St. Godehard (Hanover)

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St. Godehard

St. Godehard is a Catholic parish church in the Hanover district of Linden-Mitte (Posthornstraße 23). It was designed by architect 1873-1874 Christoph Hehl built and on 4 October in 1874 by Bishop William Sommerwerck ordained . It bears the name of St. Godehard , who was Bishop of Hildesheim in the 11th century . Your parish of the same name belongs to the Hanover deanery of the Hildesheim diocese .

history

Tomb of Pastor Ignaz Diedrich , the "founder of the cath. Congregation in Linden "," the faithful shepherd the grateful congregation ", in the Lindener Bergfriedhof

After St. Clemens, St. Godehard was the second post-Reformation Catholic church in the area of ​​today's city of Hanover . It was made necessary by the rapid industrial development of the then independent town of Linden. Bishop Sommerwerck had sold land from the repealed parish of Söder for construction . The parish of St. Godehard, the eastern border of which was formed by the Leine , comprised 4,000 Catholics when it was established in 1891, as well as a mission district that reached as far as the Deister . With the construction of St. Benno and later other churches, the area decreased in size while the population continued to grow.

During the heavy air raid on Hanover in the night of October 8th to 9th, 1943, the church was hit by fire bombs and burned down completely; During the last air raid on the city on March 28, 1945, high explosive bombs completely destroyed the structure.

The church was given its present exterior shape during the reconstruction in 1949/1950. On August 13, 1950, took place the consecration of the rebuilt church by Bishop John Bydolek . At that time, the community had grown rapidly through Catholic expellees from East Germany. Interior renovations were carried out in 1968 and 1974.

As a result of the population change in the Linden district since the 1970s and the reduction and concentration process in the Diocese of Hildesheim , St. Godehard has again been the parish church for all of Linden (including St. Benno ), Badenstedt ( Christ König ) and Ahlem ( Maria Consolation ).

Construction and equipment

The neo-Gothic brick church consists of a three-aisled nave with a polygonal apse in the west and a transept in the east, which serves as an entrance area and baptistery. Above the crossing there is a square, copper-clad roof turret with the bell.

The interior is painted white, only the column capitals are accented yellowish. The high and pointed arch of the choir also has a golden yellow picture ribbon. Most of the furnishings date from the 1950s. The main altar was consecrated on April 6, 1968 by Auxiliary Bishop Heinrich Pachowiak .

organ

organ

The organ of St. Godehard was in 1987 by the workshop Emil Hammer organ building built. Pipe material from the previous organ from 1954 was reused in the instrument. The instrument has 38 registers on three manuals and a pedal . The Spieltrakturen are mechanically, the Registertrakturen electrically.

I Rückpositiv C – g 3
1. Dumped 8th'
2. Principal 4 ′
3. Reed flute 4 ′
4th Nasard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
5. octave 2 ′
6th recorder 1'
7th Scharff III 1'
8th. Krummhorn 8th'
Tremulant
II Hauptwerk C – g 3
09. Pommer 16 ′
10. Principal 8th'
11. Pointed flute 8th'
12. octave 4 ′
13. Flute 4 ′
14th Flat flute 2 ′
15th Mixture IV-VI 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
16. Trumpet 8th'
17th Chip. Trumpet0 8th'
(horizontal)
III Swell C – g 3
18th Reed flute 8th'
19th Dulz flute 8th'
20th Vox celestis (from c 0 ) 0 8th'
21st Principal 4 ′
22nd Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
23. recorder 4 ′
24. Forest flute 2 ′
25th Third flute 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
26th Mixture IV 2 ′
27. Dulcian 16 ′
28. Hautbois 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
29 Principal 16 ′ note
30th Sub bass 16 ′
31. Principal bass 0 8th'
32. Dacked bass 8th'
33. Coupling flute 4 ′
34. Night horn 2 ′
35. Basszink III 5 1 ⁄ 3  ′
36. Mixture IV
37. trombone 16 ′
  • Coupling (electrical) :
    • Normal coupling: I / II, III / I, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P
    • Sub- octave coupling: Sub III / II and Sub III / III
  • Playing aids : 64-fold setting system

Remarks

Note Wood

Godehardi pen

The Godehardistift, located in the neighborhood of the St. Godehard Church, was built in 1977 as a Catholic center for the elderly. In 2009, for economic reasons, the sponsorship was changed from the Catholic Caritas Association in Hanover to the Protestant Johannesstift . Catholic and Protestant services are held regularly in the St. Vincent's house chapel.

See also

literature

  • St. Godehard, October 4, 1874 to October 4, 1974. Hanover-Linden. Hanover 1974.
  • Episcopal Vicariate General Hildesheim (ed.): Handbook of the Diocese of Hildesheim. Part 2 - Region Hannover. Hildesheim 1995, pp. 187-192.

Web links

Commons : S  - 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 in past and present, p. 110. Hanover 1952.
  2. ^ Pipe organs in Hanover - St. Godehardt. Retrieved August 29, 2012 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 21 ′ 49.2 "  N , 9 ° 42 ′ 53.5"  E