Neustädter Kirche, Hanover

The New Town Church (Neustädter Kirche) is a main Lutheran parish church in Hanover, Germany. Its official name is St. John's Church of the court and city in the New Town at Hanover (Neustädter Hof- und Stadtkirche St. Johannis zu Hannover). The Baroque church was built in 1666–70 and is one of the oldest Protestant aisleless churches (Saalkirchen) in Lower Saxony, conceived for the sermon as the main act of the Lutheran church service. Mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Field Marshal Carl August von Alten are buried here. The church is known for its church music, performed in service and concert by St. John's chorale (Kantorei St. Johannis), and serves as a venue for concerts, for example in the context of the Expo 2000 and the German Evangelical Church Assembly (Kirchentag). In collaboration with the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media, an organ called Spanish organ that reflects principles of Spanish Baroque organ building without copying a specific instrument (and which is thus suitable for early Baroque music) was installed on the north balcony of the church in 1998–2001.

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