Dietrich Bonhoeffer Church (Hamburg-Rahlstedt)
The Dietrich Bonhoeffer Church is a Lutheran church in the district Oldenfelde the Hamburg district Rahlstedt . It is located on Greifenberger Straße and is one of four churches in the Meiendorf-Oldenfelde parish.
Building the church
On February 20, 1959, a new Protestant parish was founded in Oldenfelde at the location still existing today on Wolliner Strasse . A community center was built there as the first building of the new community . The need arose quickly to build another church in the growing new building areas between Rahlstedt and Berne , whereby the choice fell on the current location on Greifenberger Straße.
For the new church, the design by the architect Otto Andersen was selected in 1963 and the construction of the community center and a pastorate began in 1964; the foundation stone for the church was laid on July 30, 1965. These three buildings border a common forecourt, the entire complex was given a conspicuous marking with the needle-sharp, 45 m high tower. The tower was manufactured in an unconventional way by first building a foundation on which a prefabricated steel lattice construction was placed, which after cladding formed the current spire . The tent-like, pointed nave takes up the motif of a biblical nomad tent, which was often used at the time the church was built, and, according to the congregation, should be understood at the same time as an analogy to a new hometown for flood victims and refugees .
The inauguration of the community center took place on October 10, 1965, the consecration of the church followed on November 6, 1966 by Provost Karl Hasselmann in the presence of a sister of the namesake Dietrich Bonhoeffer .
The area around the church is dominated by the high-rise estate south of the street with its small shopping mall and the Kamminer Straße school to the north . The single house development to the west, however, clearly takes a back seat.
Furnishing
The interior is determined by the triangular shape of the roof, the main window and the organ take up this shape and form the two elements that complete the nave.
The simple altar and the cautiously decorated baptismal font are works by Fritz Fleers . The crucifix comes from Gabriele Marwede . Two large candlesticks are the other eye-catching pieces in the otherwise simply furnished interior. The baptismal candlestick was a gift from the partner community Poppenbüttel Wittenburg for its 25th anniversary. The sacrificial candlestick is a work of the metal workshop Andreas Kahl in Barsbüttel and was made possible by a donation from the community in 2000.
Main window
The most important feature of the church is the 10 m high concrete glass window designed by Ernst Günter Hansing , which the community often calls "the largest concrete glass window in Europe". With this assignment, however, it remains unclear to which period and which comparison group of windows it relates, so that this information is at least doubtful. The shape and size of the window were dictated by the dimensions of the nave, and the craftsmanship was carried out by the art glazier Günter Kruse from Flensburg. When building the window, on the one hand, attention had to be paid to sufficient stability and, on the other hand, it had to be designed so flexibly that it did not destroy the acoustics of the room and could withstand the thermal expansion due to solar radiation on the south side. For this purpose, its parts were elastically connected to one another.
The window shows abstract shapes, mostly in blue and purple with contrasting red edges. In the upper third of the triangle, an area in red and orange tones emerges. Opaque and therefore black concrete blocks take up the triangular shape pointing upwards and subdivide the light area.
On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the church, Hansing provided only a very sparse interpretation of the representation in the window in a lecture. He wanted to express "the strength in Bonhoeffer's faith" and to establish references to his person. He wanted to “leave further interpretations to the viewer” and described the window as “sensations made visible”.
Bells
In the tower there are four bells from the Bachert bell foundry with the following names and chimes:
- Joy , e 2
- Peace , h 1
- Justice , c sharp 2
- Freedom , g sharp 1
organ
When the first female church musician took up her service on August 1, 1967, concerts still had to be given on a mini organ. The Schuke organ from Berlin , which is still in use today, was only consecrated on February 25, 1973 . Your disposition is:
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- 3 normal coupling: II / I, I / P, II / P
Photographs and map
Coordinates: 53 ° 37 ′ 4.6 ″ N , 10 ° 8 ′ 30.8 ″ E
View from the east
Large window from the outside
Baptism and candlesticks
Interior, view of the organ
literature
- Hans-Georg Soeffner , Hans Christian Knuth, Cornelius Nissle: Roofs of Hope, church building in Hamburg between 1950 and 1970 . Christians Verlag, Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-7672-1245-5 , p. 177-179 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Overview of the churches in the Meiendorf-Oldenfelde parish. ( Memento from March 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Otto Andersen. In: arch INFORM .
- ↑ Partner community of the St. Bartholomew community in Wittenburg. Retrieved July 23, 2013.
- ↑ Hansing's biography .
- ↑ Historical circular routes through Rahlstedt . In: Rahlstedter Yearbook for History & Culture . No. 13 . Rahlstedter Kulturverein, 2011, p. 100 .
- ^ History of the church on the parish homepage. ( Memento from March 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Information according to a notice board at the church. Photo see Commons.
- ↑ Entry in the organ database orgbase.nl . Retrieved July 18, 2013.
Web links
- Homepage of the community
- 40 years ( Memento from March 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Dietrich Bonhoeffer Church on the side of the community
- List of recognized monuments of the city of Hamburg ( Memento from November 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive )