St. Maximilian Kolbe (Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg)

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View from the street side
East side with nave
Light shaft and former altar area

The Roman Catholic Church of St. Maximilian Kolbe in Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg was a branch church of the Wilhelmsburg Church of St. Bonifatius . The listed building is located on Krieterstraße in the east of the district. Often referred to as “Hamburg's most unusual post-war church”, it was built between 1972 and 1974 based on a design by Jo Filke and named after the canonized Polish pastor Maximilian Kolbe .

In 2014, plans for demolition were initially discussed, but the building was profaned in 2015 and handed over to the German Maltese for further use .

history

Building the church

In order to repair the damage caused by the storm surge of 1962 , some new building areas were soon built in Wilhelmsburg, among whose new residents the proportion of Catholic residents was noticeably higher than before. Therefore, the Catholic Church planned its location on Krieterstraße to supply the parishioners in the new development areas of Kirchdorf, including the large Kirchdorf-Süd estate that was being planned at the time . All facilities of the community founded in April 1971 (parish hall, church, parish apartment, social facilities) were grouped from the beginning in a form open to the district.

Construction of the actual church, for which high architectural standards had been set, began in 1972. On September 21, 1974, the church was consecrated. The architect Jo Filke solved the task of creating a new ecclesiastical center with a building that is considered the most important of his five church buildings. It stands out clearly from its surroundings thanks to its striking shape and material processing, especially the strong, typical use of exposed concrete . The floor plan is polygonal , the tapering church tower develops in a spiral from the comparatively low main room. The spiral shape is additionally emphasized by the course of the formwork seams in the concrete. The cross on the church tower is an addition from 1988.

From June to July 2009 the exhibition “Architecture of Tomorrow!” Of the Hamburg Monument Protection Office on Hamburg's post-war churches was on view in the church.

Plans for a demolition

Even if the building is praised by the Monument Protection Office as a “characteristic example of church construction in the 1970s” and “urban planning features”, it also characterizes it as an “unpopular monument” whose value is difficult to convey. Damage to the roof and concrete façade has developed on the structure, for whose renovation, according to the municipality, 400,000 euros would be necessary, which it could not raise with its own funds. The redevelopment would have been “economically unreasonable”. The responsible office of the Archdiocese of Hamburg approved the resulting demolition plans in November 2013. After the discussion of the plans in the Hamburg public, the monument protection office was skeptical of demolition and instead sought to convert the building.

Conversion and profanation

The building will be integrated into the social activities of the Maltese around the nearby nursing home. The necessary renovations began in 2015, were originally planned by 2018 and should be completed by 2020, the financing is mainly secured by the Maltese, the federal and state of Hamburg are involved in the external renovation with the support of the Archdiocese of Hamburg. In a first step, the interior was completely cleared and the organ was sold. After a necessary renovation of the building fabric, rooms for advice centers and a training center for outpatient care are planned. An ecumenical chapel for the old people's home is to be set up again and a new residential building for assisted living is to be built next to the building . An architects' competition for the renovation started in November 2015 and ended in February 2016 with the award of a design by the Hamburg architects “LH Architekten”. Awarded a prize in the national competition "European City: Change and Values" in 2018 for preservation and planned conversion.

Equipment until 2014

inner space

The interior, with its open seating and the only slightly highlighted chancel, referred to the ideas of the Second Vatican Council in terms of church architecture . Here, the church should not the community before , but in the sense of " active participation " to gather the altar. The important liturgical elements altar , baptism , tabernacle , ambo and crucifix were raised by a step, but at the same time part of the community due to the circular shape and lack of delimitation. The outer shape can be found in the interior. On the one hand, through the spiraling ceiling with its wooden roof beams, but above all through the use of the tower as a light shaft through which daylight reached the baptismal font and the sacrament chapel. The crucifix used was created by Heinrich Gerhard Bücker .

organ

The organ , inaugurated on June 13, 1978, came from the workshop of the Hillebrand brothers . She owned three works with 1700 pipes .

Disposition
I main work C–
1. Principal 8th'
2. Reed flute 8th'
3. octave 4 ′
4th Covered 4 ′
5. Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
6th Gemshorn 2 ′
7th Mixture VI
8th. Trumpet 8th'
II Swell C–
9. Covered 8th'
10. Quintadena 8th'
11. Principal 4 ′
12. recorder 4 ′
13. octave 2 ′
14th Sesquialtera II
15th Scharff IV
16. Dulcian 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C–
17th Principal 16 ′
18th Sub-bass 16 ′
19th Octave bass 8th'
20th Covered bass 8th'
21st octave 4 ′
22nd Mixture IV
23. trombone 16 ′
  • 3 normal coupling: II / I, I / P, II / P
  • Playing aids : 3 free combinations, 1 free pedal combination, plenum, tutti, trigger, hand register, individual storage for reeds and mixtures

Photographs and map

Coordinates: 53 ° 29 ′ 53 ″  N , 10 ° 0 ′ 48 ″  E

Map: Hamburg
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Hamburg

  • Window in the southeast wall

  • Overview interior (2016)

  • Look into the light shaft

  • Main window and south-east wall from the inside

  • Stained glass window

literature

  • Karin Berkemann: tomorrow's architecture! Ed .: Monument Protection Office Hamburg. Dölling and Galitz Verlag, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-937904-60-3 , p. 42 f .

Web links

Commons : St. Maximilian Kolbe  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Architecture exhibition ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the Hamburg Monument Protection Office. Retrieved March 4, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hamburg.de
  2. ^ A b c d e Matthias Gretzschel, Friederike Ulrich: Hamburg's most original church is about to be demolished . In: Hamburger Abendblatt . February 18, 2014.
  3. ↑ Report ( Memento of the original from December 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. for handing over to the German Maltese, Elbe-Wochenblatt of July 14, 2015, accessed on December 10, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.elbe-wochenblatt.de
  4. ↑ http://www.hamburg.de/kulturbehoerde/denkmalschutzamt/1225878/ungeliebte-denkmaeler.html ( Memento from March 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) The Hamburg Monument Protection Office for the evaluation of post-war modern buildings, article from 2014.
  5. ^ Article on the planned demolition in the New Church Newspaper of the Archdiocese of Hamburg. Retrieved March 4, 2014.
  6. ↑ The church is supposed to be saved . In: taz , April 25, 2014; on the result of a discussion in Wilhelmsburg; Retrieved April 25, 2014.
  7. ↑ a b Thomas Sulzyc: Interior work will last until summer 2018 . In: Hamburger Abendblatt . April 18, 2015.
  8. ↑ Report on the status of the renovation measures on kirche-hamburg.de , accessed on November 12, 2018.
  9. ↑ Press release of the City of Hamburg from December 8, 2014; accessed on December 11, 2015
  10. ↑ Post in the blog of the time ; accessed on December 11, 2015.
  11. ^ Report on the reconstruction plans on the website of the Protestant Northern Church . Retrieved December 10, 2015.
  12. ↑ Edda Teneyken: architectural competition runs . In: The new reputation . November 28, 2015 ( neuerruf.de [PDF; accessed December 11, 2015]).
  13. ↑ Result of the architectural competition on the Maltesercampus website; accessed on August 12, 2016.
  14. ↑ Report on appreciation on hamburg.de , accessed on November 20, 2018.
  15. ↑ Entry in the organ database orgbase.nl ; Retrieved March 3, 2014.