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23-519: The tower's foundations lie under a commercial building at the corner of Kreuslerstraße and Speersort in the immediate vicinity of St. Peter's Church . The area is a light geest , where the first settlement of Hamburg has been documented. The base of the tower was discovered on 30 August 1962 during demolition work for the St. Peter's Community Center. Initially it was assumed that displaced boulders from nearby Steinstraße had been found, which

46-548: A café amidst the tower's foundations. 53°33′00″N 9°59′51″E  /  53.55000°N 9.99750°E  / 53.55000; 9.99750 St. Peter%27s Church, Hamburg Saint Peter's Church ( German : Hauptkirche St. Petri , German coll.: Petrikirche ) in Hamburg , Germany stands on the site of many former cathedrals. It has been a Protestant cathedral since the Reformation and its congregation forms part of

69-418: A convict with his hands bound. [REDACTED] Media related to St. Peter's Church, Hamburg at Wikimedia Commons Hamburg Museum The Museum for Hamburg History ( German : Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte ) is a history museum located in the city of Hamburg in northern Germany . The museum was established in 1908 and opened at its current location in 1922, although its parent organization

92-431: A nail in it was stolen from the museum. The skull was discovered in 1878, and forensic analysis believes it to be from the 1400s. At that time, it was common for pirates to be executed by being beheaded, and then the skull would be put on an iron stake to display the consequences of this activity. A more precise determination was attempted by the museum in 2004 by DNA analysis , but there was no further confirmation. It

115-498: A soldier that had gone missing in action during World War I . Over time, there is a gradual shift with some temporary exhibits also. Here the exhibits around 2005: The museum has many artifacts preserved by the Society of Hamburg History founded in 1839. The Petri portal from Hamburg's St. Petri Church , built in 1604, was built into the museum courtyard in the 1990s. The museum is known for having miniature scale models that show

138-413: Is a stone circle of boulders with an outer diameter of 19 metres (62 ft) and an inner diameter of 11 metres (36 ft). The majority of these stones have a diameter of 1 metre (3.3 ft) or more. On the west side was a water well with a depth of 4 metres (13 ft), a diameter of 4.4 metres (14 ft), and was made of field stones roughly 50 centimetres (20 in) in diameter. A showroom

161-552: Is believed to be the oldest street of the city of Hamburg, and an ancient trade route. But after further excavation the remaining foundations of the tower were uncovered. Until the 2008 excavations, it was thought to be the stone house of the Archbishop Adalbrand, built as a round tower and mentioned in the Hamburg church history of 1074 by Adam of Bremen . Further construction on St. Peter's Community Center enabled new studies of

184-547: The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany . It is believed that the church is near the original Hammaburg area and that a previous church or cathedral existed on the site. St. Peter's was probably built in early 1189; it was first documented in 1195 as a market church or ecclesia forensis . About 1310 it was rebuilt in a Gothic style and was completed around 1418. The bronze lion-head door handles,

207-550: The Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte (established in 1922 and called Hamburg Museum since 2005), and the doorway itself was restored again in 1995. Only seven years after the great fire, the Gothic church was rebuilt by architects Alexis de Chateauneuf and Hermann Peter Fersenfeldt in its previous location. In 1878, the 132 meter high church tower — its copper spire designed years earlier by Johann Hermann Maack  [ de ] —

230-416: The cathedral. The painting Christmas 1813 in St. Peter's is on a column in the south part of the cathedral. It shows the Hamburg citizens who, when they did not provide food to Napoleon's occupying troops, were locked in the church by the soldiers. In the front of the cathedral are neo-Gothic representations of the evangelists. A modern bronze sculpture by Fritz Fleer shows Dietrich Bonhoeffer dressed as

253-471: The demolished St. Mary's Cathedral and two monasteries. The main building at Holstenwall was designed by Fritz Schumacher and constructed between 1914 and 1922. The museum was built on the site of the former Bastion Henricus , a part of the baroque fortification which was erected between 1616 and 1625 by the Dutchman Jan van Valckenborgh in order to make the town impregnable. The museum's courtyard

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276-486: The historic area, leading to the discovery that the tower's foundation coincided with the creation of a moat to the west, located right in front of the Heidenwall , a timber soil palisade known as the first fortification of Hamburg. With this information the dating was corrected to the 12th century. A possible interpretation is that the tower represents a side gate or a part of the city gate . The tower's foundation

299-539: The late pastor Christoph Stoermer, occupied the cathedral. From 2005 to 2007, the west and south facades of the church were hung with giant posters advertising the H&;M chain of clothing stores, thus providing funding for maintenance of the cathedral. The best known artworks in St Peter's are the lion-head door handles, located in the left wing of the west portal. However, the cathedral contains many additional works of art. In

322-688: The north portion of the cathedral, a Gothic mural from approximately 1460 shows the first bishop Ansgar of Bremen , with the words "Apostle of the North". A column in the choir area contains a statue by Bernt Notke, from around 1480–1483, showing Archbishop Ansgar and the Hamburg Marienkirche, which he founded. From the 17th century, there are two oil paintings by Gottfried Libalt : Jacob's Dream and Christ's Birth . They were damaged by an acid attack in 1977, but were restored in October, 2001, and returned to

345-412: The oldest work of art of Hamburg, date from the foundation of the tower in 1342. The tower, topped with a new copper-covered spire in 1516, at 127.5 m towered above even that of the neighbouring Hamburg Cathedral , but was surpassed itself already in 1518 by the tower of St. Nicholas Church at initially 135 m. Decay and political tensions caused the cathedral to be torn down between 1804 and 1807. Under

368-450: The original design, however the construction of the covering was deferred. The design uses a steel gridshell . The Hamburg Observatory occupied the museum's current site from 1825 to 1912 before being moved to Bergedorf . The area was part of the old city wall defences built by the Dutchman Jan van Valckenborgh . These walls were part of Bastion Henricus , which was a baroque fortification built between 1616 and 1625. The museum

391-484: The subsequent French occupation St. Peter's along with most of the other main churches in 1813 was commandeered by Napoleonic soldiers to be used as a horse stable. Only a few decades later it fell victim to the great fire that swept Hamburg in May 1842. Most works of art, such as the lion-head door handles, were saved. The St. Peter's portal gateway was heavily damaged in the fire but was saved and ended up being built into

414-546: Was built for the tower's foundations and other artifacts in early 1969 in the basement of the newly completed community center (and later commercial building). After demolition in 2008 for the construction of the St. Petri-Hof building, the showroom was redesigned as a branch of the Hamburg Archaeological Museum . It is now freely accessible to visitors through a commercial bakery on the ground floor, which has also set up

437-472: Was damaged during the Great fire of Hamburg in 1842 and fully restored in 1995. A glass dome over the inner courtyard was completed in 1989. The glass courtyard was completed by the firm of Von Gerkan, Marg and Partners. This provided more museum space without an actual new building, because it allowed increased use of the courtyard. The covered courtyard was actually envisioned, or at least considered, as part of

460-557: Was finished. In the first half of the 20th century, the parish lost many members, as residential neighborhoods were torn down to develop banks and department stores in the city center. The church got through the Second World War relatively intact. In 1962, as a nearby community center was being built, the foundations of a medieval tower, the Bischofsturm ("Bishop's Tower") were discovered. In 1979, nuclear power protesters, including

483-501: Was formerly located at the Johanneum school. The museum became state-owned under the direction of Otto Lauffer in the early 1900s, though this was changed back in 1999. The museum adopted the name hamburgmuseum , and initials hm , in 2006. In 2008, the museum started a program called hm freunde (Society of Friends of the Museum for Hamburg History). In 2010, a pirate skull with

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506-514: Was founded in 1839. The museum is located near the Planten un Blomen park in the center of Hamburg. The museum is commonly reviewed among the museums of the city of Hamburg. The Society of Hamburg History ( Verein für Hamburgische Geschichte ), founded in 1839, started compiling the Collection of Hamburg Antiquities ( Sammlung Hamburger Altertümer) . First exhibits included architectural fragments of

529-470: Was thought this might be from a particular execution of 30 during the age of the Hanseatic League . The skull was stolen on January 9, 2010, and it was thought it may be the skull of (in)famous pirate Klaus Stoertebeker . The skull was added to the museum's collection in 1922. In 2016, the museum was considered as a candidate for repatriation of a century old German dog-tag. The dog-tag belonged to

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