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Elisabeth Church Eidelstedt

Elisabeth Church Eidelstedt

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Location: Hamburg, Germany

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1. Niendorfer Gehege – Bridge Over the Kollau loop from Eidelstedt Zentrum

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2. Hamburg's 2nd Green Ring Trail – Bridge Over the Kollau loop from Eidelstedt Zentrum

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3. Path Along the Kollau – View of the Kollauwiesen loop from Eidelstedt

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Ma🌞NeverStopExploring

May 7, 2020

Due to the scarce financial resources, the requirements were a comparatively simple building, which should nevertheless be carried out solidly. The Hamburg-based master builders Faulwasser, Lorenzen, Groothoff and Stehn submitted their plans to the relevant tender. The architect Hugo Groothoff was commissioned to build a church based on his church, which was built in Brokstedt in 1899, and to use the example of the Fuhlsbüttel church to orientate the tower. The church is part of a series of very similar buildings that Groothoff built as rural churches, primarily in the area around Itzehoe and in Stormarn.

The church in Eidelstedt received a cross-shaped floor plan with a porch under the tower and a sacristy attached to the choir room. The main room with its nave and transept was planned for 300 seats and the possibility of installing additional galleries. The western end of the interior was classic with a gallery for choir and organ. The church was built in a contemporary Gothic style using bricks and sand-lime brick. For reasons of economy, decorative elements such as shaped stones or glazed bricks were used only very cautiously. For the same reason, with the exception of the choir, the brick vaults typical of the time were dispensed with in the interior and contented with a simple, slightly decorated wooden ceiling. This wooden ceiling was not carried out completely horizontally, however, but was adapted in the lower part to the course of the rafters in order to get a horizontal finish only at a greater height. This makes the interior higher and more hall-like. The first roof had a slate roof.

The church was inaugurated on September 16, 1906.

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Täckel

September 1, 2020

Somehow imposing with the relatively large roof.

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JR56

December 6, 2024

The church was consecrated on September 16, 1906.

It was spared from major war damage or structural changes,

so that it was able to retain its original appearance from the outside. However, the glass and, above all, the roof were damaged during the bombing on July 24/25, 1943, which meant that the main room remained without a roof until June 1945.

In the 1970s, when the roof needed to be repaired, the slate that had previously been used was replaced with black roof tiles.

The church has only been called "Elisabeth Church", after the mother of John the Baptist, since the 1950s. The original name "Eidelstedt Church" was no longer tenable when Eidelstedt grew in the post-war years and over time acquired three more churches (Christuskirche on Halstenbeker Weg, Johanniskirche in Dallbregen and Marienkapelle on Mählstraße).

The color scheme of the interior is typical of Groothoff's work. Bright, with a white ceiling and white walls, to which the brick-red facing stones around the windows and in the corners of the walls provide the necessary contrast.

The need for economy is particularly evident in the design of the altar, pulpit and baptismal font. All pieces are made of oak and come from the local master carpenter Wilhelm Schmidt. The three colored altar windows only came to the church in 1931 and come from Christel Kuball's workshop. The current bronze altar cross by Fritz Fleer was installed during a renovation in 1984.

The interior was renovated or redesigned in 1938, 1952, 1962 and 1983/1984, so that hardly anything of the original impression can be recognized. Better lighting and a light tiled floor have made it possible to maintain an inviting and friendly atmosphere.

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Location: Hamburg, Germany

Elisabeth Church Eidelstedt

1. Niendorfer Gehege – Bridge Over the Kollau loop from Eidelstedt Zentrum

2. Hamburg's 2nd Green Ring Trail – Bridge Over the Kollau loop from Eidelstedt Zentrum

3. Path Along the Kollau – View of the Kollauwiesen loop from Eidelstedt

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