St. Johannis (Hamburg-Harburg)
The Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Johannis in Hamburg-Harburg is part of the Evangelical Lutheran parish of St. Trinitatis Harburg , to which the Trinity Church also belongs. It is considered Hamburg's first modern new church after the Second World War , which also received international attention.
Building the church
With an architectural competition in 1951, the community looked for a suitable design to replace the neo-Gothic predecessor church from 1892-1894, which was destroyed by bombs in November 1944 during the Second World War . The competition was won by the plans of the Karl Trahn architecture office , for which the architect Walter Gebauer was mainly responsible.
The foundation stone was laid on January 25, 1952, the consecration on November 14, 1954 by Bishop Johannes Lilje at a festive service in which Hamburg's mayor Kurt Sieveking also took part.
The asymmetrical floor plan of the church was new in the sacred building of Hamburg and was discussed controversially in the parish and beyond. Ultimately, it was preferred to the more classic designs of other architects (including Gerhard Langmaack , Werner Kallmorgen , and Hopp & Jäger ). The unity of pulpit and altar under the dominant cross, the balanced asymmetrical design of the interior and the clear lighting were particularly recognized.
The nave, originally designed for 850 seats, is separated from the 40 m high tower and the building for the group rooms, but connected to them by an arcade. The whole complex is a little above street level, the tower is directly on the street. On the street side, the nave has a striking row of round windows, while large rectangular windows are on the other side of the building. On the street side, the outer wall is largely closed and shields the traffic noise, on the east side there are the larger windows that open up a view of the park behind the church.
The architecture and the spatial concept are based on the model of the New Church in Zurich-Altstetten by the architect Werner Max Moser .
Interior
In the interior, a curved corridor leads to a large, free-standing dark cross, which is framed by the altar and pulpit. The lighting supports this controversially discussed division, which lets the liturgical locations altar and pulpit take a back seat and emphasizes the cross as the center of the room.
The windows were made of antique glass according to a design by Carl Ihrke .
In 1993, new usage concepts required a conversion based on plans by W. Marquordt under the direction of Hans Schoop . The space under the galleries that was no longer required for benches was separated and converted for other uses of the community. The tension between the straight east wall and the curved, free-standing gallery on the west side, originally intended by Walter Gebauer, is hardly recognizable today.
Bells
In the tower hang five bronze bells from the Rincker foundry, which were acquired in 1954 with donations from community members.
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No. |
Surname |
Diameter (mm) |
Mass (kg) |
Chime |
inscription |
| 1 | g 1 | Remember the victims 1914/18 1939/45 | |||
| 2 | as 1 | Donated by members of the St. Johannisgemeinde Hbg.-Harburg | |||
| 3 | h 1 | ( Joh 3,16 LUT ) | |||
| 4th | c 2 | God is love ( 1 Joh 4,8 LUT ) | |||
| 3 | it 2 | Donated by members of the St. Johannisgemeinde Hbg.-Harburg |
organ
The organ, a mechanical slide organ with four movements, was built in 1963 by the Göttingen organ building workshop Paul Ott . She has the following disposition :
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- Coupling: I / II, II / III, I / P, II / P, III / P
Former cemetery
The church grounds are directly adjacent to the former Harburg cemetery, which was closed when the new church was built. At that time there were already considerations to use the cemetery differently, but it was not until after the 1990s that it was converted into the park that exists today.
Photographs and map
Coordinates: 53 ° 27 ′ 28 ″ N , 9 ° 58 ′ 52 ″ E
Facade to the street side
Architectural model
West window and gallery
East wall, view of the park
Cross and altar window
literature
- Ralf Lange : Architecture in Hamburg . Junius Verlag, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-88506-586-9 , p. 311 .
- Gertrud Schiller : Hamburg's new churches 1951–1961 . Ed .: Evangelical Lutheran Church Hamburg. Hans Christians Verlag, Hamburg 1961, p. 26th f., 81 .
- 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. 98 f .
- Lecture by the architect Walter Gebauer on the construction of the church, published in Dialog, community letter of the Ev.-Luth. Parish of St. Trinitatis , issues 3/2012 and 1/2013
- Kurt Selge: Church building for the future - thoughts and examples . In: Monthly magazine for pastoral theology . March 1, 1953, p. 107-111 .
Web links
- St. Trinitatis parish on kirche-hamburg.de
- Directory of the protected monuments of the city of Hamburg
Individual evidence
- ^ Ralf Lange : Architecture in Hamburg . Junius Verlag , Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-88506-586-9 , p. 311 .
- ↑ Thomas Brandes: 60 years St. Johanniskirche . In: Dialogue, community letter of Ev.-Luth. Parish of St. Trinity . June 1, 2014, p. 10 .
- ^ Reinforced concrete nave . (PDF) In: Hamburger Abendblatt , January 6, 1953, p. 3
- ↑ List of chimes and inscriptions in a letter from Rincker to the parish of June 3, 1954. Published in the exhibition for the 60th anniversary of the church, see Commons for photo.
- ↑ Entry in the organ database orgbase.nl . Retrieved April 14, 2014.