Martin Luther Church (Hamburg-Alsterdorf)

View from the crossroads

Nave seen from the south

The Evangelical Lutheran Martin Luther Church in Hamburg-Alsterdorf is located there directly on the axis of Hindenburgstrasse and at its intersection with Bebelallee / Alsterdorfer Strasse . The church is clearly visible due to the open area of ​​the streets, but is also affected by traffic noise due to its proximity to the large intersection .

history

Hamburg-Alsterdorf has belonged to the Eppendorfer parish since the Middle Ages . From 1889, the inhabitants of the surrounding villages visited the original in the Alsterdorf Institutions integrated Nicholas Church . In 1924, the Nikolauskirche also officially became the parish church of the Alsterdorf district. In 1961 the construction of the Martin Luther Church began.

Construction and architecture

From the beginning, the church was planned as a community center , i.e. as a complex of several buildings with rooms that can be used in different ways. The church and community hall were built parallel to each other and facing Bebelallee and connected with a covered corridor that is illuminated by skylights. The 34 m high freestanding tower limits the courtyard to Hindenburgstrasse. This courtyard is now open to the street, in the original design a green pergola was provided, but this was not realized.

The planning by the architect Henry Schlote dates back to 1959 and was implemented from 1961 to 1963. The design of the outer facade uses different materials such as concrete, brick and facing masonry and is kept in light ocher colors. The slightly sloping south wall and the asymmetrical gallery give the interior, which is designed for 260 people, an open character.

Furnishing

The glass concrete windows are the work of Hanno Edelmann , above the altar there is a concrete relief by Max Schegulla .

Bells

The church has the following four bells:

No.	Surname	Diameter (mm)	Mass (kg)	Chime	inscription
1	Exaudi			d 0	Come, God Creator, Holy Spirit
2	Rogate			f 0	Amen, that is: it will come true
3	cantata			g 0	Now rejoice, dear Christians, gmein
4th	Jubilate			b 0	A Mighty Fortress Is Our God

organ

The organ from 1967 comes from the workshop of organ builder Emil Hammer , its disposition is as follows:

I main work C– 1. Quintadena 16 ′ 2. Principal 8th' 3. Coupling flute 8th' 4th octave 4 ′ 5. Nasat 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ 6th Forest flute 2 ′ 7th Mixture IV-VI 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ 8th. Trumpet 8th'

II Swell C– 9. Dumped 8th' 10. recorder 4 ′ 11. Principal 2 ′ 12. third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′ 13. Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ 14th Cymbel II-III  1 ⁄ 4 ′ 15th Krummhorn 8th' Tremulant

Pedal C– 16. Sub bass 16 ′ 17th Principal 8th' 18th Dumped 8th' 19th octave 4 ′ 20th Mixture V 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ 21st trombone 16 ′ 22nd Trumpet 8th' 23. Clarine 4 ′

• Coupling: coupling manual , I / P, II / P
• Two free combinations

Photographs and map

Coordinates: 53 ° 36 ′ 35.1 ″  N , 10 ° 0 ′ 39 ″  E

Martin Luther Church​

Hamburg

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  Free-standing bell tower

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  Details of the masonry

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  Link between church, pastorate and parish hall

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  North window

literature

• Gertrud Schiller : Hamburg's new churches 1951–1961 . Ed .: Evangelical Lutheran Church Hamburg. Hans Christians Verlag, Hamburg 1961, p. 69, 80 .
• Hans-Georg Soeffner , Hans Christian Knuth , Cornelius Nissle: Roofs of Hope, church building in Hamburg between 1950 and 1970 . Christians Verlag, Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-7672-1245-5 , p. 162 f .

Individual evidence

1. ^ History of Alsterdorf on the municipality's website
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Architecture of the Martin Luther Church by Felix Schmuck on the website of the community. Retrieved September 21, 2017.
3. ↑ Representation of the bells on the homepage of the municipality. Retrieved September 18, 2017.
4. ↑ Entry in the organ database orgbase.nl . Retrieved September 18, 2017.

Web links

Commons : Martin Luther Church (Hamburg-Alsterdorf)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Homepage of the community
• Directory of the protected monuments of the city of Hamburg