St. Petri (Altona)

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St. Petri in Altona, view of the facade with the double spiers
inner space

The Evangelical Lutheran St. Petri Church in Altona is a neo-Gothic building from 1883 on the corner of Schillerstrasse and Schmarjestrasse in Hamburg-Altona-Altstadt . The church is open to visitors during the week.

Building history

After Altona became Prussian in 1866 and the main church of St. Trinity was no longer sufficient for the growing city, the St. John's Church was built from 1868 to 1873 for the "Nordergemeinde" . The "Westergemeinde", founded in 1873, initially used the chapel of the barracks on Schauenburgerstrasse, today's Schomburgstrasse, for their services. In 1876 she had the means to build her own church and bought a piece of land for 39,500 marks on the corner of Mathildenstrasse / Turnstrasse (today Schillerstrasse / Schmarjestrasse), which was a little narrowed, but could be acquired cheaply. Johannes Otzen , the architect of the St. Johannis Church, emerged as the winner from an architectural competition with 73 entries . The building, including the pastorate and confirmation room, was estimated at 240,000 marks. The money was raised through a donation, loan, and community property. The contract with Otzen was signed in 1880 and the foundation stone was laid on April 22, 1881.

St. Peter's Church

Nave with a portal added later

Otzen designed the church in the brick neo-Gothic style typical of the sacred buildings of historicism in northern Germany - as a hall church with very narrow, gallery- bearing side aisles without a transept . The wide west facade in the style of a westwork with the main portal is crowned by two slender spiers. The side portal was only created in 1898. A roof turret adorned the roof . The inauguration could be celebrated in 1883. Since the interior was felt to be too dark, it was repainted again in 1904 under Otzen's direction. In 1917 two bells were melted down for war purposes, which were then replaced in 1924.

View of the choir

On January 11, 1933, in response to the Altona Blood Sunday of July 17, 1932, the Altona Confession was read out not only in the main church of St. Trinity but also in the St. Petri Church , by one of its main authors, Hans Asmussen . During the Second World War , the church served as a refuge on the nights of bombing in the summer of 1943. She was spared major damage; only their windows and parts of the roof were destroyed. Larger were the losses in the community itself, which lost about two thirds of its members. Subsequently, water penetrated through the damaged roof, so that in 1956 an extensive renovation was necessary. In 1962 the roof was re-covered with copper sheet, but the roof turret was not restored for cost reasons.

For the centenary of 1983, the church was extensively renovated and the neo-Gothic interior was exposed again, including the red ribs on the white surfaces and the images of saints in the chancel. In addition, the church received an altar window again after only emergency glazing with three crosses after the war, and later the chancel was completely plastered and provided with a mural. Illo von Rauch-Wittlich was commissioned to design the three pictures and the two small rosettes . The motif in the main rosette, the sinking Peter, was retained and was integrated into the new work of art. The altar, pulpit and baptismal font were also rebuilt. The church received modern underfloor heating with district heating .

organ

organ

The organ of the church was built in 1963 by Karl Schuke Berlin organ building workshop. The instrument has 31 stops on two manuals and a pedal . The action mechanism is mechanical, the stop action was originally electro-pneumatic and has been electric since 1978. The upper work is swellable .

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
Gedackt pommer 16 ′
Principal 8th'
Playing flute 8th'
Reed flute 8th'
octave 4 ′
Coupling flute 4 ′
Nassat 2 23
octave 2 ′
Mixture V-VI 2 ′
Trumpet 8th'
shawm 8th'
Tremulant
II upper structure C – g 3
Metal dacked 8th'
Quintadena 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Reed flute 4 ′
Forest flute 2 ′
Sesquialtera II 2 23
Sif flute 1 13
Scharff IV – V 1'
Rankett 16 ′
Krummhorn 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
Principal 16 ′
Sub bass 16 ′
octave 8th'
Gemshorn 8th'
octave 4 ′
Night horn 2 ′
Mixture V 2 ′
trombone 16 ′
Trumpet 8th'
Cornett 4 ′

literature

  • F. Grundmann, T. Helms: When stones preach. Hamburg's churches from the Middle Ages to the present. Medien Verlag Schubert, 1993.

Individual evidence

  1. Information on the organ of St. Petri

Web links

Commons : St. Petri  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 53 ° 32 ′ 57 ″  N , 9 ° 56 ′ 17 ″  E