Gustaf Adolfskyrkan (Hamburg)
The Swedish Gustaf Adolfskyrkan (Gustaf-Adolfs-Kirche) is a church in Hamburg 's Neustadt district .
Members of the parish are those who live in Hamburg, Bremen , Lower Saxony , Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Sweden . The parish belongs to Svenska Kyrkan i Utlandet , the Swedish Church abroad which is assigned to the Visby diocese . Along with Berlin , Frankfurt am Main and Munich, it is one of four Swedish parishes in Germany.
history
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In 1883 the Evangeliska Fosterlandsstiftelsen (Evangelische Heimatlandstiftung) started its activities in Hamburg. The seaman's pastor L. A. Olsson, who had worked as a missionary in Africa, looked after the Swedes living in Hamburg and the surrounding area as well as the Swedish seamen who called at the port of Hamburg by ship. Initially, the services were held in the English Reformed Church on Große Hafenstrasse. In 1886 J. O. A. Englund succeeded Olsson.
In 1903 Evangeliska Fosterlandsstiftelsen bought a plot of land in Ditmar-Koel-Strasse opposite the St. Pauli Landungsbrücken . The Norwegian architect Thomas Yderstad , who lives in Hamburg, built a multi-storey brick building with a tower, in which, in addition to the church hall with space for 300 believers, six apartments and offices were housed. The foundation stone was laid on January 27, 1906; on May 12, 1907, the church was consecrated by Archbishop J. A. Ekman. The church bears the name of the Swedish King Gustav II Adolf , whose bust has been in the church since 1907. The church was decorated with paintings, some of which were later painted over. A picture of Christ was uncovered and restored in 2007.
During the Second World War , the church was one of the few buildings in the area on the edge of the Hamburg harbor that was not destroyed. Only the choir windows were damaged and were replaced after the end of the war. Until 1956 the rooms of the Swedish school were also housed in the church.
In 1979 Sweden's King Carl XVI visited Gustaf and Queen Silvia the church.
The number of Swedish ships in the port of Hamburg decreased sharply in the 1990s, while the number of Swedes living in Hamburg increased. Therefore the conversion of the seaman's church into a formal parish church was requested. The Swedish Church has been a parish church in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Sweden since the first Advent in 1996, and Olle Sjöholm became the parish's first senior pastor.
In 1997, for the 90th anniversary, a church tower clock was installed in the previously empty clock panels thanks to a donation from parishioner Ume Radbruch.
To mark the 100th anniversary in 2007, the church hall was repainted. The anniversary was celebrated with a festive service on June 2, 2007 in Hamburg's main church St. Michaelis , whose sermon was given by Bishop Lennart Koskinen .
In the Ditmar-Koel-Strasse in the Portuguese Quarter there are other Hamburg seaman's churches , such as the Danish Benedict Church, the Norwegian seaman's church and the Finnish seaman's church.
As a preliminary stage to the monument protection, the Gustaf-Adolfskyrkan is listed like the other Nordic churches as an architectural monument worthy of protection in the register of recognized monuments.
Furnishing
The church bell was a gift from Hans Hansson from Lye on Gotland . It bears the inscription Soli Deo Gloria .
One of the oldest pieces of equipment in the church is the silver baptismal font, which the Swedish Protestants in Hamburg received as a gift as early as 1893. It rests in a wooden baptismal font. The carved altar and pulpit are also made of wood.
The plaster of paris statue of Christ on the wall behind the baptismal font is a replica of a work by the Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen . Another copy is the painting of the Nordic apostle St. Ansgar , the original of which is in the Hamburg main church St. Petri and is attributed to the painter Hans Bornemann . The congregation received this copy on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the church from the ecumenical working group of Christian churches in Hamburg.
Another portrait is that of the patron saint of the seafarers Nikolaus von Myra . The picture of Christ Jesus på korset (Jesus on the cross) was created by the Swedish painter Kent Wahlbeck (* 1950 in Söderhamn ). There is another painting of Christ on the south wall.
The hanging in the church hall votive ship Gustaf Adolf , the model of a three-mast barque , carved and built nearly a year, the captain and Cape Horner Hans Frey wood. He had sailed the oceans with the barque.
Above the exit door is the painting of Christ from the time the church was built. The inscription “Helighet Höves Ditt hus Herre evinnerligen” is on the entrance side.
In 1985 the church received a new organ, which was built by the A. Mårtensson organ factory in Lund .
Honorary Consulate
After the Consulate General on Alsterufer closed in 2008, the building is the seat of the Swedish Honorary Consulate .
literature
- The Swedish Church in Hamburg (ed.): Welcome to the Swedish Gustaf-Adolf Church in Hamburg . Hamburg undated
- Svenska Gustaf-Adolfskyrkan i Hamburg , font for the hundredth anniversary, 2007
Web links
- Svenska kyrkan i Hamburg (Swedish)
- Reports on the 100th anniversary in 2007
- History of the Church (Swedish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Swantje Dake: The churches of Hamburg's Scandinavians. In: Hamburger Morgenpost from November 21, 2007
- ↑ List of recognized monuments according to § 7a Hamburg Monument Protection Act, as of April 13, 2010 (PDF file; 1.9 MB)
- ↑ Sweden closes consulate general. In: Hamburger Abendblatt from July 3, 2008
- ↑ Page of the Swedish Embassy in Berlin ( Memento of the original from February 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 30, 2016.
Coordinates: 53 ° 32 ′ 44.4 " N , 9 ° 58 ′ 23.3" E