# Heilige-Dreieinigkeits-Kirche

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Heilige-Dreieinigkeits-Kirche stands in Hamburg’s St. Georg district as a church shaped by medieval origins and postwar reconstruction. Its 66.6-metre tower rises above a building regarded as a fine example of 1950s sacred architecture. A side entrance makes the church wheelchair accessible. Inside, light travertine contrasts with dark dolomite around the side-lit altar.

A chapel first served the St.-Georgs-Hospital, founded in 1220, before extensions transformed it during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. By 1655, the church held about 1,200 people. Johann Leonhard Prey designed the baroque replacement completed in 1747, whose inauguration included an oratorio by Georg Philipp Telemann. Bombing in July 1943 almost destroyed that structure, while Heinz Graaf designed the reconstruction completed in 1957. The rebuilt tower regained its full height in 1962.

Jochem Poensgen designed the large windows renewed in 2003, filling the interior with Christian symbols and coloured light. Karl Knappe created the depiction above the altar, while Jürgen Weber made the crucifix. The former tower entrance now shelters a late fifteenth-century Crucifixion group. Bells include historic examples from 1797, and the 1959 Walcker organ contains 36 registers across three manuals and a pedal. Its excellent acoustics complete a space where six hundred people can sit.

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