Christ Church (Pinneberg)

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Christ Church Pinneberg
photo
address Pinneberg, Bahn hofstr. 2a
builder Hugo Groothoff
Denomination Evangelical Lutheran
local community Christ Parish Pinneberg
Current usage Parish church
building
Laying of the foundation stone June 17, 1894
inauguration March 31, 1895
building-costs 96,000 gold marks
style neo-gothic

The Christ Church , called the Pinneberg Church until 1941 , is a church building in Pinneberg in the Pinneberg district in Schleswig-Holstein . The cruciform brick church with its 46 meter high tower in neo-Gothic shapes was built from 1894 according to plans by the Hamburg architect Hugo Groothoff . The community belongs to the Hamburg-West / Südholstein parish of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany (Northern Church).

history

Pinneberg belonged to Rellingen since the Middle Ages . The Pinneberg Lutherans founded a church building association in 1849, despite the resistance of the Rellinger parish, to found their own parish . The new association wrote petitions and collected 40,000 gold marks for the construction of a church building in the years after it was founded.

When Pinneberg received city rights in 1875, it asserted itself against the interests of the parish of Rellingen and founded an independent parish on June 1, 1890. Her first pastor was Hugo Wurmb, the services took place in a former furniture store at Bahnhofstrasse 23.

After the founding of the parish, the church building association received 20,000 gold marks from the royal consistory and 22,000 gold marks from the government for building a church. Construction manager B. Sahling began with the first building preparations in April 1894. On June 17, 1894 the foundation stone was laid. Craftsmen services and material deliveries were made by regionally based companies in the extended area from Elmshorn to Hamburg. Construction progressed rapidly, the topping-out ceremony took place on September 19 of the same year, and all external work was completed in mid-December. Groothoff constantly supervised the construction process, he was on the construction site approximately every two weeks and made additions and decided detailed questions. When the building was inaugurated on March 31, 1895, it was called the Church of Pinneberg . Two years later, the pastorate designed by Groothoff to match the church was completed.

In 1941 the church in Pinneberg was renamed Christ Church , at the same time the old chapel in the cemetery on Kirchhofsweg was given the name Luther Church . Due to the influx of refugees after the Second World War, the population of Pinneberg increased, so that further Protestant parishes were founded.

Building

The interior is designed as a central nave designed for 750 seats with two narrow side aisles and a spacious transept . A large pointed arch marks the transition from the nave to the polygonal choir . In order to achieve good interior lighting, Groothoff chose the large round window typical of his church designs for the transept on both sides. The building becomes asymmetrical from the outside through additions such as a stair tower and sacristy and thus offers the viewer different, varied views.

The structure survived the First World War and the Second World War unscathed. In 1961 the masonry was re-grouted and the gutters, rain pipes and the lightning protection system renewed. After a storm in 1988, slates on the roof were replaced.

In 1966/67 the parish commissioned the Pinneberg architect Hans-Joachim Meier to make the interior of the Christ Church brighter and friendlier. The neo-Gothic pointed arches were bricked up, the old paintings of the round arches painted over, the cathedral windows replaced or bricked up and the galleries covered with slate. The old wooden altar and the pulpit have been removed.

35 years later, the interior was restored to its original state under the direction of the architect Gunnar Seidel. In addition to extensive dismantling work, a modern heating system was installed for the construction costs of 470,000 euros. The old wooden altar, the pulpit and the old lead-framed cathedral windows could not be reinstalled because their whereabouts could not be clarified.

Furnishing

Two bells have been hanging in the church tower since February 1895. The oldest piece of equipment is a baptismal font with a lid, which has been in use since the inauguration.

organ

Until the mid-1960s, the church had an organ from Ernst Röver's workshop from 1896. The Kemper company carried out extensive renovations in two construction phases in 1956 and 1968, which amounted to a new building. About ten old registers have been included in a new case. From 2008 there were efforts to build an instrument with a similar sound to the Röver organ, which led to the inauguration of the new Baumhoer organ on October 5, 2014. The construction of the new building is also based on the predecessor instrument from 1896. Around six restored Röver stops are integrated in the new movement. A special feature is the box drawer, which, like Röver, is designed according to the downflow principle and enables high wind pressure. There are two transmissions in the pedal ; the trumpet 8 ' in the pedal is prepared for expansion. The two manual organs have 32 sounding registers with a total of 1842 pipes and cost 500,000 euros.

The disposition is:

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Drone 16 ′
2. Principal 16 ′
3. Principal 8th'
4th Viol 8th'
5. Gemshorn 8th'
6th Hollow flute 8th'
7th Covered 8th'
8th. octave 4 ′
9. flute 4 ′
10. Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
11. octave 2 ′
12. Cornett II
13. Mixture III
14th Trumpet 8th'
II Manual C-g 3
15th Lovely covered 16 ′
16. Violin principal 8th'
17th Harmony flute 8th'
18th Lovely covered 8th'
19th Salicional 8th'
20th Violino 8th'
21st Vox Coelestis 8th'
22nd Flauto Dolce 4 ′
23. Fugara 4 ′
24. Forest flute 2 ′
25th oboe 8th'
Pedal C – f 1
26th Open bass 16 ′
27. Violon 16 ′
28. Sub bass 16 ′
Covered (= No. 15) 16 ′
29 Octave bass 8th'
Viola (= No. 20) 8th'
30th Flute bass 8th'
31. cello 8th'
32. trombone 16 ′
Trumpet 8th'

literature

  • Sabine Behrens: North German church buildings of historicism . Verlag Ludwig, Kiel 2006, ISBN 3-933598-97-4 , p. 90-95, 130-134, 257-261 .
  • VHS history workshop : Pinneberg - historical Streiflichter , Pinneberg 2003

Web links

Commons : Christ Church  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Begging letter sent to America
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Description of the construction process in: Behrens: North German church buildings of historicism . 2006, p. 90-95 .
  3. ^ Behrens: North German Church Buildings of Historicism . 2006, p. 189 .
  4. ^ Behrens: North German Church Buildings of Historicism . 2006, p. 157, 160 .
  5. ↑ a b Disposition of the Baumhoer organ in the Christ Church
  6. ↑ The new organ is inaugurated

Coordinates: 53 ° 39 ′ 26.3 "  N , 9 ° 47 ′ 57.8"  E