St. Benno (Hanover)

St. Benno

St. Benno is a Roman Catholic church in the Hanover district of Linden-Nord (Offensteinstraße 4). It was based on plans by 1901/02 Christoph Hehl built and on 28 October 1906 by Bishop Adolf Bertram ordained . During the air raids on Hanover in World War II , the left aisle was destroyed by a bomb on October 18, 1943, and the church and rectory were damaged again on March 17, 1945. The damage was makeshift repaired during the war. In the summer of 1951, a largely faithful restoration of the church began, which was completed on October 26, 1952.

description

The church is a neo - Gothic three - aisled basilica modeled on the north German brick Gothic . The tower is replaced by a high portal gable with two octagonal flank towers. The nave - yokes receive their light through three clerestory windows . Buttresses and chapel extensions also structure the building. After several, in some cases far-reaching, redesigns, the interior is characterized by a modern sense of space and form until the late 20th century.

After St. Godehard, St. Benno was the second Catholic church in the working-class town of Linden, which grew explosively towards the end of the 19th century. She received the patronage of St. Benno von Meißen , who was a contemporary of Godehard and came from the Diocese of Hildesheim .

The history of the parish, founded on April 1st, 1912, its associations, institutions and initiatives is closely connected with the development of Linden from a workers' quarter to a depopulating suburb to a strongly multicultural residential area. The proportion of migrants in the parish is over a third. Since 2008, St. Benno has been the center of an open city pastoral care project. Since September 1st 2010 the church belongs to the parish of St. Godehard .

From 1928 Wilhelm Offenstein was pastor of the St. Benno parish until he took over the office of vicar general in 1936 .

organ

The organ was built in 1981 by the Emil Hammer Orgelbau workshop . The instrument has 24 registers on two manuals and a pedal .

I Hauptwerk C – g 3 1. Pommer 16 ′ 2. Principal 8th' 3. Reed flute 8th' 4th octave 4 ′ 5. Coupling flute 4 ′ 6th Sesquialtera II 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ 7th Flat flute 2 ′ 8th. Mixture IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ 9. Trumpet 8th' Tremulant

II breastwork (swellable) C – g 3 10. Wooden dacked 8th' 11. Dulz flute 8th' 12. Praestant 4 ′ 13. Flute 4 ′ 14th Schwiegel 2 ′ 15th Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ 16. Scharff III 1' 17th Krummhorn 16 ′ 18th Vox humana 8th' Tremulant

Pedal C – f 1 19th Sub bass 16 ′ 20th Principal bass 8th' 21st Dumped 8th' 22nd Flute bass 4 ′ 23. Rauschpfeife III 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ 24. trombone 16 ′

Technical specifications

• Housing / prospectus: larch
• Grinding wind chest
• Gaming table :
  • Play closet
  • Register pulls
• Action :
  • mechanical sound contracture
  • mechanical stop action
• Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P

See also

• List of architectural monuments in Linden-Limmer
• List of sacred buildings in Hanover
• List of churches in the Diocese of Hildesheim

literature

• Episcopal General Vicariate Hildesheim (ed.): Handbook of the Diocese of Hildesheim. Part 2 - Region Hannover , Hildesheim 1995, pp. 182-186
• Wolfgang Puschmann : St. Benno , in: Hanover's churches. 140 churches in and around town . Edited by Wolfgang Puschmann. Hermannsburg: Ludwig-Harms-Haus 2005, pp. 12–15. ISBN 3-937301-35-6 .

Web links

Commons : St. Benno  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Internet presence of the parish
• Church on the unofficial website of the Linden district
• Church clergy on the unofficial website of the Linden district
• Historical postcards of the church
• Church organ in Hanover pipe organ register

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hermann Seeland: The churches in Hanover that were destroyed in the Second World War , in: Our diocese in past and present, p. 112. Hanover 1952.
2. ↑ More information about the organ

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 30.6 "  N , 9 ° 42 ′ 20.3"  E