Seaman's Mission Altona
The German Seemannsmission Hamburg-Altona e. V. was entered in the register of associations in 1902 as "Altonaer Fischer- und Schifferstube". From 1928 to 1930, the multi-storey building was built in the Große Elbstraße 132 based on a design by Kurt Stoltenberg . The building is a historical monument. It is located in the Hamburg-Altona-Altstadt district directly on the Elbe . There is a hotel (34 rooms), a seaman's club (pub) and the St. Clemens church at the harbor .
The facilities are specially designed for seafarers but are also open to the public.
The Seemannsmission Altona is a member of the umbrella organization Deutsche Seemannsmission e. V. and in the Diakonisches Werk Hamburg. The nautical parish of the north church is located in the building .
history
The fisherman's and boatman's room
Altona, which was not yet part of Hamburg at the end of the 19th century, was characterized by a flourishing port economy. Fish in particular was handled at the Altona Landungsbrücken (today the Holzhafen) and at the Altona fish market. The seafarers who came from the ships spent their few days on land mainly in restaurants and seedy pubs - to the great displeasure of the Altona city population. In order to counteract this misery, the fishermen and boatmen's parlor was founded at the Altona fish market in 1898. The fish market had only been redesigned a few years earlier by the architect Albert Winkler . At Fischmarkt 21, the “Aid Committee” for the Lutheran seaman's mission was able to rent a large office on the first floor of the modern building. There was not yet enough space for overnight stays, but there was a large reading room and rooms for the first seaman's deacon Carl Schad. The committee, made up of VIPs from Altona and representatives from seafaring and the church, only decided in December 1901, after the concept had proven to be successful, to register the association “Altonaer Fischer- und Schifferstube”. In 1903, after negotiations with the owner of the building, the merchant Ludwig Possehl , additional rooms could be rented, which were then available to seafarers to stay overnight. However, it quickly became apparent that the premises were insufficient for the large number of seafarers. It was therefore started to look for the possibility of an own house.
The lumber yard of the seaman's mission
In 1916, the possibility of a seaman's home of their own seemed within reach: the board of the association was able to obtain a leasehold property on the Große Elbstrasse from the city of Hamburg. Mayor Schnackenburg signed the contract on October 23 . The property at Große Elbstr. 68–94, today to the left of Hafenklangs, was no longer built on: The end of the First World War destroyed all financial savings (some of them had been donated to the association as war bonds), so that a new building was out of the question. Because of the great need of the seafarers, the association set up a first "lumber yard" at the site. There seafarers could find small jobs and get something to eat. The concept took hold. In 1924 the lumber yard was moved to Weidenstrasse 40. The Baur Foundation building, which still stands today, was looking for a new use. Under the direction of Alfred Menzel, the seaman's mission set up the new lumber yard there. Seafarers, but also released prisoners and hikers could stay overnight and get food there - for this they had to help with the production of split wood or smaller cribs. The company was able to continue until 1939, after which it was closed at the instigation of the NSDAP.
The new house
In 1928, the board of directors approached the renowned Raabe und Wöhlecke architects and commissioned the design of a new seaman's home. The building, designed in the ultra-modern Bauhaus style without any facade ornamentation - it clearly stood out from the other houses on Grosse Elbstrasse - was designed by Kurt Stoltenberg. In the meantime, the city had succeeded in obtaining the property at Grosse Elbstrasse 132-134. On May 8, 1929, the foundation stone for the new house was laid in the midst of the rubble of the newly demolished old buildings. Already in December the house was pulled up and provided with windows, just under a year later it was presented to celebrities from church, politics and business. At the ceremonial opening on April 24, 1930, the particularly functional architecture and special significance for the many seafarers in the Altona harbor landscape became clear. During the Second World War, the bombed-out water police briefly moved into one floor of the house. The attempts of the NS functionaries to bring the seaman's home under the control of the party failed because of the clever seaman's pastor Thun and the chairman of the board, John Reeder. The house was spared from the many bombing raids, so it still stands today with the striking clinker brick facade directly at the Holzhafen.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ List of monuments in accordance with Section 6 (1) Hamburg Monument Protection Act of April 5, 2013, (HmbGVBl p. 142), extract for the Altona district, ID 16539, p. 352.
- ^ First annual report on the fishermen's and boatmen's room of the German seaman's mission in Altona for the year 1898. Printed by Chr. Adolff in Altona-Ottensen, 1899.
- ↑ Arnd Ziemer, Leon Ziemer: Where seamen anchor: Grosse Elbstraße 132. The history of the seamen's mission Hamburg-Altona . Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-9820968-0-3 , pp. 31-56 .
- ↑ Where sailors anchor. S. 41. 56 .
- ↑ Where sailors anchor. S. 64 .
- ↑ Where sailors anchor . S. 112 .
- ↑ Where sailors anchor . S. 82-88 .
- ↑ Altonaer Tageblatt, No. 95, Thursday, April 24, 1930 (evening edition) .
Coordinates: 53 ° 32 ′ 40.4 " N , 9 ° 56 ′ 43.9" E