St. Christophorus (Hanover)

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St. Christophorus Church (2013)

Sankt Christophorus was the Catholic Church in Stöcken , a district of Hanover ( Lower Saxony ). The church last belonged to the parish of St. Maria in the Hannover deanery of the Hildesheim diocese .

The location of the church building named after St. Christopher was Moosbergstrasse 4 on the Stöckener Markt.

history

In the 1950s, the number of Catholics in sticks had increased so that on January 1, 1959 a Catholic community was founded; previously the Catholics in Stöcken belonged to the St. Adalbert parish in Herrenhausen . First the services took place in the hall of the restaurant Duderstadt (today Hotel West), then in the St. Christopher's Chapel, consecrated in 1958, in the attic of the Pallotti House on Moosbergstrasse.

A larger church was built by 1963 according to plans by the architects Horst Langer and Andreas Frieß . The church was built near the Volkswagen factory in Hanover and named after the patron saint of motorists, St. Christopher . St. Christophorus also became the patron saint of the Catholic churches in the vicinity of the Volkswagen factory in Braunschweig and the Volkswagen factory in Wolfsburg , St. Christophorus (Braunschweig-Rühme) and St. Christophorus (Wolfsburg) .

The foundation stone for the church was laid on August 12, 1962, and its consecration followed on December 14, 1963 by Bishop Heinrich Maria Janssen . On January 1, 1964, the parish of St. Christophorus was established. For a long time the parish was looked after by Pallottines .

Since November 1st, 2006 the church belongs to the parish of St. Maria . In 2009 the Diocese of Hildesheim decided to profane the St. Christophorus Church . From around 2011, talks with the Evangelical Lutheran Church took place with a view to taking over the church, but these ended unsuccessfully in 2014. In 2013, when the 50th anniversary of the parish fair was celebrated, around 1,800 Catholics belonged to the St. Christophorus congregation. In September 2015, the approximately 3,500 m² church property was sold to the housing cooperative Heimatwerk Hannover eG , which wants to demolish the church building and build apartments on the property. On January 18, 2019, the profanation was carried out by Auxiliary Bishop Nikolaus Schwerdtfeger . The church building was torn down in spring 2019. Since then, the closest Catholic church has been St. Adalbert's Church in Hanover-Herrenhausen, just under two kilometers away.

Architecture and equipment

Interior (2015)
Organ (2015)

The church building , built according to plans by the architects' association Langer und Fries, was equipped with an altar and a pulpit made of basalt lava inside . The altar cross was created by Norbert Labenz , while the colored windows were created by the glass painter Franz Pauli .

A representation of St. Christopher is on the outside facade facing the market square.

Your organ was built by the Westfälischer Orgelbau S. Sauer company from Höxter and consecrated on June 21, 1997.

The organ has been in the Marienkirche in Siegen since 2020 .

Church in Mrkonjić Grad

The inventory of the church, the Way of the Cross , confessionals , church stalls , lecture cross , ambo , tabernacle and Easter candlestick , was added to the Church of St. Philip and James ( Croatian : Filipa i Jakova ) in Mrkonjić Grad , in the diocese of Banja Luka in 2019, which was built from 1881 to 1889 Bosnia and Herzegovina , which was destroyed in the Bosnian War in the 1990s. The St. Christophorus window goes to the St. Hedwig Church in Vinnhorst , the other stained glass windows and the depiction of St. Christopher are to be integrated into the new building on the property.

Further Catholic institutions in Stöcken

  • Christophorus-Haus (former parsonage, Moosbergstrasse 4a, also being demolished). Dormitory for adults with intellectual disabilities.
  • Pallotti House (Moosbergstrasse 14). Built in the 1950s as a dormitory for young workers, today it is a dormitory for adults with intellectual disabilities.

See also

literature

  • Church tours on contemporary art: St. Christophorus, Hannover-Stöcken. Catholic parish of St. Maria, Hanover (ed.), Hanover 2013

Web links

Commons : St. Christophorus Church (Hannover-Stöcken)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Helmut Zimmermann : Sankt-Christophorus-Kirche , in ders .: Hannover in the pocket. Buildings and monuments from A to Z . 2nd Edition. Feesche, Hannover 1988, ISBN 3-87223-046-8 , p. 24
  2. ↑ KirchenZeitung No. 6/2014 of February 9, 2014, p. 14.
  3. ↑ http://www.kath-kirche-hannover.de/presse/news-angebote/artikel/wohnungsbaugenossenschaft-kauf-kirchengrundstueck-in-hannover-stoecken/
  4. ↑ Nina Hoffmann: St. Christophorus says goodbye on the 60th anniversary. Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung , January 20, 2019, accessed on January 20, 2019 .
  5. ↑ The church becomes home. In: KirchenZeitung. Issue 21/2019 of May 26, 2019, p. 9.
  6. ↑ Hanover - Stöcken, St. Christophorus. Disposition and pipework of the new organ. Westphalian organ building, archived from the original on December 2, 2013 ; Retrieved January 1, 1900 .
  7. ^ Rüdiger Wala: pictures benches, confessional. In: KirchenZeitung. Edition 13/2019 of March 31, 2019, p. 11.

Coordinates: 52 ° 24 ′ 35.5 ″  N , 9 ° 39 ′ 54.6 ″  E