Trinity Church (Hamburg-Harburg)

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Trinity Church. Free-standing, new bell tower (2006)
Memorial. The entrance portal of the old Trinity Church (2007)

The Dreifaltigkeitskirche is an Evangelical Lutheran church on Neue Straße in Hamburg-Harburg . It is part of the newly founded Evangelical Lutheran Church Community of St. Trinitatis Harburg, which was created by merging with the St. Johannis Church . Since most of the church services today take place in St. Johannis, the Trinity Church was also used as Hamburg's sound church for concerts until 2013 .

history

The Dreifaltigkeitskirche was built between 1650 and 1652 as a replacement for the Marienkirche, which had to give way in the course of the expansion of the fortifications of the city and Harburg Castle and stood in the place of today's Lotsekanal in Harburg's inland port.

From 1708 the pastors of the first parish at the Trinity Church were also superintendents of the General Diocese of Harburg, which existed until 1903 .

The church was bombed in November 1944. Of the remaining outer walls, only the west wall with the baroque entrance portal and the fragment of a figure of Christ (1652) as a war memorial remains. In addition to the portal, some grave slabs have been preserved as testimony to the former church burials, including those of the princely crypt of the ducal family.

Few parts of the original equipment could be saved. Parts of the altar (from 1688) have been in the St. Johannis Church in Curslack and the Kreuzkirche in Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg since the 1950s . Other parts, such as a chandelier which probably came from the old Marienkirche, are owned by the Archaeological Museum Hamburg or were later integrated into the new church.

Between 1962 and 1966 a new church interior was built behind the old portal. The new building and the new free-standing bell tower were built according to plans by the architects Ingeborg and Friedrich Spengelin . In 1977 the church and parish with the Harburg parish came from the Hanover State Church to the Hamburg district of the newly formed North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church .

The ensemble of the old church wall and the new buildings including the courtyard and the community buildings were placed under monument protection in 1999.

In the church there is a baptismal font from 1767 from the church in Ballethen in East Prussia, which was destroyed in 1970 . The stone found in 1993 as a bird bath in the former Darkehmen / Angerapp district, in today's Osjorsk (Kaliningrad) , was placed in the Holy Trinity Church after restoration.

literature

  • Hans Drescher: The princely crypt in the Trinity Church in Harburg . In: Harburger Jahrbuch , Volume X (1961/62), 1963, pp. 6–61.

Web links

Commons : Dreifaltigkeitskirche, Hamburg-Harburg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.hamburger-klangkirche.de
  2. ^ Lennart Hellberg, Heike Albrecht, Heino Grunert: Harburg and surroundings . Christians, 1999, p. 108
  3. ^ Hartwig Beseler, Niels Gutschow: Kriegsschicksale Deutscher Architektur . Loss - damage - reconstruction. Documentation for the territory of the Federal Republic of Germany. Karl Wachholtz Verlag, 1988, ISBN 978-3-529026850 , p. 98
  4. ^ Ralf Lange : Architectural Guide Hamburg . Edition Axel Menges, 1995, ISBN 978-3-930698585 , p. 301
  5. ^ Publications of the Helms Museum, issue 18 (1988) p. 39
  6. ^ Lennart Hellberg, Heike Albrecht, Heino Grunert: Harburg and surroundings . Christians, 1999, p. 67

  • The tower from the north

  • Inscription on the tower

  • Boards at the portal: U. a. historical grave slab

Coordinates: 53 ° 27 '48.1 "  N , 9 ° 58' 49.1"  E