Nienstedten Church
The Evangelical Lutheran Nienstedten Church is the central church in the Hamburg district of Nienstedten . It is located between Elbchaussee and Hasselmannstrasse and thus only a few hundred meters as the crow flies from the banks of the Elbe. The church is a very well preserved baroque church typical of northern Germany with a remarkable interior .
History of the building
The current building, for the inauguration of which on May 16, 1751 Georg Philipp Telemann composed his cantata Zerschmettert die Götzen and directed the performance himself, is the sixth church building since the first documented mention of the “Kerspel Nigenstede” ( parish of Nienstedten) in 1297.
Only so much is known about the predecessor churches that they were closer to the Elbe and were more exposed to storm surges and bank breaks. The oldest images on maps date from 1568 and 1588. In 1748, the Danish King Frederick V issued the building permit for today's half-timbered building, which was built in 1750/51 on the higher Geestrücken . The mirror monogram of the king can be seen on the west facade of the church and in the skylight of the inner entrance door.
The building was built according to the designs of the state master builder Otto Johann Müller and the master carpenter Johannes Balthasar Hannemann. The nave is built in half-timbered construction with a solid brick tower body and wooden roof and tower construction. The interior of the church can be described as a hall structure , but it has many elements of a hall church due to the surrounding galleries, the supports of which extend under the cornice . These pillars support the wooden basket arch vault of the central room above a profiled cornice and at the same time the continuous galleries on the south and north sides. The gallery in the west was originally two-story with the organ on the upper gallery. In 1905 the upper gallery was torn down and the new organ was installed on the lower gallery.
On the north and south sides there are four arbors (also known as "prayer chairs") in simple shapes with wood-latticed window openings and a profiled cornice. The largest of these arbors on the north side next to the altar now serves as a sacristy.
The church used to be surrounded by a cemetery, which was replaced by today's Nienstedten cemetery in 1814 .
Furnishing
Today's furnishings are mainly from the time the church was built, including the pulpit altar and the pews in the galleries with incised family names from the 18th and 19th centuries. Today the church has a bronze baptismal font by the sculptor Ursula Querner from 1967. The altar was extensively renovated in 1994 and the baroque state was largely restored.
From the earlier furnishings, a communion chalice from 1420, which is in constant use, and a copy of the missal for the introduction of a new service order in the Hamburg cathedral chapter from 1509 are still preserved in Nienstedten. The original of an altar relief "Adoration of the Shepherds" from a previous church is owned by the museum in Gottorf Castle in Schleswig , a plaster cast has been hanging in the church's chancel since the 250th anniversary of the church in May 2001 on loan from the Altona Museum .
The oldest remaining piece of the church is a bronze baptismal font from the 13th century. This passed into the possession of the daughter parish in Blankenese in 1896 , when they built their own church .
The interior appears spacious, bright and open. The decoration is restrained so that the view can be focused on the altar. The oil painting The Last Supper by Heinrich Stuhlmann , donated by the merchant Joachim Lorenz de la Camp (1781–1864), was added to the altar in 1843 . Leonardo da Vinci's mural The Last Supper served as a template for the painting . The stained glass windows that exist today date from the second half of the 20th century and were installed when the interior was renovated after the Second World War. Thanks to a private donation, the church has been home to a pair of pictures of the reformers Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchthon by Lucas Cranach the Younger from 1562 since September 15, 2012 .
Martin Luther
Philipp Melanchthon
Bells
The church has three bells in the tower. The newer ones date from the years 1955 and 1962. The exact age of the oldest bell still in use is not known, only the year 1707, when it was cast because it was “soundless”. This bell bears the inscription I ring for prayer, sermon and corpses, I announce fire and war and give peace signs.
The oldest of the preserved bells, cast in Glückstadt in 1647, is a memorial on the north side of the church. It lost its sound after jumping.
Repairs after 1998
During reinforcement work for the installation of a new organ in 1998, clear static defects and a deformation of the half-timbered walls were noticed. In 2004, an extensive damage assessment was carried out, and the renovation work began in May 2005 under the direction of the architectural office Alk Friedrichsen. The necessary work quickly turned out to be much more extensive than initially assumed and was not limited to damaged wooden parts, but had to be extended to the foundations and the entire tower construction. This so far largest renovation in the history of the church was completed in 2007.
Because of the preserved character of a village church, the church is one of the most popular wedding churches in the west of Hamburg today.
opening hours
The church is open on Sundays and public holidays after the service until 4:00 p.m. (in the winter half-year until 3:00 p.m.) for viewing and quiet contemplation.
organ
Predecessor of today's organ
The church originally had an Arp Schnitger organ, built in 1680 for the previous church, taken over in the new building and structurally altered significantly over time. It was replaced in 1905/1906 by a new building from the Marcussen company , which was also constantly being changed and modernized. The organ prospect from 1906 that has been preserved to this day comes from Fernando Lorenzen .
Today's Mühleisen organ
At the end of the 1990s, the decision was made not to modernize the Marcussen organ any further, but to replace it with a completely new one. On May 6, 2001 the new organ of the organ building company Mühleisen (Leonberg / Württemberg) was inaugurated. The disposition of the instrument is based on the southern German organ building. Like the penultimate organ, this one again has a cymbal star , today's one consists of 8 cast bowl bells that are driven by the wind and are located inside the organ.
The disposition of the Mühleisen organ is:
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- Zimbelstern
- Coupling: II / I, I / P, II / P, II / II 16 ′, II / P 4 ′
- Playing aids : mechanical action mechanism, electronic setting system 64-fold
Photographs and map
Coordinates: 53 ° 33 ′ 4.9 " N , 9 ° 50 ′ 33.8" E
View from the southeast
Pulpit altar with painting The Last Supper by Heinrich Stuhlmann
Interior side aisles
Royal monogram above the entrance
Stained glass window in memory of the sinking of the Pamirs
literature
- Ralf Lange : Architecture in Hamburg . Junius Verlag , Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-88506-586-9 , p. 275 .
- Matthias Gretzschel : Churches in Hamburg: history, architecture, offers . Axel Springer Verlag , Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-921305-92-6 , pp. 94 f .
Individual evidence
- ↑ History of the Church ( Memento of the original from December 20, 2010 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. on the homepage of the parish
- ^ Description of the church on the homepage of the city of Hamburg. Retrieved January 23, 2012.
- ^ Cranach paintings by Luther and Melanchthon move into a Hamburg church ( Memento from October 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Open Church. Retrieved May 24, 2020 .
- ↑ Information on the organ ( Memento of the original dated December 30, 2015 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. on the homepage of the municipality. Retrieved December 30, 2015.
- ↑ Document for disposition ( Memento of the original from November 20, 2011 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. (PDF; 340 kB) of the organ on the organ builder's homepage. Retrieved January 19, 2012.
Web links
- Homepage of the parish
- Presentation of the restorations on the website of the parish