Edith Stein Church (Hamburg-Neuallermöhe)
The Edith Stein Church is a modern Catholic church building in the Hamburg district Neuallermöhe . It was built in 1991/92 according to plans by the Hamburg architects Planen & Bauen and consecrated on January 31, 1993 by Auxiliary Bishop Hans-Jochen Jaschke . The church was placed under the patronage of St. Edith Stein (Teresia Benedicta a cruce), a Carmelite of Jewish descent who was murdered in 1942 in the Auschwitz extermination camp .
history
The construction of the church in what was then the Hamburg-Allermöhe district is related to the emergence of new housing estates (Neu-Allermöhe East and West) in the 1980s and 1990s. The church should fit into the architectural context and at the same time set its own accent.
architecture
The architects chose the basic shape of a round church with a flat roof that rises to the south - the altar side - and is crowned with a cross. The church is surrounded on two sides by the parish rooms, on the street front by a wall that ends in the bell bearer. The building material for the entire complex is reddish-yellow brick . The seclusion of the ensemble, which is only pierced and exposed through large cross-shaped windows and openings, is reminiscent of a monastery or a prison as well as the cross as a central motif of faith and life of Edith Stein. A picture in the open foyer and a head sculpture in the anteroom of the church represent the saint.
Furnishing
The interior of the church was created by the Cologne artist W. Gies . The simple altar table stands on a circular island raised by one step, next to it the unadorned tabernacle stele , behind it, on the same level as the community, the sediles . Opposite, in front of the middle of the three high portals, is the baptismal font , which is also a holy water font . The Easter candlestick is in the geometric center of the room . The doors are yellow towards the entrance area and red towards the church interior , in some places in the church the color blue appears on the ambo , on the apostle chandeliers and as a large background of the icon of Mary.
organ
The organ , based on Wilhelm Gies' design in a round shape like the gallery supporting it and the whole church, was built in 1998 by the Michael Becker company. The instrument has 16 registers (1043 pipes) on two manuals and a pedal. The actions are mechanical.
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- Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
Bell jar
The bronze bell, newly cast for the Edith Stein Church, shows the Virgin Mary in a halo as a motif . The picture is a cast of the only surviving bell in Hamburg Cathedral ( Celsa , 1487, today in the Evangelical Lutheran St. Nicolai Church in Altengamme ). The bell bears a word from Edith Stein as an inscription: "He who seeks truth seeks God".
Individual evidence
Web links
- Pictures and description (website of the parish)
- To the organ
Coordinates: 53 ° 29 ′ 11.3 " N , 10 ° 10 ′ 50" E