List of churches in Hamburg explained

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.

List

Legend
NameGerman nameYear LocationImageNotes
Hauptkirche St. Petri
Petrikirche
1195
1418 (rebuild)
1842 (fire)
Gothic-style building
Hauptkirche Sankt Katharinen 1256
16th century (rebuild)
Hauptkirche Sankt Jacobi 1255
1963 (rebuild)
Kirchengemeinde St. Marien 1960
Matthäuskirche 1919
Hauptkirche Sankt Michaelis
Michel
1647
1750 (fire)
Hauptkirche St. Nikolai 1874
1943 (fire)
world's tallest building from 1874 to 1876.
ruins since 1940s
Sankt Nikolai 1951 Replaced old St. Nikolai
Thomaskirche Hausbruch
Auferstehungskirche
Tonndorfer Kirche
Herz Jesu Kirche Hamm
Sankt Erich Kirche
Paul-Gerhardt-Kirche
Kirche der Stille
Martinskirche
Gnadenkirche Gemeinde des Hl. Johannes von Kronstadt,
Russian Orthodox church, former Lutheran church
St. Maria Magdalena Kirche Moorburg
St. Nicolai
Russische Kirche des heiligen Prokop Russian Orthodox church
Neuer Mariendom, former Pfarrkirche St. Marien
  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