Twelve Apostles Church (Hildesheim)

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The Twelve Apostles Church in Hildesheim

The Twelve Apostles Church is an Evangelical Lutheran church in Hildesheim .

location

The church is located in the Moritzberg district on the slope of the Rottsberg . The community includes the Godehardikamp and the area "behind the forest spring ".

history

The Twelve Apostles Church was originally the second church in the Christ parish , which extended from Himmelsthür to Birnbaumskamp until the end of the 1960s . Before its inauguration, because of the distance from the Christ Church, Bible studies took place in a private apartment on Wolfstieg until 1957 , followed by devotions in a rented basement room in the Krummen Felde .

The further development of the Kurzen Anger that began in the mid-1950s and the construction of the Godehardikamp settlement from 1961 made building a church and community center more and more urgent. The appropriate building plot had already been acquired by the monastery chamber in November 1954. In 1962 a design competition was announced, which was won by the Hanoverian architect Dieter Oesterlen . On October 15, 1967, the completed construction of the community center was inaugurated. Only two days earlier, however, the church was on fire because a craftsman had set fire to the church floor, which had been coated with nitro-thinner, with his burning cigarette. On January 1, 1968, the Twelve Apostles Congregation became independent. A parish association with the Evangelical Lutheran St. Cosmae and Damian parish in Marienrode has existed since 2008.

architecture

Location map

The church, rectory and sexton's house, kindergarten and the later parish hall are concrete buildings in the style of the late 1960s.

The complex is located like a modern castle on a hilltop above the neighboring residential area, with the double-shaft church tower as the highest point and center. The buildings of the ring-shaped complex do not follow a uniform basic geometric shape, but are asymmetrical and polygonal . The church is not designed in the traditional cross shape, but as “a segment of a circle that is cut off at an angle at both ends. The floor plan of the tower shows the same shape and the tower ends appear as three-dimensional beveled circular segments. "

The Twelve Apostles Church is now a listed building.

See also

literature

  • Frank Dengler: Building in a historical setting. The architects Dieter Oesterlen, Gottfried Böhm and Karljosef Schattner . Hildesheim: Olms 2003. (Studies on art history. 151) . ISBN 3-487-11882-3

Web links

Commons : Twelve Apostles Church (Hildesheim)  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 40 years of the Twelve Apostles (web link)
  2. ↑ With verve through 40 years of community history . In :: Moritz vom Berge 178 (November 2007)
  3. ↑ s. Dengler, p. 70 and 124
  4. ↑ 40 years of the Twelve Apostles (web link)

Coordinates: 52 ° 8 ′ 19.5 ″  N , 9 ° 55 ′ 20.6 ″  E