Riensberg cemetery chapel

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The Riensberg cemetery chapel is located in Bremen , Schwachhausen district, Riensberg district, Friedhofstraße 51. The chapel, the cemetery keeper's house and the mortuary were built in 1875 according to plans by building inspector Johannes Rippe . They have been a listed building in Bremen since 1984 .

history

The single-storey brick building with saddle roofs was built in 1875 in the period of historicism in the neo-Gothic style for the Riensberg cemetery .
The cross-shaped chapel with the engaged porch and the main room is dominated by the large Gothic portal with the rosette over the five arches windows and the brick ornamental band, the other great Gothic windows and the square, open tower over the crossing as a roof turret with a pointed spire . The chapel was renovated in 1998. In the chapel, with good acoustics, events (music and readings) have been taking place since 2006.
The cemetery administration of Umweltbetrieb Bremen is located in the guard's house with the stepped gable . ( → Location ) The outbuilding as a morgue originally served to accommodate a dissecting room and a morgue .

organ

An organ built around 1860 by WH Hawker ( Exeter , England ) has stood in the chapel since 2004 . The entire pipework is located behind a blind prospectus in a swell box, which can be opened (below, click into place) or closed (above) using a foot lever next to the pedal button c 1 .

Manual C – f 3
Open Diapason (Principal) 8th'
Dulciana (tender principal) 8th'
Stop Diap. [Ason] Bass (Covered) 8th'
Clarabella (open flute) 8th'
Gamba (viol) 8th'
Gemshorn 4 ′
Twelfth (fifth) 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Fifteenth (Super Octave) 2 ′
Pedal C – c 1
Bourdon 16 ′
  • Fixed pedal coupler
  • The 8-foot registers are mostly not developed in the large octave, so that when playing on these registers the register “Stop Diap. Bass ”should also be dragged to cover the major octave.

Notes
The corresponding German register names are listed in brackets and in italics after the original register names.

  1. ↑ from G
  2. ↑ a b c ab c
  3. ↑ low octave C to H

literature

  • Arthur Fitger: The cemeteries and their artistic jewelry. In: Bremen and its buildings 1900. Bremen 1900.
  • Gerda Engelbracht, Andrea Hauser: The Riensberg Cemetery. A handbook from A – Z. Edition Falkenberg, 2015, ISBN 978-3-95494-079-0 .
  • Brochure cemeteries in Bremen: Riensberg. 2nd Edition. Stadtgrün Bremen, Bremen 2005.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Monument database of the LfD

Coordinates: 53 ° 5 ′ 33 "  N , 8 ° 51 ′ 31.4"  E