Church of the Twelve Apostles (Hamburg-Lurup)
The Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Twelve Apostles in the Hamburg district of Lurup, directly on Elbgaustraße, carries over construction forms from the 1920s to the 1950s in an independent way.
Building the church
On July 13, 1954, the parish council of Eidelstedt decided to set up a parish in the growing settlement area southwest of the railway facilities (today the Hamburg-Eidelstedt railway depot is located there ). This area, originally used as an allotment area, gradually turned into a residential area after the Second World War . On April 1, 1958, on the initiative of the Eidelstedt parish, the new "To the Twelve Apostles" congregation was founded in Hamburg-Lurup . The foundation stone was laid on June 29, 1957, and Bishop Halfmann consecrated the church on August 24, 1958 .
The church designed by Friedrich Kraft has 250 seats and was built as part of an assembly from the start. The pastorate , parish hall and church are connected by a spacious covered corridor. The church itself is a two-storey building with a rectangular floor plan that was built as a reinforced concrete structure and faced with brick . Outwardly, the retracted choir with its distinctive group of windows, which is directly oriented towards the nearby Elbgaustraße, forms the defining element. The high, semicircular hipped roof over the choir was initially crowned by a roof turret for a single bell. There is a large community hall in the basement.
Because of the extensive settlement projects in Lurup, the city of Hamburg followed the construction of the church with particular interest. As soon as the building permit was granted, she asked the municipality to build the tower, which is still characteristic today. It was only built in 1962/1963 together with a second pastorate and a confirmation room under the direction of Bernhard Hermkes in a style coordinated with the nave. With the construction of the tower, the roof turret was removed and all the bells moved into the new tower.
Minor changes were made in 1970 with the renovation of the church portal and the relocation of the font to the choir, and in 2006 with the construction of an entrance suitable for the disabled.
Interior
The colored windows in the chancel of the church determine the character of the building and were a decisive factor in the choice of name. They show the exalted Son of God surrounded by the twelve apostles in the heavenly Jerusalem . All window motifs are works by Siegfried Assmann from 1958, which were renovated in 1998 and provided with additional protective glazing. Each of the leaded glass windows shows an elongated figure with individual facial features. All apostles carry a book, but do not show any other of the traditional attributes , so that the viewer can decide for himself which figure he wants to assign to a particular apostle.
The bright choir room is additionally emphasized by the dark wooden ceiling of the main room, which is painted with abstract patterns. The gallery on the west wall has only been accessible via a staircase from the main room since the 1960s.
The rest of the furnishings take a back seat behind the dominating windows. The small crucifix and the baptismal device for the altar are made of bronze and come from Rolf Scheibner , the original sacrament device , altar and Easter candlesticks were made by Gerhard Glüder . On the back wall of the church, the mystery cross, which is firmly attached to the masonry, still reminds of the position of the former baptistery.
The large mosaic "The Joy of the Cross" by Lothar Schreyer hangs in the corridor connecting to the community hall, the former main entrance . It is one of the artist's last major sacred works of art. The design for the unusual ceiling painting in the church can also be traced back to him.
Bells and tower
Four bronze bells from the Rincker bell foundry were procured for the subsequently built tower , the names of which also refer to the Acts of the Apostles and which have been in the church since March 28, 1965.
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No. |
Surname |
Diameter (mm) |
Mass (kg) |
Chime |
inscription |
use |
| 1 | Christ bell | King of the times, law of the centuries, light of the blind, leader of the peoples - Christ | Funeral bell | |||
| 2 | Peter Bell | You are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church. ( Mt 16, 18, Lut EU ) | Prayer bell | |||
| 3 | Paul Bell | I planted, Apollos watered, but God made it flourish. ( 1 Cor 3, 6, Lut EU ) | Wedding bell | |||
| 4th | St. John's Bell | This is the disciple who testifies of these things, and we know that his testimony is true. ( Joh 21, 24, Lut EU ) | Baptismal bell |
During an extensive construction survey in 2012/2013 it was found that the concrete of the bell tower was in need of renovation. Since the stability of the tower was not guaranteed, the entire bell chamber had to be removed from the tower in 2013 and the bells stored together with the tower cross. A date for the renovation of the tower has not yet been set.
organ
The organ of the church was built in 1963 by the Marcussen company. Since none of the organ building companies in question wanted or could build an organ on the gallery opposite the altar, it is now to the left of the choir room. Your disposition is:
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- 3 normal coupling: II / I, I / P, II / P
Development of the community
In the middle of 1959 the number of parishioners was given as 6,836, at the end of the 1970s the parish had over 12,000 parish members, since the 2000s the number has been just under 4,000. Accordingly, the number of pastors fluctuated from one to three and then back to one. Since 2007 the church belongs to the parish association Lurup - Osdorfer Born .
A day care center has existed since 1966, a day care center for the elderly since 1978, and the community has been running various social services in Lurup and Osdorf since 1972 .
Photographs and map
Coordinates: 53 ° 35 ′ 58.7 " N , 9 ° 53 ′ 13" E
Tower renovation 2013
New entrance building and nave
View to the west gallery
baptism
literature
- Gertrud Schiller : Hamburg's new churches 1951–1961 . Ed .: Evangelical Lutheran Church Hamburg. Hans Christians Verlag, Hamburg 1961, p. 88 .
- Karin Berkemann: "Tomorrow's architecture!" Ed .: Monument Protection Office Hamburg. Dölling and Galitz Verlag , Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-937904-60-3 , p. 66 f .
- Parish Lurup (Ed.): Booklet for the festival week . Self-published, Hamburg 2008.
- Parish Lurup (Ed.): 1958 1978, 20 years of the Church of the 12 Apostles . Self-published, Hamburg 1978.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information about the bells on the municipality's website. Retrieved March 1, 2016.
- ↑ Entry in the organ database orgbase.nl . Retrieved March 16, 2013.
Web links
- Homepage of the community
- Directory of the cultural monuments of the city of Hamburg