Christ-König-Church (Hamburg-Lokstedt)
The listed Evangelical Lutheran Christ-König-Kirche in Hamburg 's Lokstedt district is the only church in the city and the only Protestant church that bears this name. It refers to the kingship of Jesus Christ , as expressed, for example, in the song Jesus Christ rules as king ( EG 123).
Construction and architecture
The church was built from 1954 to 1956 according to plans by the architects Friedrich Dyrssen and Gert Johanssen . Dyrssen had already completed the first drafts in 1933, the basic idea of building a larger church in Lokstedt is another 20 years older.
The 31 m high, free-standing slim tower determines the external character of the church. Such a construction was rather unusual for the time it was built and only appears increasingly in church buildings in the following decades. The nave , designed for 600 seats, is designed as a skeleton construction in concrete with non-load-bearing intermediate parts in brick . The classic gable roof adds a conservative note to the modern elements.
In the interior, the trapezoidal floor plan and the strikingly staggered concrete beams direct the view of the altar area. The entire interior has been redesigned twice. First when a new heating system was installed in 1980, during the second renovation in 2006 it received its current light and calm color scheme according to plans by the architect Matthias Johanssen.
Furnishing
The bronze crucifix on the altar came into the church in 1959, it is the work of Rolf Görler . There is a large wooden cross directly behind the altar. The wall behind the altar is designed with abstract patterns, with a golden stripe to symbolize the connection between earth and sky and 50 different colored panels to symbolize the 50 days between Easter and Pentecost .
The church has an extensive chime with five bronze bells from the foundry of Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling .
organ
The organ was built in 1958 by Rudolf von Beckerath Orgelbau . It has 25 registers on mechanical slider chests with a total of around 1400 pipes, which are distributed over two manuals and pedal . The narrow lower case has two lockable square doors with slats for the breastworks above the gaming table . Two arched consoles mediate the wider top, whose sober, five-part prospectus is characterized by the structuralism typical of the time. Two low flat fields flank the elevated middle field and lead over to the medium-high outer fields. The disposition is as follows:
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- Coupling: II / I, I / P, II / P
Photographs and map
Coordinates: 53 ° 35 ′ 51.1 ″ N , 9 ° 57 ′ 38.3 ″ E
Window of the nave
Entrance area with a canopy
Tower from the northwest
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literature
- Ralf Lange: Architecture in Hamburg . Edition Axel Menges, Hamburg 1995, ISBN 978-3-930698-58-5 , p. 231 .
- Gertrud Schiller : Hamburg's new churches 1951–1961 . Ed .: Evangelical Lutheran Church Hamburg. Hans Christians Verlag, Hamburg 1961, p. 88 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Overview of the church on the parish homepage. Retrieved January 24, 2019.
- ^ History of the origins of the Lokstedt parish. Retrieved January 24, 2019.
- ↑ a b Description of the interior on the municipality's website. Retrieved January 25, 2019.
- ↑ Entry in the orgbase.nl database . Retrieved January 23, 2019.
Web links
- Homepage of the Ev.-Luth. Parish of Lokstedt
- Directory of the protected monuments of the city of Hamburg