Kronsberg
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The Kronsberg is the second highest peak in the city of Hannover. There is a large hill on the southeastern outskirts of the citys Expo Park in Hanover. With a height of it is only 4 m lower than the trash mountain Monte Müllo on the grounds of the landfill in the northeastern district of Lahe
. The Kronsberg natural is the highest elevation of the town and consists mainly of marl
.
, Germany
, population approximately 6600.
On Kronsberg emerged in the late 1990s in connection with the EXPO 2000
, built an ecological point of settlement at the Hannover Expo. The quarter is a result of independent evolutionary history and unique structure often perceived as a separate district.The residential area consists of approximately 3,000 residential units in two-to four-storey construction. There is an extensive infrastructure facilities with schools, kindergartens, shops and community center there. By a space-saving design, high density, compact structure and clear Baukanten an urban character was created, with its rich architecture. First in Germany to a housing estate with more than 70 ha was established nationwide in low-energy building design. The heating energy consumption per household is about 40% and CO2 emissions of almost 75% lower than conventionally generated buildings. At the same time and 32 row houses were built in passive house standard. In the north of the existing settlement continues to be built, about 100 urban lands will be asked for further passive houses (single-family, twin and row houses) are available.
Currently (2010), about 7,000 people live in the settlement with 2,600 apartments, 150 condominiums and about 400 private townhouses, semi-detached and detached houses. There are no vacancies, and 60% of the buyers of single family homes are former tenants of the apartments Hannover. Despite the above-average unemployment, a high proportion of residents with immigrant backgrounds and Kronsberger many households, the government transfers for their livelihoods relate, the settlement has not developed a social focal point.
In the settlement, the rain water is problematic, despite the marl soil percolates almost completely. This is achieved by minimizing impervious surfaces and green roofs. In public spaces, the street full rainwater seepage occurs through the side ditches and laid gravel beds, where it is located at an eleven-kilometer-long trough-trench system.
By the well-organized waste collection and intensive consumer education is the household waste generated per house by about 30% lower compared to the rest of the city.
More than 1,000 street trees dominate the streetscape. There are two neighborhood parks, meeting places for all age groups. The front gardens and the courtyards of the individual building blocks are varied and diversified in order to achieve above-average housing quality. In addition, the adjoining landscape area were approximately 650 street trees planted and reforested former arable land again. There, numerous hiking and biking trails.
On 17 May 1999 began with the groundbreaking work on the church building on Kronsberg. On 28.März 1999, the former Director of the Office of Community Service (deutsch: Amt Für Gemeindedienst (since 2002: House of Church Offices), Pastor Hans Joachim Schliep
was introduced as Kronsbergpastor at St. John's Church in Hanover-Bemerode. On 01. April 1999 Hans Joachim Schliep began with the construction of the church community. He was referring to the construction site during the construction period one container church and performed his duties from there. With a church festival, whose center on Inaugurated in October 2000. The then Bishop Margot Käßmann
held before about 800 people who had gathered in and around the church, the sermon.
n a competition on 26 May 1998 selected the design of the Hamburg architect Bernhard Hirche the Church Center for the Kronsberg. All seven final designs were presented in June 1998 in the New Town Hall Hannover to the public. The church was initially planned as a center Kronsberg ecumenical project. After the withdrawal of the Roman Catholic. Diocese of Hildesheim was the Lutheran. City Church Association Hanover sole carrier in cooperation with the GBH (Society of Building and Housing Hanover).
The Church Centre was created under the motto to live on the other Hannover - living in a modern monastery. Already in 1997 the Church of Hanover, had purchased the 3750 square meter plot. It was created in a style similar to the old monastery buildings form a sacred space that has been kept simple in concrete and glass. Around an open courtyard created a total of 25 disabled, social and condos and apartments for the sexton and the pastor. The complex of buildings open to the public from all sides appear as a modern monastery, both as a shelter.
The interior is glazed on three sides. At the front of the translucent blue-tinted glass is decorated differently. By a hidden window on a sunny fall afternoon from a wandering band of light on the altar wall. The light-filled room designed in this way the glass artist Jochem Poensgen from Soest.
On 5 October 2003, inaugurated a new organ. The organ was built in 1992 by master organ builder Karl Loetzerich and Hirche redesigned by the architect of the organ builder Beckerath in Hamburg. The cost amounted to around 45,000 €. To finance the Kronsberg organ was specially founded a Society organ. The line took over the banker Hannes Rehm as his deputy and the former MEP Barbara Simons (SPD). By numerous individual donations and a grant from the Evangelical Lutheran. Church of Hanover (20%) had secured the funding quickly.
The technique of organ:
1 manual (range Cg "); pedal (Range C-f '), with coupling, 7 Register (Bourdon 8' - Principal 4 '- Rohrflöte-Octave 2' - Quinte 1 1 / 3 '- Mixture 3x 1 1 . / 3 - sub bass 16 '); pipe: 576, 100 wooden pipes (mahogany), 476 metal pipes (mainly tin), 40 dumb pipes in the prospectus Largest pipe: 240 cm sounding length (sub bass) - The smallest pipe: 8 mm sounding length (in mixture 3 times)
The simple altar is made of smooth concrete and freely suspended. He sits on one side to the darker font, the font itself is embedded in the altar.
Fountain Court is a special feature in an artfully crafted stone (granite, Bleu de Vire in Normandy) by the sculptor Ulrich Rückriem.The Church Congregation was one of the Youngest Church Congregations in Germany.
The Church-Center Kronsberg is an Role-Model for the Buildung of Churches in the 21 Century.
In the Church Center Kronsberg find literature and film services, broadcasting services and other events such as exhibitions and concerts.
In the church were previously known church leaders, like former Chairman of the Board EKD
Bishop Emeritus Martin Kruse and the abbot Loccum Horst Hirschler, as a preacher or a guest speaker.
Lahe
Lahe is a town in Naga Hills of Sagaing Division on the northwest frontier of Burma. It will now be grouped together with Leshi and Nanyun in Naga Self-Administered Zone under the new 2008 Constitution of the military regime.....
. The Kronsberg natural is the highest elevation of the town and consists mainly of marl
Marl
Marl or marlstone is a calcium carbonate or lime-rich mud or mudstone which contains variable amounts of clays and aragonite. Marl was originally an old term loosely applied to a variety of materials, most of which occur as loose, earthy deposits consisting chiefly of an intimate mixture of clay...
.
Expo-settlement Kronsberg
The Expo-settlement Kronsberg is a district of Hanover-Bemerode-Kirchrode-WülferodeKirchrode-Bemerode-Wülferode
Kirchrode-Bemerode-Wülferode is the 6. District in Hanover. He has 29 728 inhabitants and consists of the districts Kirchrode , Bemerode and Wülferode .-Kirchrode:...
, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
, population approximately 6600.
On Kronsberg emerged in the late 1990s in connection with the EXPO 2000
Expo 2000
Expo 2000 was a World's Fair held in Hanover, Germany from Thursday, June 1 to Tuesday, October 31, 2000. It was located on the Hanover fairground , which is famous for hosting CeBIT...
, built an ecological point of settlement at the Hannover Expo. The quarter is a result of independent evolutionary history and unique structure often perceived as a separate district.The residential area consists of approximately 3,000 residential units in two-to four-storey construction. There is an extensive infrastructure facilities with schools, kindergartens, shops and community center there. By a space-saving design, high density, compact structure and clear Baukanten an urban character was created, with its rich architecture. First in Germany to a housing estate with more than 70 ha was established nationwide in low-energy building design. The heating energy consumption per household is about 40% and CO2 emissions of almost 75% lower than conventionally generated buildings. At the same time and 32 row houses were built in passive house standard. In the north of the existing settlement continues to be built, about 100 urban lands will be asked for further passive houses (single-family, twin and row houses) are available.
Currently (2010), about 7,000 people live in the settlement with 2,600 apartments, 150 condominiums and about 400 private townhouses, semi-detached and detached houses. There are no vacancies, and 60% of the buyers of single family homes are former tenants of the apartments Hannover. Despite the above-average unemployment, a high proportion of residents with immigrant backgrounds and Kronsberger many households, the government transfers for their livelihoods relate, the settlement has not developed a social focal point.
In the settlement, the rain water is problematic, despite the marl soil percolates almost completely. This is achieved by minimizing impervious surfaces and green roofs. In public spaces, the street full rainwater seepage occurs through the side ditches and laid gravel beds, where it is located at an eleven-kilometer-long trough-trench system.
By the well-organized waste collection and intensive consumer education is the household waste generated per house by about 30% lower compared to the rest of the city.
More than 1,000 street trees dominate the streetscape. There are two neighborhood parks, meeting places for all age groups. The front gardens and the courtyards of the individual building blocks are varied and diversified in order to achieve above-average housing quality. In addition, the adjoining landscape area were approximately 650 street trees planted and reforested former arable land again. There, numerous hiking and biking trails.
Church
The Evangelical Church Centre Kronsberg is a Evangelical-Lutheran church, which belongs to the Johannis-Church in Hanover- Bemerode. The Evangelical Free Church Kronsberg (Baptist) since 2005, uses the premises with their services.On 17 May 1999 began with the groundbreaking work on the church building on Kronsberg. On 28.März 1999, the former Director of the Office of Community Service (deutsch: Amt Für Gemeindedienst (since 2002: House of Church Offices), Pastor Hans Joachim Schliep
Hans Joachim Schliep
Hans Joachim Schliep is a German Lutheran theologian and pastor. Since September 2008 he is the Commissioner for the Environment of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover...
was introduced as Kronsbergpastor at St. John's Church in Hanover-Bemerode. On 01. April 1999 Hans Joachim Schliep began with the construction of the church community. He was referring to the construction site during the construction period one container church and performed his duties from there. With a church festival, whose center on Inaugurated in October 2000. The then Bishop Margot Käßmann
Margot Käßmann
Margot Käßmann is a Lutheran theologian and was Landesbischöfin of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Hanover in Germany. On 28 October 2009, she was elected to lead the Evangelical Church in Germany, a federation of Protestant church bodies in Germany...
held before about 800 people who had gathered in and around the church, the sermon.
n a competition on 26 May 1998 selected the design of the Hamburg architect Bernhard Hirche the Church Center for the Kronsberg. All seven final designs were presented in June 1998 in the New Town Hall Hannover to the public. The church was initially planned as a center Kronsberg ecumenical project. After the withdrawal of the Roman Catholic. Diocese of Hildesheim was the Lutheran. City Church Association Hanover sole carrier in cooperation with the GBH (Society of Building and Housing Hanover).
The Church Centre was created under the motto to live on the other Hannover - living in a modern monastery. Already in 1997 the Church of Hanover, had purchased the 3750 square meter plot. It was created in a style similar to the old monastery buildings form a sacred space that has been kept simple in concrete and glass. Around an open courtyard created a total of 25 disabled, social and condos and apartments for the sexton and the pastor. The complex of buildings open to the public from all sides appear as a modern monastery, both as a shelter.
The interior is glazed on three sides. At the front of the translucent blue-tinted glass is decorated differently. By a hidden window on a sunny fall afternoon from a wandering band of light on the altar wall. The light-filled room designed in this way the glass artist Jochem Poensgen from Soest.
On 5 October 2003, inaugurated a new organ. The organ was built in 1992 by master organ builder Karl Loetzerich and Hirche redesigned by the architect of the organ builder Beckerath in Hamburg. The cost amounted to around 45,000 €. To finance the Kronsberg organ was specially founded a Society organ. The line took over the banker Hannes Rehm as his deputy and the former MEP Barbara Simons (SPD). By numerous individual donations and a grant from the Evangelical Lutheran. Church of Hanover (20%) had secured the funding quickly.
The technique of organ:
1 manual (range Cg "); pedal (Range C-f '), with coupling, 7 Register (Bourdon 8' - Principal 4 '- Rohrflöte-Octave 2' - Quinte 1 1 / 3 '- Mixture 3x 1 1 . / 3 - sub bass 16 '); pipe: 576, 100 wooden pipes (mahogany), 476 metal pipes (mainly tin), 40 dumb pipes in the prospectus Largest pipe: 240 cm sounding length (sub bass) - The smallest pipe: 8 mm sounding length (in mixture 3 times)
The simple altar is made of smooth concrete and freely suspended. He sits on one side to the darker font, the font itself is embedded in the altar.
Fountain Court is a special feature in an artfully crafted stone (granite, Bleu de Vire in Normandy) by the sculptor Ulrich Rückriem.The Church Congregation was one of the Youngest Church Congregations in Germany.
The Church-Center Kronsberg is an Role-Model for the Buildung of Churches in the 21 Century.
Pastors
- Hans Joachim Schliep (April 1999 - August 2008), from 1 September 2002 the responsible Pastor for the chapel community Wülferode
- Susanne Krage-Dautel (since August 2008)
Events and other
In the Church Center Kronsberg find literature and film services, broadcasting services and other events such as exhibitions and concerts.
In the church were previously known church leaders, like former Chairman of the Board EKD
Evangelical Church in Germany
The Evangelical Church in Germany is a federation of 22 Lutheran, Unified and Reformed Protestant regional church bodies in Germany. The EKD is not a church in a theological understanding because of the denominational differences. However, the member churches share full pulpit and altar...
Bishop Emeritus Martin Kruse and the abbot Loccum Horst Hirschler, as a preacher or a guest speaker.
Literature
- Hans Joachim Schliep: 10 Jahre Evangelisches Kirchenzentrum Hannover – Schrift zum 10 Jährigen Jubiläum der Einweihung des. Ev. Kirchenzentrums Kronsberg, Herausgeber: Ev.-Luth: Kirchengemeinde St.Johannis Bemerode
- Matthias Ludwig, Reinhard Maurich: Gottes neue Häuser. Kirchenbau des 21. Jahrhunderts in Deutschland. Hansisches Druck- und Verlags-Haus, Frankfurt a. M. 2007, ISBN 978-3-938704-05-9, S. 48ff. (Edition Chrismon)