Norwegian seaman's church in Hamburg
The Norwegian Seaman's Church ( Norwegian Sjømannskirken i Hamburg ) is an Evangelical-Lutheran seaman's church in Hamburg . Together with 27 other seaman's churches, it belongs to the Bjørgvin diocese in Bergen via the Sjømannskirken - Norsk kirke i utlandet (Seafarer's Church - Norwegian Church Abroad) . The buildings in Hamburg are protected as cultural monuments.
location
The church and parish hall are at the beginning of Ditmar-Koel-Straße in the Neustadt district ( Portuguese quarter ) between the Danish and Finnish seaman's churches in the west. At the western end of the street is the building of the Swedish Sailors' Church (Gustaf Adolfskyrkan) .
history
The Norwegian Seaman's Church (Sjømannskirken) was a volunteer organization for Norwegians abroad founded in 1864 , which is now associated with the Norwegian Church . It was founded on August 31, 1864 in Bergen. The first seaman's mission opened in Leith, Scotland , in the fall of 1865 . In Hamburg, rooms were first rented in 1907 for church pastoral care.
The first seaman's church was built in 1936 and consecrated on the first Advent of the year. It was completely destroyed by explosive bombs on March 30, 1945 . The clerk Oskar M. Olsen was killed in the cellar. Only the bell of the church remained intact.
After the occupation of Norway , Norwegian party officials, resistance fighters and students were arrested and some of them were deported to Germany and sent to prisons there. In Hamburg the seaman's pastor Arne Berge and assistant pastor Conrad Vogt-Svendsen looked after Danish and more than 400 Norwegian prisoners in German penal institutions and camps. Through her mediation, 735 prisoners were able to return to their homeland in April 1945 with the rescue operation of the “White Buses” of the Swedish Red Cross .
The new church building was inaugurated in April 1959. It was entered in the Hamburg list of monuments under number 29299. The architect was Harald Bjerke Hille . The number of Norwegian seaman's churches abroad has fallen to 28. (Status: May 2019) Another seaman's church in the state is located on Wartenburgstrasse in Berlin-Kreuzberg ( Christ Church ).
description
The church is a rectangular brick building with in concrete combined glass windows . The roof is covered in copper . The entrance wing and the parish hall are connected to the building. The free-standing, pointed bell tower is also covered with copper and rises above the entrance on the street side. In the lower area it has nine sound openings on each side .
The bell of the previous building from 1936 hangs in the tower. It was donated by a Norwegian family living in Hamburg and bears the inscription: The master is here and is calling you .
See also
- Hamburg seaman's churches
- List of cultural monuments in Hamburg-Neustadt (South)
- Arctic Cathedral in Tromso
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Norwegian Seafarer's Church . (accessed on May 30, 2019)
- ↑ Sune Persson: Last Minute Salvation. Folke Bernadotte and the liberation of thousands of concentration camp prisoners through the "White Buses" campaign Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-938844-19-9 , p. 254.
- ^ Sjømannskirken - Norwegian Church Abroad . (English; accessed May 30, 2019)
- ^ Sjømannskirken i Berlin . (Norwegian; accessed May 30, 2019)
Coordinates: 53 ° 32 ′ 47.7 " N , 9 ° 58 ′ 37.5" E