Reconciliation Church (Hamburg-Eilbek)

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Church of Reconciliation (2015)

The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Reconciliation in the Hamburg district of Eilbek is located at the intersection of Eilbektal 33 / Maxstraße 52, directly on the Eilbek Canal . It is a listed building and is considered "one of the most mature achievements of Hamburg's reform architecture ."

history

Building the church

The Friedenskirche in Eilbek had around 30,000 parish members at the end of the 19th century. It was considered to plant another congregation in the rapidly growing district and also to build a new church . On October 6, 1906, the parish was given the property on Maxstrasse on which the Reconciliation Church was later built. But the building of a meeting house initially seemed more urgent to the church council. This building project was implemented in 1908.

Five designs were submitted for the new church building, and it was decided in favor of the design by Fernando Lorenzen , who had already built the pastorate .

The foundation stone for the church building took place on June 18, 1916 in the middle of the First World War . In the following year, the construction work stagnated because there was a lack of money. The roof and glazing were made provisionally. On July 1, 1917, the general command ordered a construction freeze. The scaffolding remained in place long after the end of the war. The synod approved funds to continue the construction work, and since Lorenzen had died in the meantime, Hermann Geißler was commissioned as the architect to complete the building.

The interior is based on a design by the architect Theodor Speckbötel . As is typical of the time, it is kept simple except for a barrel vault with a coffered ceiling and has a gallery on three sides.

Consecration

The church council decided on September 5, 1921, to name the new building the Reconciliation Church . He was referring to the Bible word in 2 Cor 5:20. Pastor Julius Hahn wrote that the church should actually be named Siegeskirche . He suggested the name Reconciliation Church because he himself was coined by Martin Kähler's book On Reconciliation . The dedication of the church was celebrated on November 6, 1921. The organizational independence of the community with its own church council was achieved on January 1, 1925; in the same year the construction of the church tower was also completed.

War damage

View of Eilbek after the bombing in 1943. The Reconciliation Church can be seen at the top left of the picture

During Operation Gomorrah , the Eilbek district was turned into a field of ruins by bombing in July 1943. The Reconciliation Church was damaged, but the interior was preserved. Where previously 25,000 people had lived, only a few found living space in cellars and isolated houses. The residents of the so-called Nissen huts became the new congregation of the Church of Reconciliation. In addition, the church was also visited by residents of the wider area, whose churches had been completely destroyed.

Building description

The Reconciliation Church is a concrete building with clinker facing on a rectangular floor plan. With this, his last church building, Lorenzen turned away from historicism and oriented himself towards the reform architecture represented by Fritz Schumacher .

Facade decoration

Sculptures above the entrance

Wilhelm Rex created the reliefs above the main entrance of the church in 1921: in the middle Jesus Christ, seated and with a raised hand in blessing, surrounded by four small evangelist medallions, on the left of Christ a mother and child, on the right two soldiers. Below you can read the Bible verse from which the church owes its name: 2 Cor 5. So be reconciled to God .

Interior decoration

After the end of World War I, parishioners donated for the floor, coffered ceiling, and church doors, and gradually the church was completed, albeit without a tower. Many contributed to the fact that the new church received its interior: “The church community took over the altar , the men's association took over the pulpit , Friday evening the candelabra in the chancel , the women's association took over the vestments for the pulpit and altar, and the women's aid took over the carpet for the chancel and the knee pillows. ”About 40 women sewed the altar carpet together using the patchwork technique from star-shaped pieces that they had cut out of soldiers' coats and other scraps of fabric. The carved Christ above the altar is the work of a church member, Carl Richter. He also made the Man of Sorrows (after Albrecht Dürer ) for the pulpit.

A large picture of Rudolf Schäfer was attached to the western altar pillar ( Presentation of Jesus in the temple ). One of the items of equipment in the Church of Reconciliation is a model of a ship that was intended to call to prayer for the seafarers.

Stained glass window

Except for the two Job windows, all stained glass windows in the Church of Reconciliation were made by the Kuball brothers' glazier.

There are five stained glass windows above the altar. The middle one depicts the exalted Christ with his hands raised in blessing, the two angels on the throne stand to the left and right, and the two small, outer windows show the means of grace - the sacraments on the left , the Holy Scriptures on the right .

  • Window of the west gallery: Wedding at Cana, Prodigal Son, Good Samaritan, “Let the little children come to me”;
  • Under the west gallery: Holy Night, Jesus' baptism, calming down the storm, disciples of Emmaus;
  • Window of the east gallery: anointing of Jesus, youth at Nain
  • In addition, a number of small coat of arms windows.

Two windows in the east gallery had to be replaced in the 1950s after the destruction of World War II . The congregation opted for motifs from the book of Job : A window depicts the firestorm , Hamburg is recognizable on the towers of its main churches. The four horsemen of the apocalyptic can be seen in the sky above the burning city . In the middle of the scene, Job is shown surrounded by his friends. One of the riders aims directly at him with a bow and arrow. The other Job window, on the other hand, shows the grateful Job after the end of his time of need, surrounded by all of creation. The artist was Siegfried Assmann .

organ

The organ, inaugurated in 1921 from the production of Orgelbau Paul Rother, stands on one of the galleries. As part of the renovation in 1958, the organ was renovated and rebuilt by Emanuel Kemper . After the renovation, only a few of the original registers were preserved. Your disposition is:

I main work C–
1. Pommer 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Gemshorn 8th'
4th Quintad 8th'
5. octave 4 ′
6th Dumped 4 ′
7th Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
8th. octave 2 ′
9. Mixture VI – VIII
10. Trumpet 8th'
II Swell C–
11. Dumped 16 ′
12. Swiss pipe 8th'
13. Wooden flute 8th'
14th Principal 4 ′
15th Line flute 4 ′
16. Nasat 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
17th recorder 2 ′
18th third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
19th Sedez 1'
20th Scharff V
21st Krummhorn 16 ′
22nd Dulcian 8th'
23. shelf 4 ′
Tremulant
III Manual C–
24. Dumped 8th'
25th Reed flute 4 ′
26th Forest flute 2 ′
27. Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
28. Sesquialtera II
29 Scharff III
30th Upright shelf 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C–
31. Principal 16 ′
32. Sub bass 16 ′
33. Octave bass 8th'
34. Flute bass 8th'
35. Choral bass 4 ′
36. Night horn 2 ′
Mixture VI – VIII (= No. 9)
37. trombone 16 ′
Trumpet (= No. 10) 8th'
  • Coupling: I / II, I / II 4 ′, I / III II / III, I / P, II / P, III / P
  • Playing aids : 3 free combinations, 2 free pedal combinations, crescendo roller, roller off, individual tongue storage

Bells

Not visible from the outside, three cast steel bells from the Bochum association hang in the tower . These bells date from the time the church was built and have the following inscriptions and chimes:

No.
  		Surname
  		Diameter
(mm) 		Mass
(kg) 		Chime
  		inscription
 
1 Big bell of the 0 Bochum Association i. Bochum 1916
O country, country, country, hear the word of the Lord!
2 Medium bell f 0 Father, I am calling you
3 Little bell a 0 Glory to God in the highest

Web links

Commons : Church of Reconciliation (Hamburg-Eilbek)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Michael Pommerening, Karl-Heinz Meier: Eilbek in words and pictures. Mühlenbek-Verlag, Hamburg 2008. ISBN 978-3-9807460-4-5 .
  • Karl-Heinz Meier: Hamburg-Eilbek . Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 2005. ISBN 3-89702-855-7 .
  • Church council of the Church of Reconciliation (Ed.): Commemorative publication for the 50th anniversary of the Church of Reconciliation in Hamburg-Eilbek, November 6, 1971 , Hamburg 1971.
  • Ralf Lange: Architecture in Hamburg . Junius Verlag , Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-88506-586-9 , p. 153 .
  • Friedhelm Grundmann, Thomas Helms: When stones preach . Medien Verlag Schubert, Hamburg 1993, ISBN 3-929229-14-5 , p. 97, 113 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ID 24542. In: List of monuments as a whole. Hamburg Monument Protection Office, accessed on April 2, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Friedhelm Grundmann, Thomas Helms: When stones preach . Medien Verlag Schubert, Hamburg 1993, ISBN 3-929229-14-5 , p. 115 .
  3. ↑ Michael Pommerening, Karl-Heinz Meier: Eilbek in words and pictures. , Hamburg 2008, p. 49.
  4. ↑ Parish council of the Reconciliation Church (ed.): Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the Reconciliation Church in Hamburg-Eilbek, November 6, 1971 , Hamburg 1971, p. 4.
  5. ↑ Michael Pommerening, Karl-Heinz Meier: Eilbek in words and pictures. , Hamburg 2008, p. 54 f.
  6. ↑ a b c d e Parish Council of the Church of Reconciliation (ed.): Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the Church of Reconciliation in Hamburg-Eilbek, November 6, 1971 , Hamburg 1971, p. 5.
  7. ↑ Representation of the church building on the homepage of the community. Retrieved July 20, 2018.
  8. ↑ a b Parish Council of the Reconciliation Church (ed.): Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the Reconciliation Church in Hamburg-Eilbek, November 6, 1971 , Hamburg 1971, p. 6.
  9. ↑ Michael Pommerening, Karl-Heinz Meier: Eilbek in words and pictures. , Hamburg 2008, p. 55.
  10. ↑ Church council of the Reconciliation Church (ed.): Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the Reconciliation Church in Hamburg-Eilbek, November 6, 1971 , Hamburg 1971, p. 7 f.
  11. ↑ Church council of the Church of Reconciliation (ed.): Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the Church of Reconciliation in Hamburg-Eilbek, November 6, 1971 , Hamburg 1971, p. 24.
  12. ↑ Presentation of the organ on the homepage of the community. Retrieved July 20, 2018.
  13. ↑ Entry in the organ database orgbase.nl . Retrieved July 20, 2018.
  14. ↑ Description of bells and clockwork on the municipality's website. Retrieved July 20, 2018.

Coordinates: 53 ° 34 ′ 21.2 "  N , 10 ° 2 ′ 51.6"  E