Pauluskirche, Gothic Revival church in Südstadt-Bult, Germany
The Pauluskirche is a red brick Gothic Revival church at the corner of Meterstraße and Bürgermeister-Fink-Straße in Hannover's Südstadt. Its square tower carries a clock with gold hands and numerals below a small spire, and the main body has a steep red tiled roof with dormer vents and a row of white decorative blocks along the eaves. The front wall holds two large pointed-arch windows with dark tracery, and a dark wooden double door sits beneath a pointed arch with pale tracery.
The church was founded in 1883 and completed in 1886, establishing itself as a major building in the neighborhood. Following destruction in World War II, it was completely reconstructed between 1957 and 1958.
The Pauluskirche is one of two churches of the evangelical-Lutheran Südstadt congregation, which with 10,000 members is the largest in the Hannover city church association; the other is the Nazarethkirche. The name refers to the Apostle Paul. Visitors can see the three choir windows, whose coloured glazing was designed by Alexander Linnemann of Frankfurt, who also painted the church interior.
The building is clearly visible from the street and located on Meterstraße in the residential neighborhood of Südstadt-Bult. Access is at ground level, making it easy to approach and view the exterior or enter during open hours.
The 1957–58 rebuild kept the original pillar and wall structure and the Gothic Revival style, but the tower received a stockier top in place of its former tall, slender spire. The church shares the Südstadt parish with the Nazarethkirche, a congregation of about 10,000 members.
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