St. Bernward, Hanover

St. Bernward is a Catholic church and parish in Döhren, part of Hanover, the capital of Lower Saxony, Germany.

It was consecrated in 1893 to Bernward of Hildesheim, when part of Christoph Hehl's design of a basilica in Romanesque revival style were built, but was completed after World War II.

With industrialisation in the late 19th century, families especially from the Eichsfeld area increased the number of Catholics in Döhren [de].

[2] When the number of Catholics exceeded 8000 in 1955, caused by the arrival of many refugees from Silesia, the church was expanded, finally realising the original plans, with a transept and apse.

[4] For the centenary in 1993, Hanns Joachim Klug [de] created new artworks, including decoration of the apse and the Stations of the Cross.