Horner Church
The Horner Church in Bremen - Horn-Lehe , Horn district, Horner Heerstraße No. 30, is the Evangelical Church of the Holy Cross from 1824. It has been a listed building since 1973 .
history
In 1106, after the arrival of Dutch settlers, the first church was built between 1115 and 1180. In 1187 it was given the name "Ecclesia sanctae crucis tom Horne" (Church of the Holy Cross in Horn). It was transferred to the Collegial Monastery of St. Ansgarii . After the Reformation she went to the Bremen Council as the new church patron .
Building
Little is known about the first church building. It was probably a typical Romanesque village church . It burned down several times and was rebuilt. In 1822 the first structure was demolished because it was in disrepair . From 1822 to 1824 an aisle church with a gable roof without an apse was built on the old foundation in the classical style . In 1894 a considerable renovation took place according to plans by the architect Wilhelm Weyhe. The bell tower , which was originally in the west, was placed in front of the nave in the east for representative reasons . It now has three floors . In the first, which extends to a frieze at the height of the eaves , is the portal gabled with a tympanum . In the second, which ends at the height of the roof ridge , there is a clock tower on three sides above a window . The third is designed as an octagonal tower in which the bell chamber is located. It has sound arcades on four sides and is crowned with a hood on which a weathercock sits. A bell cast in 1451 comes from the chapel in St. Magnus , which was destroyed in the Schmalkaldic War , the origin of the bell, cast in 1603, is unknown. The long sides of the nave are divided by pilaster strips . In between, the arched windows are framed by round-arched panels . As usual, the interior of the church was initially a transversely oriented sermon room. Since the renovation in 1894, the impression of a three-aisled basilica has been created by side, clad beams with galleries underneath, referred to as a pseudo-hall in the Dehio-Handbuch Bremen, Lower Saxony . The galleries are supported by twelve wooden-clad supports from a railway bridge . The flat ceiling above is supported by ten wooden columns . The central nave has a coffered ceiling .
Furnishing
The inventory is largely new. In the apse niche stands a crucifix , framed by ten human figures, a copper work by Claus Homfeld . The altar is made of a block of sandstone, as is the base of the pulpit and the baptismal font .
The organ was built in 1955 by the organ building company Paul Ott from Göttingen. In the course of time, more extensive work was carried out on the instrument, in 1972 by the Wilhelmshaven organ builder Alfred Führer , in 1996 by the Walsroder organ builder Martin Haspelmath and in 2011 by the Mainbernheim company Werner Mann. It has main work (C – f 3 ), upper work (C – f 3 ), pedal (C – f 1 ) and coupling (playing aids ).
The harpsichord , built in 1986 based on Flemish models, comes from Theo de Haas from Haarlem . It has two manuals (FF – f 3 and FF – f 3 8 ′ with lute).
The chest organ , built in 1983, has a manual (C – f 3 ).
graveyard
The Horner Church is surrounded by a well-kept evangelical cemetery with historical graves and graves of Bremen personalities, the war memorial and an older, large crypt .
The Horner linden in the churchyard is 800 or 900 years old and is the oldest tree in Bremen. This is where the Thing took place in the early Middle Ages , the court of justice "dinghe tho dem Horne".
Parish of Horn
The Protestant parishes in Horn have reunited after a long separation. In addition to the church, the congregation maintains a kindergarten in Horn, Luisental 27, which developed out of a play group in 1991.
The church choir , the trombone choir , the viol circle and the flute circle work here musically .
From 1829 to 1864 Johann Melchior Kohlmann was pastor for 35 years .
The parish house Horn I from 1878 at Berckstrasse 27, in which the associations Fluchtraum Bremen and Refuge - Ecumenical work for foreigners are based, also belongs to the community .
literature
- Olga Braach: Church leader for the Church of the Holy Cross in Horn , Bremen 2015
- Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
- Michael Koppel: Horn-Lehe-Lexikon . Edition Temmen, Bremen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8378-1029-5 .
- Georg Dehio (Ed.): Bremen / Lower Saxony , Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1977.
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Coordinates: 53 ° 5 '48.2 " N , 8 ° 52' 8.6" E