Hannover No. 3 / Hanover / Embere

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view of church exterior - southeast view

The Gartenkirche St Marien,successor of the Kapelle Unserer lieben Frauen demolished 1534
Scene Description: The Gartenkirche St Marien,successor of the Kapelle Unserer lieben Frauen demolished 1534
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Image Source: digital photograph taken April 2010 by AxelHH [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gartenkirche_St._Marien_Seite.jpg] [accessed 9 March 2019[
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view of church exterior - southeast view

Source caption: "Die Aegidienkirche ist eine im 14. Jahrhundert entstandene Kirche in Hannover. Die östlichste der drei Altstadtkirchen (die beiden anderen sind Marktkirche und Kreuzkirche) wurde benannt nach dem Heiligen Ägidius, einem der 14 Nothelfer. Sie befindet sich in der Altstadt nahe dem Aegidientorplatz an der Ecke Breite Straße und Osterstraße. 1943 wurde die Kirche bei den Luftangriffen auf Hannover durch Bomben zerstört."
Scene Description: Source caption: "Die Aegidienkirche ist eine im 14. Jahrhundert entstandene Kirche in Hannover. Die östlichste der drei Altstadtkirchen (die beiden anderen sind Marktkirche und Kreuzkirche) wurde benannt nach dem Heiligen Ägidius, einem der 14 Nothelfer. Sie befindet sich in der Altstadt nahe dem Aegidientorplatz an der Ecke Breite Straße und Osterstraße. 1943 wurde die Kirche bei den Luftangriffen auf Hannover durch Bomben zerstört."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H. Helmlechner, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 May 2012 by H. Helmlechner [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hannover_Aegidienkirche_01.jpg] [accessed 9 March 2019]
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view of church interior - chancel

notice in the recessed arch, on the wall behind and to the right of the pulpit, the relief fragment from the earlier chapel
Scene Description: notice in the recessed arch, on the wall behind and to the right of the pulpit, the relief fragment from the earlier chapel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andreas Praefcke, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph October 2014 by Andreas Praefcke [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hannover_Gartenkirche_Kanzel_img03.jpg] [accessed 9 March 2019]
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view of church interior - relief - fragment

Source caption: "Hannover, Gartenkirche, Relief aus der alten Marienkapelle, nach 1490; links: hl. Chrysogonus, Mitte: hl. Katharina, rechts: hl. Konrad von Konstanz".
Scene Description: Source caption: "Hannover, Gartenkirche, Relief aus der alten Marienkapelle, nach 1490; links: hl. Chrysogonus, Mitte: hl. Katharina, rechts: hl. Konrad von Konstanz".
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andreas Praefcke, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph October 2014 by Andreas Praefcke [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hannover_Gartenkirche_Relief_aus_der_Marienkapelle_c1490.jpg] [accessed 9 March 2019]
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view of font

the 1890 font by Eduard Hillebrand in the modern Gartenkierche St Marien, successor of the Kapelle Unserer lieben Frauen demolished 1534
Scene Description: the 1890 font by Eduard Hillebrand in the modern Gartenkierche St Marien, successor of the Kapelle Unserer lieben Frauen demolished 1534
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andreas Praefcke, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph October 2014 by Andreas Praefcke [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hannover_Gartenkirche_Taufstein_img01.jpg] [accessed 9 March 2019]
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INFORMATION

FontID: 22018HAN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Aegidienkirche / Kapelle Unserer lieben Frauen [aka Kapelle St. Marien vor dem Ägidientore / Capella Beate Marie Virginis extra Valvam S. Aegidii] [demolished 1534]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin [original church dedicated to St Giles]
Church Location: 30159 Hannover, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Hannover, Niedersachsen
Directions to Site: The disappeared chapel was located outside the city walls, in Embere, the area later known as the Aegidienneustadt. The site is occupied today by the Gartenkirche St. Marien. The ruins of the re-built church of St. Aegidius stand today.
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Date: 1349?
Century and Period: 14th century (mid?), Gothic
Church Notes: the original Romanesque church was probably built in the mid-12thC and dedicated to St Giles; replaced by a chapel in 1347-1349, the predecessor of the present Gartenkirche St. Marien built in the mid-18thC; demolished 1534; re-built in 1554 as the Liebfrauenkirchhof
Font Notes:
Lübke (1870) notes a metal font, "a decagon, also with sculpture, resting on small lions". [NB: the metal font from Aegidienkirche is reported as having been moved to Marktkirche Hannover after WWII.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.368135, 9.743161
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 22′ 5.29″ N, 9° 44′ 35.38″ E
UTM: 32U 550598 5802244

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: metal
Font Shape: decagonal
Basin Exterior Shape: decagonal

REFERENCES

Lübke, Wilhelm, Ecclesiastical in Gemany during the Middle Ages [tranl. by L. A. Wheatley], London: Cassell, Petter, & Galpin, 1870