Christophorus Church (Hamburg-Hummelsbüttel)
Coordinates: 53 ° 38 '39 " N , 10 ° 3' 7.4" E
The Evangelical Lutheran Christophorus Church in Hamburg-Hummelsbüttel , Poppenbüttler Stieg 27 / Hummelsbütteler Weg, is one of the Hamburg church buildings that were built with few resources after the Second World War in the early 1950s and is a listed building .
Building the church
When the foundation stone was laid on August 31, 1952, it was decided to use the name of St. Christopher for the church. The topping-out ceremony was celebrated on October 10, 1952. From the end of 1952 to mid-1953, the nave was first built on August 9, 1953. A confirmation hall is integrated into its west side, above which the organ gallery is located. Some side rooms complement the building; if necessary, the confirmation hall and side rooms can be connected to the church service room. The main room with its 150 seats is almost square, with the arrangement of the benches there was no central aisle. With the confirmation hall, vestibules and chancel, the building becomes rectangular as a whole. The 26 m high copper-roofed tower, built between 1954 and 1955, is connected to the nave via a closed corridor.
Since 1980 the church forecourt has been fortified in its present form with granite stones and grand surfaces .
The architects of the church and tower were Bernhard Hopp and Rudolf Jäger .
In 1967 the neighboring Evangelical Lutheran retirement and nursing home "Christophorus Haus" was inaugurated.
Interior
Fritz Fleer created the furnishings around the altar from bronze in 1953 . Above the altar the crucifix hangs freely on chains from the ceiling, on the altar there are two candlesticks and a relief representation of the Emmaus meal . The wooden pulpit and baptism did not come into the church until 1956, Maria Pirwitz added the inlays in 1960, they were renovated in 1971 and partially changed. W. and H. Traxel manufactured parts of the silver fittings such as the baptismal bowl and the communion jug as early as 1950. The bronze Easter candlestick also comes from Fleer and has been supplementing the fittings since 1969.
Bronze candlesticks have been hanging on the north and south walls of the nave since 1961; the upper part of the walls shows a relief of the Bible sayings over the entire length: “Lord, I love the place of your house and the place where your honor lives” (north wall) and “We we have no permanent place here, we are looking for the future ”(south wall).
Bells
The church has a total of five bronze bells in the tower. On February 27, 1957, four bells were cast by the Rincker foundry and consecrated as Advent, Easter, Christmas and Pentecost bells on Easter Sunday. The largest bell follows on October 30th of the same year and is consecrated as the Eternal Bell on November 10th .
There is also a small prayer bell ( Our Father's Bell ) in the west gable of the nave. It was cast in the 14th century and originally comes from Steinborn in Silesia .
organ
Since 1956 the church has had an organ from Ernst Brandt's workshop , which was renovated in 2000 by Erbslöh Organ Builders. Your disposition is:
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- Coupling: II / I, I / P, II / P
- Zimbelstern
gallery
View from the east
entrance
Wall relief and candlesticks
Sanctuary
Gable cross
Inner wall
The parish hall foyer with a wall object by Maria Pirwitz from the 1970s
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christophorus House
- ↑ Christophorus House (homepage)
- ^ Gertrud Schiller: Hamburgs new churches 1951-1961. Page 73 (see literature )
- ^ History of the Congregation, entry for 1984. Retrieved July 22, 2015.
- ↑ Entry in the organ database orgbase.nl . Retrieved July 20, 2015.
literature
- Gertrud Schiller : Hamburg's new churches 1951–1961. (Ed. by the Evangelical Lutheran Church Hamburg) Hans Christians Verlag, Hamburg 1961, p. 54 f., p. 73.
Web links
- Homepage of the community
- History of the parish and church from 1946 to 2013
- Directory of the protected monuments of the city of Hamburg