Andreas Church (Bremen)
The Andreas Church is a Protestant church that was built in 1949 in Bremen - Gröpelingen , Lindenhof district, Danziger Strasse 20 / Lütjenburger Strasse.
history
From 1943 to 1945, Bremen-Gröpelingen was badly damaged in the Second World War , as were the two Protestant churches. After 1945, the service took place in makeshift accommodation. The Evangelical Church in Germany eased by the World Council of Churches this lack of space with the Kirchbauprogramm the Bartning-emergency churches . From 1949 to 1950 the first Bremen emergency church was built for the Bremen Evangelical Church according to plans by Otto Bartning ( Darmstadt ), with further planning and construction management by Friedrich Schumacher (Bremen) .
Building description
In the Lindenhof district, a central plot of land was available for the typified (type B) structure. The foundations consist of recovered rubble bricks and the walls of brickwork clinkered with red stones. A gable roof is located above the rectangular floor plan of St. Andrew's Church , which is supported by seven prefabricated wooden beams. A side extension has a towed roof. Above the simple entrance there is a relief by the Bremen sculptor Kurt Lettow in a Gothic niche. Above the two separable entrance yokes is a gallery , u. a. for the organ. Wooden construction, wooden ceiling and brick walls characterize the interior. The simple church is decorated only by a round window with colored glass in the middle of the entrance gable and the relief.
The church received a small, free-standing, brick bell tower with a saddle roof and round arches, in which the preserved bells from the destroyed Nikolaikirche in Bremen were located. These two bronze bells were cast in 1933 by the renowned Otto bell foundry from Hemelingen / Bremen and survived the destruction of bells in World War II.
The organ with two manuals and 20 stops comes from Alfred Führer .
Monument protection
The church building was placed under Bremen monument protection in 1993 .
Parish
Like the Nikolaikirche Oslebshausen, St. Andrew's Church belongs to the Protestant community of Gröpelingen and Oslebshausen .
literature
- Marie Schneider: The emergency churches of the Bremen Evangelical Church . In: Preservation of monuments in Bremen - architecture of the post-war period . Series of publications by the State Office for Monument Preservation , Vol. 12, Edition Temmen , Bremen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8378-1045-5 .
- Eberhard Syring: Bremen and his buildings - 1950 - 1979 , pp. 87f, 106, 144.Schünemann Verlag, Bremen 2014, ISBN 978-3-944552-30-9 .
- Bremen and its buildings 1900-1951 , Bremen 1952.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Architecture Guide Bremen No. 387
- ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto Glocken - family and company history of the bell foundry dynasty Otto, self-published, Essen 2019, 588 pages, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , here in particular p. 538.
- ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen. Nijmegen 2019, 556 pages, Diss.Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770, here in particular p. 497.
- ^ Monument database of the LfD
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Coordinates: 53 ° 6 ′ 58.4 " N , 8 ° 45 ′ 19.6" E