Elisabeth Church (Hamburg-Eidelstedt)
The Evangelical Lutheran Elisabeth Church in Hamburg-Eidelstedt is located on Eidelstedter Dorfstrasse in the former village center of today's district. Church, pastorate, cemetery and former church meadow are here in a small space next to each other.
Building the church
Eidelstedt belonged to Eppendorf church until 1769 , then to Niendorf until 1892 and finally to Stellingen . Belonging to Stellingen, which was hardly more important than Eidelstedt, was particularly unsatisfactory for the Eidelstedt Christians. Therefore, there was a broad movement in the town in the early 20th century to break away from the Stellingen parish and raise the funds for its own church. In 1905 the separation from Stellingen took place, soon afterwards the wealthy farm owner Jacob Krohn donated the property and pastorate, which dictated the rather unfavorable location of the church on the eastern edge of the village. In the absence of public subsidies, the municipality tried to raise the necessary funds for the construction itself, for which the percentage of the church tax was doubled for a while and 3000 Reichsmarks were collected for the construction of the bell tower and the church clock.
Due to the limited financial resources, the specifications were a comparatively simple construction, which should nevertheless be carried out solidly. The Hamburg builders Faulwasser , Lorenzen , Groothoff and Stehn submitted their plans to the corresponding tender . The architect Hugo Groothoff was commissioned to build a church based on his church built in Brokstedt in 1899 and to use the example of the Fuhlsbüttel church as an example for the tower. The church is one of a series of very similar structures that Groothoff built as rural churches mainly in the area around Itzehoe and Stormarn .
The Eidelstedt church was given a cross-shaped floor plan with a vestibule under the tower and a sacristy attached to the choir . The main room with aisles and transepts was planned for 300 seats and the possibility of adding additional galleries. The western end of the interior was done in the classic way with a gallery for choir and organ. The church was built in a contemporary neo-Gothic style using bricks and lime sandstone. For reasons of economy, decorative elements such as shaped stones or glazed bricks were used very cautiously. For the same reason, with the exception of the choir niche, the masonry vaults typical of the time were dispensed with in the interior and were satisfied with a simple, slightly decorated wooden ceiling. However, this wooden ceiling was not designed completely horizontally, but adjusted in the lower part to the course of the rafters in order to get a horizontal finish only at a greater height. This makes the interior higher and more hall-like. The first roof was still covered with slate .
The church was consecrated on September 16, 1906.
The church was spared major war damage or structural changes, so that from the outside it was essentially able to retain its original appearance. However, she had glass and, above all, severe roof damage during the bombardment on 24/25. July 1943 , which left it without a roof for the main room until June 1945. In the 1970s, when a roof repair was necessary, the slate previously used was replaced by black roof tiles.
The name "Elisabethkirche", after the mother of John the Baptist , has only been used for the church since the 1950s. The original name "Eidelstedter Church" was no longer tenable as Eidelstedt grew in the post-war years and over the years received three more churches ( Christ Church on Halstenbeker Weg , Johanniskirche in Dallbregen and Marienkapelle in Mählstraße ).
Interior
The color scheme of the interior is typical of Groothoff's work. Bright, with a white ceiling and white walls to which the facing bricks around the windows and in the wall corners with their brick red set the necessary contrast.
Especially in the execution of the altar, pulpit and baptismal font, one recognizes the need to be thrifty in the interior. All pieces are made of oak and come from the local master carpenter Wilhelm Schmidt. The three colored altar windows did not come into the church until 1931 and come from the workshop of Christel Kuball . Today's bronze altar cross by Fritz Fleer was erected during a renovation in 1984.
The interior was renovated or redesigned in 1938, 1952, 1962 and 1983/1984, which means that hardly anything can be seen of the original impression. Better lighting and a light tiled floor have made it possible to obtain an inviting and friendly room atmosphere.
Bells
The first ring of the church consisted of three bells, two of which came from the bell foundry in Apolda and the third and largest was again a gift from the court owner Jacob Krohn. The two bells from Apolda were labeled Glory to God in the heights (middle bell) and Peace on Earth (smallest bell). During the First World War , the community delivered the two largest bells for armament purposes, but received them back in 1919, even if the largest bell was damaged. The church only received an undamaged large bell in 1931 with a new bell from the Bachert bell foundry . However, as early as June 8, 1942, the two largest bells were given back for armament purposes during the Second World War and did not return in this case. After the project to replace the missing bells initially failed due to the loss of assets of the community as a result of the currency reform of 1948 , the church received two new bronze bells from the Bachert bell foundry in 1953. The entire suspension and operation of the bells had to be modernized in 1996 as part of a comprehensive renovation of the tower.
organ
The first permanent organ did not come into the church until 1911. It was an instrument from the Faber & Greve workshop that had a large number of registers , but its sound was rather poor because only a few pipes were used for the registers . In 1937 the parish decided on a new organ from the Hammer company in Hanover. This organ, inaugurated in 1940, survived the war with minor damage and could be used until 1964.
Its successor is a Führer organ that is still in use today and that was consecrated on June 28, 1964. Your disposition is:
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- Coupling: 3 normal coupling (II / I, I / P, II / P)
Photographs and map
Coordinates: 53 ° 36 ′ 27 ″ N , 9 ° 54 ′ 34 ″ E
View of the choir
Side wall of the interior
altar
Middle choir window
Side door with typical details
See also
- List of churches named after Saint Elizabeth.
literature
- Uwe Jaenike, Käte Frerking: History of the construction of the village and later Elisabeth Church . 2nd Edition. Self-published by the parish of Eidelstedt, Hamburg 2006.
- Eidelstedt parish (ed.): 100 years of Elisabeth Church . Self-published by the parish of Eidelstedt, Hamburg 2006.
- Sabine Behrens: North German church buildings of historicism . Verlag Ludwig, Kiel 2006, ISBN 3-933598-97-4 , p. 98-101, 313-316 .
Individual evidence
Web links
- Website of the Ev.-Luth. Eidelstedt parish, to which the Elisabethkirche belongs as a parish center
- List of recognized monuments of the city of Hamburg ( Memento from November 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive )