St. Sophien (Hamburg-Barmbek)

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Portal of St. Sophia (view from the west)
Site plan with church, monastery, Sophia school, gym and kindergarten (clockwise)
South facade

St. Sophien is a Roman Catholic parish church in Hamburg-Barmbek-Süd . The church, which opened in 1900, was donated by the shipowner Wilhelm Anton Riedemann . The name may go back to the common first name "Sophie" of Riedemann's wife and their daughter; the church is officially consecrated to Sophia of Rome . The building is a historical monument.

architecture

The building is a three-aisled hall church made of brick in neo-Gothic style based on a design by Heinrich Beumer. It is 46 meters long and 22 meters wide. The interior is 14.50 meters high, the tower 32 meters. Until it was destroyed in 1943, he wore a 21 meter high helmet, so that its original height was 53 meters.

Heinrich Beumer, who was diocesan architect in Münster at the time of construction , quoted Gothic hall churches from his Westphalian homeland with his design . The Saerbeck church is said to have served him as a direct model . The architecture guide Hamburg puts the building in a row with the Mariendom, which was built a few years earlier, and names a “conservative floor plan” and “conventional handling of stylistic borrowings” as structural features.

In the Second World War , the church was damaged by bombs during Operation Gomorrah at the end of July 1943 and lost the spire and parts of the interior. With the reconstruction from 1951 by the architect Ernst Kammerhuber, the church tower was given a flat roof and has been reminiscent of English Gothic churches since that time .

Interior

Statue of Catherine of Siena

At the end of the choir is a high altar that dominates the visual impression of the interior . The main parts of the altar have been in the church since 1901; only the statue of the risen Jesus Christ in the upper part dates from 1987. The middle part of the altar shows two richly designed depictions of the wedding at Cana and the multiplication of the bread . In front of the high altar is a celebration altar from 1992.

Pulpit and choir stalls were part of the basic equipment of the church and are kept in the same richly decorated neo-Gothic style as the high altar. The choir stalls were viewed critically at the foundation of the church by the responsible diocese, as it seemed "too rich for a diaspora church". It could still be set up as a gift from the church founder.

All the church windows date from after the Second World War. Only three windows in the choir room were provided with pictures. The middle window shows a scene with Mary and John under the crucified Christ, in the left window Ansgar is depicted as the apostle of the north, the right window is dedicated to the patron saint of the church, St. Sophia .

On the pillars of the central nave there are six statues measuring 1.85 meters, each of which relates to the church building. In the front part between the chancel and the pulpit there is a heart of Jesus and a mother of God statue. The four other statues show two women who are highly regarded today, Katharina von Siena and Therese von Lisieux, as well as the order donors Dominikus and Albertus Magnus as other well-known Dominicans.

The church has a total of three side altars. In the left side chapel, which also serves as a baptistery, there is a neo-Gothic Sacred Heart Altar from around 1908, which comes from the church of the dissolved Dominican monastery in Warburg . It is complemented by a baptismal font and an Easter candlestick. The Mater Dolorosa altar, which is now in the left aisle, was in the right side chapel until 1968. It is a work by the Württemberg artist Alfons Dörr from 1922. Nothing is known about the creation of the altar of Anthony of Padua in the right aisle .

The appearance of the chancel has been fundamentally changed several times since 1900. Originally it was equipped with a magnificent high altar and separated from the nave by communion benches . This separation persisted even after the reconstruction in the 1950s, albeit in a softened form. In 1968 the church was renovated in line with the ideas of the Second Vatican Council , the high altar was dispensed with and a continuous bench was created on the walls, which surrounded the celebration altar as the focal point. As with many other Catholic churches, however, the congregation was never happy with this redesign and at the end of the 1990s returned to the variant with a high altar that still exists today.

Bells

Since the inauguration, the church has had a tower clock and a bell with a total of four bells. During the First World War and the Second World War , bells had to be handed in for armament purposes. Two bells were found in the Hamburg bell cemetery ; they have been hanging again in the tower of St. Sophien since 1960 together with two new bells.

Organs

Instruments 1911–1990

From 1911 to 1943 there was an organ by Paul Rother ( Hamburg-Eimsbüttel ) in the church . After the reconstruction, Emanuel Kemper ( Lübeck ) built a new instrument with 36 registers on three manuals and pedal (electro-pneumatic pocket drawer ) in 1957 , which was removed in 1990 before the church renovation began. This organ was used in May 1959 for radio recordings by the NDR with the French organist Jeanne Demessieux . The disposition :

I. Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Pommer 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Capstan whistle 8th'
4th octave 4 ′
5. Dumped 4 ′
6th Nasat 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
7th octave 2 ′
8th. Mixture IV-VI
9. Spanish trumpet 8th'
II. Rückpositiv C – g 3
10. Covered 8th'
11. Reed flute 8th'
12. Hole flute 4 ′
13. Forest flute 2 ′
14th Sif flute 1'
15th Sesquialtera II
16. Scharff IV
17th Krummhorn 8th'
Tremulant
III. Upper section C – g 3
18th Line flute 8th'
19th Quintatön 8th'
20th Coarse flute 8th'
21st Reed flute 4 ′
22nd Night horn 2 ′
23. Third flute 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
24. Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
25th Cornett IV-VI
26th Scharff IV 8th'
27. oboe 8th'
28. Schalmey 4 ′
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
29 Sub-bass 16 ′
30th Octave bass 8th'
31. Thought bass 8th'
32. Quintatön 4 ′
33. Night horn 2 ′
34. Rauschpfeife V
35. trombone 16 ′
36. Trumpet 8th'
  • Coupling : II / I, III / I, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P.

Siegfried Sauer Organ (1998)

In 1998 a new organ by Siegfried Sauer ( Höxter ) with 72 registers (4934 pipes) on four manuals and pedal was inaugurated. The instrument has slide chests with mechanical play and electrical stop action. It is the second largest organ in Hamburg and the largest organ in the Archdiocese of Hamburg. In May 2019, as part of a partial renovation, the 17 tongue registers will be renovated by the builder company Sauer due to strong oxidation. A comprehensive general renovation of the organ is planned for the long term. The disposition:

I. Rückpositiv C – a 3
1. Praestant 8th'
2. Wooden dacked 8th'
3. Quintad 8th'
4th Salicional 8 ′ (from c 0 )
5. Principal 4 ′
6th Coupling flute 4 ′
7th Sesquialtera II 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
8th. octave 2 ′
9. recorder 2 ′
10. Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
11. Scharff IV 1'
12. Dulcian 16 ′
13. Trumpets 8th'
14th Krummhorn 8th'
Tremulant
II. Main work C – a 3
15th Principal 16 ′
16. Principal 8th'
17th Wooden flute 8th'
18th Viola da gamba 8th'
19th Biffaria 8th'
20th octave 4 ′
21st Pointed flute 4 ′
22nd Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
23. octave 2 ′
24. Cornett V 8 ′ (from c 0 )
25th Mixture V-VI 2 ′
26th Small mix III 2 ⁄ 3 ′
27. Bombard 16 ′
28. Trumpet 8th'
29 Clarine brilliant 4 ′
Tremulant
III. Swell C – a 3
30th Pipe border 16 ′
31. Violin principal 8th'
32. Flûte harmonique 8th'
33. Lead-covered 8th'
34. Gamba 8th'
35. Vox coelestis 8 ′ (from c 0 )
36. Principal 4 ′
37. Transverse flute 4 ′
38. violin 4 ′
39. Rohrnasat 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
40. Octavin 2 ′
41. third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
42. Seventh 1 1 ⁄ 7  ′
43. Sifflet 1'
44. Harmonia aetherea III 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
45. Fittings V. 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
46. Basson 16 ′
47. Trompette harmonique 8th'
48. Hautbois 8th'
49. Vox humana 8th'
50. Clairon 4 ′
Tremulant
IV. Solo work C – a 3
51. Reed flute 8th'
52. Open flute 4 ′
53. Nasat 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
54. Forest flute 2 ′
55. third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
56. tuba 8th'
57. Clarinet 8 ′ (penetrating)
Tremulant
Pedal C – g 1
58. Pedestal 32 ′
59. Principal 16 ′
60. Violon 16 ′
61. Sub bass 16 ′
62. Octave bass 8th'
63. Gedacktpommer 8th'
64. cello 8th'
65. Choral bass 4 ′
66. Capstan whistle 4 ′
67. Night horn 2 ′
68. Back set IV 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
69. Contrabassoon 32 ′
70. trombone 16 ′
71. Wooden trumpet 8th'
72. zinc 4 ′
  • Coupling: III / I, IV / I, I / II, III / II, IV / II, IV / III, I / P, II / P, III / P, IV / P.
  • Playing aids : 256 typesetting combinations, RemoCard.
Siegfried Sauer organ from 1998

Church music

Since the inauguration of the organ in March 1998, with the support of the Förderverein Kirchenmusik e. V. regularly holds organ concerts with guest organists from home and abroad.

In St. Sophien there is a chamber choir, concert choir and children's choir. In September 2012, on the occasion of the upcoming 800th anniversary of the Dominican Order in 2016, a CD with organ improvisations by Thierry Mechler and Gregorian chants from a Schola consisting of six Dominicans was recorded under the direction of Fr. Thomas Möller OP ( Worms ) in St. Sophien .

Significant people

Riedemann's wife was called Sophie von Riedemann, née Bödiker. His only daughter, who died in 1893 at the age of 19, had the same name. The naming of the church should go back to them. In 1905, in memory of his daughter, Riedemann had a mausoleum built in the Ohlsdorf cemetery based on a design by Martin Haller .

Johannes Prassek , who was executed as a resistance fighter in 1943, grew up in Barmbek and was baptized in St. Sophien in 1912 . From 1918 he attended the Sophia School there, received first communion in 1921 and became an altar boy. Prassek was beatified in 2011 as a member of the “ Lübeck Martyrs ”.

Affiliated monastery

On the site at the corner of Weidestraße and Elsastraße there is the Dominican Monastery of St. Johannis and a Catholic elementary school built after the war. The monastery is structurally connected to the choir of the church. The polygonal, ring-shaped building with its brick facades and brutally influenced eaves , which combines traditional and modern architecture, was built from 1965 to 1966 according to designs by the architects Rau, Bunsmann and Scharf. The monastery was consecrated in 1966 by Bishop Johannes von Rudloff and handed over to the first six Dominicans.

Photographs and map

Coordinates: 53 ° 34 '46.7 "  N , 10 ° 2' 5.3"  E

Map: Hamburg
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St. Sophien Barmbek​
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  • Entrance portal

  • Tower from the south

  • inner space

  • Altars in the choir room

  • Choir stalls

literature

  • Günter Dörnte: Catholic schools in Hamburg 1832 to 1939 . University of Hamburg, Hamburg 1984.
  • Donate Reimer u. a .: 100 years of St. Sophien, Hamburg-Barmbek: Festschrift; 1900-2000 . Catholic parish of St. Sophien, Hamburg 2000.
  • Matthias Gretzschel : Hamburg's churches: history, architecture, offers . Axel Springer Verlag , Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-86370-116-1 , p. 128-133 .
  • Friedhelm Grundmann, Thomas Helms: When stones preach . Medien Verlag Schubert, Hamburg 1993, ISBN 3-929229-14-5 , p. 97, 103 .
  • Ralf Lange: Architecture in Hamburg . Junius Verlag , Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-88506-586-9 , p. 182 .

Web links

Commons : St. Sophienkirche (Hamburg-Barmbek-Süd)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Monument Protection Office in the Authority for Culture, Sport and Media (Ed.): List of monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, as of April 13, 2010 (Pdf; 915 kB) ( Memento from June 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) , as of April 13 2010. Hamburg 2010, p. 185, list of monuments no. 994.
  2. ↑ Donate Reimer u. a .: 100 years of St. Sophien, Hamburg-Barmbek: Festschrift; 1900-2000 . Catholic parish of St. Sophien, Hamburg 2000, p. 24 .
  3. ^ A b c Ralf Lange: Architecture in Hamburg . Junius Verlag , Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-88506-586-9 , p. 182 .
  4. ↑ Donate Reimer u. a .: 100 years of St. Sophien, Hamburg-Barmbek: Festschrift; 1900-2000 . Catholic parish of St. Sophien, Hamburg 2000, p. 27 .
  5. ^ Jeanne Demessieux: Hamburger Orgeln - The Hamburg Organs. FECD 6961862 . www.festivo.nl. Accessed May 17, 2018.
  6. ↑ Catholic parish church Sankt Sophien (Barmbek) . www.orgbase.nl. Accessed May 17, 2018.
  7. ↑ Festschrift for the inauguration of the new organ in the Catholic parish church of St. Sophien in Hamburg-Barmbek on March 15, 1998 (PDF) . www.sanktsophien.de. Accessed May 17, 2018.
  8. ↑ Organ renovation - current donations . www.sanktsophien.de. Accessed March 25, 2019.
  9. ↑ The Siegfried Sauer organ in Sankt Sophien . www.sanktsophien.de. Accessed May 16, 2018.
  10. ↑ Förderverein Kirchenmusik e. V. . www.sanktsophien.de. Accessed May 17, 2018.
  11. ^ Felix Brahm: Riedemann, Wilhelm Anton . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Ed.): Hamburgische Biografie: Personenlexikon , Volume 2. Wallstein, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-7672-1366-4 , pp. 344-345.
  12. ^ Johannes Prassek: Curriculum vitae in key words on the website Lübeck Martyrs of the Archdiocese of Hamburg. (Accessed December 19, 2011)
  13. ^ Bishop hands over the new monastery to the Dominicans . In: Hamburger Abendblatt from 17./18. September 1966, p. 5.