch: From Hageringehusen to Herrenhausen. self-published by the Herrenhausen parish in 1931.
- Booklet accompanying an exhibition on 600 years of Hainhölzer church history in summer 2015.
- Chronicle of the St. Mary parish and parish letters.
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Individual evidence
Coordinates: 52 ° 23 '47 .3 " N , 9 ° 43' 10.3" E