Alt-Rahlstedt Church
The on North Church belonging Alt-Rahlstedter Church is the oldest church building in northern Germany with interesting works of art. Today it belongs to Hamburg's Wandsbek district and is located in the Rahlstedt district between Pfarrstrasse and the Wandse River . Up until the Greater Hamburg Law , the town of Rahlstedt and thus also the church belonged to Stormarn , which is why the church is often included in Stormarn in older literature. Connections to the Hamburg area have been preserved to this day. B. the church of Braak a daughter church of the church Alt-Rahlstedt.
Construction and extensions until 1964
The church was built in several sections and is now the result of different construction periods. The main room is made of field stones and has a flat roof, the polygonal choir has a vault. The choir and main room are uniformly roofed with a gable roof. The tower, which is covered with wooden shingles and built in half-timbered construction, is made of brick on the weather side.
The church was first mentioned in a document in 1248, its oldest parts probably date from the late 12th century . Indications of a previous building were found under the choir, but these could not be dated. The nave was probably built first, and the present choir with its early Gothic apse was added in the second half of the 13th century . Around the year 1400 the nave received enlarged windows, one of which has been preserved on the south side, directly next to the vestibule. Today's sacristy is a small porch on the south side, the age of which cannot yet be determined exactly, but which was probably only built after the Reformation . From a previously assumed second porch on the north or river side , no concrete traces have been found to this day. The stone tower was built together with the western porch in the early 17th century, but probably had a free-standing wooden predecessor. All parts of today's roof structures are comparable in age, the roof over the choir dates from 1587, the tower roof from 1610 and the roof of the nave from 1619. All roof structures have been repaired several times over the course of history, but have never been completely replaced. In the main room, the clay floor was not replaced by a stone floor until 1633.
The church used to be surrounded by a cemetery, which was leveled in 1844 after a new cemetery was laid out in 1829 . Today only a memorial column in honor of the citizens of Alt-Rahlstedt who died in the Franco-German War in 1870/1871 and a few gravestones on the outer wall remind of the old cemetery.
The height of the tower is 30 m, the nave is 11 m high, 49 m long and 10 m wide.
Furnishing
On the altar of the church there is an altar piece from 1695. In the arch at the entrance to the chancel hangs a triumphal cross from the 14th century, which was originally a cross for processions and funerals. The baroque pulpit from 1634 comes from the first Wandsbeker church . Count Christian von Schimmelmann gave it to the Alt-Rahlstedt Church in 1801, when this church was demolished, because it seemed too small to him for the new Wandsbeck Church. The two brass chandeliers with the characteristic double-headed eagle hanging in the interior date from 1744.
From the former altar from the 15th century there are still two figures of the apostles , which today decorate the north wall of the choir and represent Peter and James the Elder. Since the church is mentioned as a station church on a medieval “ St. James Pilgrimage ”, some authors conclude, together with the preserved figures of the apostles, that the apostle James could have been the original namesake of the church.
The baptismal bowl , Easter candlesticks and the two altar candlesticks are made of silver and come from the Hamburg silversmith Wilfried Moll .
Many of the colored glass windows were created by Ina Hoßfeld in 1937. Most of these windows were destroyed in a bomb attack in 1943; the Christmas window , the calming of the sea storm and parts of the crucifixion window are still preserved today. The oldest glass window in the church on the north side dates from the end of the 17th century and shows four donor coats of arms from families who financed a large part of the renovations after the Thirty Years' War .
altar
Triumphal cross
pulpit
chandelier
Peter and James
Baptismal font and candlesticks
Bells
The church has three bells, a small Uhrschlagglocke of 1819 outside the tower and two large in the spire of the bells.
The smaller of the bells in the tower is the oldest bell in the church and dates from 1494. It bears the inscription: Anno DM.M.IIIIC.XC.IIII Do.makede.meister.Harmen.Bonstede.desse.Klocken (“Anno Domini.1000.4 one hundred.90.4 master Harmen Bonstede made this bell ”). Today it is considered to be the oldest still existing bell that was delivered to Stormarn by Hamburg foundries. Its strike sound is f ′ , it weighs 930 kg and has a diameter of 1160 mm.
The big bell from 1580 was melted down during the First World War because of the lack of raw materials for armaments production and was not replaced by a new bronze bell until 1930. This also fell victim to the lack of raw materials again in World War II. Today's cast steel bell with the inscription Now praise all God's mercy dates from 1955. Its strike sound is as ′ , it weighs 430 kg and has a diameter of 1050 mm.
Repairs and renovations after 1964
In 1964 the church was extensively restored under the direction of the architects Friedhelm Grundmann and Horst Sandtmann , whereby this work was combined with archaeological research. Since this year there have only been major changes in the interior. In the course of the renovation, the marble crucifix that had previously been on the altar was removed as it turned out to be too bulky for the newly designed room. The crucifix is now on the pastors' burial ground in the Rahlstedt cemetery . The altarpiece was put back on the altar table in 1981 after being hung on the north wall in 1904. The tower received a new roof made of wooden shingles in 1981. During this work, the weathercock was restored at the same time. In the years 2008 to 2010, large parts of the wooden construction elements (roof structure, ceiling beams, half-timbering) had to be renovated due to an infestation with the colorful rodent beetle .
Because of the preserved character of a medieval village church, the Altrahlstedter Church is one of the most popular wedding churches in Hamburg today.
organ
The first organ of the church is mentioned in 1697, it was replaced by a Marcussen organ in 1880 due to its "very moderate" sound . This was in use until 1964; its successor is a Führer organ that was installed in 1969 and still exists today . It has 16 registers , divided into two manuals and a pedal. Your disposition is:
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- Coupling: I / II, II / P and I / P
Photographs
Coordinates: 53 ° 35 ′ 48 ″ N , 10 ° 9 ′ 2 ″ E
View from the east during the 2009 restoration
Field stone wall of the back
Information board
The church in 1903
Spire with weathercock
North side with walled up former entrance door
Detail of the pulpit
Interior, view of the entrance, gallery and organ
literature
- Ralf Lange : Architecture in Hamburg . Junius Verlag, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-88506-586-9 , p. 208 .
- Thilo Schöfbeck: Building- historical report of the church Alt-Rahlstedt . 2009, p. 1–7 ( kirche-alt-rahlstedt.de [accessed on November 25, 2011]).
- Gottwalt Hübner, Gerhard Modersitzki: The Alt-Rahlstedter Church in the past and present . Parish Alt-Rahlstedt, Hamburg 1965.
- Annemarie Lutz: Rahlstedt 1927 to 1977. Forays through half a century . M + K Hansa Verlag, Hamburg 1977, ISBN 3-920610-17-2 .
- Annemarie Lutz: Altrahlstedt on the Rahlau. Local history considerations from the first decades of the 20th century . Hiltrud Tiedemann Verlag, Hamburg 1989, ISBN 3-926102-04-7 .
- Peter Kriz, Horst Klöckner: Church to Alt-Rahlstedt (information flyer) . Parish Alt-Rahlstedt, Hamburg 2011.
Web links
- Official website of the church
- Detailed history of Alt-Rahlstedt and its church
- Rahlstedter Kulturverein
Individual evidence
- ^ Dietrich Hellmund: The historical context of the document from 1248, which was the first to mention the place "Rahlstedt" . In: Rahlstedter Yearbook for History & Culture . No. 8 . Rahlstedter Kulturverein, 2006, p. 68-72 .
- ↑ Going to church in Alt-Rahlstedt by Otto Speckter , 1861; Retrieved December 6, 2011.
- ^ Helmuth Fricke, Michael Pommerening, Richard Hölck: The churches on the Wandsbeker market . Mühlenbek-Verlag, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-9807460-2-X , p. 22-24 .
- ↑ Examples of Wilfried Moll's work for churches. Retrieved March 5, 2012.
- ↑ Biography ( Memento of the original dated December 29, 2015 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. by Ina Hoßfeld. Website of the Museum Naumburg . Retrieved November 25, 2011.
- ↑ Hans G. Stark: The rooster shows again where the wind is blowing from . In: Hamburger Abendblatt . October 13, 1981.
- ↑ Result of the renovation ( Memento of the original from September 15, 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. on the homepage of the municipality. Retrieved November 25, 2011.
- ↑ Entry in the organ database orgbase.nl . Retrieved September 26, 2012.
