Holy Cross (Bremen)

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Holy Cross Church (2009)

The Heilig Kreuz Church was the Catholic church in Lüssum-Bockhorn , a part of the Bremen district of Blumenthal . Most recently she belonged to the parish " St. Marien ", also located in Blumenthal , in the Dean's Office of Bremen-North of the Diocese of Hildesheim . The church named after the cross of Jesus was located at Treuburger Platz 2. The closest church is now the St. Marien Church, around two kilometers away.

history

After the number of Catholics in Bremen had increased considerably as a result of the Second World War due to the influx of refugees and displaced persons , a parish was formed in the Bockhorn district. In 1956, the church building site in a new building area was acquired by the Blumenthaler St. Marien parish. In April 1959 the construction of the church began, and on 13/14. In August 1960 she was consecrated by Bishop Heinrich Maria Janssen . Until the construction of St. Ansgar Church in Schwanewede , it also served as a garrison church for the Catholic soldiers of the Lützow barracks . In November 1969 the parish council gave the Holy Cross congregation the impetus to build their own church in Schwanewede, which was built in 1971 under the then pastor Norbert Winkler (1932-2020).

Since November 1st, 2006 the Church of the Holy Cross, including its branch church St. Ansgar in Schwanewede, belongs to the parish of St. Marien. The parish of the Holy Cross was dissolved in this context.

Due to declining financial resources, but also the decreasing number of priests and church visitors, all churches in the Diocese of Hildesheim were classified according to their future needs. At that time, the Holy Cross Church was seen as “not absolutely necessary for pastoral development” and was intended to be closed. On November 28, 2014 it was profaned by Vicar General Werner Schreer , who himself worked as a chaplain at the Holy Cross Church from 1982 to 1985 . The church building was sold to private customers in the same year and converted for residential purposes until 2016. Its interior is to be given away for a new church in Chojnice, Poland , and the organ to a parish in Warcel, Ukraine .

Architecture and equipment

The brick church, located around 13 meters above sea level , was built according to plans by the architects Josef Fehlig (Hildesheim) and Leo-Karl Golombek (Bremen-Grohn), designed as a towerless nave construction . An originally planned bell tower was not realized. The chancel was dominated by a depiction of the cross, above it a dove symbolizing the Holy Spirit .

See also

literature

  • Festschrift for the inauguration of the Holy Cross Church in Bremen-Blumenthal - Lüssum-Bockhorn. Libertas Verlag f. Church and home, tree. Erolzheim 1960.
  • Willi Stoffers: Diocese of Hildesheim today. Hildesheim 1987, ISBN 3-87065-418-X , pp. 74-75.
  • KirchenZeitung , issue No. 47/2014 of November 23, 2014, p. 1. (Article on profanation)
  • Norbert Trelle: Letter from Bishop Norbert Trelle to the parishes in which churches will be closed in the next few years. Hildesheim 2009, pp. 5-6.
  • Martina Albert: Living in a church. In: KirchenZeitung , issue No. 31/2020 of August 2, 2020, p. 13.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://wiki-bistumsgeschichte.de/wiki/index.php5?title=Spezial%3ASuche&search=Bockhorn&go=Seite
  2. ↑ http://www.klausdede.de/index.php?content=weserundjade&sub=68
  3. ↑ KirchenZeitung. Edition 15/2020 of April 12, 2020, pp. 10 and 15.
  4. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sanktmarienzentrum.de
  5. ↑ Document on the abolition of the Catholic parishes of St. Marien, Bremen-Blumenthal, Hl. Kreuz, Bremen-Blumenthal, Christ-König, Bremen-Rönnebeck and on the establishment of the Catholic parish of St. Marien, Bremen-Blumenthal. In: Kirchlicher Anzeiger. No. 10/2006, Hildesheim 2006, pp. 335-337
  6. ^ Diocese of Hildesheim (ed.): Classification of the parish churches and branch churches in the Diocese of Hildesheim. Hildesheim 2009.
  7. ↑ http://www.architekturfuehrer-bremen.de/n_liste.php?xtra=stadtteil&id=27&stadtteil=Blumenthal

Coordinates: 53 ° 12 ′ 15.9 ″  N , 8 ° 34 ′ 49.9 ″  E