The main churches

The Main Churches of Hamburg

The Michel,that is how we fondly call St. Michaelis, the largest baroque church in Northern Germany, is the hanseatic city's landmark - the youngest of Hamburg’s five main churches, stands in the Neustadt (new town).
Today's Michel is the third St. Michaelis Church. After the first Michaelis church, which had been built in the years 1645 to 1666, was completely destroyed by lightning strike, the second St. Michael's was erected according to the plans of John Leonhard Prey and Ernst Georg Sonnin in 1762.
On July 3rd in 1906 church and tower were completely ruined by fire. They were re-erected by the architects Geissler and Faulwasser in the main as Prey and Sonnin had created them. In October 1912 the third St. Michaelis church was inaugurated.

St. Michaelis - St. Michaelis interior

The large interior of the Michel often is the scene of splendid concerts. The nave is ornamented in whit and gold and is producing a festive atmosphere.
In the crypt was put to rest among others Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, son of Johann Sebastian, who was the organist here. You also find an exhibition of the church history in the crypt.

Restaurant at St. Michaelis:

Old Commercial Room - A Hamburg institution - since 1795 Captain table

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St. Petri

St. Petri, the oldest of Hamburgs five main churches (11th century), is situated right in the heart of the city centre not far from the City hall. As a room of encounter St. Petri is open daily.

St. Jacobi

Quiet closed to St. Petri stands this worth seeing church.
One attraction of St. Jacobi is its Tower Café which opens every first Saturday of the month from May until October and offers coffee and cakes 85 meters above the city. Also in the anniversary year the café will be opened for guests every first Saturday of the month from May until October.

In addition, organ recitals take place at 12 o'clock.

St. Katharinen

Wise - courageous - beautiful - the three qualities of the saint Katharina

St. Katharina is situated closed to the canal and the Hamburg "Speicherstadt"

St. Nikolai - Memorial against oblivion

The ruin of the St. Nikolai church - the history of St. Nikolai

St. Georg