Herrenhäuser Kirche

Located close to the Herrenhausen Gardens, it belongs to the Lutheran congregation of the Herrenhausen-Leinhausen parish and is a listed historic building.

It was made possible through the Jewish banker Moritz Simon, who encouraged the incorporated villagers of Herrenhausen to spend money which they had received from the capital city Hanover.

The architect R. Eberhard Hillebrand, who was a student of Conrad Wilhelm Hase, decided on the church's Gothic Revival architectural style, for which he used sandstone.

During the Second World War the church was not destroyed but an aerial mine exploding closely shattered the glass of the windows.

The sanctuary is dominated by a big window with a rose that is, besides of the centrally arranged pigeon (representing the Holy Spirit), designed with abstract new-age colored glass.

In the 1960s the original picturing of the church, which was hold in art nouveau/natural motive, was overcoated with pedagogic white/grey and the central chandelier has been removed.

One generation later the parish council decided together with the responsible department of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Hanover to restore the original arrangement.

Installation of a glass wall led to the creation of an anteroom before the actual church interior underneath the organ loft.

Two turret tabernacles with pinnacles, finials and glare windows complete the portal composition.

Even here in the entrance of the church the language of architecture wants to point out a mystery: Like in the Old Testament the pin hut was the place of revelation of God (the two tablets with the Ten Commandments were kept here), so should the New Testament community be reminded while receiving the communion, as well as during the whole church service, that God is present.

Before the visitor opens the glass door to the service room he sees a wooden ribbon on which is printed the Lord’s Prayer in gothic font over the whole length of the glass wall at height of the door knob (Draft: Reinhold Kniehl, sculptor and stonemason).

The person who opens the door lays their hand on the following words of the Lord’s Prayer: "And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors."

Three big roundels, three galleries, each carried by three round arches, surround the central room of the church and point out the trinity.

Here at the altar bread and wine is given which should remind the Christians that Jesus Christ gave his life for our salvation.

Two trees are growing from the heavenly city Jerusalem which established deep rests upon twelve fundaments: 1.

The Pulpit is the place from which the word of god is preached into the church interior and the whole wide world to arouse, to promote and to consolidate the faith.