St. Thomas (Hörnum)

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St. Thomas seen from the south (2008)

The St. Thomas Church is an Evangelical Lutheran church in Hörnum on Sylt . It was built from 1969 to 1970 based on a design by Niebüller architect Martin Bernhard Christiansen. A dune on the Upper Dünenweg was chosen as the location, next to the pastorate already located there . Before that there was a provisional barrack church outside the village. The Wadden Sea Protection Station is located there today . St. Thomas has been a listed building since 1997. This makes it the youngest listed church in Schleswig-Holstein (as of 2008).

architecture

The idiosyncratic shape of the building is reminiscent of a sailing boat. White lime sandstone was used as building material . The tower-like, pointed choir therefore looks like a large, white sail. The bell is located in the upper part behind long, slender sound openings. In the northern area, the cubist -style building shows three keeled triangular gables that are at right angles to each other, i.e. point in the different cardinal directions. The entrance is in the west gable. There are no wall surfaces at right angles to one another, instead triangular shapes and irregular squares and polygons. The inclines of the building are emphasized by sloping window edges. At first glance, the designs appear irregular, but the floor plan is almost symmetrical. It only deviates from symmetry in the area of ​​the tower-like choir.

Interior

The interior

The wide nave is oriented towards the chancel, which is illuminated from the side through two tall, slender rows of windows. The wooden ceiling is pointed, so it follows the shape of the roof. The simple, massive altar block is framed by the baptism and the pulpit, which is almost at ground level. A tall, simple wooden cross is hung over the altar.

window

Wolf-Dieter Kohler created the colored windows: the high choir window shows abstract shapes, the narrow sloping window friezes on the sides tell the story of the Passion . Another window above the entrance depicts the calming down of the storm, one of Jesus' miracles of saving. ( Mk 4.35-41  EU )

organ

Hillebrand organ

The organ dates from 1993 and was built by the Hillebrand brothers' organ building workshop . The sound style of the organ is mainly based on the north German organ building tradition. The slider chest instrument has stops on two manuals and a pedal . The playing and stop actions are mechanical. The three-tower case is made of light oak.

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
Principal 8th'
Reed flute 8th'
octave 4 ′
Pointed flute 4 ′
Nasat 3 ′
octave 2 ′
Mixture III-IV
Trumpet 8th'
II Swell C – g 3
Dumped 8th'
Principal 4 ′
flute 4 ′
Forest flute 2 ′
Sesquialtera II
Scharff III
Dulcian 8th'
Tremulant
Pedals C – f 1
Sub bass 16 ′
Principal 8th'
octave 4 ′
Trumpet 8th'
trombone 16 ′

Votive ship

The votive ship, model of the "Cobra"

The Hamburg captain Uwe Hoffmann gave the church the model of the ship hung to the left of the altar. It is the model of the paddle steamer "Cobra" built according to the original plans. In 1901 the Cobra opened the new seaside resort passage from Hamburg via Helgoland to the southern tip of Sylt.

literature

  • Dirk Jonkanski, Lutz Wilde : Village churches in Schleswig-Holstein. Neumünster 2000, ISBN 3-529-02845-2 .
  • Info booklet about the church from the sponsorship group at the parish Hörnum-Rantum e. V., July 2001.
  • Kerstin Wittmann-Englert: tent, ship and apartment. Church buildings of post-war modernism. Lindenberg i. Allgäu 2006, ISBN 3-89870-263-4 .

Web links

Commons : St. Thomas (Hörnum)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information on the organ

Coordinates: 54 ° 45 ′ 32.2 ″  N , 8 ° 17 ′ 27 ″  E