Paul-Gerhardt-Church (Hamburg-Bahrenfeld)
The Evangelical Lutheran Paul Gerhardt Church in the Hamburg district of Bahrenfeld is considered "a good example of the church building in the first years after the Second World War, which fluctuated between tradition and innovation". It is the first of five church buildings by the architect Otto Andersen in the city of Hamburg and, as one of his early works, still shows unmistakably strong traditional elements.
Building the church
In the 1950s, a new church was founded in Bahrenfeld in an older residential area on both sides of the Bahrenfeld Steindamm with comparatively little war damage to the houses. However, as there was no attractive center of the residential area, plans were soon made for a church and a school, today's Max-Brauer-Schule . Together with a small green area on a corner lot, the church forms an urban accent for the residential area.
Construction of the church began in 1954 on the basis of plans that Otto Andersen had designed together with Alfred Behrmann. The foundation stone was laid on July 31, 1955, the inauguration on August 19, 1956. The plans are based on the so-called "Rummelsberg Principles" developed in 1951 on the Protestant Church's construction day. The design is based on the traditional church building with modernizations typical of the time, such as the semicircular choir with its tall, slender double columns on the outside and the protruding flat roof. The eye-catching design of the windowless choir creates a pavilion-like impression. The building is designed as a skeleton construction in concrete with non-load-bearing intermediate parts in brick . Hand- painted bricks were used for the walls and lavishly arranged into three-dimensional patterns. The lengthways walls of the approx. 400 m² nave are slightly inclined, which means that the room faces the choir. The division of the nave with 334 seats with a central aisle and six-step altar pedestal retains a classic pattern.
A community hall is attached to the church, which also connects the nave to the 32 m high tower. A pastor's council and pastors' apartments are also attached to the whole complex. Below the choir is a separate small prayer room accessible from the nave.
Furnishing
The ribbon windows made of concrete glass in the upper parts of the longitudinal walls, designed by Claus Wallner , depict scenes from the story of creation on one side and motifs from the Revelation of John on the other .
The baptismal bowl, the crucifix in the sacristy and a bronze communion relief originally intended for the altar are works by Ursula Querner . The altar lights, which are also bronze, are by Fritz Fleer , the silver dinnerware and the weathercock on the top of the tower by Walter Jarck.
Andersen himself designed the lighting for the interior, the organ front and the altar. When designing the pulpit and the gallery, he varied the motif of the semicircle surrounded by supports, which he had used for the outside of the choir.
In 1960 the church received three steel bells, tuned for f sharp, a, and h , made by the Bochum association .
organ
The organ was built in 1960 by Flentrop Orgelbau . It has 24 registers , which are distributed over two manuals and pedal . Your disposition is:
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- Coupling: I / II, I / P, II / P
Remodeling after 2008
At the end of the 2000s, the number of parish members had dropped from 11,000 when the congregation was founded to just under 3,000, so that the incumbent church council had to answer the question of whether the church building was still necessary. After intensive discussion, the community had a new concept drawn up for its own structure and work. In the following years there was a stronger opening to the people in the district and their needs. Due to this concept, structural conditions in the church building were also changed: the fence between the forecourt and the streets was dismantled, community rooms in the south wing were converted into a daycare center, the design of the nave was modernized, the youth rooms were expanded, and a 13 m high climbing facility was added to the church tower built-in. From 2012 to 2016, the necessary basic repairs for the roof, masonry, windows and all of the building services followed.
Photographs and map
Coordinates: 53 ° 33 ′ 42 ″ N , 9 ° 55 ′ 19 ″ E
Choir view
tower
South facade
Ceiling lights
literature
- Ralf Lange : Architecture in Hamburg . Edition Axel Menges, Hamburg 1995, ISBN 978-3-930698-58-5 , p. 269 .
- Gertrud Schiller : Hamburg's new churches 1951–1961 . Ed .: Evangelical Lutheran Church Hamburg. Hans Christians Verlag, Hamburg 1961, p. 52, 87 .
- Karin Berkemann : tomorrow's architecture! Ed .: Monument Protection Office Hamburg. Dölling and Galitz Verlag, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-937904-60-3 , p. 56 f .
- 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. 103-105 .
- Georg Dehio (Greetings): Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein ( Handbook of German Art Monuments ) . 3. Edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 3-422-03033-6 , p. 60 .
- Martin Kinzinger: The Paul Gerhardt Church Altona . Monument Protection Office Hamburg, Hamburg 2016, p. 103-105 .
Web links
- Homepage of the community
- Description of the church on hamburg.de .
- Building description on the old homepage of the municipality ( Memento from August 29, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ^ Rating quoted from hamburg.de . Retrieved January 14, 2019.
- ↑ Friedhelm Grundmann, Thomas Helms: When stones preach . Medien Verlag Schubert, Hamburg 1993, ISBN 3-929229-14-5 , p. 137 .
- ↑ Soeffner, Knuth, Nissle: Roofs of Hope . S. 103 .
- ^ Text of the Rummelsberg principles published z. B. as principles for the organization of the worship space of the Protestant churches . 2. Protestant church building conference in Rummelsberg 1951. In: Ta katoptrizomena: magazine for theology and aesthetics . No. 58 , 2009, ISSN 1616-8925 ( theomag.de [accessed January 18, 2019]).
- ↑ Schiller: Hamburg's New Churches 1951–1961 . S. 87 . states steel, copper (?) and brass as materials.
- ↑ Entry in the orgbase.nl database . Retrieved January 16, 2019.