Wooden church Schönebeck

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Wooden church Schönebeck, on the right the free-standing wooden bell tower (2008)

The wooden church Schönebeck (also Schönebecker Holzkirche ) is an Evangelical-Lutheran church in the district of Schönebeck in Bremen - Vegesack . It was built in 1964 as an emergency church and is today a branch church of the parish of St. Magni . It belongs to the Bremen Evangelical Church (BEK).

The church building was erected as a so-called "assembly church" in the form of a mobile wooden church and was originally only designed for a service life of 40 years. It is the only one of the assembly churches built in various new building areas of the Hanseatic city in the 1960s.

history

During the Second World War , large parts of the city were destroyed in air raids on Bremen . In the post-war period, and especially during the economic boom ("economic miracle"), numerous new housing estates emerged in the Federal Republic of Germany, including Bremen. At the beginning of the 1960s, the then Bremen-Lower Saxony parish of Lesum had grown to around 28,000 parishioners (1962) due to new building areas and thus had become so large that it had to be divided. In 1965 the North Bremen districts of St. Magnus and Schönebeck as well as the Lower Saxony villages of Brundorf , Eggestedt , Leuchtenburg and Löhnhorst became their own parish and the municipality of St. Magni was created .

As early as 1964, the wooden church in Schönebeck was built for the residents of the newly occupied houses in the garden city of Schönebeck . A church from the emergency church program of the Bremen Evangelical Church (BEK) was urgently needed for Schönebeck because a new district had arisen here in 1964 and the construction of a large church in St. Magnus was still being planned. The emergency church was built on the villa property "Haus Hügel" of the BEK. The BEK had acquired the property on the Feldberg in Schönebeck in 1951 from the owners of the Bremen rope factory F. Tecklenborg in order to use the villa for the Protestant youth .

When planning the emergency church for Schönebeck, the church builders were able to fall back on designs from other West German regional churches at the time. The Düsseldorf architect Helmut Duncker was commissioned by the early 1960s the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland a quick to set up the type and designed to be degraded so-called Assembly Church. With his design of a church in tent form of wooden prefabricated Duncker had a tendered by the Rhenish Lutheran Church competition won for a series makeshift church. The churches were produced from 1963 on behalf of the Rheinische Landeskirche and were used by various member communities, such as a. in Langenberg . Several of these churches were later moved to a different location. For example, an assembly church that was initially built in Bonn was sold to the parish in Ratingen in the 1970s and inaugurated in 1975 in Ratingen- Eggerscheidt .

The assembly churches designed by Duncker based on the Swedish model were also known as "Swedish churches". On the basis of Duncker's type design, a total of five mobile wooden churches were set up in the Bremen area. Due to the quick assembly, they are particularly suitable as temporary solutions. In June 1964, the church administration commissioned the erection of a “small church” based on the type design by Duncker in Schönebeck, and the Bremen architect Hermann Brede was commissioned with the shell . The construction of the wooden church Schönebeck took only a few weeks, the church was inaugurated in December 1964. In 1965 a wooden bell tower was erected next to the church .

In 1967 the St. Magni Church was rebuilt in the St. Magnus district. The wooden church in Schönebeck was originally built on the condition that it would be dismantled after the completion of the St. Magni church. The Schönebecker demonstrated against it and achieved that the wooden church is still preserved today.

After the entire parish life took place in the relatively small wooden church for more than a decade, a small parish hall made of prefabricated parts was built in 1975 in the vicinity of the church due to the increased space requirements. The house, which was initially heavily used, was abandoned and sold in the 2010s due to insufficient occupancy.

To this day, the wooden church has undergone some structural additions and changes in addition to the usual renovation work: The roof, which originally consisted of asbestos-containing fiber cement panels , was renewed, and the heating was switched from electricity to gas. In addition, there is now a small drinks kitchen and a barrier-free toilet. As a result of these changes, the number of seats was reduced from the original 170 to 120.

Since 2013, the "Haus Hügel" property including the conference center - operated there for many years by the BEK and closed at the end of 2010 - and the wooden church has been owned by Johanniter Seniorenhäuser GmbH , which has been the inpatient hospice on the area since the beginning of 2014 following demolition and new construction measures Lilge-Simon-Stift operates. Since then, the wooden church has been used by both the monastery and the Protestant parish of St. Magni.

Church building

location

The wooden church Schönebeck is located in the north Bremen district of Schönebeck at Feldberg 1, on the small hill of the same name. In contrast to the usual east orientation of churches, it was built in a north-south direction. The entrance is on the south side.

architecture

Original interior of the church (before 1993)

The tent-shaped church building was erected as a roof-only construction in wood and consists mainly of wood. At the gable on the entrance side, the entire gable triangle above the entrance door is designed as a window area with 13 vertical subdivisions and two horizontal subdivisions, so that individual glass areas that are upright and bevelled along the roof connections result. On the otherwise white painted window profiles made of wood, there is a contrasting, golden cross on the outside in the middle.

The side walls and the north gable opposite the entrance are windowless. In the interior, these areas are clad with wood, as is the south gable to the left and right of the two-winged entrance door. Outside, the side walls and the windowless gable surfaces are also clad with wood. The sloping roofs are clad with chipboard between the visible wooden rafters and painted light.

In 1993 a white altar wall was added to the interior on the north side to create an appropriate background for a donated altar cross.

Bell tower

At the end of 1965, a free-standing wooden bell tower (" Campanile ") was built next to the church . The bell chamber is supported by four wooden pillars and is clad with sound boards and slats.

In the same year, the Otto bell foundry in Bremen-Hemelingen cast  a bronze bell with the tone octave-c sharp, a diameter of 726 mm and a weight of 250 kg for the church. The inscription on the bell reads “Eins ist not” after the beginning of the song No. 386 in the Evangelical Hymn book with the biblical reference to Luke 10 : 41-42  LUT . The consecration of the bell took place on January 9, 1966 following a service by Pastors Venske and Berger.

Interior

Seating

At the inauguration, the church was equipped with the classic SE 18 wooden folding chairs (with hymn bookkeeper) by Egon Eiermann , which are still in use today.

Altar cross

In 1993 a large Passion Cross was donated for the wooden church. It was given its place on the newly drawn white wall behind the altar. It consists of irregularly shaped terracotta panels on which the stations of Christ's Passion are depicted in relief . The representation is to be read from bottom to top and begins at the bottom with the washing of Christ's feet and ends at the top with the resurrection .

The cross was created by the artist Susan Berber-Credner.

organ

The first in the church standing Harmonium in 1966 by a continuo - organ replacement. The positive comes from the workshop of Alfred Führer and was built by him with 5  registers and attached pedal . The disposition is as follows:

Manual C – g 3
Dumped 8th'
Reed flute 4 ′
Principal 2 ′
Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Sharp 2 ⁄ 3 ′

literature

  • On the subject of emergency churches: Ulrich Pantle: Chapter 6: Tendencies in church building after 1950 In: Ders .: Leitbild Reduction - Contributions to church building 1945 to 1950. Published by the University of Stuttgart , Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning. Selbstverlag, Stuttgart 2003, pp. 326–412 (dissertation, University of Stuttgart 2003; content text on Baufachinformation.de with a link to the free full text as download; compressed file in PDF format with around 3.6 MB).

Web links

Commons : Holzkirche Schönebeck  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilfried Willker: Parish of St. Magni. The districts of our cooperation area - an overview -. In: kirche-bremen.de . Retrieved September 6, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b c d Wilfried Willker u. a .: Parish of St. Magni. Who's the fairest of them all? In: kirche-bremen.de . Retrieved September 6, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Oliver Meys: Project to record church building after 1945 in NRW . In: Andrea Pufke (Ed.): Messages from the LVR Office for Monument Preservation in the Rhineland . Issue 22. Landschaftsverband Rheinland , LVR Office for Monument Preservation in the Rhineland , 2015, p. 33–44, in particular p. 40 ( digitized at denkmalpflege.lvr.de [PDF; 3.0 MB ; accessed on September 6, 2017]).
  4. ↑ a b (m): “Notkirche” has existed for 20 years. Schönebeck municipality celebrated its anniversary . In: The North German . December 18, 1984, p. 1 (title page) .
  5. ↑ a b (szm): Much more than a temporary arrangement . Schönebecker wooden church has existed for 30 years / festive service . In: The North German . November 29, 1994, p. 4 .
  6. ↑ a b c Ulf Buschmann: A temporary solution that lasts. On Sunday the wooden church in Schönebeck will be 50 years old / designer folding chairs from the 60s . In: The North German . December 13, 2014, p. 5 ( online at weser-kurier.de [accessed on September 6, 2017]).
  7. ^ A b c Wilfried Willker, Christiane Hoffmann: Parish of St. Magni. The Schönebeck district in the cooperation area. In: kirche-bremen.de . Retrieved September 6, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Julia Ladebeck: The wooden church is unique in Bremen. The 40th anniversary is celebrated with a festival service . In: The North German . November 27, 2004, p. 5 .
  9. ^ 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 page 560 .
  10. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, especially p. 514 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (doctoral thesis at Radboud University Nijmegen).
  11. ↑ (mag): Passion devotions in Schönebeck . In: The North German . March 7, 2011, p. 3 .
  12. ↑ Winfried Schwarz: Setting the tone. Wilfried Knübel has been honorary honorary organist in the churches of St. Magni and Schönebeck for 50 years . In: The North German . April 11, 2013, p. 3 ( online at weser-kurier.de [accessed on September 6, 2017]).
  13. ↑ Uwe Pape (ed.): Fifty years of organ building guides . 2nd Edition. Pape Verlag, Berlin 1983, ISBN 3-921140-26-9 , p. 88 .

Coordinates: 53 ° 10 ′ 40.9 "  N , 8 ° 38 ′ 55.8"  E