St. Johannis (Harvestehude)

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St. Johannis-Harvestehude is a church in the Hamburg district of Rotherbaum near the street Mittelweg. It is the main church of the Evangelical Lutheran parish of St. Johannis-Harvestehude. It was built from 1880 to 1882 in the neo-Gothic style. Its architecture and artistic furnishings are largely original (or have been restored). The church is therefore one of the most impressive Hamburg monuments of the late 19th century and also attracts attention beyond the city.HistoryThe suburbs of Hamburg located to the east and north, i.e. west to north of the Outer Alster Rotherbaum, Harvestehude, Eimsbüttel, Eppendorf, Winterhude and Uhlenhorst, developed tumultuously after the lifting of the gate barrier in 1860. The growing suburbs were served by the parishes in St. Georg, the rural parish of Moorfleet and the parish of St. Johannis-Eppendorf, respectively, for which the churches there were too small. Therefore, a number of suburban churches were built in a short time around 1880. St. Johannis in Harvestehude was one of the first of these new buildings, followed by the churches of St. Petri in Altona (1883), designed by Johannes Otzen, the Christuskirche in Eimsbüttel (1884) and St. Gertrud in Uhlenhorst (1886). Otzen and Hauers were students of Conrad Wilhelm Hase, which meant that new church construction in Hamburg at the time was characterized by the style of the "Hanoverian School" with brick shell construction and the resulting constructive and stylistic elements. This content has been machine translated.