Lutherkirche

Lutherkirche stands on a triangular plot in Hanover’s Nordstadt, where Rudolph Eberhard Hillebrand designed the evangelical church between 1895 and 1898. Two large tower helmets once shaped its skyline, joined by several smaller ones.

A bomb destroyed the roof, pews, altar, organ and bell tower during an air raid on 25 March 1945. Reconstruction secured the vaults and masonry, and the church reopened in 1957 with a new organ from Emil Hammer Orgelbau. Since 2003, the modernised interior has served northern Germany’s first youth church, with concerts, theatre performances and special services supported by lighting and sound systems.

Multifunctional glass cubes and a tiled floor replaced the wooden pews, while stained-glass windows show biblical stories and elements of creation. You can also see Ingeborg Steinohrt’s 1957 altar relief, the preserved baptismal font and pulpit, and an organ with 35 registers built in 1963. A Luther figure from the destroyed Lukaskirche now stands in the foyer.