Maria Grün (Hamburg-Blankenese)
The Maria Grün church , actually Sankt Mariä Himmelfahrt , in Hamburg-Blankenese is a Catholic parish church from the time of the Weimar Republic . It is located on the south-eastern edge of the district at the intersection of Schenefelder Landstrasse and Elbchaussee , not far from the district boundary to Nienstedten on an area formerly belonging to the village of Dockenhuden . The deer park and the formerly independent settlement Mühlenberg separate the church from the Elbe .
Construction and architecture
The church was built by Clemens Holzmeister from 1928 to 1930 and consecrated on September 7, 1930. This makes it the last new Catholic church in Hamburg before the end of the Weimar Republic . The name Maria Grün is derived from the tree-lined surroundings (seven lime trees, parkland). The public shortened the name Maria im Grünen , which was initially used , to Maria Grün in the 1930s .
The church is considered to be an outstanding example of church construction in the Weimar Republic . The construction of the with its round volumes, the two cylinders and the cuboid entrance and bell tower is associated with the ideals of the New Building . The circular shape is the predominant architectural form principle. It is considered to be a "speaking" form that has been God's geometric determination since ancient times . It was traditionally used to symbolize security and unity. This shape can be found in the arched windows and the semicircular apse , where it gives the building a conservative note.
The exterior of the church is determined by the brick facade. A semicircular outside staircase carries the circular shape into the church forecourt. The north facade is dominated by the angular shape of the tower, while the south side is dominated by a circumferential base level with niches for the sacristy and chapels.
After a renovation in the 1980s, a complete renovation was carried out in 2007, in which the side chapels in particular were made lighter and more accessible. Over the years, the front access area has also been redesigned several times, including a ramp that is suitable for the disabled.
Furnishing
The church windows by the Düsseldorf painter Heinrich Campendonk are significant and formative for the interior . The five choir windows, dominated by larger-than-life angel figures, fill the church with the dominant colors yellow, orange and red when exposed to sunlight thanks to the south-facing direction. The other symbol windows in the nave show the motifs love (heart), hope (anchor) and faith (cross). A duplicate of one of the chapel windows is in the Vatican Museum .
The pews follow the shape of the circular walls of the interior, which is the first time in a Catholic church in Hamburg that the liturgical area and the congregation are spatially combined.
organ
The church has had a Beckerath organ since 1963 . Your disposition is:
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- Coupling: II / I, I / P, II / P
Bells
The bells of the church include two OTTO bells, which were cast by the renowned Otto bell foundry from Hemelingen / Bremen in 1936 and which survived the destruction of the bells by the Nazis in World War II.
local community
At the beginning of the building stock of the community included a thatched roof house that was replaced by a new community hall in the 1980s. Furthermore, the parish has a three-class Catholic primary school and a kindergarten. The latter is located in the "Paulushaus" right next to the church. Since the early 1990s, a newly built retirement home in Hamburg-Rissen - near the community's chapel that already existed there with regular services - has also been part of the community area. The actual chapel was demolished in 2005, and services are now taking place in the abbey.
The parish of St. Paulus-Augustinus in Hamburg-Groß Flottbek has been merged with the parish of Maria Grün since 2006 and is also supplied by the local parish.
The parish of St. Brother Konrad in Hamburg-Osdorf has been part of the Maria Grün parish since the beginning of 2015.
Since the beginning of 2015, the congregation has been developing a pastoral space with the congregations of St. Brother Konrad in Hamburg-Osdorf and the parish of St. Marien in Hamburg-Ottensen.
Photographs and map
Coordinates: 53 ° 33 ′ 40 ″ N , 9 ° 49 ′ 24 ″ E
Entrance area
View from the west
Organ and north gallery
Ceiling window in the main room
One of the south windows
literature
- Christian Fuhrmeister: Avant-garde in the Diaspora. The Catholic Church Maria Grün in Hamburg-Blankenese (1929/30). In: The Minster. Journal for Christian Art and Art History. Vol. 52, No. 4, 1999, ISSN 0027-299X , pp. 331-344.
- Klaus-Detlef Herrn: 65 years Maria Grün in Blankenese. In memory of the consecration on September 7, 1930. In: Blankenese. Monthly magazine of the Blankeneser Bürger-Verein eV, vol. 48, No. 9, 1995, ZDB -ID 291031-7 , pp. 3-4.
- Ralf Lange: Architecture in Hamburg . Junius Verlag , Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-88506-586-9 , p. 283 .
- Matthias Gretzschel : Hamburg's churches: history, architecture, offers . Axel Springer Verlag , Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-86370-116-1 , p. 270-275 .
- Friedhelm Grundmann, Thomas Helms: When stones preach . Medien Verlag Schubert, Hamburg 1993, ISBN 3-929229-14-5 , p. 121 f .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry in the organ database orgbase.nl . Retrieved October 6, 2013.
- ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto Glocken - family and company history of the Otto bell foundry dynasty, self-published, Essen 2019, 588 pages, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , here in particular p. 539.
- ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen. Nijmegen 2019, 556 pages, Diss.Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770, here in particular p. 498.
- ↑ History of the Catholic School Blankenese. Retrieved October 6, 2013.
- ↑ Article on the merger with Saint Paulus Augustine. Retrieved October 6, 2013.
