Apostelkirche

Apostelkirche stands in Hamburg’s Eimsbüttel district, an Evangelical Lutheran church with neo-Romanesque elements. Erwin von Melle and Peter Gottlob Jürgensen designed the building between 1893 and 1894. It first rose on an open field, where the church remained the only building for more than a decade. Earth from the Holstenwall helped prepare the donated site, which became one of Eimsbüttel’s older structures.

A fire almost completely destroyed the church during the night of 25 to 26 September 1977. Reconstruction began in 1978 under architect Bernhard Hirche and finished in 1982. The rebuilt interior places a foyer below a church hall, with multipurpose rooms arranged around the mezzanine. A new Jehmlich organ arrived in 1984, alongside a clock supported by the Eimsbütteler Wochenblatt.

A stone from Israel forms the baptismal font, whose base carries a relief of the Sea of Galilee. Twelve altar windows portray twentieth-century figures regarded as modern apostles, including Sophie Scholl, Martin Luther King and Albert Schweitzer. Derix created the windows, which were inaugurated in 1990. The organ has nineteen stops across two manuals and a pedal, with mechanical action and electric stop action.