St. Michael (Hamburg-Bergedorf)
The Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Michael in Hamburg-Bergedorf is located directly on the edge of the Geest slope on the Gojenbergsweg street on the site of a former cemetery that has been used as a public park since 1953. The elevated location, which is noticeable for Hamburg, was one of the reasons for the decision to name the church after the Archangel Michael .
Building the church
The first plans to build a church at this point were made in 1935, but they were no longer pursued due to the Second World War .
Planning was only resumed after the end of the war and the foundation stone of today's church was laid on October 23, 1954 . By 1955, the current building with space for 254 people was built under the direction of Gerhard Langmaack . On the one hand, it should blend in with the existing trees in the area and, on the other hand, it should stand out effectively. The church was consecrated on September 29, 1955 and in the following years developed into the center of a parish that has been independent since October 1, 1964.
The steep, cubic structure with its 13 m edge length, kept in white as a contrast to the surroundings, looks much smaller from a distance than it actually is. St. Michael is a medium-sized church, but at first glance it still looks more like a small chapel. The choir room on the east side with its sloping roof, the low sacristy on the north side and the entrance room on the west side are hardly noticeable. In contrast, the tent roof, covered with wooden shingles, dominates the view, ending in another 13 m high, slender roof turret. The church reaches a total height of 43 m. The connection between the park and the church is created by the pillars of the canopy , which were made from whole, only slightly processed tree trunks.
Interior
The interior is almost square and very high, which originally made the acoustic conditions difficult. In order to leave the spatial impression as intact as possible and to avoid the transmission of vibrations, the gallery was attached to the walls with steel cables. In 1961, an additional, slightly curved coffered ceiling was added to the room, with which the acoustics could be decisively improved.
The altar and pulpit are made of black slate and form a clear color contrast to the rest of the interior. The large wooden cross behind the altar forms the optical center of the room.
All colored windows are designs by the artist Claus Wallner . The West Wall dominant oval Michael windows dates back to 1963, the twelve small colored round window in the chancel from 1962. show small window on the left motives of the creation story and make this different to the right of Christian symbols, such as evangelist symbols , representations the archangel and symbols of God to the side. The large window attached high on the west wall can only be seen clearly from the chancel, it shows the fight of the Archangel Michael with the dragon ( Rev 12 : 7-9 EU ).
Today's silver sacrament device by Uwe-Volkhard Bläse replaced a tin of the same shape in 1989 by the same artist who also made the bronze baptismal bowl in 1984.
Outbuildings and renovations
In the immediate vicinity of the church there is a parish hall and a pastorate from 1957 as well as a daycare center from 1974.
The acoustic ceiling inside the church had to be subjected to an asbestos removal from 1990 to 1991 , which was completed on March 3, 1991.
Bells
Two bronze bells from the Rincker foundry have been hanging in the tower since Easter Sunday 1956 :
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No. |
Surname |
Diameter (mm) |
Mass (kg) |
Chime |
inscription |
symbol |
| 1 | 940 | 505 | a 0 | O land, land, land, hear the word of the Lord ( Jer 22.29 EU ) | Dove of the Holy Spirit | |
| 2 | 790 | 292 | c 1 | No one can lay any other reason than the Lord ( 1 Cor 3 : 1 EU ) | archangel Michael |
The smaller bell is rung to accompany the Lord's Prayer , the big one on Good Friday .
organ
The organ , which was inaugurated on August 23, 1959 and manufactured by Orgelbau Franz Grollmann, stands on a gallery that is firmly anchored in the masonry. It frames the west window halfway with its asymmetrical organ face and almost 1000 pipes. As part of the asbestos removal in 1991, the organ was also renovated and re-voiced by the Rudolf von Beckerath company . In 2017 the organ was lost. Your disposition is:
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- 3 normal coupling: II / I, I / P, II / P
Former cemetery grounds
Today's park area was laid out in 1831 as a second cemetery for Bergedorf, at that time it was still well outside the city limits and was connected to the center by the Kirchhofsweg . The area on Gojenberg (today located between the streets Holtenklinker Straße / B 5 and Wentorfer Straße / B 207 ) expanded the residential areas from the 1920s. With the Hamburg observatory , a school and what was then the General Hospital, public buildings were built in the immediate vicinity from 1910 to 1915. From 1907 the tasks of the cemetery were increasingly taken over by the New Bergedorfer Friedhof , at the beginning of the 1950s it was de-dedicated.
In the park there are still isolated grave monuments, including some of artistic importance such as the statue of a woman leaning on a stump above the former Pemöller grave. Christoph Marquard Ed was buried here, but no remains of his grave have survived today. A small stele on the western edge of the park still reminds of the locally known headmaster Georg Friedrich Ritter , who was also buried here .
Photographs and map
Coordinates: 53 ° 28 ′ 58 ″ N , 10 ° 13 ′ 31 ″ E
Location on the Geesthang
Window of the choir room
Sacristy on the north side
Main room
literature
- Gerd Hoffmann, Konrad Lindemann: Churches in town and country . Hower Verlag, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-922995-90-X , p. 39-45 .
- Barbara Leisner, Norbert Fischer : The cemetery guide . Christians Verlag, Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-7672-1215-3 , p. 150-152 .
- Gertrud Schiller : Hamburg's new churches 1951–1961 . Ed .: Evangelical Lutheran Church Hamburg. Hans Christians Verlag, Hamburg 1961, p. 56 f., 74 .
- Evangelical Lutheran parish in Bergedorf (Ed.): St. Michael - Church leaders for the 50th anniversary . Self-published, Hamburg 2005.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Günter Seggermann, Alexander Steinhilber, Hans-Jürgen Wulf: The organs in Hamburg . Ludwig, Kiel 2019, ISBN 978-3-86935-366-1 , pp. 142 .
- ↑ Entry in the organ database orgbase.nl . Retrieved November 19, 2013.
Web links
- Homepage of the community.
- Chronicle of the church on the home page of the congregation.
- Directory of the cultural monuments of the city of Hamburg.