St. Johannis (Hamburg-Neuengamme)

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View from the churchyard, on the left the main entrance
Tower, cemetery and parts of the nave
Interior, south wall with pulpit from 1803

The Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Johannis in the Hamburg district of Neuengamme is located on the Neuengammer Hausdeich south of the Dove Elbe and is one of the oldest preserved church buildings in Hamburg's urban area.

Building the church

The parish was mentioned in a document as early as 1261. The church has been rebuilt and expanded several times over the years, so that today it is the result of different construction periods. The main room is a brick and stone hall church with a wooden barrel ceiling. It is complemented by a free-standing wooden bell tower .

In the longitudinal walls of the building there are still parts of the field stone masonry from the 13th century and a similar old brick portal in the north wall. Consisting of brick built Gothic choir probably dates from the following century. More detailed information on the building is not known for the period before the 17th century.

The emergence of the small half-timbered extension on the front side - the so-called “ bridal house ” typical for the area - can be traced back to 1619. During weddings, the bride enters the church through this bridal house, this side entrance, and can thus walk along the entire central aisle. The main entrance to the church, the so-called “Paradise”, is on the long side, directly in front of the chancel. The wooden, 26.2 m high tower construction, which was erected in 1630 and given its present form in 1750, is offset by a few meters from the nave and has no structural contact with it. This, too, is a common type of construction in the Vierlande and other marshland areas .

Between 1801 and 1803, a wooden vault was drawn into the building, the church was extended to the west and the interior was rebuilt in the classical style. In keeping with the taste of the times, the church was given a gallery. Due to woodworm infestation , renovation of the entire interior became more and more urgent in the 20th century. The architects Friedhelm Grundmann and Horst Sandtmann therefore completely redesigned the interior between 1956 and 1961. In order to regain the assumed original spatial impression, they removed the classical galleries and the old altar, opened walled Gothic niches and inserted new, lighter windows. The new altar table erected in the course of this redesign comes from Klaus-Jürgen Luckey . The main picture of the old altar, a crucifixion scene, now hangs between two windows on the north wall.

Furnishing

Altar Bible from 1750
Big chandelier

Despite all the renovations and redesigns, the cheeks of the chairs from the 17th to the 19th centuries, the oldest from 1600, and 46 richly decorated hat stands in the area of ​​the men's bench seats have been preserved. The large chandelier just before the choir with its impressive dimensions of 1.83 m high and 1.43 m in diameter from 1644 is striking. A significantly smaller chandelier from 1596 hangs directly in front of the organ gallery.

The altar is furnished with chandeliers that date from the 16th century. The large altar bible is a much more recent work from Lüneburg from 1750; today's altarpiece is a modern bronze work by Klaus-Jürgen Luckey.

In this church, too, according to the four-country tradition, the congregation produced the seat cushions (so-called Schröden cushions ) for the pews themselves. The oldest pieces from the 18th century are sewn together from old traditional costumes and are now presented in a showcase in the choir room. The oldest patterns of the cushions used in the chairs are from the 19th century, the newest from the 21st century.

In a conspicuous place on the south wall there is a large window, the smaller panes of which are provided with symbols, names and dates of their donors. Here, too, the period of origin spans several centuries and extends to the present day.

Inside the bridal house there are two flood memorial plaques that remind of the two devastating floods of January 30, 1741 and July 8, 1771.

Bells

There are three bells hanging in the tower. The oldest is from 1461 and bears the name "Maria" according to the inscription, the largest bell with a diameter of 127 cm was cast according to the inscription in 1487 by Geert van Wou on behalf of the citizens of Neuengammer Hermann Wobbe and Hans Peters. The youngest bell is a bronze bell that came to Neuengamme from Kagel near Berlin in 1925 and was cast in Stettin in 1874 by C. Voss & Sohn.

organ

Main organ

1634 was originally a single manual was Fritzsche - organ installed. Organ builder Geycke moved it to its new location on the gallery in 1803, created a new case and added a second manual. As a result, it was rebuilt and renovated several times by well-known organ builders such as Wohlien , Stallmann and Kemper . It received its current sound image during an extensive restoration by the Beckerath company in 1998, during which efforts were made to largely restore the original condition.

Your disposition is:

Brochure of the main organ by Bildschnitzer SV Schlupf 1803
I main work CD – f 3
1. Quintadena 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Dumped 8th'
4th octave 4 ′
5. recorder 4 ′
6th octave 2 ′
7th Mixture IV-V
8th. Trumpet 8th'
II Oberwerk CD – f 3
9. Wooden flute 8th'
10. Quintad 8th'
11. Principal 4 ′
12. Dumped 4 ′
13. Forest flute 2 ′
14th Sesquialtera II
15th Scharff III
16. oboe 8th'
Buck tremulant
Pedal C – c 1
17th Sub bass 16 ′
18th Principal 8th'
19th octave 4 ′
20th Mixture IV
21st trombone 16 ′
22nd Trumpet 8th'

Small organ

Small organ in the choir room

In the choir there is a small organ that was built in 1962 by the organ building company Führer . Your disposition is:

manual
1. Dumped 8th'
2. Reed flute 4 ′
3. Principal, shared 2 ′
4th Zimbel III, divided

graveyard

The oldest surviving four-country gravestone from 1470 is not in the cemetery, but on a wall plinth at the church. Some grave slabs from the 16th and 17th centuries were also attached to the church. The actual cemetery stretches along the cobblestone street Feldstegel to the south; it can be entered from the north via the cemetery through a carved wooden gate. Local artist Hermann Haase and painter Hans Förster are buried here.

Photographs and map

Coordinates: 53 ° 26 '42.3 "  N , 10 ° 13' 18.8"  E

Map: Hamburg
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  • Nave with a small bridal house on the west side

  • Gravestone of Hermann Haase

  • Hat stand, in the background the main picture of the old altar

  • Cheeks with inlays from 1666

  • Baptismal font by SV Schlupf 1803

literature

  • Ralf Lange : Architecture in Hamburg . Junius Verlag , Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-88506-586-9 , p. 327 .
  • Gerd Hoffmann, Konrad Lindemann: Churches in town and country . Hower Verlag, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-922995-90-X , p. 25, 56 ff .
  • Barbara Leisner, Norbert Fischer : The cemetery guide . Christians Verlag, Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-7672-1215-3 , p. 159 f .
  • Ev.-Luth. Parish Neuengamme (Ed.): Church leader St. Johannis Kirche zu Neuengamme . Self-published, Hamburg 2004.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hermann Hipp: Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. History, culture and urban architecture on the Elbe and Alster. (= DuMont art travel guide). DuMont, Cologne 1989, ISBN 3-7701-1590-2 , p. 504 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  2. ↑ Entry in the organ database orgbase.nl , here you can also find historical dispositions.
  3. ↑ Entry in the organ database orgbase.nl .
  4. ↑ Overview of Hermann Haase's work (PDF file; 479 kB) on the website of the Bergedorfer Bürgererverein. Retrieved February 14, 2012.
  5. ↑ Overview of the life of Hans Förster on the website of the Bergedorfer Citizens' Association. Retrieved February 14, 2012.

Web links

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