St. Johannis Harvestehude Hamburg
The St. John's church, founded in Hamburg- Harvestehude and today located in the district of Rother tree near the road middle, is an Evangelical Lutheran church. It was built from 1880 to 1882 in the Gothic Revival style. She is in architecture and artistic features largely original condition (or restored). Therefore, the church is one of the most impressive monuments in Hamburg late 19th century and is also beyond the city attention.
History
Located to the east and north suburbs of Hamburg, so west to the north of the Outer Alster Rother tree, Harvestehude Eimsbuettel, Eppendorf, Winterhude and Uhlenhorst, developed stormy after the lifting of Torsperre 1860. The growing suburbs were served by the parishes of St. George, the rural community Moor Fleet or the parishes Eppendorf what the local churches were too small. Therefore, were built around 1880 in a short time a number of suburban churches. St. John in Harvestehude was one of the first of these new buildings, followed by the designed by Johannes Otzen churches of St Peter in Altona (1883 ), Christ Church in Eimsbuettel (1884 ) and St. Gertrude in Uhlenhorst ( 1886). Otzen and Hauer were students of Conrad Wilhelm Hase, with which the new church building in Hamburg was marked during the period style of the " Hanover School" with brick shell and the resulting structural and stylistic elements.
The parish of St. John's Harvestehude was founded on January 27, 1879. The first church council under the chairmanship of Senator and later mayor Dr. Moenckeberg selected seven proposals from the design by architect Wilhelm Hauer's realization. There had a " temporary Comité for the building of a church before the dam Thor" already land issues with the city clarified and capital could be made available, it was possible to quickly carry out the construction work in 1880 to 1882.
St. John was one of the few churches of Hamburg, which survived World War II intact. In the 1970s, the church under an organist, later church music director Claus Bantzer developed into a center of the Church 's musical life in Hamburg.
Architecture and Facilities
The architect Wilhelm Hauer [ ] designed the church in the spirit of " Eisenach Regulative " of 1861. The result is a closed almost to the last detail composition Gothic art feeling. These include the pews, chairs, lecterns, organ pipes, the terrazzo floor and the ceiling paintings. The St. John's church is one of the best preserved monuments of this epoch Hamburg. In the unity of the conception it takes under the neo-Gothic churches in Germany a special place.
Altar
In this church, everything is aligned to the Christ - representations and the wooden carved gilded altar. The altar, the work of sculptor Fritz Hamburg Neuber (1837-1889), shows Christ three times:
- In the Nachgestaltung of the Holy Supper by Leonardo da Vinci with the subtitle " Come to me all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest " ( Matthew 11:28),
- Over the Last Supper, the Crucifixion of the famous replica of a wood-carver Tilman Riemenschneider, surrounded by a mandorla,
- On the pediment of the altar the appearance of the risen and exalted Christ.
In the stained glass windows above the altar Christ appears as a heavenly ruler. He is wearing a red toga and holding the keys in his left and the Book of Life in his right hand.
For St. John Harvestehude the sculptor Aloys Denoth created in 1892 two angels in Adorantenhaltung. They had originally flanked the altar. They were later placed in the vestibule. Denoth made for St. John's some relief medallions: " Blessed are the merciful " ( Good Samaritan - East slope of the Vierungszone ) and ' Tobias and the Angel " (1892, farewell Tobias, nave north wall ), and" Christ the Saviour " (1880, south wall of the nave ), " Annunciation" ( Choir North Wall ), "liberation of Paul " (1880, crossing the street), "The Daughter of Jairus " ( crossing north-west side ). They are distinguished by special free plastic qualities and engage in contrast to the Medaillos among others Fritz Neuber (1837-1889) deeper into the room. A small dog relaxes on the Tobias scene and displays the vibrant style of this sculptor.
Stained Glass
The designs for the glass windows created in a workshop in Innsbruck belong to the group of known " Nazarene " Julius Schnorr von Carol Field. They shine still as beautiful and clear as 100 years ago. The reason is that, at the edification of the church, the stained glass windows were protected from the weather and contamination by externally mounted transparent panes. The stained glass windows show a coherent cycle from the biblical story. From the main entrance on the left starting three scenes from the Old Testament, in the crossing of the Christmas window in the choir of images of Christ, in the crossing over the Christmas window Pentecost window, and finally three more windows with motifs from the New Testament to the right of the main entrance.
Typical is the orientation of the Old Testament images to the north, the alignment of the New Testament images to the south, which is related to the former lower position of the Old Testament against the New Testament. This is especially as the images of the Old Testament and the New Testament correspond pairwise.
Organ
The organ dates back to an instrument from the time of the construction of the church. 1882 established the company Marcussen & Son from Aabenraa ( Aabenraa, Denmark ) is a two-manual work with 27 sounding voices. The organ has been rebuilt several times and received her last final form in 1933 by the company P. Furtwängler & Hammer from Hannover. The now three-manual instrument with 55 registers and 3494 pipes ( III P/55 ) has since been continuously in use. After the Second World War she was the only surviving playable in Hamburg Concert church organ. In the 1970s, the organ was thoroughly cleaned and refurbished. Furthermore, a new game table was made by the company Willi Peter in Cologne in 1974, in which modern electronics came into use. Thanks to this game table, the organ is now suitable for all organ literature, from pre-Baroque to the Modern, and especially good for the improvisation.
Is currently building the company Mühleisen a new tool into the existing historic organ case, which will be scheduled based on the original state in the romantic style. The existing pipe material is restored and reused. In continuation of the original concept, a new swell will be built behind the organ, and added a clarinet factory. The new instrument will have 53 stops on three manuals and pedal. The Spieltrakturen are mechanical, the Registertrakturen and paddocks either mechanically and electrically.
- Pairing: Normal Couplers: II / I, III / I, III / II, I / P, II / P III / P
- Suboktavkoppeln: II / I, II / II, III / I, III / II, III / III
- Superoktavkoppeln: II / I, II / II, III / I, III / II, III / III, II / P III / P
Another architectural decoration
For the Neuber created things by Fritz altar Aloys Denoth had created 1891/1892 two angels, a praying angel and an angel with a chalice. They had originally flanked the altar. Now they are at the western entrance to the nave
The angel for St. John's ( Harvestehude ) by Aloys Denoth (right)
In the transept of the church seven relief medallions berinden on the side wall. They have a diameter of 1.38 meters. Two of them - " Tobias and the Angel " and " Blessed are the merciful " - were also created by Denoth, the other by the sculptors Fritz Neuber (1837-1889) and Struber. The reliefs of Denoth " distinguished by special free plastic qualities and engage in deeper difference to the medallions of Neuber and Struber into the room. A small dog relaxes Tobias scene and displays the vibrant style of this sculptor. " ( Clockwise order :)
" Tobias and the Angel " ( by Alois Denoth )
"The Daughter of Jairus "
" Good Samaritan "
" Annunciation"
"Birth of Jesus "
"Liberation of Paul "
" Christ as Savior " ( by Aloys Denoth )
In the transept there are far above the full sculptures of the Apostles: Matthew, Paul, Jude Thaddeus, James the Greater, Andrew, Bartholomew, Simon, John, James the Less, Thomas, Peter and Philip.