Tornescher Church
The Tornescher Kirche is an Evangelical Lutheran church in Tornesch . It was built between 1959 and 1960 based on a design by the architect Günther Frank. This makes it the first of three new churches in the region, the construction of which was made possible by a loan from the Blankenese Association. A little later the Church of the Redeemer in Uetersen and the Church of St. Michael in Moorrege were built.
Prehistory of the church building
- 1906: A church hall is set up in the new building of the Esinger school, in which the Tornescher believers celebrate the service.
- 1908: The Tornescher community splits off from the mother community of Rellingen and becomes independent.
- 1909: The community receives a church bell and a rectory is built at Esinger Strasse 68.
Plans to build a church on a piece of land next to the pastorate are not implemented. - 1958: A parish hall is built on Jürgen-Siemsen-Straße.
- 1960: The Tornescher church is built next to the parish hall.
The outer structure
The church is not easted, but is arranged parallel to Jürgen-Siemsen-Straße. The building essentially consists of a rectangular nave with a gable roof, which has an incision in the altar area on both sides. Concrete glass windows and other, lightly painted concrete elements loosen up the brick walls. The side windows are arranged through inclined incisions in the side wall so that their light falls on the altar.
At the southwest corner there is a tower over 30 m high with a square floor plan. The copper-covered, pointed helmet is interrupted halfway up by the sound openings for the three bells. The top of the tower is closed by a one and a half meter tall copper tap. It was made by the Tornescher plumbers Ernst Huckfeldt and Horst Schröttke based on a design by a Pinneberg artist.
The inner
The Hamburg artists Siegfried Assmann and Carl von Frühling designed the high, open interior of the church. On the gable side, the altar forms a design unit with the large concrete glass window that extends to the top of the ceiling.
The window shows the trinity of God, Christ and the Holy Spirit in a very stylized form, and below it shows the symbols of the four evangelists: man, lion, bull and eagle.
The organ dates from 1993. (It replaces the original organ from 1960.) The instrument was built by the Danish organ builder Bruhn from Aabenraa. It has two manuals and a pedal, 20 registers and a total of 1284 pipes. (183 of them were taken from the old organ.)
The interior - view of the altar
The altar with candlesticks and crucifixion relief
The spire
The window
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- Kreiskulturverband Pinneberg (ed.): Sound, space, rest - organs, churches Resting places in the district of Pinneberg. Tornesch 2007
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Coordinates: 53 ° 41 ′ 46.8 " N , 9 ° 42 ′ 29.1" E