Herz-Jesu-Kirche (Bremerhaven-Geestemünde)
The Church of the Holy Heart of Jesus is the Roman Catholic parish church in the Bremerhaven district of Geestemünde , between Buchtstrasse and Grashoffstrasse near the main train station . The neo-Gothic hall church was in 1910/11 to plans by Heinrich wing built and on 17 September 1911 by Bishop Adolf Bertram ordained . Your parish of the same name belongs to the dean's office Bremerhaven in the diocese of Hildesheim .
history
In the city of Bremerhaven, founded in 1827, the Catholic Church Immaculate Conception of Mary was built in 1867 . The further growth in industry and population from 1900 onwards led to the planning of separate parish churches for the then still independent communities of Geestemünde and Lehe . Realization was getting closer when an anonymous donor promised 60,000 marks for the construction of the two new churches - with the condition that both should receive the patronage of the Sacred Heart of Jesus . Bishop Bertram personally won the church building association St. Willehad , which had already been established in Geestemünde on the initiative of Pastor Ludwig Querl, for the new name.
The decision in favor of the plan of the Bremen building councilor Heinrich Flügel was made among three architectural designs (including one by Maximilian Jagielski , who built the Sacred Heart Church in Lehe ) . The total costs came to 235,000 marks. The quasi- parish founded in 1908 was elevated to a parish in 1919 . After the Second World War it grew rapidly due to the influx of Catholic expellees . Together with the branch communities in Loxstedt ( St. John the Baptist ) and Wulsdorf ( St. Nicholas ), which have belonged to the parish since November 1, 2006, it now has 7,049 members.
Architecture and equipment
The Herz-Jesu-Kirche is a brick building with a north-south orientation. The nave comprises only two short bays with narrow, almost equally high aisles. The square crossing connects to the south with two short transept arms, to which the 5/8 choir adjoins. 3/6 apses are added to the transept arms on the south side . The main and side aisles have cross ribs , the choir has a star vault .
The high portal bar in the north, richly structured with tracery windows and gables, is characteristic of the external appearance . It has the function of a narthex and carries the tower on the east side, which is designed with buttresses , four gables, eight windows and a pointed helmet .
The interior is kept white. Columns, arches and reveals are highlighted by a darker color scheme. The altar, tabernacle stele and baptismal font were made in simple shapes from light stone in the late 20th century, the ambo is made of bronze. The large and colorful stained glass windows that bathe the room in changing light date from the same period .
In the altar are relics of St. Chrysanthus and Daria and St. Companions of St. Ursula included.
organ
In the course of the renovation that became necessary after the liturgical reform , the desire arose to replace the organ. The previous organ was already damaged before the renovation. In 1974, in a high mass, the new organ by G. Christian Lobback with electro-pneumatic register control and mechanical action was presented to the community.
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- Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
- Playing aids : 2 free combinations, tutti
Bells
In 1911, the Otto bell foundry from Hemelingen / Bremen supplied three bronze bells for the newly built Herz Jesu Church, two of which, however, had fallen victim to the confiscation of bells in the First World War for five to six years and were melted down. The congregation only had the smallest bells, an f 1 bell with a diameter of 1180 mm and a weight of 1030 kg. For over 84 years only the remaining "Bernwards bell" (strike tone f 1 ) from 1911 could ring, until in 2001 the Sacred Heart Church received three new bells, which were made by the Baggert company in Heilbronn like their predecessors from 1911 were cast in the so-called Otto-Rippe. Today the community now has a four-part bronze bell that is deep in tone and can be heard from far away. It is the heaviest chime in Bremerhaven and the Christ Bell is also the largest bell in the city. All bells hang in a new wooden belfry (equipped for 5 bells) on straight yokes.
| No. |
Surname |
Casting year |
Foundry and place |
Mass (kg) |
Chime |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Christ bell | 2001 | Bachert, Heilbronn | 2480 | c 1 |
| 2 | Marienbell | 2001 | Bachert, Heilbronn | 1450 | it 1 |
| 3 | Bernwards Bell | 1911 | Bell foundry Otto , Hemelingen | 1030 | f 1 |
| 4th | Michael's Bell | 2001 | Bachert, Heilbronn | 670 | g 1 |
See also
literature
- Paul Werner: 75 years Herz-Jesu Geestemünde . Bremerhaven 1986.
- Thomas Scharf-Wrede: The Diocese of Hildesheim 1866-1914 . Hanover 1995, 487-490
- Ulrich Euent / Alois Hütten / Bernhard Temme: 100 years of the Herz-Jesu-Kirche Bremerhaven-Geestemünde . Bremerhaven 2011.
Web links
- 360 ° panoramas of the interior (website of the parish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ She donated the same amount again for the church building project in Schöningen (Scharf-Wrede, p. 487)
- ↑ Episcopal General Vicariate (ed.): Kirchlicher Anzeiger. No. 10/2006, Hildesheim 2006, pp. 70-72
- ↑ Schematism of the Diocese of Hildesheim 2008
- ^ 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, here in particular p. 518 .
- ↑ 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 p. 482 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (doctoral thesis at Radboud University Nijmegen).
Coordinates: 53 ° 32 '0.7 " N , 8 ° 35' 48.7" E