St. Joseph (Hanover)

Parish Church of St. Joseph

St. Joseph is a Catholic parish church in the List district of the Lower Saxony state capital Hanover . Your parish of the same name belongs to the deanery of Hanover in the diocese of Hildesheim . The church is located at Steinmetzstraße 1, the neighboring parish office is at Isernhagener Straße 64. It was built in 1911 and 1912 according to plans by Maximilian Jagielski and named after the biblical figure of Joseph of Nazareth .

history

The northeastern districts and suburbs of Hanover belonged to the Catholic parish of St. Marien since 1890 . The uninterrupted industrial development and the construction of the Mittelland Canal continued to bring numerous working-class families from parts of the empire that were influenced by Catholicism to Hanover, including List and Vahrenwald .

The church property bought in 1909 was central to the planned new parish district, but included a gravel pit , which had to be filled up at a high cost. Construction work began in 1911. On August 4, 1912, the church was consecrated by Bishop Adolf Bertram . The parish established in 1913 initially also included Langenhagen , Bothfeld , Buchholz and Mellendorf , where later, mainly as a result of the expulsions from the east , their own parishes were established .

During the Second World War , the air raids on Hanover on September 27, 1943, December 15, 1944, January 5, 1945 and March 25, 1945 hit the Josephskirche in its immediate vicinity and were badly damaged by bombs. The roof was completely destroyed, the vaults of the nave, transept, side aisles and organ stand collapsed. Inside, the murals were largely destroyed. Almost all of the interior furnishings except for the high altar, two confessionals and some pews were lost. The reconstruction, largely true to the original, began in 1947 and was completed in 1952.

Today (2014) the parish has around 7,700 members.

In 2015, construction began on a new community center with an integrated day-care center, designed by the architects Pape and Kost. After its completion, it was inaugurated on August 19, 2016. It is now called Forum St. Joseph .

Architecture and equipment

St. Joseph is built in a neo -Gothic style with a joy of decoration , made of roughly hewn stone in combination with brick surfaces and friezes . The building design follows the type of basilica with a three-aisled , two-bay nave , spacious transept and a six-twelfth choir at the east end. The towering tower with four ornamental gables and a high pointed helmet is visible from afar .

Two of the three bells consecrated in 1914 were melted down during World War I, and the third was given in payment in 1926 when a new bell was bought. Of the three bells consecrated in 1926, the two largest had to be delivered in 1942. Since then there has only been one bell in the tower. In 2015, however, the community received three bells from the secular church of St. Elisabeth (Salzgitter) .

The post-conciliar renovation of the interior was completed in 1972 with the consecration of the new main altar by Auxiliary Bishop Heinrich Pachowiak . In a further redesign in 1987, the church received modern stained glass windows .

See also

• List of architectural monuments in Vahrenwald-List
• List of sacred buildings in Hanover
• List of churches in the Diocese of Hildesheim
• Joseph's Church

literature

• Handbook of the Diocese of Hildesheim , Part 2, 1995, pp. 69–72
• Wolfgang Puschmann : St. Josephskirche , in: Hanover's churches. 140 churches in and around town . Edited by Wolfgang Puschmann. Hermannsburg: Ludwig-Harms-Haus 2005, ISBN 3-937301-35-6 .

Web links

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

• Internet presence of the parish

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hermann Seeland: The churches in Hanover that were destroyed in World War II , in: Our Diocese in Past and Present, p. 102. Hanover 1952.
2. ^ Parish letter St. Joseph - the Catholic Church in Hanover-Vahrenwald / List, Edition I 2015 ( Memento of the original from May 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , P. 11. 
3. ↑ KirchenZeitung No. 27/2015 of July 5, 2015, p. 13
4. ↑ St. Joseph inaugurates new forum , Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung , August 19, 2016
5. ^ Opening of the new Forum St. Joseph building , kath-kirche-hannover.de, August 19, 2016

Coordinates: 52 ° 23 ′ 38 "  N , 9 ° 44 ′ 31.7"  E