Hemelinger Church
The Protestant Hemelingen Church in Bremen , in the center of the Hemelingen district , Westerholzstrasse 19, was built in 1890 according to plans by Karl Börgemann. It belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Bremen-Hemelingen.
It has been a listed building in Bremen since 1996
history
Initially, the small village of Hemelingen belonged to the parish of the Church of St. Johannis in Arbergen . Due to the industrialization in the 19th century, the number of residents of Hemelingen grew to several thousand who wanted their own church. The consistory of Hanover first sent an auxiliary chaplain to Hemelingen, which continued to be part of the church in Arbergen. A provisional church room that could hold up to 300 people was initially set up in the examination room of the school on Glockenstrasse. As this soon became too small due to the increasing number of people attending church services, the desire for an own sacred building grew. Some parishioners donated 30,000 marks to build a church in Hemelingen. The consistory did not consent to the project.
Minna Wilkens, the widow of the factory owner Diedrich Wilkens, donated a piece of land for the church and the rectory for 10,000 marks. Her son Wilhelm Wilkens had a rectory built for 14,500 marks in 1886 and commissioned the architect Karl Börgemann from Hanover to design a sacred building. The construction costs amounted to 106,000 marks, 98,500 marks of which were donated by the Wilkens family, the remainder paid by the church building association. The foundation stone for the church was laid on June 10, 1888 , and after almost two years of construction, the church was consecrated on June 1, 1890. She did not receive a namesake .
On November 9, 1890, the parish of Hemelingen became independent. Due to the growing population of Hemelingen, two further pastorships were introduced in 1910 and 1956. The latter gained independence in 1962 as the parish of the Good Shepherd . After the end of the war, the church was renovated and redesigned.
Since 2017, a new two-storey parish hall with a kindergarten at Christernstraße 18 has been built for the parish according to plans by IBUS architects.
description
Building
The Hemelinger church was in the era of historicism in the neo-gothic built style. The floor plan of the sacred building is cross-shaped.
The tower has a height of 47 meters.
The single-storey listed rectory was built in the Swiss house style in 1886 .
Nearby is the Catholic Church of St. Godehard, which was built at the same time in the Romanesque style
Furnishing
Most of the furnishings date from the time the church was built and are also in the neo-Gothic style.
organ
The current organ was made in 1965 by the organ builder Alfred Führer from Wilhelmshaven . In order to be more effective acoustically, the instrument was set up on the left-hand side in the gallery .
Bells
The church received its first bell while it was being built. Another bell was added in 1901. On June 2, 1917, the older and larger of the two bells were melted down. Two new bells were inaugurated on May 29, 1927. All bells were pulled in during World War II. In 1954 three new bells were inaugurated and in 1962 a smaller one was added.
These bells with the tone sequence c sharp '- e' - f sharp '- g sharp' (motif: prefation) form today's ringing. The bells have the following diameters: 1447 mm, 1218 mm, 1085 mm, 961 mm and weigh: 1900 kg, 1125 kg, 800 kg and 600 kg. The largest bell is considered a death knell , the second largest a prayer bell and the smallest a baptismal bell . The third bell serves as a half and hour bell. These and the former bells were cast by the local bell foundry F. Otto .
clockwork
The church's mechanical clockwork was made in 1901 and is one of the last mechanical clockworks still in operation in the city of Bremen. Its manufacturer was the company JF Weule . The clockwork was donated by the Hemelinger jute spinning mill . The half-hourly clock strike on the third bell is also controlled from the clock by means of a striking mechanism.
literature
- Ev. Church (Christernstrasse). In: Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments . Bremen Lower Saxony. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-422-03022-0 , page 54.
- Gerhard Reinhold: Otto Glocken - Family and company history of the bell foundry dynasty Otto. Essen 2019. ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 .
- Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen. Diss. Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, 2919. DNB access signature L-2019-333968.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Monument database of the LfD
- ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto bells. Family and company history of the bell founder Otto . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, here in particular p. 257 .
- ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, here in particular. Pp. 238–239 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).
Coordinates: 53 ° 3 '18.9 " N , 8 ° 53' 16.4" E