Kreuzkirche (Ottensen)
The Kreuzkirche at the intersection of Behringstrasse / Hohenzollernring in Hamburg-Ottensen is a neo-Gothic building from 1898, which is used today by the Evangelical-Lutheran Tabita parish. Concerts are occasionally held.
Building the church
In 1889 the once independent Ottensen came to the Holstein city of Altona , which grew steadily over the years. In 1896, plans were passed for an expansion of the residential areas to the west, which also envisaged a new church building in an exposed urban area at the intersection between two future streets. This was designed by Fernando Lorenzen , who was guided by the Wiesbaden mountain church of his teacher Johannes Otzen . Construction began in 1897, and the inauguration took place after a very short construction period on November 22, 1898. Amandus Weinreich was the first pastor of the church , who had also accompanied the construction of the church.
The small cruciform church is a typical town church of the Wilhelminian era : built from red brick in combination with glaze stones to emphasize the building details and with copper roofs, it takes up the tradition of brick Gothic. It is a central hall church with a cross-shaped floor plan with a central 67 m high crossing tower . There are numerous small decorative elements on the church, such as wrought-iron gargoyles , bud-like capitals and a mosaic in the tympanum of the portal . The church stands on a small, horticultural designed traffic island at the intersection of the busy Behringstrasse and the Hohenzollernring. Originally, it was the first completed structure in the new quarter and had stood alone on a meadow.
During the First World War the original copper roof was removed for armament purposes, the air raids in the Second World War only destroyed a few windows; the building itself remained largely undamaged.
In the years 1993 to 1998 and 2001 to 2007, extensive repairs were carried out by Joachim Reinig's architectural office , but these were not completed due to insufficient funding. The necessary remaining costs are estimated at more than € 1.2 million, even with secure financing, the renovation should only be completed after 2017.
inner space
The originally richly furnished neo-Gothic interior was radically transformed after the First World War . Ornaments and figures on the altar and pulpit were removed and the Byzantine-looking painting was painted over in one color. The side entrances to the galleries in need of renovation still bear witness to the original furnishings. Further changes were made in the years from 1938 to 1940 and from 1952 to 1955 and 1968. From 1992 to 1998 the entire church hall was repainted according to a design by Hans Kock .
- Interior views
View from the gallery to the altar
View to the southwest
West wing
Furnishing
Today's interior is characterized by works by the artist Siegfried Assmann and his personal style development. He made the pulpit, baptismal font and altar, which he created in 1968 together with the choir windows. The brass baptismal font is from 1898. The more impressive and lavishly designed windows are, however, east and west windows, which he made as early as 1956 as a replacement for the original rose window. The east window shows a crucifixion scene in shades of blue and green, while the west window shows Christ as judge of the world in shades of yellow, surrounded by symbols of the evangelists and apostles. The altar has a cross-shaped top made of bronze , on which scenes from the Easter story can be found and which is therefore also called the Easter Cross of the Kreuzkirche .
Four of the five wooden figures originally made by the Hamburg artist Carl Schümann hang on the corner pillars of the interior . From 1939 to 1968 the figures were attached to the pulpit. They represent John the Baptist, the risen Christ, the Apostles Paul and Peter and John the Evangelist. The latter figure is in private hands.
organ
Today's organ in the Kreuzkirche is already its third instrument. From 1898 to 1955 the church had an organ from the workshop of Kemper und Sohn in Lübeck, which, however, had to give up organ pipes in both world wars and the defects and damage were repeatedly topics of concern in the church council. However, the second organ soon showed technical and sonic defects that had been known since the 1970s. In the late 1980s, planning began for a new organ.
It was built in 1993 by the organ builder G. Christian Lobback (Neuendeich near Hamburg), consists of 1786 pipes and has 29 registers on grinding windchests. Three registers of the main work can be extracted into the pedal using alternating loops . The swell is doubly swellable. The instrument has mechanical playing and electrical stop actions . Its disposition was deliberately designed neither as a baroque organ nor as a romantic organ, but rather tailored specifically to the existing church space:
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- Italic registers with mechanical transmission
- Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
- Playing aids : 4000-fold general setting system , sequencer
The area around the church
At the same time as the Kreuzkirche, the pastorate and the parish hall opposite the church were built, which takes up the style of the church. The exposed location of the church on a traffic island is based on a concept by the city planner Hermann Joseph Stübben from 1893 for the western expansion of Ottensen.
The area southeast of the Kreuzkirche between Hohenzollernring and Fischers Allee was almost completely spared from bombing during the Second World War . Here and in the north-western neighborhood of the church there are still many residential buildings from the Wilhelminian era, but also “modern” brick Expressionist buildings from the time of communal housing construction, which was largely operated by Gustav Oelsner , in the 1920s and 1930s , which together form a picture of Hamburg and Altona mediate the war.
Photographs and map
Coordinates: 53 ° 33 '12 " N , 9 ° 55' 5" E
View of the north and main facade
Details on the facade
Vaulted ceiling
West window
East window
altar
Apostle figures
See also
- List of cross churches, other churches named after the Holy Cross .
literature
- Ralf Lange: Architecture in Hamburg . Junius Verlag , Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-88506-586-9 , p. 255 .
- Tabita parish Ottensen-Othmarschen (ed.): The Kreuzkirche . Hamburg (Flyer, after 1998).
- K. Marut-Schröter: Altona, Ottensen, Neumühlen in Change . Medien Verlag Schubert, Hamburg 1993.
- Burkhart Springstubbe: ... just the consideration of health, beauty and decoration ... - a Wilhelmine square group on the Hohenzollernring. In: Stadtteilarchiv Ottensen (Hrsg.): Schauplatz Ottensen - history and stories of the Ottenser places. Hamburg-Altona 2003.
- Church council of the Kreuzkirche Hamburg-Ottensen (ed.): Festschrift for the inauguration of the organ . Hamburg 1993.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Brief description of the last repair on the homepage of the Reinig architects' office. Retrieved March 13, 2012.
- ↑ cf. Report Plan-R architects' office Joachim Reinig: Kreuzkirche report 2011, church renovation since 1995 and current renovation needs
- ↑ Flyer of the parish on the need for renovation. Hamburg, 2011.
- ^ Ernst Hansen: The Easter cross of the Kreuzkirche Hamburg-Ottensen . Kreuzkirchengemeinde Hamburg-Ottensen, Hamburg 1998.
- ↑ More information about the organ of the Kreuzkirche ( memento of the original from August 1, 2007 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.
Web links
- Tabita parish
- Inform the community about the necessary renovation
- List of recognized monuments of the city of Hamburg (PDF; 1.4 MB)