Advent Church (Hamburg-Schnelsen)
The Advent Church is an Evangelical Lutheran church in the Schnelsen district of Hamburg, built in 1949, and the first church to be built in this district.
Construction and extensions until 1956
The design comes from the architect Otto Bartning with the collaboration of Bernhard Hopp and Rudolf Jäger and belongs to type B from the emergency church program after the end of the Second World War. The external appearance clearly shows this affiliation and shows many parallels to other churches in this program. Typical is the angular design of the choir, the ribbon of windows running directly under the roof overhang and the design of the interior. The tower is laterally offset from the main room and in its lower part forms the main entrance to the church. The interior is designed in wood, brick and white plaster. The altar, crucifix, pulpit and baptismal font are made of wood.
The colored glass windows installed in 1952 were designed by Claus Wallner as one of his first works. In 1953/1954 the church on the south side was expanded to include the sacristy that had been planned from the beginning.
The first bell in the church was hung in the belfry as early as 1949. It was replaced in 1956 by the three bronze bells still available today, tuned to f , a flat and b from the FW Schilling bell foundry in Heidelberg .
Changes after 2000
Until after 2000 the church stood largely free on a piece of land that it shared with the pastorate building and a community center. In 2005 residential buildings were built on the street side in front of the church and in the rear part of the property, in 2007 the community center was demolished and another residential building was built behind the church. Today the church is surrounded by buildings on all sides and is only partially visible from the street Kriegerdankweg . In 2007 and 2010 the anteroom of the church was renovated and redesigned. It received an additional exit, new windows and a terrace.
organ
A Beckerath organ was installed as the first organ in 1950 . However, it turned out that this was not up to the acoustic conditions of the room. It was replaced in 1961 by the Weigle organ that still exists today . Your disposition is:
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- Coupling: I / P, II / P, II / I, III / I
- Playing aids : two free combinations, two pedal combinations, individual tongue storage
Photographs and map
Coordinates: 53 ° 37'53.4 " N , 9 ° 54'49.8" E
Cornerstone
View from the west
inner space
Roof structure and organ
literature
- Ralf Lange : Architecture in Hamburg . Junius Verlag, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-88506-586-9 , p. 246 .
- Rainer Braunschweig: Chronicle of the parish Schnelsen . Ed .: Church council of the Schnelsen parish. Hamburg 1999.
- Hamburg Cultural Authority (ed.): Architecture of Tomorrow - Hamburg's Churches in the Post-War Period , exhibition catalog. Dölling and Galitz Verlag, Munich 2007
Web links
- Homepage of the community
- Schnelsen district archive to the church
- 60th anniversary celebration (PDF; 584 kB)
- Otto Bartning Church Construction Working Group (OBAK)
- Overview of the work of Claus Wallner.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Church Kriegerdankweg Entry in the work database of the Otto Bartning-Arbeitsgemeinschaft Kirchenbau; Retrieved September 9, 2011.
- ↑ History of the Advent Church ( Memento of the original from December 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the home page of the parish; Retrieved November 7, 2011
- ↑ Gudrun Kühn-Hoppe: The large Weigle organ needs help . In: Congregational letter of the Schnelsen parish . December, 2015, p. 10-11 .
