St. Paulus (Hamburg-Heimfeld)

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St. Paulus Church in Hamburg-Heimfeld

The Evangelical Lutheran St. Paulus Church in Hamburg-Heimfeld is a listed neo-Gothic brick building in the historic center of the former farming village of Heimfeld, which has belonged to the city of Harburg since 1888 and to the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg through the Greater Hamburg Act since 1937 . It forms the center of a residential area around Meyerstraße, which consists of Wilhelminian-style houses and lies on the high bank of the Elbe, making it very clearly visible from the Harburg seaport and the southern Elbe at the time of construction .

Construction and history

The church was built by the building contractor August Prien in 1906–1907 based on a design by Hugo Groothoff following an order placed by the city of Harburg in 1903 . Prien was awarded the Prussian Crown Order IV class for its excellent structural execution . Groothoff based himself on his own design for the Church of the Redeemer in Lohbrügge , which resulted in a comparable building with a polygonal apse , a sacristy on the south side and a dominant 67 m high church tower. This tower is exemplary for the massive four-sided tower type used by Groothoff after 1900, which has significantly fewer decorations and structural elements than the church towers of his first designs. The side walls of the nave are divided by buttresses and groups of windows. The Pauluskirche is the only church Groothoff in which he closed the groups of the side windows not with a single large round window , but with a group of three small round windows.

The foundation stone was laid on July 10, 1906, the topping-out ceremony on November 3, 1906 and the inauguration another year later, on November 3, 1907, by Johannes Remmers .

The interior is finished with a wooden barrel vault , the walls are designed with white plastered surfaces and complex brick bands, as is typical of the time. With 716 planned seats and a 25 m long and almost 16 m wide main room, the building is Groothoff's largest sacred building.

The church originally had wall paintings inside and fully colored glazed windows. Both the windows and the wall paintings were lost in the Second World War , when a pressure wave from a bomb explosion destroyed all windows in 1944 and severely damaged the roof, tower and masonry.

Furnishing

The original stalls, altar, organ prospectus , pulpit and baptismal font have been preserved. On the baptismal font is the inscription: “Donated by the church building entrepreneur August Prien and his wife Caroline, geb. Bost ". The limestone altar is one of the most elaborately preserved principal pieces in a church built by Groothoff. The richly decorated five-part altarpiece has an ornamental design with glass mosaics and a finely crafted crucifix in the center. Altar and pulpit were manufactured at the same time by the Leichsenring & Voß company in Hanover, which is why the materials and design elements used in the altar can be found in the pulpit.

Today's choir windows were designed by Helmut Ammann in 1950.

organ

The organ was first built in 1907 by Orgelbau Röver and rebuilt by Orgelbau Beckerath in 1952 and 1992 . It has 28 registers , which are distributed over two manuals and pedal . Your disposition is:

I main work C–
1. Quintadena 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Reed flute 8th'
4th octave 4 ′
5. flute 4 ′
6th Nasat 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
7th octave 2 ′
8th. Coupling flute 2 ′
9. Rauschpfeife II
10. Mixture VI
11. Zimbel III
12. Trumpet 8th'
II Swell C–
13. Dumped 8th'
14th Quintadena 8th'
15th Principal 4 ′
16. Pointed flute 4 ′
17th Fifth flute 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
18th Piccolo 2 ′
19th third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
20th Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
21st Scharff III
22nd Krummhorn 8th'
Pedal C–
23. Sub bass 16 ′
24. Principal 8th'
25th octave 4 ′
26th Octave II 2 ′ and 1 ′
27. Mixture V
28. bassoon 16 ′

Individual evidence

  1. ^ List of listed objects in the Hamburg-Harburg district. Retrieved February 27, 2019.
  2. ↑ a b On the building history of St. Paulus Church on the website of Aug. Prien. Retrieved February 27, 2019.
  3. ↑ Brief description of the church on the parish homepage. Retrieved February 27, 2019.
  4. ↑ Sabine Behrens: North German Church Buildings of Historicism . Verlag Ludwig, Kiel 2006, ISBN 3-933598-97-4 , p. 149 .
  5. ↑ Sabine Behrens: North German Church Buildings of Historicism . Verlag Ludwig, Kiel 2006, ISBN 3-933598-97-4 , p. 154 .
  6. ↑ Sabine Behrens: North German Church Buildings of Historicism . Verlag Ludwig, Kiel 2006, ISBN 3-933598-97-4 , p. 161 .
  7. ↑ Entry in the orgbase.nl database . Retrieved February 27, 2019.

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Coordinates: 53 ° 27 '56.8 "  N , 9 ° 57' 48.3"  E