Johanneskirche (Friedrichsgabe)
The Johanneskirche is an Evangelical Lutheran church in Friedrichsgabe - a district of Norderstedt since 1970 . The church is located on Bahnhofstrasse in the middle of the old center near the Friedrichsgaber School and the old town hall. The building was created according to plans by the Hamburg architect Heinz Graaf . The church was considered an example of modern village churches in industrial communities. The foundation stone was laid on September 6, 1964, and inaugurated on April 3, 1966.
It is a typical reinforced concrete building of the time with brick cladding, which is covered by copper plates. The ground plan of the church is a square with the altar arranged in a corner of the room opposite the entrance. It stands on it as a tent church with four triangular gable walls. The tower is connected to the church by a pergola . The design artists are Pit von Frihling (entrance door, crowning of the roof, steeple cock), Gerhard Hausmann (ribbon windows) and Karl Heinz Engelin (chancel with Christ figure, baptismal font, pulpit and altar with free-standing candlesticks).
organ
The organ on the gallery above the entrance, inaugurated in 1971, comes from the organ builder Alfred Führer . It has 20 registers , which are divided between two manuals and a pedal . The instrument has mechanical sliding drawers and register pulls and has an unevenly floating tuning according to Johann Georg Neidhardt "for a large city" (a '= 440).
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- Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
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Coordinates: 53 ° 43 '54.3 " N , 9 ° 59' 32.5" E