Church at Rockenhof (Hamburg-Volksdorf)
The Evangelical Lutheran Church at Rockenhof in the center of Hamburg 's Volksdorf district, directly on the Rockenhof street of the same name, stands on the top of a hill, the entire top of which is built on with buildings for church use. In addition to the church, this includes a building for the church district and a community center.
Building the church
Until the 20th century, Volksdorf ecclesiastically belonged to the Bergstedt community and in 1933 received approval from there to set up a parish of its own, which in 1934 was occupied by the future provost Peter Hansen Petersen. In 1935 negotiations began on the development of the property and its transfer to the parish. They failed in 1938 at a time when the ideas competition for the construction of the church had already been completed and the church council had already decided on a design by the Volksdorf architect Walter Ahrendt . Shortly afterwards , the National Socialist authorities surprisingly granted permission to build the pastorate, which was completed in 1939.
After the end of the Second World War , Petersen was appointed provost of Stormarn and relocated the administration of the provost's office to the people's village, which was largely spared from war damage. On October 22, 1950, the foundation stone was laid for the church, which was built on the basis of the design selected before the war. Until the end of the construction work, no agreement could be reached on a name for the church, the name “Kirche am Rockenhof” remained. The church was consecrated on October 5, 1952, Thanksgiving Sunday .
The building is a brick building with a basilical cross-section and a semicircular apse . The reinforced concrete trusses used show flat pointed arches on the inside and, like the step portal and the arched frieze on the tower, refer to much older building traditions. You can clearly see the design from before the Second World War .
The 36 m high tower, visible from afar, is offset to the side of the nave .
A major renovation was carried out from 1988 to 1989 by Bernhard Hirche , who replaced the central door from the vestibule to the nave with two side entrances, thereby shielding the baptismal font, which originally stood in the axis of the entrance to the altar, with a semicircular wall shell. At the same time, new underfloor heating was installed.
Furnishing
The interior is reminiscent of Gothic churches with its high ceiling, pointed arches and slender windows . The stalls on either side of the central aisle face the apse and the altar there, which is dominated by the crucifixion group.
Today's interior is shaped by the renovation of the 1980s. In addition to the changes in the baptismal font , the church received the globe candlestick Andreas Kahl and a second further into the nave into gerückten altar table . Since then, the change in the color scheme and the new windows by Jochem Poensgen have made the room appear bright and friendly.
The crucifixion group with the older altar in the apse, like the baptismal font and the pulpit, was made by Karl Schubert .
Bells and tower clock
The church has three bronze bells from the Rincker bell foundry , which were used for the first time during the 5th German Evangelical Church Congress in Hamburg in 1953 and which were installed in the bell tower after it was completed.
The church tower clock from 1953 is a gift from Adolf Grimmes , the then general director of the Northwest German Broadcasting Corporation . The watch was overhauled in 1983.
organ
In 1953 the church received its first complete organ from the Kemper organ building workshop in Lübeck. In 1996 the devastating verdict “The organ is scrap” ( Propst Helmer-Christoph Lehmann ) was passed on them. Moisture and inferior building materials from the post-war period had seriously affected the sound of the instrument. In the same year, an association was founded to acquire a new organ, which was able to raise the necessary financial resources.
For the new organ, the cantor of the church district, Volkmar Zehner, together with the organ expert of the North Elbian Church, Hans-Martin Petersen, developed the idea of designing an organ with a sound that is unusual for Hamburg. Since Zehner was heavily influenced by his studies in France, it was decided to use an organ in the southern German-Alsatian style, such as that shaped by Aristide Cavaillé-Coll . Consequently, the southern German organ building company Mühleisen was commissioned with the construction , which completed the organ in 2002 with the following planning :
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- Coupling: II / I, III / I, III / II, III / I 16 ′, III / II 16 ′, III / III 16 ′, I / P, II / P, III / P, III / P 4 ′
- Playing aids : dual stop action, 4096-fold typesetting system , register crescendo
Parish and parish
From its foundation in 1948 until 2009, the congregation was part of the Stormarn church district and the seat of the provosts there, and in 2012 it belonged to the Hamburg-Ost church district. The former Stormarn provost's office, located directly next to the church, is used today for the purposes of the Hamburg-Ost church district. The new parish hall built by Bernhard Hirche in 1995 is also in the immediate vicinity of the church.
The first pastor of the parish Propst Peter Hansen Petersen was a spokesman for the television program Das Wort zum Sonntag until the 1960s .
Differences of opinion before and after an election to the church council in 1984 ensure a public response and take several years to resolve.
In November 1999 the congregation built two small so-called “church katen” on the Rockenhof site in order to provide accommodation to people who were previously homeless.
There is close cooperation in community work with the neighboring Roman Catholic community of the Holy Cross Church . When the Catholic Church was rebuilt, care was taken to ensure that the bells were in harmony with those of the Evangelical Church.
Photographs and map
Coordinates: 53 ° 39 ′ 3 ″ N , 10 ° 9 ′ 53 ″ E
Tower and retaining walls of the nave
Side window by Jochem Poensgen
Chairs and side windows
Baptismal font
pulpit
Interior, view of the organ and the baptismal font
literature
- Ralf Lange: Architecture in Hamburg . Junius Verlag, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-88506-586-9 , p. 219 .
- Gertrud Schiller : Hamburg's new churches 1951–1961 . Ed .: Evangelical Lutheran Church Hamburg. Hans Christians Verlag, Hamburg 1961, p. 23, 83 .
- Friedhelm Grundmann, Thomas Helms: When stones preach . Medien Verlag Schubert, Hamburg 1993, ISBN 3-929229-14-5 , p. 132 f .
- Frank Kürschner-Pelkmann: "You are the light of the world", from the story of the Ev.-Luth. Volksdorf community . Evangelical Lutheran Church Community of Volksdorf, Hamburg 2000.
Web links
- Church at Rockenhof on the website of the community
- History of the new organ
- Homepage of the Hamburg-Ost church district
- List of recognized monuments of the city of Hamburg ( Memento from November 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Frank Kürschner-Pelkmann: "You are the light of the world", from the history of Ev.-Luth. Volksdorf community . Evangelical Lutheran Church Community Volksdorf, Hamburg 2000, p. 121 .
- ↑ Disposition ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 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. the Mühleisen organ on the municipality's website. Retrieved May 2, 2012.
- ↑ Data on the formation of the Hamburg-Ost church district on the homepage of the church district archive. Retrieved on May 7, 2012 ( Memento of February 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ List of speakers for the Sunday Word on the ARD homepage . Retrieved May 3, 2012.
