Easter Church (Hamburg-Eilbek)
The Easter Church in Hamburg-Eilbek is a former cemetery chapel which, after the abandonment of the associated cemetery (today 's Jacobipark ), was initially used as a Protestant parish church from 1962. After a congregation merged with the neighboring Friedenskirche in 2005, the parish council decided in 2016 to give up the Osterkirche location for financial reasons. After years of negotiations, the Bulgarian Orthodox Church took over the building in January 2019 .
prehistory
The first documentary mention of the region around 1250 mentions the acquisition of land by the Hamburg Hospital zum Heiligen Geist between the Eilbek and the Hamburg - Wandsbek - Lübeck road. In 1848, a cemetery for the inner-city St. Jacobi Church was laid out on the parcel of land that was then part of the village of Hamm , which was four kilometers from the city, an unfamiliar distance at the time.
Building the church
The board of the Jakobikirche chose a design by the famous architect Alexis de Chateauneuf for the cemetery chapel . However, construction did not start until 1863, ten years after Chateauneuf's death. The architect Isaiah Wood (1811–1876), who at that time was involved in the construction of the St. Nikolai Church on the Hopfenmarkt, completed the building in 1864 with slight additions of his own.
As a simple rectangular building without an apse with side buttresses, the Easter church rises from the green of the park. A portal adorned with tracery leads into the interior. The Gothic style elements are clearly evident here: the slender vaulted ribs, the high windows in the side walls, the three-part window in the choir wall with its tracery structure in the upper arch field.
The church, damaged during the bombing of the Second World War, was restored by the architects Bernhard Hopp and Rudolf Jäger by 1962 , who at the same time added the roof turret, which today contains a single bell.
Furnishing
The most precious thing in the church was the altarpiece from around 1500, the author of which probably comes from northern Germany. On the basis of style and time of creation, connections with the painter Hinrik Funhof are sometimes suspected, but these cannot be proven. The altar is a convertible altar in which the side wings can be folded down, ie "changed", but a restoration from 1999 did not find any sculptures on the back of the wings. When opened, you can see an arrangement of images with two large central fields and four small side fields. On the wings the two upper fields show scenes from the Passion of Jesus on the two lower fields Annunciation and Birth. In the upper middle field the crucifixion, a moving image with many figures. Below God himself enthroned in the middle with Mary and Jesus on the sides and an abbot kneeling. This abbot (recognizable by the crosier and tonsure) could have been the founder of the work of art. After the takeover by the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, the altar was moved to Hamburg's main church St. Jacobi in 2019 .
The church had a small organ from the Alfred Führer company from 1965 on the gallery above the entrance. The instrument had 13 registers, distributed over two manuals and a pedal.
The former cemetery
The cemetery was planned as one of the first cemeteries in Hamburg as a landscape cemetery, which was supposed to provide visitors with different "pictures" of the plantings. After its opening in 1848, the cemetery in today's Jacobipark grew only slowly at first. Only after the gate was lifted in 1860 did this change so much that the cemetery had to be expanded to four times its original size within a few years. After the Ohlsdorf cemetery was established in 1877, this burial place was the only one where burials could continue for forty years. Its use as a cemetery ended in 1934, it was de-dedicated in 1954, after which it was redesigned to a pond landscape with a park meadow, playground, bird sanctuary and quiet garden. In between, however, a total of five tombs and two tombs from the 19th century were left at their original location. These remember the actress Clara Horn , the doctor Erich Martini , the former Hamburg mayor Christian Daniel Benecke and the Merck family with their buried members Ernst Merck and Heinrich Johann Merck .
Photographs and map
Coordinates: 53 ° 34 ′ 5.1 " N , 10 ° 3 ′ 11.5" E
entrance
Buttresses on the south side
Information board at the church
Gallery with organ and entrance
sidewindow
See also
literature
- Jochen Hermann Vennebusch , Ulrike Winkel : Ev.-luth. Peace Church and Easter Church Hamburg-Eilbek (= Little Art Guide No. 2812 ). Schnell und Steiner publishing house, Regensburg 2012.
- Ralf Lange : Architecture in Hamburg . Junius Verlag, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-88506-586-9 , p. 153 .
- Matthias Gretzschel : Churches in Hamburg: history, architecture, offers . Axel Springer Verlag, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-921305-92-6 , pp. 62 f .
- Friedhelm Grundmann , Thomas Helms : When stones preach . Medien Verlag Schubert, Hamburg 1993, ISBN 3-929229-14-5 , p. 93 .
- Barbara Leisner , Norbert Fischer : The cemetery guide . Christians Verlag, Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-7672-1215-3 , p. 40-44 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Easter Church is handed over to the Bulgarian Orthodox community. In: kirche-hamburg.de. Retrieved January 27, 2019 .
- ↑ New altar for the main church St. Jacobi . Nordkirche.de, November 27, 2019, accessed on the same day.
Web links
- Homepage of the former Protestant community
- Homepage of today's Bulgarian Orthodox community