Paul-Gerhardt-Church (Hamburg-Winterhude)
The Evangelical Lutheran Paul Gerhardt Church in the Hamburg district of Winterhude is named after the theologian and song writer Paul Gerhardt . It is located on Braamkamp street , which forms the edge of a residential area, but is also one of Hamburg's main thoroughfares as part of Ring 2 .
Building the church
The first ideas to build a church here go back to the 1930s, when a small chapel was built in 1933. This already had the same name as today's church and is now used as a parish hall. Only well after the end of the war was the idea of a large church taken up again and completely new, contemporary plans drawn up. The planning began in 1957, the actual construction took place from 1960 to 1962 under the direction of the architecture office of Hermann Schöne and Günter Schudnagies . Due to the location of the property and the existing buildings, the altar had to face north-northeast instead of the usual east. This alignment gave the church interior an east side and a west side, the windows of which now receive morning and evening sun and create appropriate lighting moods.
The church is located between dense residential buildings on a property with little open space. The nave , planned for 400 seats, is kept very simple, the walls show brick walls and visible concrete struts. On its east side there is a row of high windows, a colored lead glass window in the west side emphasizes the chancel. The facades are completely clad with Dutch bricks in the Vecht format, which is rare for northern Germany . The unconventional wall structure of the cladding is particularly evident on the large areas of the entrance wall and both sides of the tower. The north and south walls of the 34 m high tower were originally made of glass blocks , since 1974 they have been made of reinforced concrete clad with copper sheeting, which withstands the bell vibrations and the weather conditions much better.
Furnishing
The interior design mainly draws attention to the altar and the crucifix hanging close above it .
The main pieces of the altar, pulpit and baptism designed Ursula Querner in sophisticated forms. The main material she used was bronze on a steel frame and basalt for the altar plate. A large Easter candlestick , which Ursula Querner also made, stands between the altar and the baptismal font . The bronze panels with which the pulpit is clad represent the story of the feeding of the five thousand .
The picture window in the choir is a design by Diether Kressel . It depicts the praise of Paul and Silas in modern visual language.
The lectern created by Fritz Fleer was not added to the equipment until 1980. Fleer based himself on the design of the pulpit and also clad the lectern with a bronze plate on which the story of Jesus and the Samaritan woman is hinted at.
Bells
The church has a ringing of five steel bells, the inscriptions of which come from hymns by Paul Gerhardt
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No. |
Surname |
Diameter (mm) |
Mass (kg) |
Chime |
inscription |
| 1 | 716 | f sharp | Everything lasts its time, God's love in eternity ( EG 325, Kehrvers) | ||
| 2 | 598 | a | Shouldn't I sing to my god? (EG 325, 1) | ||
| 3 | 414 | H | Come and let us honor Christ (EG 39 , 1) | ||
| 4th | 291 | cis | He rips through death (EG 112, 5) | ||
| 5 | 198 | dis | Him, let him do and rule (EG 361 , 8) |
organ
Today's organ had a previous instrument that had been in the old parish hall since 1936 and in the newly built church until 1966.
The organ from 1966, overhauled in 1992 , was manufactured in the workshop of Orgelbau Alfred Führer , its disposition is as follows:
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- Coupling: I / II, I / P, II / P
Photographs and map
Coordinates: 53 ° 36 ′ 0 ″ N , 10 ° 0 ′ 20 ″ E
Portal with stained glass windows
tower
Altar window
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literature
- 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. 153-155 .
- Gertrud Schiller : Hamburg's new churches 1951–1961 . Ed .: Evangelical Lutheran Church Hamburg. Hans Christians Verlag, Hamburg 1961, p. 53, 78 .
- Anne Benz, Dörte Landmesser: Church tour through the Paul-Gerhardt-Church . Ed .: Evangelical Lutheran Paul Gerhardt Congregation in Hamburg-Winterhude. Self-published, Hamburg 2007 ( online [PDF; accessed on May 18, 2018]).
Individual evidence
- ↑ The depicted scene is described in: ( Acts 16: 22-32 EU )
- ↑ The depicted scene is described in: ( Joh 4,5-30 EU )
- ↑ Entry on the first organ in the organ database orgbase.nl . Retrieved December 1, 2017.
- ↑ Entry in the organ database orgbase.nl . Retrieved December 1, 2017.
Web links
- Homepage of the community
- Directory of the cultural monuments of the city of Hamburg