[2]: 2–4, 10  Aegidien Church was destroyed during the night beginning 8 October 1943 by aerial bombings of Hanover during World War II.

[3] In 1952, the present Gothic building was inaugurated as a war memorial, in part reconstructed with sandstone from the Deister, a chain of hills about 25 kilometres (16 mi) southwest of Aegidien Church.

[4] It was originally completed in 1347 as a church dedicated to Saint Giles,[2]: 10  one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers.

[2]: 2 In 1703–11, Sudfeld Vick  [de] designed the Baroque facade with which the steeple was decorated, and in 1826 Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves used cast iron columns to remodel the interior of the church.

[6] Hiroshima, a twin town of Hanover since 1983, donated the peace bell (Japanese: bonshō) close to the tower in 1985.