St. Nikolai Church (Limmer)

St. Nicholas Church

The St. Nikolai Church in Hanover is a listed hall church building and belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran parish of the same name in Hanover-Limmer. The location of the church named after Nikolaus von Myra is Sackmannstraße 26 in the Limmer district .

history

A St. Nikolai church has been known in Limmer since 1268. In 1328 the church was attached to the Marienwerder monastery . The present hall church was built from 1787 and was consecrated in October 1791. In 1898 the tower was built and the chancel was expanded and the interior was redesigned in 1910.

During the air raids on Hanover in World War II , the church was badly damaged in 1943 and re-consecrated in 1945 after being rebuilt. Today her parish is part of the Hannover City Church Association .

Personalities

• The pastor Jacobus Sackmann (1643-1718), who preached partly in the Calenberger Platt , became pastor of the Nikolaikirche in 1680.

Furnishing

organ

The organ was built between 1959 and 1961 by Emil Hammer Orgelbau . The slider chests -instrument has 32 registers on three manuals and pedal. The playing and stop actions are mechanical.

I Rückpositiv C – g 3 1. Dumped 8th' 2. Principal 4 ′ 3. Pointed 4 ′ 4th Gemshorn 2 ′ 5. Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ 6th Sharp IV – V 7th Krummhorn 8th'

II Hauptwerk C – g 3 8th. Quintadena 16 ′ 9. Principal 8th' 10. Capstan flute 8th' 11. octave 4 ′ 12. Reed flute 4 ′ 13. Nasard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ 14th octave 2 ′ 15th Mixture V – VII 16. Trumpet 8th'

III Breastwork C – g 3 17th Singgedackt 8th' 18th Dumped 4 ′ 19th Forest flute 2 ′ 20th octave 1' 21st Sesquialtera II 22nd Zimbel III 23. shelf 8th'

Pedal C – f 1 24. Sub bass 16 ′ 25th Principal 8th' 26th Dumped 8th' 27. Gemshorn 4 ′ 28. Night horn 2 ′ 29 Mixture VI 30th trombone 16 ′ 31. Trumpet 8th' 32. Clarine 4 ′

• Coupling : I / II, III / II, I / P, II / P,

literature

• Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Sackmannstrasse. In: Hannover Art and Culture Lexicon , p. 191
• Ilse Rüttgerodt-Riechmann: The village center. In: Limmer. In: Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, City of Hanover, part 2, vol. 10.2 , ed. by Hans-Herbert Möller, Lower Saxony State Administration Office - publications by the Institute for Monument Preservation , Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1985, ISBN 3-528-06208-8 , pp. 156–159, here: pp. 157f .; as well as Limmer in the addendum directory of architectural monuments acc. § 4 (NDSchG) (except for architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation) / Status: July 1, 1985 / City of Hanover , p. 24f.
• Klaus Mlynek : Limmer. 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 , p. 404.

Web links

Commons : St. Nikolai Church (Hannover-Limmer)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Internet presence of the parish

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ilse Rüttgerodt-Riechmann: The village center (see literature)
2. ↑ http://www.myheimat.de/hannover-herrenhausen/kultur/ev-luth-st-nikolai-kirche-hannover-limmer-d666153.html
3. ^ Karl-Friedrich Oppermann : SACKMANN, Jacobus. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 306 and others; online through google books
4. ↑ More information about the organ

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 '52 "  N , 9 ° 41' 14.9"  E