St. Lukas (Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel)
The Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Lukas is located on the Hummelsbütteler Kirchenweg street in Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel . It is the conversion of a neo-Romanesque church into a rural-looking building with a conspicuously low roof and a compact tower with a curved helmet .
Building the church
Previous construction
The foundation stone for the first church building at this point was laid in 1892, and on July 9, 1893 St. Lukas was inaugurated as a subsidiary church of St. Johannis in Eppendorf . The location was chosen in the middle between the former villages of Fuhlsbüttel and Langenhorn , as the church should serve to supply both villages equally. The church was designated as a country church for the community of Fuhlsbüttel-Langenhorn .
The building was built by Julius Faulwasser in the neo-Romanesque style and its dimensions were not particularly large for a church. The slender tower was 39 m high, but the nave itself was only 12 m long and 9 m wide with a base area of 110 m 2 . The nave achieved its spatial effect through an elevated narrow apse and the comparatively great height, which also made it possible to install a side gallery . There was room for 260 people in the interior, 40 of them on the gallery. With the increasing population, this space was soon no longer sufficient. The decorations were made by Paul Düyffcke . The two pictures in the choir room Jesus and the Children and Holy Communion were painted by Heinrich Saffer (1856–1936). The eighteen-part organ was created by Ernst Röver .
In 1898 the church was named after the evangelist Lukas , parallel to other daughter churches of the Eppendorfer St. Johanniskirche, the Markuskirche and at that time the planned Matthäuskirche .
Previous building, 1912
Remodeling in 1937
In 1926, the considerations for a conversion began, from 1935 Bernhard Hopp produced several designs, which, however, initially did not convince anyone involved. His design, accepted by the parish, left the existing nave untouched, significantly lengthened it, added a new chancel and widened it, which gave the side walls their low height, which is still characteristic today. The interior was to be upgraded with the wooden barrel ceiling, the existing tower was not wanted to be changed, also for financial reasons. The funds for the renovation were approved as early as October 1937 and work could begin.
The construction progress suffered very quickly from the supply problems due to the intensive German armament in the run-up to the Second World War . The entire outer support of the large roof had to be constructed without iron girders, which Hopp solved with the striking support pillars on the outer wall and the arches of the aisles . Both structural features reinforce the archaic impression of the church. The originally planned deposited timber had to be given to the military. Even today you can tell from the cracks in the beams that fresh wood was used as a replacement. The right mandorla was created in 1938 by the sculptor (and painter) Albert Christian Friedrich Woebcke (1896–1980).
The greatest change in planning resulted from the proximity to the airport and the increased military flight training at the time. The Reich Ministry of Aviation used the renovation as an opportunity to order a short-term shortening of the tower to a height of 23 m. This arrangement changed both the construction and financial planning. After tough negotiations between all parties involved, an agreement was reached on the construction of a new tower and a subsidy from government agencies amounting to 2/3 of the costs. Hopp now constructed today's massive tower, with which he achieved a new architectural balance between tower and nave. Only two granite columns remain from the old tower in the vestibule.
After the renovation, the church was inaugurated on the fourth Advent in 1938. Due to the massive tower, the high pitched roof and the small white windows that are reminiscent of North German farmhouses, the building is clearly influenced by the homeland security style preferred at the time of the renovation .
Reconstruction from 1961 to 1963
The original sacristy on the north side was converted into a memorial chapel from 1961 to 1963 under the direction of Bernhard Hopp to commemorate the fallen sons of parishioners. The original windows disappeared, instead of an outer door there was an entrance from the nave, a memorial wall with the engraved names was created. For lighting, a large opening reaching to the floor was created in the outer wall with a stained glass window by the artist Claus Wallner , whose motif Falling Leaves is adapted to the purpose of the chapel. Since January 2002, a second memorial wall has been added to the civilian victims of National Socialism in Fuhlsbüttel, the relief tiles of which were made by students from the Alstertal high school.
Furnishing
White exposed brickwork, red brick floor and the wood-clad barrel ceiling also give the interior a rustic character. The winged altar and the two low windows in the altar niche fit harmoniously into the overall picture.
The belfry in the tower has space for four bells.
organ
When it was inaugurated after the renovation in 1937/1938, the church had a new Kemper organ. This was the first fully mechanical organ with three manuals in northern Germany after the organ movement .
Today's organ comes from the workshop of Oskar Metzler & Sons (op. 590). It was inaugurated on May 27, 1996. Your disposition is:
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- 3 normal coupling: II / I, I / P, II / P
- Tremulant (for both manuals)
Photographs and map
Coordinates: 53 ° 38 ′ 3 ″ N , 10 ° 1 ′ 8 ″ E
Entrance portal in the tower
Interior view with dominant barrel vault
Left altar window
See also
- Church construction during the National Socialism
- Hermann Ehlers has been closely associated with the community since he was stationed as a flak lieutenant in Fuhlsbüttel.
literature
- Ralf Lange : Architecture in Hamburg . Junius Verlag , Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-88506-586-9 , p. 240 .
- Albert Woebcke . In: Maike Bruhns : Art in the Crisis. Volume 2: Artist Lexicon Hamburg 1933–1945. Dölling and Galitz, Munich / Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-933374-95-2 , p. 422.
- Friedhelm Grundmann, Thomas Helms: When stones preach . Medien Verlag Schubert, Hamburg 1993, ISBN 3-929229-14-5 , p. 125 f .
- Heinrich Zacharias-Langhans: St. Lukas, 70 years on Erdkampsweg . Self-published by the parish of Fuhlsbüttel, Hamburg 1963.
- The Lukaskirche in Fuhlsbüttel. In: Alstertal - Guide and manual for the upper Alster area. Gewerbebund Alstertal (Ed.), Hamburg 1912, p. 89. ( PDF file )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Uwe Gleßmer, Emmerich Jäger, Manuel Hopp: On the biography of the church builder Bernhard Hopp , BOD, Norderstedt 2016, p. 201
- ↑ Günter Seggermann, Alexander Steinhilber, Hans-Jürgen Wulf: The organs in Hamburg . Ludwig, Kiel 2019, ISBN 978-3-86935-366-1 , pp. 121 .
- ↑ Entry in the organ database orgbase.nl . Retrieved November 15, 2012.
Web links
- Homepage of the community
- List of recognized monuments of the city of Hamburg ( Memento from November 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- Lecture on the history of Fuhlsbuettel