Schröder pen
The Schröderstift from 1852 is a historic three-wing complex on Schröderstiftstraße in Hamburg-Rotherbaum . It houses an oriental-orthodox chapel and the housing project “tenants' self-administration Schröderstift”.
founding
The Schröderstift goes back to a foundation by the Hamburg merchant and banker Johann Heinrich Schröder (1784–1883) for “people of higher class who need it”, especially for single women “who got into trouble through no fault of their own”.
The spacious three-wing complex with a central chapel and court of honor, built in 1852 by the architect Albert Rosengarten in the style of historicism, was built on the Papenland , at the time at the gates of the city. It comprised 52 small apartments with two rooms and a kitchen. The extension buildings added to the northeast in 1862 (“Neues Schröderstift” on the federal road) and 1874 (along Louisenstraße, today Schröderstiftweg) resulted in an unusually large monastery complex with its own park.
From 1894 to 1896 the nine children of the founder had the small chapel, which initially consisted of a prayer room, converted into a splendid marble tomb for the parents' sarcophagi by the architect Albert Petersen .
Takeover by the city
In July 1943, most of the buildings were destroyed by fire bombs, except for the outer walls. In the early 1950s, the now impoverished foundation succeeded in simplifying the restoration of the apartments with the help of donations and loans. In the 1960s, the furnishings (coal stoves, no bathrooms, toilets in the hallway or in the basement) no longer met the usual living standards. At the same time, the neighboring university urgently needed expansion space due to the rapidly increasing number of students. After weighing up the “more urgent and higher public interest in education policy” versus monument protection, the property was swapped : Johann Heinrich Schröder's charitable foundation received a large property in Kiwittsmoor - again “far outside the city” ( Langenhorn ) - and 11 million D-Mark for the new building, the Hanseatic city took over the monastery complex. When the Schröder Foundation moved in 1971, three of the rear buildings were demolished and the 18-story Geomatikum was built there for the university . The planned demolition of the old three-wing complex and an extension was initially postponed. They were temporarily rented out to students by the Studentenwerk, and the Greek Orthodox Community of Hamburg moved into the chapel.
The university planned the construction of a 7-storey disposal building. But there was resistance to this plan: both within the university and in the Chamber of Architects and in the Monument Council. Large parts of the population and the media spoke out against demolishing the three-wing complex. The chapel in particular was considered worthy of preservation; it was integrated in 20 of the 21 architect's designs for building III and its preservation was planned.
"Schröderstift tenants' initiative"
Around 1980 the buildings that were still intended for demolition and were no longer maintained had serious deficiencies in addition to their outdated standards (moisture penetration, dry rot, poor fire safety). The Schröderstift tenants' initiative , which had existed since the mid-1970s, fought against the Studentenwerk to ensure that the basic requirements of temporary student living were guaranteed, such as installing showers and washing machines and setting up a common room. The structures of the Schröderstift tenant self-administration were formed from the initiative . In the autumn of 1980 the leases were terminated in order to carry out the long-planned demolition. The tenants' initiative fought back, paid the rents to their own account and carried out the repairs themselves. The architects of the planning collective created a concept for this. The Eimsbüttel District Office Manager Nümann-Seidewinkel, who had just been elected at the time, the administration and the four parliamentary groups in the District Assembly supported the concept of preserving this architectural and socio-historical monument. To reduce costs, the concept comprised simple basic repairs and a large amount of self-help by the residents. The final decision was made by Mayor Klaus von Dohnanyi and the Hamburg Senate , who decided in autumn 1981 to give tenants' self-administration Schröderstift e. V. to lend the 1.2 hectare facility by means of a loan agreement and approved DM 869,000 as a one-off grant.
In the construction summer of 1982 , the basic repairs took place in a large self-help campaign with the support of the traveling journeymen of ax and trowel . In the following years, further work was carried out: the last war damage was removed, the missing roofs on the side wings were restored, the buildings were equipped with gas central heating systems, the attics were expanded and the apartments modernized.
Marble chapel in the Schröderstift
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The architect Albert Rosengarten placed a chapel with a copper drum dome as a vertical axis of symmetry in the middle of the extensive Schröderstift complex. This chapel initially consisted of a small square hall and a prayer room above. In 1862–1863, the founder had a large mausoleum built for himself and his family in the St. Petri churchyard in front of the Dammthore . In 1883 he and six years after him his wife Henriette found their final resting place there. When the burial places in front of the Dammtor were closed, the founder's nine children decided not to move the mausoleum to the new cemetery in Ohlsdorf like other families, but to expand the small chapel in the Schröderstift with parts of the adjacent houses and convert it into a burial place. This conversion - only the dome and two narrow strips of the facade remained - was carried out from 1894 to 1896 by the architect Albert Petersen. He created a magnificent chapel in the arched style, made entirely of marble. The sarcophagus hall with apse serves the two current users, the Coptic Orthodox and the Ethiopian Orthodox community, as a sanctuary.
As the chapel became too small for the Greek Orthodox community - which at the moment had around 8,000 members in Hamburg - it acquired the Simeon Church on Sievekingsallee in Hamm and left the Schröderstift chapel after 33 years. In 2006 the Coptic Orthodox and the Ethiopian Orthodox Congregation took over the chapel.
The former organ of the chapel, which Ernst Röver built in 1896 and which is adorned with a painting by Cesare Mussini , is now in the Valley Organ Center .
Trivia
In June 2015, a fire destroyed the apartments in houses 11 and 10 and their roof trusses in the historic Schröderstift building complex.
Remarks
- ↑ See also the list of squatting in Hamburg .
- ↑ See also the article about the German architect Albrecht Rosengarten and his influence on synagogue construction in Germany and Austria-Hungary in the second half of the 19th century.
Web links
- Tenant self-administration (MSV) Schröderstift
- The new Schröderstift in Kiwittsmoor
- Coptic Orthodox Congregation
Individual evidence
- ↑ Fire rages in the historic Schröderstift . Welt Online , June 15, 2015
- ↑ Big fire in the Schröderstift: seven people without a home . In: Hamburger Abendblatt , June 15, 2015
- ↑ Second fire service in the Schröderstift . In: Eimsbütteler Nachrichten , June 18, 2015
Coordinates: 53 ° 34 ′ 2.8 ″ N , 9 ° 58 ′ 19.9 ″ E