Bugenhagenkirche, Hamburg-Barmbek, Modern church building in Barmbek-Süd, Hamburg, Germany
The Bugenhagenkirche is a modern church building in Hamburg-Barmbek with a distinctive brick facade and vertical layout. The church hall sits above a community room, and the interior was renewed after major renovations from 1996 to 1998.
The building was constructed between 1927 and 1929 by architect Emil Heynen and named during Hamburg's 400th Reformation anniversary. After deconsecration in 2019, it transformed into a community center for the Afro-Community and local residents in 2022.
Five sculptures on the church front depict Johannes Bugenhagen and other early Protestant preachers who introduced Protestantism to Hamburg. These representations shape the building's appearance and remind visitors of the area's religious history.
The building stands at Biedermannplatz in Barmbek-Süd, its tower rising above the neighbouring Catholic church tower. A restored outdoor staircase, shortened in 1935 and rebuilt in the 1990s, leads up to the church hall level and forms a forecourt screened from the street. Five windows inserted into the facade during the 1996–1998 renovation mark the Café B'Hagen.
The five figures on the facade are not all clergy: alongside Bugenhagen, Kempe and Ziegenhagen stand the Hamburg Oberalten Wegedorn and Johann Wetken, carved by Richard Kuöhl, Alphons Ely and Friedrich Wield. The tower, stacked from tapering cubes, deliberately breaks with traditional church forms.
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