Blankenese Church

View from the tower side

Baptismal font from the 13th century

The Evangelical Lutheran Blankenese Church in Hamburg-Blankenese is located on the Blankenese market square (official address Mühlenberger Weg ) and is often referred to locally as the market church . The church belongs to the residential area around the Blankeneser train station, which was opened up from the 1890s.

Building the church

The church is the first church that was built directly in the Blankenese district itself. Before its construction, Blankenese was looked after from Nienstedten , originally it also belonged to the corresponding parish . The architect Ernst Ehrhardt built the church from 1895 to 1896 as a wall pillar church with a cross-shaped floor plan and a single tower. There is also a small roof turret on the crossing . The brick facades are cautiously designed in the spirit of the " Hanover School ", but still have a lot of typical neo-Gothic details and references to the brick Gothic .

Thanks to its great distance from the city center, the Blankenese Church is one of the few neo-Gothic churches from the turn of the 20th century that were not damaged during the air raids on Hamburg in World War II .

The church received a complete renovation and repair of the interior in 2010, during which the inconsistent modernization of the 1950s could be reversed.

Interior

The most important piece of equipment is the bronze baptismal font from the 13th century. This piece comes from the Nienstedten church and was given to the Blankenese church, as it was founded as a subsidiary of the church in Nienstedten.

The window has Siegfried Assmann designed and paid attention to connect to Blankenese in the selection of subjects. This is particularly evident on the south side, where Christian motifs with references to water and fishing are dominant.

organ

Organ with gallery

Since 1991, a completely newly designed stands in the church now Beckerath -Orgel with mechanical key action and electric key action . This organ has received a connection to electronic sound generators through MIDI connections, so that unusual sound combinations are possible. Your disposition is:

I Positive C – a 3 1. Dumped 8th' 2. Dolce 8th' 3. Principal 4 ′ 4th Coupling flute 4 ′ 5. Open flute 2 ′ 6th Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ 7th Sif flute 1' 8th. Sesquialtera II 9. Scharff III 2 ⁄ 3 ′ 10. Cromorne 8th' Tremulant

II main work C – a 3 11. Lovely Gedackt 16 ′ 12. Principal 8th' 13. Playing flute 8th' 14th Octave 4 ′ 15th Pointed flute 4 ′ 16. octave 2 ′ 17th Mixture V 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ 18th Cornet V 19th bassoon 16 ′ 20th Trumpet 8th' Tremulant

III Swell C – a 3 21st Viol principal 8th' 22nd Reed flute 8th' 23. Viol 8th' 24. Beat II 8th' 25th Principal 4 ′ 26th Transverse flute 4 ′ 27. Nasat 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ 28. Schweitzerpfeife 2 ′ 29 third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′ 30th Seventh 1 1 ⁄ 7  ′ 31. Mixture V 2 ′ 32. Basson 16 ′ 33. oboe 8th' 34. Vox humana 8th' Tremulant

Pedal C – g 1 35. Principal 16 ′ 36. Sub bass 16 ′ 37. octave 8th' 38. Gemshorn 8th' 39. Choral bass 4 ′ 40. Night horn 2 ′ 41. Rauschpfeife III 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ 42. trombone 16 ′ 43. Trumpet 8th' 44. Dulcian 8th' 45. shawm 4 ′ 46. Angélique 4 ′

• Coupling: III / I, III / II, I / II, III / I 16 ′, III / II 16 ′, III / P, II / P, I / P, III / P 4 ′,
• Playing aids : 64-fold setter system , 8 combinations, shutter release, sequencer, key chain for III, wind reduction, roller

Photographs and map

Coordinates: 53 ° 33 ′ 42 "  N , 9 ° 48 ′ 46.5"  E

Blankenese Church​

Hamburg

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  View in summer

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  Vault in the entrance area

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  Interior with altar niche

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  North window of the altar niche

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  Large south-facing window

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  Side entrance

literature

• Ralf Lange: Architecture in Hamburg . Junius Verlag , Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-88506-586-9 , p. 273 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Course of the renovation on the homepage of the municipality. Retrieved February 9, 2012.
2. ↑ Festschrift for the restoration (PDF; 8.2 MB) of the organ 1991 on the homepage of the municipality. Retrieved February 9, 2012.
3. ^ Homepage of the manufacturer ( Memento from November 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive )

Web links

Commons : Blankeneser Kirche  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Homepage of the Blankenese church on the market
• Description of the church on the homepage of the city of Hamburg