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45-402: The Torture Chamber show is based on the interrogation of those thought to be smuggling to defy the 18th-century Napoleonic invasion. Visitors have to find their way through the terrible Great Fire of Hamburg that devastated much of Hamburg in 1842. There is a recreation of a Plague-ravaged Hamburg street, where the effect the killer disease had in the city in 1664 is animated. The Labyrinth of

90-771: A Holy Day of Obligation . In the Anglican Communion , Ascension Day is a Principal Feast . The three days before Ascension Thursday are sometimes referred to as the Rogation days , and the previous Sunday—the Sixth Sunday of Easter (or the Fifth Sunday after Easter)—as Rogation Sunday . Ascension has a vigil and, since the 15th century, an octave , which is set apart for a novena of preparation for Pentecost. In traditional Methodist usage, The Book of Worship for Church and Home (1965) provides

135-539: A bond for 34.4 million marks (with Salomon Heine putting up much of the collateral), which it paid off over 46 years. The private Gothaer Feuer ( Gotha Fire) had to have 250,000  thalers in coins shipped to Hamburg to satisfy claimants who insisted on payment in Prussian currency. After the fire, British insurers increasingly concentrated on the British Empire . The disaster was the primary impetus to

180-833: A feast is made by each Conference of Catholic Bishops with prior approval of the Apostolic See . In some cases the Conference may delegate the determination for specific feasts to the bishops of an ecclesiastical province within the conference, i.e. an archbishop and the neighbouring bishops. The switch to Sunday was made in 1992 by the Conference of Catholic Bishops in Australia ; before 1996 in parts of Europe; in 1997 in Ireland ; before 1998 in Canada and parts of

225-418: A high-pressure water supply, and almost 2,000 hydrants. The fire caused 100 million marks in losses, seriously straining many insurance companies. The municipal Hamburger Feuerkasse (Hamburg Fire Fund) or Cassa , participation in which had been made mandatory for most residents in 1817, was liable for 38 million marks, approximately equivalent to 1 billion euro in 2006 money, and had to raise

270-419: A mock pirate ship to help fight in a nautical battle before witnessing the execution of the famous pirate. Hamburg used to be prone to terrible flooding ( Sturmflut 1717 ), with one of the worst being on Christmas Day 1717. Visitors are taken on a boat ride which is designed to look like a small raft to take them through the carnage of the city and to safety. The graphic exhibition and show Cholera 1892 depicts

315-839: A number of countries that do not observe the feast as a public holiday have obtained permission from the Vatican to move observance of the Feast of the Ascension from the traditional Thursday to the following Sunday, the Sunday before Pentecost. Similarly, the United Methodist Church allows the traditional celebration on Holy Thursday to be moved to Sunday. This is in keeping with a trend to move Holy Days of Obligation from weekdays to Sunday, to encourage more Christians to observe feasts considered important. The decision to move

360-502: A premium by being first to reach a fire. The city was dense with wooden and half-timbered houses, which tended to be tall and narrow, reflecting the shape of the building plots, and merchants operated their businesses out of their houses, so that many included warehouses containing flammables such as rubber and shellac . The provision of water for firefighting, from the Elbe and canals, was inefficient: low water made pumping difficult, and

405-418: A water supply, although the city declined to spend the money to sand-filter the river water, so that the water became notorious for its living and dead contents and contributed to the cholera epidemic  [ de ; sv ; el ] of 1892. By 1870 a modern gas network and streetlighting were also in place. The fire-fighting system was reorganized; by 1866 a survey noted that there were two fire districts,

450-638: A way that shows it was the universal observance of the Catholic Church long before his time. Frequent mention of it is made in the writings of John Chrysostom , Gregory of Nyssa , and in the Constitution of the Apostles . The Pilgrimage of Aetheria speaks of the vigil of this feast and of the feast itself, as they were kept in the church built over the grotto in Bethlehem in which Christ

495-614: Is the setting of novels by Carl Reinhardt ( Der Brand von Hamburg oder der fünfte Mai. Ein Lebensbild von der Unterelbe , 1874; repr. 1989) and Edgar Maass ( Das große Feuer , 1939; repr. 1950) and a story by Paul Schurek ("Der Hamburger Brand", 1922; repr. 1949). Thomas Mann's 1901 novel Buddenbrooks briefly mentions the fire in Part 3, Chapter 1. 53°33′04″N 9°59′38″E  /  53.551°N 9.994°E  / 53.551; 9.994 Ascension Day The Feast of

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540-512: Is traditionally regarded as having been born. It may be that prior to the 5th century the event narrated in the Gospels was commemorated in conjunction with the feast of Easter or Pentecost. Some believe that the much-disputed forty-third decree of the Synod of Elvira ( c.  300 ) condemning the practice of observing a feast on the fortieth day after Easter and neglecting to keep Pentecost on

585-750: The Epitaphios , which was placed on the altar on Holy Saturday (either at Matins or the Midnight Office , depending on local custom) is taken from the altar and carried in procession around the church. It is then put in the place reserved for it. The Gospel is Mark 16:9–20 . The kontakion is sung, which announces: When You did fulfill the dispensation for our sake, And unite earth to Heaven: You did ascend in glory, O Christ our God, Not being parted from those who love You, But remaining with them and crying: I am with you and no one will be against you. The megalynarion and irmos from Ode IX of

630-701: The Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter . When celebrated on Sunday, the earliest possible date is May 3, and the latest is June 6. In the Eastern Church this feast is known in Greek as Analepsis , the "taking up", and also as the Episozomene , the "salvation from on high", denoting that by ascending into his glory Christ completed the work of our redemption . Ascension is one of

675-872: The cholera epidemic which wiped out over a third of the population of Hamburg. The Hamburg Dungeon also has sister sites at the Berlin Dungeon , London Dungeon , York Dungeon , Edinburgh Dungeon and Amsterdam Dungeon . Each Dungeon is based on the same theme but investigates the history of its area. The sites are owned by Poole based Merlin Entertainments . [REDACTED] Media related to Hamburg Dungeon at Wikimedia Commons 53°32′38″N 9°59′20″E  /  53.544°N 9.989°E  / 53.544; 9.989 Great Fire of Hamburg The great fire of Hamburg began early on 5 May 1842, in Deichstraße and burned until

720-625: The Ascension of Jesus Christ (also called the Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord , Ascension Day , Ascension Thursday , or sometimes Holy Thursday ) commemorates the Christian belief of the bodily Ascension of Jesus into Heaven. It is one of the ecumenical (shared by multiple denominations) feasts of Christian churches, ranking with the feasts of the Passion and Pentecost . Following

765-848: The Canon (also sung at liturgy) is: Magnify, O my soul, Christ the Giver of Life, Who has ascended from earth to heaven! We magnify you, the Mother of God, Who beyond reason and understanding gave birth in time to the Timeless One. At the Divine Liturgy , special antiphons are sung in place of Psalms 102 and 145 and the Beatitudes. The Epistle is Acts 1:1–12 , and the Gospel is Luke 24:36–53 . Ascension Thursday also commemorates

810-637: The Feast are Isaiah 2:2–3 ; Isaiah 62:10–63:3 , 63:7–9 ; and Zechariah 14:1–4 , 14:8–11 . A Lity is celebrated. The troparion of the day is sung, which says: O Christ God, You have ascended in Glory, Granting joy to Your disciples by the promise of the Holy Spirit. Through the blessing they were assured That You are the Son of God, The Redeemer of the world! During the Polyeleos at Matins ,

855-722: The Holy Georgian Martyrs of Persia (17th–18th centuries). Ascension has an Afterfeast of eight days. The Sunday after Ascension is the Sunday of the Holy Fathers of the First Ecumenical Council at Nicaea . This council formulated the Nicene Creed up to the words, "He (Jesus) ascended into heaven, and sits at the right hand of the Father; and shall come again, with glory, to judge

900-527: The Lost is a mirror maze. The visitor stands in an Inquisition court where they are accused of sins against God. The punishments are always harsh and the court is unforgiving as some of the darkest moments of the country’s history are played out. The story of the life of the infamous pirate Klaus Störtebeker , who used to plunder the Baltic and North Seas, is told via a brief video. Visitors are then taken on to

945-749: The Twelve Great Feasts of the Orthodox liturgical year . The feast is always observed with an All-night vigil . The day before is the Apodosis (leave-taking) of Easter (i.e., the last day of the Feast of Easter). Before the Vigil, the Paschal Hours are said for the last time and the Paschal greeting is exchanged. The Paroemia ( Old Testament readings) at Vespers on the eve of

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990-502: The account of Acts 1:3 that the risen Jesus appeared for 40 days prior to his Ascension, Ascension Day is traditionally celebrated on a Thursday, the fortieth day of Easter according to inclusive counting , although some Christian denominations have moved the observance to the following Sunday, sometimes called Ascension Sunday . The day of observance varies by ecclesiastical province in many Christian denominations, as with Methodists and Catholics, for example. Ascensiontide refers to

1035-478: The effort. Some buildings were blown up in an attempt to create firebreaks , including the old Rathaus (city hall), originally built in 1290; 18 wagonloads of records were salvaged from it first. 5 May was Ascension Day ; a few hours after the midday feastday service, despite strenuous efforts, the spire of the Nikolaikirche collapsed, and the church burned down. There was panic and extensive looting;

1080-558: The establishment of the first reinsurance company, Kölnische Rückversicherungs-Gesellschaft or Kölnische Rück (Cologne Re), an ancestor of Gen Re , which was first discussed later in 1842, although it was not chartered until 1846. Elise Averdieck came into the city from the suburb of St. Georg during the fire and described the scenes in the streets; she also described it in Roland und Elisabeth (1851; repr. 1962), part 2 of her Kinderleben , autobiographical tales for children. The fire

1125-533: The feast is the Leise " Christ fuhr gen Himmel ", first published in 1480. Johann Sebastian Bach composed several cantatas and the Ascension Oratorio to be performed in church services on the feast day. He first performed Wer da gläubet und getauft wird, BWV 37 , on 18 May 1724, Auf Christi Himmelfahrt allein, BWV 128 , on 10 May 1725, Gott fähret auf mit Jauchzen, BWV 43 , on 30 May 1726 and

1170-528: The fiftieth day, implies that the proper usage of the time was to commemorate the Ascension along with Pentecost. Representations of the mystery are found in diptychs and frescoes dating as early as the 5th century. Hymns for this feast are found in the Georgian Chantbook of Jerusalem, which contains material composed during the 5th century. The Latin terms used for the feast, ascensio and, occasionally, ascensa , signify that Christ

1215-508: The firefighters, and approximately a third of the city was destroyed, including 1,700 residential buildings containing more than 4,000 homes, more than 100 warehouses, seven churches, two synagogues, sixty schools, and public buildings including the Bank of Hamburg in addition to the Rathaus. Approximately 20,000 people were left homeless, including four senators . The fire was covered in

1260-414: The following Collect for Ascension Day, commonly called Holy Thursday: Almighty God, whose blessed Son our Saviour Jesus Christ ascended far above all heavens, that he might fill all things: Mercifully give us faith to perceive that according to his promise he abideth with his Church on earth, even unto the end of the world; through the same thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Catholic parishes in

1305-458: The leather hoses would not slide on ladders, so that water could not be pumped above ground level. By daybreak much of the Altstadt was on fire. As the fire continued to burn, collapsed buildings prevented fireboats from using the canals, and there was no system to coordinate the firefighters from different parishes. Firefighters from outside the city, as far away as Lübeck and Kiel , joined

1350-575: The living and the dead; Whose kingdom shall have no end." The Afterfeast ends on the following Friday, the Friday before Pentecost. The next day is appropriately a Saturday of the Dead (general commemoration of all faithful departed). The Eastern Orthodox Church uses a different method of calculating the date of Easter , so the Eastern Orthodox commemoration of Ascension will usually be after

1395-432: The militia aided in the firefighting until it had to combat looting instead. About half the population, some 70,000 people, fled. After three days and nights, thanks to a further shift in the wind and what remained of the former walls of the city, the fire was finally put out at 7 am on 8 May; the location is marked by the street name Brandsende , "fire's end", near the main station . 51 people died, including 22 of

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1440-473: The morning of 5 May 1842; a neighbour alerted the night watch at about 1 a.m. It quickly spread to number 25, across the street. The weather had been unusually dry, and the wind was strong and changeable. Hamburg had fire lookouts on church towers, known as Türmer , in addition to night watchmen who had horns to sound to report a fire, and a code by which church bells reported the location and severity of fires. Volunteer teams of firefighters competed to earn

1485-536: The morning of 8 May, destroying about one third of the buildings in the Altstadt . It killed 51 people and destroyed 1,700 residences and several important public buildings, necessitating major civic rebuilding and prompting infrastructure improvements. The heavy demand on insurance companies led to the establishment of reinsurance . The fire began in Eduard Cohen's cigar factory at Deichstraße 42 or 44 early in

1530-595: The oratorio, Lobet Gott in seinen Reichen, BWV 11 , on 19 May 1735. Many Messianic psalms are used at the feast of Ascension including Psalm 24 , Psalm 47 and Psalm 68 . The dialogue "Lift up your heads, O ye gates" from Psalm 24 (verses 7–10) has inspired Handel's setting in Part II of his Messiah in the scene " Ascension ", and Christoph Bernhard Verspoell 's 1810 hymn in German, " Öffnet eure Tore ". Phillip Moore 's anthem The Ascension sets words based on

1575-463: The poet Heinrich Heine , insisted on meeting his obligations as an insurer and persuaded other merchants to do so. The city was rebuilt quickly, with a greater use of brick and a brief fashion for Classical "white city" architecture in public buildings. A Technical Commission was established; a British engineer, William Lindley , proposed a reconstruction plan that was adopted with modifications (maintaining property lines rather than straightening all

1620-483: The same verses. Olivier Messiaen wrote an orchestral suite, later partly transcribed for organ, called L'Ascension in the 1930s. Settings of "God is gone up" have been composed by William Croft , Arthur Hutchings and Gerald Finzi (words by Edward Taylor). Other settings suitable for the occasion include William Matthias 's Lift up your heads . " Im Himmel hoch verherrlicht ist " (Highly gloryfied in Heaven)

1665-566: The streets) and designed a project to drain and develop the Hammerbrook area, which was built up with rubble from the fire. (Lindley had already been involved in planning the city's first railroad connection, the Hamburg-Bergedorf Railway Company , which had been due to open on May 7 and instead was put in service two days early to bring firefighters from elsewhere and evacuate survivors.). Building with wood

1710-568: The ten-day period between the Feast of the Ascension and the Feast of Pentecost. The Sunday within that period may be referred to as the Seventh Sunday of Easter or the Sunday in Ascensiontide. The observance of this feast is of great antiquity. Eusebius seems to hint at the celebration of it in the 4th century. At the beginning of the 5th century, Augustine of Hippo says that it is of Apostolic origin, and he speaks of it in

1755-519: The term "Holy Thursday" to mean Ascension Day is rare, and the term is more generally applied by most Christian denominations to Maundy Thursday in Holy Week . In Western Christianity , the earliest possible date is April 30 (as in 1818 and 2285), the latest possible date is June 3 (as in 1943 and 2038). In the Catholic Church , the Ascension of the Lord is ranked as a Solemnity and is

1800-641: The western United States; in many other parts in the United States from 1999; and in England and Wales from 2007 to 2017, but in 2018 reinstated to Thursday . In the U.S., the determination of whether to move Ascension was delegated to the provinces by the USCCB , and the ecclesiastical provinces which retain Thursday observance in 2022 are Boston , Hartford , New York , Omaha , Philadelphia , and

1845-659: The western observance (either one week, or four weeks, or five weeks later; but occasionally on the same day). The earliest possible date for the feast is May 13 (of the Western calendar), and the latest possible date is June 16. Some of the Oriental Orthodox Churches, however, observe Ascension on the same date as the Western Churches. The feast has been associated with specific hymns and other church music. The oldest hymn in German related to

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1890-518: The world press, including eye-witness reports and an engraving in the first issue of the Illustrated London News . Hermann Biow , a pioneering photographer, took daguerrotypes from the roof of the new Stock Exchange building, which had survived; these are the first photographs of the city and possibly the first news photographs. Painted dioramas depicting the catastrophe later toured. A visual vocabulary derived from Roman ruins

1935-412: Was no longer permitted, firewalls and fireproof gables were mandated and regulations applied to chimneys and sources of ignition, and streets were widened. Merchants increasingly built separate warehouses near the docks, moved their residences to the suburbs, and from the 1880s on, constructed dedicated buildings called Kontorhäuser for their businesses. Lindley spearheaded the construction of sewers and

1980-592: Was raised up by his own powers, and it is from these terms that the holy day gets its name. In the Book of Common Prayer of the Anglican Communion , "Holy Thursday" is listed as another name for Ascension Day. William Blake 's poem " Holy Thursday " refers to Ascension Day; Thomas Pruen used the term to refer to Ascension Day in his Illustration of the Liturgy of the Church of England , published in 1820; however use of

2025-412: Was used to depict the magnitude of the disaster. Almost 7 million marks was raised in an international appeal to help the survivors, in which the largest donors were Tsar Nicholas I of Russia and King Louis Philippe of France. The cities of Antwerp, London, Riga, Rotterdam, and St. Petersburg donated funds. 60 German writers donated work for a fund-raising Hansa-Album . Salomon Heine , uncle of

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