The English Church in Hamburg and an indomitable caretaker: Mabel Wulff, BEM. by Madeleine Resuhr. The English Church was built in 1838 and has survived both World Wars. This is the stiry of Mabel Phillips of Newport, South Wales, who married a German sailor, Max Wulff, and moved with him to settle in Hamburg. She became caretaker of the English church there and took care of it until the late 1960s.