Main Church St. Nikolai (Hamburg-Harvestehude)

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St. Nikolai in Hamburg-Harvestehude
Entrance hall window

The main church of St. Nicholas was in 1962 Hamburg-Harvestehude on Klosterstern / Harvestehuderweg inaugurated and has served as the main church , the war-torn former Church of St. Nicholas in the city center from which persists in ruins as a memorial today. The municipality of the new Nikolaikirche was formed from parts of the parishes of St. Johannis (Harvestehude) , St. Johannis (Eppendorf) , Matthäusgemeinde (Winterhude) and St. Andreas (Harvestehude) . The old parish of the destroyed St. Nikolai Church was transferred to the jurisdiction of the main churches of St. Katharinen and St. Michaelis .

Architecture and building history

St. Nikolai was designed as a round building with a bell tower. The design comes from the architects Dieter and Gerhard Langmaack . With the weather vane around 3 meters high, the tower reaches a height of 89.4 meters, making it the seventh highest church tower in Hamburg after the towers of the five old main churches and the St. Gertrud Church on the Uhlenhorst . The total length is about 40.5 meters and the width is about 35 meters.

The building is considered to be one of the most important sacred buildings in Hamburg built in the post-war period. The architects chose a goblet-shaped floor plan for the asymmetrically curved nave . This should unite the community in front of the altar without blurring the spatial boundary to the altar area. The church interior, vaulted by a light, structured wooden ceiling with more than 500 seats is aligned with the simple altar and the altarpiece.

On January 27, 2006, the church and its furnishings were entered in Hamburg's list of historical monuments.

Furnishing

Since the new main church St. Nikolai is understood as the successor to the destroyed Nikolaikirche, the furnishings refer to the present-day memorial in many places.

The altarpiece, a mosaic called Ecce Homines (“See, the people”), which was created in 1974 by the Italian artist Sergio Cicognani based on a design by Oskar Kokoschka , is a counterpart to the similar mosaic in black and white in the choir old Nikolaikirche. The mosaic is not set into the wall, but hangs freely as a picture above the altar cross.

This crucifix, as well as three bronze reliefs on the pulpit were designed by the sculptor Fritz Fleer . Also by him is the St. Nicholas door on the west facade, created in 1985 , which depicts three scenes from the legend of St. Nicholas.

The church window in the entrance hall shows various scenes from the Revelation of John . It was completed in 1939 by Elisabeth Coester for the old St. Nikolai Church, but was no longer installed there due to the war. The architects were able to design the entrance hall of the new Nikolaikirche especially for this window.

Interior with organ

The stones of the baptismal altar, the torso of a figure of Christ and a statue of Archbishop Ansgar in the entrance hall come from the ruins of the old Nikolaikirche .

Organs

The organ is on the right gallery, its prospectus takes up the motif of the ship's bow, which is popular in Hamburg. The external design of the organ goes back to an idea by the architect Gerhard Langmaack , who had the instrument attached to a steel frame on the outside wall of the church because of its heavy weight. The planning was carried out by Ernst-Karl Rössler from the Freiburg University of Music , the construction took place in 1966 by the Cologne-based organ building company Willi Peter . Until Easter 2018, the instrument was not only used in church services, but also for concerts. The slider chest instrument has 63  stops on four manual works and a pedal . The playing and stop actions are electric.

Today the organ is no longer ready to play and has been shut down. Donations are collected for a new organ.

Disposition of the Peter organ from 1966
I Rückpositiv C – g 3
Covered for musicians 8th'
Pointed flute 8th'
Praestant 4 '
Reed flute 4 '
Nasat 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
octave 2 '
Night horn 2 '
third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
Pipe-milled 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
octave 1'
Cimbel V 2 ⁄ 3 ′
Rohrkrummhorn 16 '
Vox Virginia 8th'
Tremulant
II Hauptwerk C – g 3
Pipe pommer 16 '
Principal 8th'
Gemshorn 8th'
Funnel covered 8th'
Octave 4 '
Reed flute 4 '
Schwiegel 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Octave 2 '
Block whistle 2 '
Large mix VIII-IX 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Scharff V 1'
Trumpet 16 '
Trumpet 8th'
Cimbelstern
III Swell C – g 3
Gemshorn 16 '
Lead octave 8th'
Cane-covered 8th'
Black viola 8th'
Octava Nazarda 4 '
Pointed flute 4 '
Principal 4 '
Octave 2 '
Double reed flute 2 '
Sesquialtera III 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Chip. Rear set III-IV 4 '
Mixture VI 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
bassoon 16 '
Head trumpet 8th'
Clarine 4 '
Tremulant
IV Kronwerk C – g 3
Covered flute 8th'
Coupling flute 4 '
Gemshorn 2 '
Terzian II
Cimbel II 1 ⁄ 3 ′
Gemshorn shelf 8th'
Bright trumpet 4 '
Tremulant
Pedals C – f 1
Principal 16 '
Sub bass 16 '
Quintbass 10 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Octavbass 8th'
Tubular crossbeam 8th'
Octave 4 '
Swiss flute 4 '
Dulcian 2 '
Rauschwerk IV 5 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Grand Terzian II 3 1 ⁄ 5  ′
Mixture V-VI 2 '
trombone 16 '
Dulcian 16 '
Trumpet 8th'
Bright trumpet 4 '
  • Pair : I / II, III / II, IV / II, IV / III, I / P, II / P, III / P, IV / P

The organ of the baptistery was built in 2019 by the organ building company Klais (Bonn). The purely mechanical instrument has 12 registers on two manual works and a pedal. The prospectus was designed based on the formal language of the main organ and takes up the sail motif again.

I Rückpositiv C – f 3
01. Copula 08th'
02. Lulls 04 '
03. Fifth (first no. 4) 02 2 ⁄ 3  '
04th Sesquialter II 02 2 ⁄ 3  '
Tremulant
II Hauptwerk C – f 3
05. Principal 08th'
06th Gamba 08th'
07th Drone 08th'
08th. Octav 04 '
09. Fifth 01 1 ⁄ 3  '
10. Mixture III 02 '
Pedal C – f 1
11. Sub bass 16 '
12. Dacked bass 08th'

Bells

The five-part, pentatonic bell was cast in 1962 by Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling in Heidelberg . The material of the bells from the old Nikolaikirche was used .

No.
  		Surname
  		Diameter
(mm) 		Mass
(kg) 		Chime
 
1 Peace bell 2,170 7,354 g 0
2 Apostle bell ≈1,900 4,751 a 0
3 Hometown bell ≈1,590 2,639 c 1
4th Nicholas bell ≈1,400 1,945 d 1
5 Eternity bell ≈1,320 1,590 e 1

Photographs and map

Coordinates: 53 ° 34 ′ 52 ″  N , 9 ° 59 ′ 26 ″  E

Map: Hamburg
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New main church St. Nikolai​
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  • View from the north with a rose window

  • Tower and wall of the nave

  • Altar and altarpiece

  • Large window in the main room

  • Christ torso from the old Nikolaikirche

  • Nicholas door

  • Detail on the main window

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Sankt Nikolai-Kirche, Hamburg-Harvestehude  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Height of St. Nikolai determined by indirect height measurements on August 19, 2009 by J. Möhring.
  2. ↑ Determination of the total length and width via satellite image (August 2009); Dimensions excluding the community hall.
  3. ^ Gertrud Schiller : Hamburgs new churches 1951-1961 . Ed .: Evangelical Lutheran Church Hamburg. Hans Christians Verlag, Hamburg 1961, p. 80 .
  4. ↑ Altarpiece Ecce Homines , see also: Memorial St. Nikolai: Ecce Homo. Oskar Kokoschka accessed on May 7, 2011
  5. ↑ Hamburg, Germany (Hamburg) - Hauptkirche Sankt Nikolai (Sankt Nikolaikirche am Klosterstern). In: Orgeldatatbase NL. Piet Bron, accessed November 26, 2015 .
  6. ↑ A main church with a decommissioned organ. Retrieved May 5, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Information on the organ of the baptistery on the website of the builder company
  8. ↑ Name, mass and chime according to the board in the church entrance. January 20, 2012.
  9. ↑ Video recording of the bells on YouTube.de