Grambker Church
The Grambker Church is a Protestant parish church in Bremen in the Burglesum district, Burg-Grambke , Grambker Kirchweg 6.
Building
The predecessor of today's church was a half-timbered building from 1687. It had become dilapidated and had to be demolished. Under the supervision of the Bremen mayors and visitors to the churches in the Bremen rural area Werner Köhne and Heinrich Meyer, the Grambker village church was rebuilt in 1722 as a brick building in the Baroque style. The single-nave transept built on the model of Reformed churches - like that of St. Pauli from 1635 in Bremen's Neustadt - was spanned by a hipped roof . The side walls each have six windows, the west and east walls two. The original leaded glass windows , richly decorated with stained glass , were destroyed by bomb damage in World War II and replaced in 1953 by simpler leaded glazing. The main entrance with a wooden door decorated with carvings is in the tower. There are two more doors in the south wall, above each a mayor's coat of arms and a window with a reduced height.
There is a sundial on the south side of the church .
tower
The church initially had no tower, but a small roof turret , which was later damaged. In 1864, a neo-Gothic , square west tower was built according to plans by the architect Conrad Wilhelm Hase from Hanover. The tower height with the top is 27.2 meters. The octagonal tower spire above the bell house was initially covered with black glaze pans. The clock from 1900 is at a height of 16 meters.
Bells
The first bells were from 1722, replaced by the iron bell from 1863, which is now at the entrance. The small, bronze church bells were cast in 1938, the large one in 1956 by the Otto bell foundry in Hemelingen. The OTTO bells are tuned to g and h. Their diameters are: 1000 mm, 864 mm. They weigh 575 kg and 450 kg.
Stone tablet in memory of the church building
Wappenstein Mayor Werner Koehne
Wappenstein Mayor Heinrich Meyer
Interior
The gallery was built in 1842 and rebuilt in the area of the organ in 1977. The barrel vault was pulled in in place of the earlier wooden flat ceiling in 1897.
The pulpit and baptismal font from the Burger Church were donations from Bremen councilors Davemann and Hinrich von Aschen in 1632 . They came to the first small church in Grambker in 1680.
The pulpit is carved with the year 1632. The back of the wall is clad with plenty of carved wood between the parapet and the sound cover ; “A fine example of early baroque peasant carving” (Dehio). The pulpit is supported by a winding column from a later period. At the pulpit basket in blind arches niches four allegorical figures ( Faith, Love, Hope - Justice / remorse). On the back wall Moses and John the Baptist in half-figures. The original paintwork was painted over and later stripped off. In 1953 the colors were restored based on the models of pulpits in Lemwerder and Warfleth .
The octagonal font was lost for some time, was found again in 1928 and set up with a new base. The metal cover is from 1953.
The altar table dates from 1738.
The gilded silver communion chalice from the Burger Church was mentioned in a directory of church treasures from 1551 as "eyn gilded Kelck".
Monument protection
The church has been a listed building in Bremen since 1973 .
organ
In 1791 the first organ was purchased . In 1794 a positive was bought from Altenesch and in 1897 a new organ from Furtwängler and Hammer was bought . In 1938 the new organ with 14 stops and a second manual came from the Hammer company . In 1977 a new organ with 20 registers and 1,310 pipes had to be procured from the Führer company , which expanded the old baroque case.
graveyard
In the church cemetery from the 17th century, some older tombstones or tombstones from the 16th but mostly from the 17th to 18th centuries. The first small cemetery chapel was built in 1909. The cemetery is still occupied.
Parish
The current activities of the parish Grambke are u. a .: Senior citizens group, youth choir, church choir, trombone choir, handicraft and handicraft groups, gymnastics group, video group, soccer groups, children's groups, youth groups and discussion groups.
In his younger years, Mayor Johann Smidt preached several times in the church around 1791.
The Ernst Moritz Arndt parish hall with a gable roof was built in 1937. In 1978 a large extension followed with the community hall. Pastors' houses I and II are from 1907 and?. The destroyed Mertensche Küsterhaus from 1674 stood at today's parking lot until 1942.
The community kindergarten was founded in 1949, enlarged and expanded into a daycare center in 1966 and 1974. The youth home from 1955 is behind the Grambker Church No. 18 .
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments - Bremen / Lower Saxony . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-422-00348-7 .
- Rudolf Stein : Village churches and farmhouses in the Bremen region . Bremen 1967.
- Heinrich Hoops: Mittelbüren and the Werderland . Bremen 1905.
- Rudolf Matzner : The Bremen monastery ox train. Bremen monastery and church stories. Interesting, unknown and curious. Druckerpresse-Verlag , Lilienthal 2011, pp. 49-53.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Church window. kirche-grambke.de, accessed on September 10, 2017 .
- ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto bells. Family and company history of the Otto bell foundry dynasty . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, in particular pages 72, 540, 554 .
- ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, in particular pp. 89, 499, 509 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).
- ↑ Monument database of the LfD Bremen
Coordinates: 53 ° 8 ′ 33.8 " N , 8 ° 42 ′ 59.2" E