Petruskirche Lokstedt

The Petruskirche Lokstedt is an evangelical Lutheran church in the Hamburg district of Lokstedt. Architect Gert Pempelfort designed it as part of the local infrastructure for the Lenzsiedlung, a residential area in the district's south. It was inaugurated in October 1968. Its most striking feature is the uniquely designed tower, twenty-eight metres high.

At the west entrance you meet two reliefs by Nanette Lehmann. A concrete relief of the Lamb of God adorns the gable, and the bronze doors tell the creation story in stylised forms. Inside, simplicity and clarity govern a room for two hundred and thirty people, and colourful stained glass dominates the west wall. Behind the altar the north wall is brick, and the altar itself carries six candlesticks and a cross. Heinz Neumann made the bronze baptismal font, which shows a circle of stylised children holding the basin together. Since Easter 1971 an organ from Detlef Kleuker's workshop has carried the music, its thirty-nine registers spanning traditional and modern styles.

An independent congregation made the church its centre until 1996. When the Lokstedt parishes restructured, the idea of closing it entirely came up. The new Lokstedt congregation instead concentrated its activities around the Christ-König-Kirche and repurposed this building for more varied uses. The Korean community in Hamburg shares it, so what began as a single parish's centre serves two congregations.