Apostle Church (Hamburg-Eimsbüttel)

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Apostle Church seen from the southwest
Church with tower

The Apostle Church is an Evangelical Lutheran church built in the years 1893 and 1894 in the Hamburg district of Eimsbüttel . The design comes from the architects Erwin von Melle and Peter Gottlob Jürgensen . The outer appearance is characterized by neo-Romanesque style elements, inside there is a domed central room.

history

The Apostle Church was built in the open field in 1893/1894. It was the first building in the area and remained the only one for over a decade until surrounding houses were built. The property came from a private owner who made it available to the city free of charge. At the beginning of the construction work it was filled with soil from the Holstenwall. On October 24, 1894, the opening ceremony of the Apostle Church took place. In 1898 the Apostle Church received an organ. Three years later, pictures of the apostles by the painter H. Saffer were installed above the altar.

The Apostle Church survived the Second World War undamaged, but burned down almost completely in the night of September 25th to 26th, 1977. It remained unclear whether it was arson or negligence. The next year, reconstruction began on the ruins of the old church. It was based on a concept by Bernhard Hirche . The church received a false ceiling, which created a foyer on the new ground floor and the church hall on the upper floor, as well as various multi-purpose rooms. In 1982 the construction work was completed and the Apostle Church served as a community center again. In 1984 she received an organ from Jehmlich Orgelbau Dresden and, on the initiative of the Eimsbüttler Wochenblatt, a new clock. Hirche had a stone delivered from Israel for the baptismal font and carved a relief with the outline of the Sea of ​​Galilee from the bottom of the pool .

The altar windows have also been redesigned. The motif was portraits of six women and six men from the 20th century who had worked as modern “ apostles ” of various denominations with their lifework . These were Sophie Scholl , Hermann Stöhr , Martin Luther King , Dietrich Bonhoeffer , Simone Weill , Ernst Barlach , Albert Schweitzer , Mathilda Wrede , Óscar Romero , Anna Paulsen , Elise Averdieck and Dorothy Day . The artistic implementation was carried out by the Derix glass construction company in Taunusstein . In 1990 the new windows of the apostles were solemnly inaugurated.

organ

The large organ in the Apostle Church was built in 1984 by the organ building company Jehmlich (Dresden) and was last restored in 2009. The slider chest instrument has 19  stops on two manuals and a pedal . The game actions are mechanical, the stop actions are electric.

II Hauptwerk C – f 3
1. Principal 8th'
2. Reed flute 8th'
3. octave 4 ′
4th Nasat 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
5. octave 2 ′
6th third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
7th Mixture IV
Tremulant
II Swell C – f 3
8th. Dumped 8th'
9. Principal 4 ′
10. flute 4 ′
11. Forest flute 2 ′
12. Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
13. Sharp III
14th oboe 8th'
Tremulant
Pedals C – f 1
15th Sub bass 16 ′
16. Principal flute 8th'
17th Gemshorn 4 ′
18th Mixture IV
19th bassoon 16 ′

literature

  • Church council of the Apostle community Hamburg Eimsbüttel (ed.): 100 years Apostle community Hamburg Eimsbüttel . sn, Hamburg 1994.
  • Ralf Lange : Architecture Guide Hamburg . Edition Axel Menges, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-930698-58-7 , pp. 110 ( online version ).
  • Joachim Grabbe: District to fall in love with. A walk through Hamburg-Eimsbüttel and its history. Sutton, Erfurt 2008, ISBN 978-3-86680-323-7 , pp. 77-78.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ More information about the organ

Web links

Commons : Apostle Church  - collection of images

Coordinates: 53 ° 34 ′ 33.3 "  N , 9 ° 56 ′ 42.1"  E