St. Annen (Hildesheim)

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The Church of St. Annen was a small church in Hildesheim , which served as a side church of the Neustadt until 1808 . It was a quarry stone building about 18 by 10 meters , covered with a tiled roof arched with a Welschen hood and domed only over the choir .

Origin as a hospital chapel

The church was built as the chapel of the Annen Hospital . This was a poor house founded in 1443 as a Heilig-Geist-Hospital by the priest Heinrich Rothmnann, to which originally an inn for pilgrims was attached. The first statute of this hospital was issued by the provost and city lord of the Neustadt Eckart von Hanensee , already twenty years later the council of the Neustadt, without the involvement of the city lord, made a new regulation out of its own power. Before it was given its final name, it was referred to as the Hospital of Our Lady . The chapel was until the introduction of the Reformation endpoint of at St. Lamberti beginning procession to Corpus Christi . When the Jews were expelled in 1457, the nearby Jewish cemetery was assigned to the Annenhospital as a burial place. The tombstones with Hebrew inscriptions were used in the design of the windows of the chapel.

Second church of the new town

In the summer of 1571, the cathedral provost Wilhelm von Schaumburg handed over the dilapidated St. Anne's Chapel to the Neustadt council for the purposes of Lutheran worship after the cathedral vicar had renounced his altar plinth there. He spoke of the Lutheran denomination as the "true Christian religion", although he was officially a Catholic himself .

In 1582 the church was again prepared for church services and was given its own pastorate , but not its own parish . The so-called “small church”, which is popular with affluent citizens, was only intended for the holding of church services and the distribution of sacraments ; St. Lamberti remained responsible for all other church official acts. In the middle of the 17th century, Sunday mornings and Fridays were preached in St. Anne's Church.

Around 1800 St. Annen owned 16 houses in Neustadt, which had been pledged to the church. However, due to the completely inadequate financial resources, the closure was considered as early as 1803. Under royal Westphalian rule, the confiscation was ordered by the state in 1808. Citizens' protests citing the alleged “unhealth” of the Lamberti Church went unheard. Rather, in March 1813, the demolition was ordered and carried out by a master carpenter named Temme. The cemetery was also leveled.

Annenstrasse as a memento

No remains of the Annenkirche can be seen. At the request of the local residents, in 1871 the street on which St. Annen's hospital and church once stood was renamed Annenstraße in memory of them . Before that, it had been called Poggenhagen since 1593 . 1874 Gosch Street was the former church property in the direction of taking the place of the city laid down Walles Sedanstraße extended to the recently outside the old precincts of scale of Neustadt train station at the gates Fries traffic moderately better connect.

literature

  • Johannes Heinrich Gebauer : History of the city of Hildesheim. (Volume I) Lax, Hildesheim / Leipzig 1922 (unchanged reprint)
  • same: history of the city of Hildesheim. (Volume II) Lax, Hildesheim / Leipzig 1924 (unchanged reprint)
  • same: History of the Neustadt Hildesheim. Lax, Hildesheim / Leipzig 1937, ISBN 3-8269-6305-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gebauer, Geschichte der Neustadt Hildesheim , p. 181
  2. ^ Gebauer, History of the City of Hildesheim , Volume I, pp. 281–282.
  3. ^ Nicolaus C. Heutger : 500 years of the St. Lamberti Hall Church in Hildesheim Neustadt, 1488-1988. Hildesheim 1988, p. 29.
  4. ^ Gebauer, Geschichte der Neustadt Hildesheim , p. 52
  5. ^ Gebauer, Geschichte der Neustadt Hildesheim , pp. 181–182.
  6. ^ Gebauer, Geschichte der Neustadt Hildesheim , p. 184
  7. ↑ a b Gebauer, History of the Neustadt Hildesheim , p. 180
  8. ^ Gebauer, Geschichte der Neustadt Hildesheim , p. 197
  9. ^ Gebauer, History of the City of Hildesheim , Volume II, p. 296
  10. ^ Anton J. Knott: Street, ways, squares and alleys in Hildesheim , Gerstenberg, Hildesheim 1984, ISBN 3-8067-8082-X , p. 20
  11. ^ Gebauer, Geschichte der Neustadt Hildesheim , p. 217

Coordinates: 52 ° 8 ′ 48.8 "  N , 9 ° 57 ′ 30.8"  E