St. Michaelis parish hall (Hamburg-Neustadt)
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The parish hall of St. Michael is located in the Hamburg district of Neustadt . It is a complex consisting of a total of six buildings in the immediate vicinity of the main church Sankt Michaelis and marks the outer boundary of the church property along the streets Krayenkamp , Englische Planke and Ludwig-Erhardt-Straße . The eastern part has the address Krayenkamp 4a to c and 8 the western English plank 1, 1a, 1b and 9 .
Previous buildings
When the Michel was rebuilt after the fire in July 1906, a pastorate was built southwest of the church based on a typical design by Fritz Schumacher . Compared to the church, it was a rather simple brick building that, despite its three floors next to the church tower, looked reserved. On the east side of the building there was an open portico with a monument to Ernst Georg Sonnin . The other church square to Krayenkamp was also redesigned by Schumacher. A sandstone wall was built here with a staircase that overcame the difference in height from the street to the church and at the top of which there was a fountain designed by Richard Kuöhl .
At that time, a multi-storey building ensemble with an inner courtyard was also built east of the church between Krayenkamp and Pastorenstrasse, usually known as the "main pastorate", which included pastorates, heating systems for the Michel, apartments for church staff and community rooms. Julius Faulwasser , Emil Meerwein and Hermann Geissler directed his planning . These buildings, kept in the neo-baroque style, were integrated into the surrounding residential development and therefore far less noticeable than Schumacher's almost free-standing building.
The pastorates, the parish hall and a large part of the outdoor facilities were destroyed during the bombing of Hamburg in World War II. Only the facade of the main pastorate, the wall and the stairs to the Krayenkamp were partially preserved.
Construction and history
Gerhard Langmaack , who had been in charge of the necessary repairs to the church since 1943, was commissioned to rebuild the Michel and its surroundings from 1946 onwards. Langmaack pursued in designing the community centers , the idea of a protective wall for the church and its parishioners' against the scale-free and community-interference from outside world as it is revealed precisely in the traffic. "
It was clear early on in the planning that there would be a new building on the site of the old Schumacher pastorate on the south-west corner of the site. All other ideas had to be based on the route of the new east-west road , which was not finally established until 1953. The very ambitious plans of the community envisaged a large number of differently usable buildings, which should be located mainly along the new east-west street and the Krayenkamp. The largest building was to be built on the corner of Ost-West-Straße and Krayenkamp and, among other things, contained an event hall for 450 people. In addition, apartments for pastors and church employees, offices, practice rooms and other event rooms for up to 60 people were desired in the building group. All entrances to the buildings were planned from the church side, access to the space between the buildings and the church should be via three wide staircases from Krayenkamp, from Englischer Planke and from Ost-West-Straße.
The concrete construction concept was presented to the city of Hamburg and the monument protection office in October 1954 and, in addition to minor adjustments, also included the striking colonnade corridors on the inside of the square. In the following years it was implemented step by step and adapted to the extensive road construction measures for the east-west road. First the small pastorates on Englische Planke and Krayenkamp were built, followed by the large parish building and the administration building on the northeast corner of the area. The pastorates on the northwest corner were the last and no longer completely built according to Langmaack's ideas.
The inauguration of the entire facility took place on April 7, 1957.
Furnishing
The buildings are kept in a unified and deliberately simple style in order to "increase the strong baroque note of the Michaeliskirche [...] through the arrangement and style of the new buildings [...] around it." At the parish hall, large contiguous window areas and a connection to the administration wing via a glazed staircase define the picture. All cellar areas and basement floors are clad with ashlar , which reinforces the impression of a base for the church. The clinker exterior facades are barely decorated and are mainly structured by window frames and bay windows made of the same stone that was used to clad the basement.
The interior design and furnishings are typical of the 1950s style . Among other things, the ceilings were decorated with geometric patterns by the Hamburg painter Franz Porsche , mainly brass and frosted glass were used as material for the lighting , and the floors were covered with Solnhofer panels . The main hall has been carefully planned; it is well lit by daylight on the first floor and extends over two floors with its curved side gallery. It can be reached via a generously designed foyer on the ground floor and an elegant staircase.
use
The facility offers enough space for pastorates as well as administration and technical rooms. Most of the administrative rooms are on the north side of the complex, the pastorates along the western and southern borders. The three large event rooms in the eastern part of the complex are designed for 450, 80 and 40 people; they not only serve church purposes, but are also rented for other uses.
Monument protection and renovation
An extensive renovation was carried out from 2011 to 2015 by the architects Plan-R. Subsequent conversions, which were atypical for the time it was built, were dismantled, the interiors made barrier-free , the sound and heat insulation improved and all sanitary facilities renewed. A particular challenge of the renovation was to reconstruct the ceiling painting in the original shapes and colors.
Photographs and map
Coordinates: 53 ° 32 '55 " N , 9 ° 58' 48.1" E
State before the Second World War. The columned hall can be seen at the bottom left.
Back of the stairs to Krayenkamp
Parish hall on Krayenkamp
Window bay at the southwestern pastorate
Administration building in the north-western part with a colonnade
Main entrance with door design typical of the time
literature
- Eva Decker, Jörg Schilling: Hamburg construction booklet 11, St. Michaelis parish hall . Schaff-Verlag, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-944405-17-9 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eva Decker, Jörg Schilling: Hamburger Bauheft 11, parish hall St. Michaelis . Schaff-Verlag, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-944405-17-9 , pp. 12 .
- ↑ Langmaack, quoted from: Eva Decker, Jörg Schilling: Hamburger Bauheft 11, Gemeindehaus St. Michaelis . Schaff-Verlag, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-944405-17-9 , pp. 15 .
- ↑ Langmaack, quoted from: Eva Decker, Jörg Schilling: Hamburger Bauheft 11, Gemeindehaus St. Michaelis . Schaff-Verlag, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-944405-17-9 , pp. 31 .
- ↑ Information ( Memento of the original from December 21, 2016 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. about the event rooms of the community. Retrieved December 15, 2016.
- ↑ Summary of the renovation on the Plan-R website. Retrieved October 11, 2016.
Web links
- Homepage of the community