St. Nicolai Church (Bothfeld)

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St. Nicolai Church
Christmas market at St. Nicolai Church
Inside the church

The Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Nicholas in Hannover is a landmarked neo-Romanesque church with a from the Middle Ages derived bell tower . The location of the building is the highest point of the historic village and at the same time the entrance to the old village center in today's Bothfeld district at Sutelstraße 18-19 .

history

A St. Nicolai church in Bothfeld has been known since 1288. The 35 meter high church tower with up to 1.7 meter thick walls made of lawn iron stone dates from the 14th century. In 1776 the nave was demolished and replaced by a baroque hall church . From 1910 this building gave way to a new building in neo-Romanesque style with limestone from the Süntel , whereby the medieval tower was retained. The builder was Eduard Wendebourg , a student of Conrad Wilhelm Hase . The church was consecrated in October 1911. The interior and the decoration were designed according to the example of Art Nouveau . The new building was initiated by Pastor Carl Schütte († August 17, 1930), who worked in the community for a total of 37 years and is buried in the cemetery in Ebelingstrasse. The construction costs of the church were around 100,000 marks in the currency of the time.

Nave

The nave was completely painted by Karl Bohmann until 1918 and later by Hubert Kattentidt. In 1959 the interior was redesigned and the painting was whitewashed and five colored glass windows were inserted with the following depictions: In the middle, Christ the Risen, with the four evangelists on his side: on the left, Matthew with the attribute of the winged man, and on the right, Mark with the lion John with an eagle and Luke with the bull.

The other windows show four prophets of the Old Testament, Isaiah with the star, Jeremiah with the scroll, Daniel with the judgment word “ MENE TEKEL UPHARSIN ” and Ezekiel with a letter.

The font was taken from the previous church.

On the occasion of the 700th anniversary of the church in 1988, the old state was restored.

organ

Organ prospectus

The organ from 1977 comes from the Rensch company in Laufen. The housing is from the year 1911. The abrasive loading -instrument has 27 registers (1344 pipes ) on two manuals and pedal , and in addition has a coupling Manual. The playing and stop actions are mechanical.

II Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Principal 8th'
2. Reed flute 8th'
3. octave 4 ′
4th Night horn 4 ′
5. Octave (from No. 6) 2 ′
5. Forest flute 2 ′
6th Mixture IV-V 2 ′
7th Cornett V 8th'
8th. Third (from no.7) 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
9. Trumpet 8th'
III Rückpositiv C – g 3
10. Wooden dacked 8th'
11. Principal 4 ′
12. Reed flute 4 ′
13. octave 2 ′
14th Octave (from No. 18) 1'
15th Fifth (from no.19) 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
16. Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
17th Third (from no.19) 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
18th Sharp III 1'
19th Sesquialtera II 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
20th Vox humana 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
21st Sub bass 16 ′
22nd Octave bass 8th'
23. Covered bass 8th'
24. Pommer 4 ′
25th Octave (from No. 26) 2 ′
26th Back set III
27. trombone 16 ′
  • Pair : II / I, III / I, II / P, III / P

Bells

Memorial plaque on the bell from Insterburg

The tower of the church bears three bells, named "Justice", "Peace" and "Joy". The oldest was cast in 1639, comes from the Luther Church in Insterburg (East Prussia) and came to Bothfeld after the end of World War II . During the Second World War, the bell was intended to be melted down as part of armaments production and was transported to a bell cemetery for this purpose . At the end of the war it was not melted down, but it was not returned to Insterburg, which was occupied by the Soviet army. A bronze plaque on the tower indicates the origin of the bell without giving the reason for its change of location. Many residents of Insterburg are happy that this bell survived the Second World War and is still in service today.

Church cemetery

“Warrior” monument on the south side of the church

The church cemetery used to be located around the church, where the deceased von Bothfeld and those of the parish villages of Klein-Buchholz , Groß-Buchholz and Lahe were buried. It was replaced by the Alten Bothfelder Friedhof on Ebelingstrasse when the number of residents increased. Tombs from the 17th to 19th centuries still stand on the lawn surrounding the church. Five of the gravestones are depicted in Carl Wolff's "Die Kunstdenkmäler der Provinz Hannover" from 1899. Some of them are now set up inside the church. The tombs were designed by the Hanoverian sculptors Peter Köster and Jürgen Gebhard Schrader, who worked around 1700 .

War Memorial

On the south side of the church tower there is a memorial designed by Friedrich Goy, Heinrich Reinecke and Wilhelm Huhn with the larger than life figure of a soldier for the soldiers from Bothfeld who fell in World War I. After 1945 this was supplemented by a stone lying on the ground, which is dedicated to the memory of the dead of the Second World War. In 2019 it was moved to the opposite side as part of the redesign. While the memorial for the First World War lists the names of the dead, the stone for the Second World War does not contain a list of names.

Peace garden
Walk-thinking garden with the memorial for observance of peace
Single stalls for the inauguration in 2019

In 2019 the newly designed peace garden was inaugurated at the church, which is called "GO THINK GARDEN PEACE!" And whose memorial was designed by Winni Schaak . The meaning is described on the website of the parish as follows: The path of the “Walk-Think-Garden Peace” connects individual stations of remembrance and remembrance with the paving, which invite you to pause. It links the past and the present and admonishes the future.

Heinrich-Hoffmann-von-Fallersleben-oaks and memorial stone
Memorial plaque for Hoffman von Fallersleben from 1941

In the southern part of the church cemetery there are two oaks, their meaning and relation to Heinrich-Hoffmann-von-Fallersleben, a stone lying in the lawn explains:

Hoffman-von-Fallersleben-Eichen / were planted in the war year 1941 for the / centenary of Germany / song. / Hoffmann von Fallersleben / founded his / family in Bothfeld in 1849 and composed many / of his heather songs here.

Here he married his 18-year-old niece Ida vom Berge, who was the daughter of the pastor of the St. Nicolai parish. He protected him from being accessed by the police and enabled his later escape from Hanover. The grave sites of the parents-in-law are on the Old Bothfelder Friedhof Grabstelle ( I / B / 01MN) on Ebelingstrasse.

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : St. Nicolai Church, Hannover-Bothfeld  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerd Weiß : Bothfeld. In: Hans-Herbert Möller (ed.): Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, city of Hanover. (DTBD), Part 2, Volume 10.2, Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation , Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn Verlagsgesellschaft, Braunschweig 1985, ISBN 3-528-06208-8 , p. 71ff .; as well as Bothfeld in the addendum : 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 by the Institute for Monument Preservation , p. 16.
  2. ↑ More information about the organ
  3. ^ Website of the parish about the bells , accessed on April 20, 2018.
  4. ^ Cemetery on the parish website
  5. ^ Carl Wolff (ed.): The art monuments of the province of Hanover. I. District of Hanover, 1st districts of Hanover and Linden, self-published by the provincial administration, Theodor Schulze's bookstore, Book I of the complete work, Hanover 1899, reprint of the district of Hanover, Hofbuchdruckerei Gebrüder Jänecke, Hanover 1976, p. 9.
  6. ↑ Helmut Zimmermann: From Anderten to Stöcken, forays through Hanover's history. Verlag Ellen Harenberg-Labs, Hannover 1987, ISBN 3-89042-023-0 , pp. 62, 64.
  7. ↑ Helmut Zimmermann: From Anderten to Stöcken, forays through Hanover's history. Verlag Ellen Harenberg-Labs, Hannover 1987, ISBN 3-89042-023-0 , p. 63.
  8. ↑ The names of the fallen soldiers. Retrieved September 3, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Website of the St. Nicolai parish Hannover-Bothfeld - Walk-Think-Garden Peace! Retrieved October 15, 2019 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 24 ′ 47.2 "  N , 9 ° 47 ′ 54.7"  E