Church of the Redeemer (Hamburg-Farmsen-Berne)
The Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Redeemer ( ) in Hamburg-Farmsen-Berne is a bit away from the main streets between Bramfelder Weg and Am Luisenhof street . It belongs to the garden city of Farmsen designed by Hans Bernhard Reichow and Otto Gühlk .
Building the church
The building combines modern and traditional forms and materials and, thanks to its idiosyncratic design, is one of the most remarkable church buildings of the post-war period in Hamburg. The construction stretched from 1957 to 1960 under the direction of Kurt Schwarze. The nave consists of two aluminum-clad reinforced concrete shells with a parabolic cross-section that are pushed into one another and that fold out into window slots. The facades on the east and west sides are decorated with elaborate, differentiated patterned brick cladding. Exterior and interior consistently match. The slender, 37 m high tower stele made of concrete panels, crowned by a 4 m high cross, is also connected to the nave by a low connecting structure, which is typical of the time.
In the course of its use, other buildings were loosely grouped around the church. Today the pastorate, the parish hall and a kindergarten are in the immediate vicinity.
In 1995 the entire church was restored by Bernhard Hirche , who at the same time changed the originally high-contrast color scheme in the interior to white and gray tones.
Interior
The interior impresses above all with its skilful lighting. Ulrich Knispel designed the glazing of the window slots in such a way that the incidence of light inside is perceived as indirect. The altar area stands out brightly against the parish room, it is slightly wider and higher than this, and through the connecting glass ribbon, the lighting towards the altar increases significantly. The interior has many elements typical for its time of origin, including the colorfully glazed round windows above the entrance and also the irregularly arranged sound holes in the altar wall. These holes not only visually liven up the wall, but are precisely calculated and produce very good acoustics in the room.
The ribbon windows are oriented to the east and thus illuminate the altar, which is unusually in the west of the church, in the morning, at the usual time of worship, with constantly changing bright and bright colors.
The bronze relief dominating the interior above the altar, which represents the head of the crucified and which was decisive for the naming of the church, comes from Robert Müller-Warnke . He also designed the baptismal font and the altar candlesticks. At the inauguration, special attention was paid to the precious sacrament device designed especially for this church by the artist Ragna Sperschneider .
Bells
In the tower there are four bronze bells cast in 1959 by the Schilling bell foundry in Heidelberg.
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No. |
Diameter (mm) |
Mass (kg) |
Chime |
inscription |
Bible passage |
| 1 | 1030 | 670 | g 0 | In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and God was the Word. | ( Joh 1,1 LUT ) |
| 2 | 910 | 500 | a 0 | Country, country, country, hear the word of the Lord. | ( Jer 22,29 LUT ) |
| 3 | 760 | 280 | c 1 | Glory to God on high and peace on earth and a pleasure to men | ( Lk 2,14 LUT ) |
| 4th | 670 | 200 | d 1 | But he who endures to the end will be saved. | ( Mt 24,13 LUT ) |
organ
As early as 1961, considerations were made to install an organ , but it was not implemented until 1967. The decision was made for an organ designed by Karl Theodor Kühn and Herbert Schulze , which was built by the organ building company Friedrich Euler. However, the company Orgelbau Becker , which was commissioned with the maintenance, declared the organ to be a faulty design soon after installation, which could not be serviced and repaired. In the following years this assessment was confirmed by various bodies.
In 1989 the fundamental decision was made to build a new organ, the design of which was carried out by Manfred Teßmer and Michael Gellermann. The construction was carried out by Rudolf von Beckerath Orgelbau , who completed the instrument in 1995. It has 18 voices and the following disposition:
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- Coupling : 3 normal coupling (II / P, II / I, I / P) and 2 special coupling
- Playing aids : typesetter with 64 combinations
Photographs and map
Coordinates: 53 ° 36 ′ 28 " N , 10 ° 6 ′ 42" E
View from the south
Light inlets from the outside
Window details on the north side
Baptismal font
Altarpiece
pulpit
See also
- List of other churches named Erlöserkirche
literature
- Ralf Lange: Architecture in Hamburg . Junius Verlag , Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-88506-586-9 , p. 203 f .
- Gertrud Schiller : Hamburg's new churches 1951–1961 . Ed .: Evangelical Lutheran Church Hamburg. Hans Christians Verlag, Hamburg 1961, p. 50 f .
- Karin Berkemann : “Tomorrow's architecture!” Hamburg's post-war churches . Ed .: Monument Protection Office Hamburg. Dölling and Galitz Verlag , Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-937904-60-3 , p. 52 ff .
- Jürgen Wulf: Festschrift 50 years of the Erlöserkirche . Ed .: Church council of the ev.-luth. Farmsen-Berne parish. Self-published by the parish, Hamburg 2010.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Obituary for Ragna Sperschneider in the Hamburger Abendblatt from August 9, 2008. Accessed on February 13, 2012.
- ^ Hallescher Kunstverein on the work of Ragna Sperschneider. Retrieved February 13, 2012.
- ↑ Disposition of the organ on the manufacturer's homepage. ( Memento from November 9, 2002 in the Internet Archive )
Web links
- Homepage of the community
- Detailed description of the interior fittings on the municipality's website.