List of churches in Hamburg

This is a list of churches in the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. There are many famous local churches in and around Hamburg. The St. Michaelis church is a famous Hamburg landmark, St. Nikolai church was the tallest building in the world in the 1870s and remains the second tallest structure in Hamburg.

Elias Galli (1650–1714), View of Hamburg or Stadtansicht von Hamburg, circa 1680, oil on canvas, Hamburg Museum, Hamburg

List

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Legend

•   Lutheran church
•   Roman Catholic church

Name	German name	Year [A]	Location[B]	Image	Notes
St. Peter's Church	Hauptkirche St. Petri Petrikirche	1195 1418 (rebuild) 1842 (fire)	Mönckebergstraße, Altstadt		Gothic-style building
St. Catherine's Church	Hauptkirche Sankt Katharinen	1256 16th century (rebuild)	Altstadt
St. James's Church	Hauptkirche Sankt Jacobi	1255 1963 (rebuild)	Altstadt
St Mary's Church	Kirchengemeinde St. Marien	1960	Fuhlsbüttel
St. Matthew's Church	Matthäuskirche	1919
St. Michaelis Church	Hauptkirche Sankt Michaelis Michel	1647 1750 (fire)	Neustadt
St. Nikolai	Hauptkirche St. Nikolai	1874 1943 (fire)	Altstadt		world's tallest building from 1874 to 1876. ruins since 1940s
	Sankt Nikolai	1951	Harvestehude		Replaced old St. Nikolai
	Thomaskirche		Hausbruch
	Auferstehungskirche		Lohbruegge
	Tonndorfer Kirche		Tonndorf
	Herz Jesu Kirche		Hamm
	Sankt Erich Kirche		Rothenburgsort
	Paul-Gerhardt-Kirche		Bahrenfeld
	Kirche der Stille		Altona
	Martinskirche		Rahlstedt
	Gnadenkirche		St. Pauli		Gemeinde des Hl. Johannes von Kronstadt, Russian Orthodox church, former Lutheran church[1]
	St. Maria Magdalena Kirche		Moorburg
	St. Nicolai		Altengamme
	Russische Kirche des heiligen Prokop				Russian Orthodox church[2]
	Neuer Mariendom, former Pfarrkirche St. Marien		St. Georg

1. ^{^} Construction date or first mentioned on record., secondary dates are major events including fires and reconstruction but not additions.
2. ^{^} Borough or quarter of current political location.

See also

• List of museums and cultural institutions in Hamburg
• List of castles in Hamburg

References

1. "Gemeinde des Hl. Johannes von Kronstadt" (in German). Retrieved 2009-10-07.^{[permanent dead link]}
2. "Russische Kirche des heiligen Prokop in Hamburg" (in German). Retrieved 2009-10-07.

External links

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