Church on the market (Hamburg-Niendorf)
The Evangelical Lutheran Church on the market in Hamburg-Niendorf is next to the Gnadenkirche in the Karolinenviertel the second sacred central building in the Hamburg city area and is considered the most important baroque building in the city after the Michel .
prehistory
The village of Niendorf belonged to the County of Holstein-Pinneberg until it was annexed in 1640 to the Duchy of Holstein, which was under Danish administration . There was soon a long dispute with the Danish royal family about the recognition of the imperial city of Hamburg and the sovereign rights of the areas in the north of the Hanseatic city , which in the years 1768/1769 under the rule of Christian VII finally led to the so-called Gottorp settlement . Among other things, this agreement stipulated that the neighboring Eppendorf should be part of the church of Hamburg, while Niendorf and five other villages should remain in Danish ownership. As a result of the separation, the villages around Niendorf were cut off from their parent church St. Johannis in Eppendorf and so a new church was necessary soon after the contract was signed.
Architecture and construction of the church
For the construction of the Niendorf Church, the architect Heinrich Schmidt was engaged, who designed the new building based on the models - and possibly still existing plans at the time - of Cay Dose's Rellinger Church and the church in Brande-Hörnerkirchen . The octagonal Niendorfer Marktkirche, built between 1769 and 1770, corresponds to the ideal image of a Protestant church of the 18th century , in which the believers have an equally good view of the dominant pulpit from everywhere. The church was made of brick and the walls were broken up with large, double arched windows, which gives the interior a special generosity. The dome-like gambrel roof crowned Schmidt with a lantern-shaped roof skylights . The church was ready to be consecrated as early as 1770 . The first pastor was Johann Christoph Friedrich Rist (1735–1807), a descendant of Johann Rist from an old Hamburg pastor family. His son, Johann Georg Rist , described the building in his memoirs:
“The church, located at the highest point in the area, forms an octagon and, with the square, regular churchyard, its linden trees and the surrounding wall of field stones, offers a friendly viewpoint for the area. […] The parsonage was finished, spacious and nice, the country house with cow and horse stable under the same roof; some paddocks of good land and some meadows were assigned to the pastor. "
Furnishing
Above the main portal and above the pulpit , small golden monograms of the Danish King Christian VII remind of the initiator of the new building and thus also of the circumstances that led to the construction of the late baroque church. The interior is kept entirely in pink and gray tones, the ceiling shell in ocher, and is surrounded by a wooden gallery . The color scheme is the result of an extensive restoration in 1986 in which, among other things, attempts were made to restore the original colors of the room.
The center of the hall-like space is the festive pulpit altar, crowned by an organ, which is supposed to represent the three main elements of a Protestant church: sacrament, word and music. A wooden angel hovers in front of the altar , holding the baptismal vessel in his hands and lowering it for baptism . The free-standing marble altar was designed by the sculptor Hans Kock and also set up as part of the renovation in 1986. The altar base is made of marble and shows a bunch of grapes as a reference to the word of Jesus "I am the vine, you are the branches" ( Jn 15,5 EU ). Slightly below the pulpit on the outside of the altar are two striking wooden figures of Moses and John . Like the baptismal angel, these two sculptures were made in 1785 and probably by the same, now unknown artist. The picture of the Last Supper under the pulpit is a copy from 1902 of the famous work of Leonardo da Vinci .
On both sides of the altar there are sacristies below the gallery. A crucifix from around 1700 has been hanging on the left gallery since 1977 , which the community received as a permanent loan from the Museum of Hamburg History . An eye of God is depicted in the center of the dome.
As part of the Open Church project, the church is also open to visitors outside of church services.
organ
The first organ in the church was built in 1770 by Johann Daniel Busch . Your prospectus has been received. In 1908 it was replaced by an instrument made by Marcussen & Sohn . This was redesigned twice, first in 1937 by the Kemper company , then expanded in 1949 by the Walcker company .
In 1969 it was replaced by the largest organ in the church to date, an instrument made by the Peter company with 36 registers . It soon turned out, however, that this organ could only be played very imprecisely. Therefore, in 1993 it was decided to build another new building using old pipe material.
Today's organ was built in 1995 by the Schuke company in Berlin and the historic prospectus was restored at the same time. The instrument was completely overhauled by the builder company in 2012. The disposition is:
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- 3 normal coupling: II / I, I / P, II / P
- Playing aids : Setter system with 2 levels of 4 × 8 combinations
- Cymbal peal (since 2009)
Until his appointment as the new regional church music director in June 2008, Hans-Jürgen Wulf was cantor and organist of the church. His successor until July 2019 was Gudrun Sonja Fliegner.
The Niendorf cemeteries
The Alte Niendorfer Friedhof begins right at the church . On the approximately five hectare site there are many family tombs and artistic tombs from the past centuries , as well as old trees . A mausoleum in the forms of neo exists here. Its extension is the significantly larger New Niendorfer Friedhof , which is now separated from the church by two large streets.
Photographs and map
Coordinates: 53 ° 37 ′ 2 ″ N , 9 ° 56 ′ 57 ″ E
Monogram of the Danish king on the organ gallery
Statue of John the Evangelist on the altar
Baptism angel
altar
literature
- R. Hootz (Hrsg.): Picture manual of the art monuments Hamburg & Schleswig-Holstein. German art publisher, 1981.
- Ralf Lange : Architecture in Hamburg . Junius Verlag, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-88506-586-9 , p. 231 .
- Friedhelm Grundmann, Thomas Helms: When stones preach . Medien Verlag Schubert, Hamburg 1993, ISBN 3-929229-14-5 , p. 56-59 .
- Matthias Gretzschel : Churches in Hamburg: history, architecture, offers . Axel Springer Verlag, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-921305-92-6 , pp. 74 f .
- Parish of Niendorf (ed.): Church on the market, Hamburg-Niendorf . Self-published, Hamburg (Flyer, after 1995).
- Veronika Janssen: Nicely octagonal, with a spire in the middle - 250 years of the church on the market in Niendorf, a chronicle of the community and the district of Niendorf . Ed .: Forum Kollau in collaboration with the Niendorf parish. Edition Forum Kollau, Hamburg 2020, ISBN 978-3-00-065523-4 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ present, church newspaper for niendorf, October-November 2012.
- ↑ Historical disposition until 1995 in the organ database orgbase.nl , accessed on July 28, 2016.
- ↑ Disposition of the Schuke organ. (pdf) Accessed February 5, 2019 .
- ↑ Presentation ( Memento of the original from December 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. the Niendorfer Friedhöfe on the homepage of the municipality.
- ↑ Sources of supply
Web links
- Ev.-Luth. Churches in Niendorf
- History of the church with audio sample of the bells on the homepage of the NDR .