Nazarethkirche

Nazarethkirche stands in Hanover’s Südstadt as an Evangelical Lutheran church with a simple neo-Romanesque vaulted form. Its tower rises 70 metres above the district. The main church space offers wheelchair access and retains the calm proportions of Otto Lüer’s design. Construction began in 1905, after land was purchased for the project in 1901.

The church was completed and consecrated on 1 April 1907. A bombing raid in October 1943 destroyed the tower, parsonage, baptismal chapel and sacristy, while the main space remained largely intact. Reconstruction reopened the parsonage and community house in 1955, followed by the partly rebuilt church in 1958. In 2009, the congregation joined Athanasius and Paulus to form the Südstadt-Kirchengemeinde.

The Südstadt-Columbarium occupies the northern side aisle behind glass walls. It contains 672 Christian graves, with urns later interred in the church tower. Two organs add distinct musical histories: the Schuke organ has 38 registers, while the late-Romantic English instrument has 31. Forster & Andrews built the English organ in 1902 for a church in Wales, and restoration brought it to the west gallery in 2019.