St. Bernward (Hanover)

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St. Bernward Church
Tower and portico
Longship and transept

St. Bernward is the Roman Catholic parish church of Döhren , a district of Hanover in Lower Saxony . The church, consecrated in 1893, is located at Hildesheimer Straße 239, and its parish of the same name belongs to the Hannover deanery of the Hildesheim diocese .

history

After the number of Catholics in Döhren rose sharply as a result of industrialization in the last third of the 19th century, mainly due to the arrival of Eichsfeld families, a Catholic school was built in 1887 (today the rectory). At the same time, planning began for a church building on the same property on Hildesheimer Strasse , which began in 1892.

Christoph Hehl created the designs for a neo - Romanesque three-aisled basilica on a cross plan with a change of columns . Initially, only the tower, the portico and the nave with apse were realized. In order to come particularly close to the early Romanesque models, the building was made of quarry stone . The similarity of the proportions with those of the Hildesheim Cathedral is intentional.

The church was consecrated on September 8, 1893 and was named after Hildesheim Bishop Bernward , who was venerated as a saint and whose 900th anniversary of enthronement was celebrated in the same year. Oscar Wichtendahl created the historicist painting of the church: Christ, angels and saints in the apse, tapes and ornaments on the walls. Only the windows of saints and motifs and the figure of Mary are preserved from the original painting and furnishings. On March 1, 1908, the parish of St. Bernward was established.

Since the church was built, the increase in population, the First World War , the Great Depression and the Nazi regime brought about profound upheavals for the parish, but hardly any changes to the church building. The church and rectory survived the air raids on Hanover with only minor damage to the roof and windows.

When the number of Catholics had risen to 8,000 in 1955 - most of them were displaced from Silesia - it was decided to expand the church according to the old plans by Christoph Hehl. In 1960 the transept and the new apse as well as the crypt were completed. The interior decoration reflected the austerity ideal of that time.

After the liturgical reform , the sanctuary was redesigned again. The tabernacle reminds of St. Michael in Hildesheim, the Holy Sepulcher Bishop Bernwards.

The artist Hanns Joachim Klug redesigned the church for the centenary of the Kirchweih in 1993 . The design of the apse is particularly striking. In front of a deep blue circular area and an irregular gold drapery, a large, alienated Christ icon can be seen, from which cross-shaped steel tubes extend. The Way of the Cross dispenses with anything illustrative and reduces the scenes to a few basic symbolic attitudes. In the niche behind the baptismal font, a silhouette indicates Christ descending into the Jordan . The light of the Holy Spirit symbolically falls in gold flecks . At the same time, each baptized person should recognize his or her own outline in the shadow of Christ.

The Friends of the Catholic Church Community of St. Bernward in Hanover-Döhren eV has been supporting the church community since 2008 .

With the deed of August 10, 2010, the Bishop of Hildesheim repealed the Catholic parishes of St. Bernward (Döhren), St. Eugenius (middle field) and St. Michael (Wülfel) with effect from August 31, 2010 and at the same time established them with effect from the next day in the area of ​​the dissolved parishes a new parish with the name "Catholic Parish St. Bernward, Hanover". The parish church of this new parish is St. Bernward in Hanover-Döhren. St. Bernward has had no pastor of his own since 2017, as the last pastor returned to his home country, Poland . Since then, the church has been looked after by the staff of the pastoral area Hannover-Süd, which in addition to the parish of St. Bernward also includes the parishes of St. Oliver (Laatzen) , St. Augustinus (Hanover) and To the holy angels (Hanover) .

organ

The organ was built in 1983 by the organ building company Siegfried Sauer (Höxter). Older registers and the case from 1894 have been adopted. The instrument has 34  stops on two manuals and a pedal . The first manual is equipped as a coupling manual. The actions are mechanical.

II Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Drone 16 ′ H
2. Principal 8th'
3. Reed flute 8th' H
4th Viol 8th' H
5. octave 4 ′
6th Pointed flute 4 ′
7th Rauschpfeife II 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
8th. Forest flute 2 ′
9. Mixture V 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
10. Trumpet 8th' H
Tremulant
III Swell C – g 3
11. Dumped 16 ′
12. Violin principal 8th' H
13. Darling Dumped 8th' H
14th Salicional 8th' H
15th Vox coelestis 8th'
16. Principal 4 ′
17th Dumped 4 ′ H
18th Nasat 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
19th octave 2 ′
20th Third flute 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
21st Sifflet 1'
22nd Scharff IV 1'
23. Basson 16 ′
24. oboe 8th' H
25th Clarine 4 ′
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
26th Principal 16 ′ H
27. Sub bass 16 ′
28. Quintbass 10 2 ⁄ 3  ′ H
29 octave 8th'
30th Covered bass 8th'
31. Gemshorn 4 ′ H
32. Backset V 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
33. trombone 16 ′
34. Trumpet 8th' H
  • Coupling : II / I, III / I, II / P III / P
  • annotation
h = historical register from 1894

Other Catholic institutions in the catchment area of ​​the church

  • Bernwardswiese (leisure facility)
  • Catholic Public Library (KÖB)
  • Caritas child and youth welfare service St. Joseph (former orphanage St. Joseph)
  • St. Bernward day care center

See also

literature

  • What is it, St. Bernward? , Festschrift of the parish, 1993
  • Wolfgang Puschmann : St. Bernward Church. In: ders. (Ed.): Hanover's churches. 140 churches in and around town. Hermannsburg: Ludwig-Harms-Haus 2005, ISBN 3-937301-35-6 , pp. 12-15.

Web links

Commons : Sankt Bernward (Hannover)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hermann Seeland: The churches in Hanover that were destroyed in World War II. In: Our diocese past and present. Hanover 1952, p. 107.
  2. ↑ Antje Kellner: Back to my old home. In: KirchenZeitung , issue 39/2017 of October 1, 2017, p. 12.
  3. ↑ More information about the organ

Coordinates: 52 ° 20 ′ 27.2 ″  N , 9 ° 46 ′ 4 ″  E