St. Heinrich (Hanover)

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St. Heinrich seen from Sallstrasse, integrated into the surrounding residential development

St. Heinrich is a Catholic parish church in the southern part of Hanover , Sallstrasse 72. Its parish of the same name belongs to the Hanover deanery in the diocese of Hildesheim .

history

St. Heinrich was built according to a design by the Cologne architect Eduard Endler , after the rapid growth of the southern city districts had also increased the number of Catholics in this area. The foundation stone was laid on November 4, 1928, and the church was consecrated on October 27, 1929. The patronage reminiscent of the one with the Diocese of Hildesheim related holy Emperor Henry II. The independent parish St. Henry was born in 1939.

During the Second World War , St. Heinrich was hit by incendiary bombs on October 9, 1943, during the heaviest of the air raids on Hanover , and burned down completely, and during an air raid on March 25, 1945, an explosive bomb brought down part of the surrounding walls.

St. Heinrich from the west and from the east

Reconstruction began on May 3, 1949 and was completed on December 11, 1949. The church was largely restored true to the original. With its high central nave, lower aisles, rectangular east choir and westwork-like tower, it remains true to the building type of the basilica , but realizes this with the typical means of its time of origin, which also prevail in the surrounding street scene: strictly stereometric forms, red brick as material, protruding Rows of vertically placed bricks in multiple parallels as the only decorative element.

The interior and the furnishings were redesigned during the most recent thorough renovation in accordance with the changed needs of the urban community and a post-modern feeling of space.

Since September 1, 2010, the parish of St. Heinrich also includes the churches of St. Clemens and St. Elisabeth .

Today, with strong population fluctuations, the parish consists of almost 5000 people.

organ

The organ was built around 1930 and rebuilt and re-voiced in 2003 by the organ builders Lothar and Bernd Simon from Borgentreich. In the course of the renovation, some registers were replaced. The slider chest instrument has 34 registers (including a transmission) on three manuals and a pedal . The game actions are mechanical, the stop actions are electric.

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Drone 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Reed flute 8th'
4th Pointed Gamba 8th'
5. octave 4 ′
6th Coupling flute 4 ′
7th Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
8th. Forest flute 2 ′
9. Mixture IV-V
10. Trumpet 8th'
II Swell C – g 3
11. Principal 8th'
12. Capstan flute 8th'
13. Ital. Principal 4 ′
14th flute 4 ′
15th Forest flute 2 ′
16. Cornett II
17th Scharff III-IV
18th Rankett / Dulzian 16 ′
19th oboe 8th'
20th Schalmey 4 ′
III Oberwerk C – g 3
21st Darling Dumped 8th'
22nd recorder 4 ′
23. Principal 2 ′
24. Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
25th Quintzymbel III
26th Vox humana 8th'
Pedal C – g 1
27. Principal 16 ′
28. Sub bass 16 ′
29 Octave bass 8th'
30th Dumped 8th'
31. Choral bass 4 ′
32. Mixture IV
33. trombone 16 ′
34. Trumpet 4 ′

Bells

In the year the church is consecrated, the renowned Otto bell foundry cast three bronze bells for the newly built Heinrichskirche. Their strike tone series is (e): c '- es' - f', with the diameters: 1603 - 1348 - 1201 (1190) and a total weight of 5638 kg (2377 kg, 1352 kg and 1253 kg). Of the three bells, only the f 'bell has survived. In addition, the church has two loan bells that were loaned to the parish by the German state after 1945.

See also

literature

  • Wolfgang Puschmann : St. Heinrich Church. In: Wolfgang Puschmann (Ed.): Hanover's churches. 140 churches in and around town. Ludwig-Harms-Haus, Hermannsburg 2005, ISBN 3-937301-35-6 , pp. 12-15.
  • 50 years of St. Heinrich's Church in Hanover. (Festschrift) Hanover 1979.
  • Thomas Scharf-Wrede (Ed.): 75 years of St. Heinrich Hannover 1929–2004. (= Series of publications of the Hildesheim diocese archive , volume 14.) Hanover 2004.
  • Klaus Mlynek : Heinrich - St. H. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 282.

Web links

Commons : St. Heinrich  - 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. 15.
  2. ^ Hermann Seeland: The churches in Hanover that were destroyed in World War II. In: Our diocese past and present. Hanover 1952, p. 106.
  3. ↑ More information about the organ
  4. ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto bells. Family and company history of the Otto bell foundry dynasty . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, here in particular p. 532 .
  5. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, here in particular p. 493 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (PhD thesis at Radboud University Nijmegen).

Coordinates: 52 ° 21 ′ 43.2 "  N , 9 ° 45 ′ 30.4"  E