Evangelical Reformed Church in Hamburg
The Evangelical Reformed Church in Hamburg is a Reformed parish in the area of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg . Its roots go back to the years 1588 and 1601. It formed a parish in 1976 and has been part of the Evangelical Reformed Church , one of the 20 member churches of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) , since January 2012 . The community has around 3,200 members.
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history
Walloon religious refugees from the Spanish Netherlands founded a Reformed church in Stade on November 3, 1588 . The service was held in French and Flemish. After the Protestant sovereign Count Ernst von Schauenburg had granted the Reformed and Mennonites of Altona a privilege to practice their religion freely on October 27, 1601, the village's Reformed community was founded on June 15, 1602. Its members were Huguenots from France, Dutch and Germans. The preaching was in French, Low and High German. The reformed church "auf der Freiheit" (today Kleine Freiheit), built in the following year, was the first church in Altona. The reformed school existed from 1602 to 1896. The parish in Stade died until 1627. The Reformed Dutch soon assimilated themselves linguistically and attended the sermons in German.
The Hamburg reformers founded a poor farm in 1686 . The big house at the Kohlhöfen took in the poor and the sick. In 1887 this facility was relocated to the Winterhuder Weg as Altenhof ; to this day it is a work of the evangelical reformed diakonia .
On March 27, 1686, the German Reformed community and the French Reformed community separated. Although Altona had been Danish since 1640 and received city rights from the Danish king in 1664, the people of Hamburg continued to attend church services in Altona. It was not until many years later that the German Reformed congregation split in 1716 and the French Reformed congregation in 1761, each in Altona and Hamburg.
However, it was not until September 19, 1785 that the Hamburg Reformed Church received the right to freely practice religion. The services of the German Reformed congregation took place since 1716 in the “private chapel” of the Dutch envoy, which offered space for more than 500 believers. The French Reformed had gathered in Hamburg apartments and private houses since 1686, but ten years later they had to bring 51 pews and a pulpit to Altona because the Hamburg Senate had requested that the "meetings and sermons in the wall frame" be stopped. After the Senate again banned private meetings in 1725, the French community also came under extraterritorial protection. From 1726 the Prussian resident Jean Destinan offered them to share his small private chapel on Gänsemarkt. In 1744 he bought a piece of land on Königsstrasse and had a larger house chapel built there. In 1786 the Senate granted a “Concession” and permission to have new assembly rooms approved, subject to the restriction: “However, such a building must not be provided with towers, bells, or other, conspicuous signs of a public church. "
During the occupation, the legation chapel was confiscated by the French army and almost ruined. The architect Petitjean bought the property and took over the construction of a new chapel, which he rented to the community. In 1843, the community sold a plot of land opposite, as the construction price of a planned new building could no longer be financed after the great fire of 1842. She auctioned the box house on the Hohen Bleichen, which was there on an inner courtyard.
On May 17, 1831, the German-Reformed congregation in Altona united with the French-Reformed congregation to form the “Evangelical-Reformed congregation in Altona”. In 1923 she joined the Evangelical Reformed Church of the Province of Hanover . In February 1963 she founded the “Evangelical Reformed City Synod in Hamburg” with the two Hamburg congregations. Twelve years later, the German Evangelical Reformed Congregation in Hamburg, the Evangelical Reformed Congregation in Hamburg-Altona and the French Reformed Congregation in Hamburg joined forces on January 1, 1976 to form the “Evangelical Reformed Church Hamburg”. Altona had previously left the Evangelical Reformed Church in northwest Germany (formerly the province of Hanover).
The three church buildings, the classicist church from the 19th century on the Palmaille on the Altona balcony , the German Reformed Church from 1857 and the French Reformed Church from 1904 were drowned in the hail of bombs of World War II. In the 1960s, two modern churches and community centers were built on Hamburg's Ferdinandstrasse and Altonaer Palmaille. In 1969 Altona received an organ from Ahrend & Brunzema , Hamburg 2011 as part of a comprehensive renovation for the first time a community hall.
On January 1, 2012, the Evangelical Reformed Church in Hamburg joined the Evangelical Reformed Church based in Leer (East Frisia).
useful information
At the Lord's Supper , the Altona community gathers around a long table on stools.
The Altona cemetery , which opened in 1923, has a reformed burial ground.
An English Reformed congregation existed in Hamburg from 1785 to 1984.
Existing churches and community centers
| Illustration | Surname | District, district, street and location |
construction time | Comments, website |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Community center of the Evangelical Reformed Church in Hamburg |
Old town Ferdinandstr. 21 53 ° 33 '14.8 " N , 10 ° 0' 1.2" E |
1965 | Brick building by Rudolf Esch , Führer organ |
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Community center of the Evangelical Reformed Church in Altona |
Altona old town Palmaille 2 53 ° 32 ′ 47.1 ″ N , 9 ° 56 ′ 42.3 ″ E |
1966 | Brick building by Benedikt Huber , Ahrend organ (1969) |
| Chapel in the Altenhof of the Evangelical Reformed Church in Hamburg |
Barmbek-Süd Winterhuder Weg 98 53 ° 32 ′ 47.1 ″ N , 9 ° 56 ′ 42.3 ″ E |
Former Reformed churches in Hamburg (selection)
| Illustration | Surname | Former location | Former denomination | construction time | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Reformed Church Altona |
Altona old town Kleine Freiheit 10 |
reformed | 1603 | First church in Altona |
| German Reformed Congregation Hamburg | Old town | German reformed | 1716 | Large chapel of the Dutch envoy, used as a German reformed church | |
| French Reformed Congregation Hamburg |
Altstadt Königstrasse 53 ° 33 ′ 14.8 ″ N , 10 ° 0 ′ 1.2 ″ E |
French reformed | 1744 | Chapel of the Prussian resident, used as a French Reformed church, 1806–1814 food store | |
| French Reformed Congregation Hamburg |
Altstadt Königstrasse / Poststrasse 53 ° 33 ′ 14.8 ″ N , 10 ° 0 ′ 1.2 ″ E |
French reformed | 1815 | Chapel built by the architect Petitjean, rented to the French Reformed community until 1843 | |
| Evangelical Reformed Church Altona |
Altona old town Palmaille (Elbe side) |
reformed | Classicist building, destroyed in World War II | ||
| French Reformed Church Hamburg |
Altstadt Hohe Bleichen 53 ° 33 ′ 14.8 ″ N , 10 ° 0 ′ 1.2 ″ E |
French reformed | Former Masonic temple, used as a church from 1844 | ||
| German Reformed Church Hamburg |
Old town Ferdinandstr. 21 53 ° 33 '14.8 " N , 10 ° 0' 1.2" E |
German reformed | 1857 | Two-tower building by Eduard Averdieck , destroyed in World War II in 1943 | |
| French Reformed Church Hamburg |
Hamburg |
French reformed | 1904 | Neo-Gothic building, destroyed in World War II | |
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English Reformed Church |
Neustadt Am Johannisbollwerk 53 ° 32 ′ 42.4 ″ N , 9 ° 58 ′ 19.8 ″ E |
English reformed; as a guest from 1883: Swedish seaman's community (Lutheran) | 1826 | Classicist building by Carl Ludwig Wimmel , demolished in 1891 as part of the port expansion |
| Raboisen church hall of the Evangelical Reformed Church in Hamburg |
Old town Raboisen |
Emergency Church until 1965 (?) |
literature
- Götz Mavius: The Evangelical Reformed congregations in Stade, Hamburg and Altona. Your pastors and churches 1588–2007 . German Huguenot Society, Bad Karlshafen 2007, ISBN 978-3-930481-23-1 .
Web links
- Evangelical Reformed Church Hamburg
- Evangelical Reformed Church Hamburg (side of the regional church)
Footnotes
- ↑ Atiftung-Altenhof: The Beginnings (accessed on July 30, 2019)
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ Karin Berkemann : The architecture of tomorrow! Ed .: Monument Protection Office Hamburg. Dölling and Galitz Verlag , Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-937904-60-3 , p. 60 f .
- ↑ a b Evangelical Reformed Church in Hamburg ( Memento of the original from August 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Stiftung-Altenhof.de: community .
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