Immanuel Chapel (Bremen)
The Immanuel Chapel is a Protestant church in Bremen in the Walle district , Elisabethstrasse 17/18.
Building
In 1907/08 the Immanuel Chapel , the parish hall and the rectory were built in the neo-Gothic style in the up-and-coming district of Walle , based on plans by the architect Johannes Rippe . The first multi-purpose church room in Bremen with a red stone brick facade is very rich in shapes and differentiated. The mid-gable ( transverse gable ) facing the street has two pointed , high windows between the two buttresses . On the gable roof , at the intersection of the roofs, there is a square, open roof turret with a simple pointed spire . The church has no steeple. The roof structure of the suspension plant of wood is visible on the inside.
organ
The Immanuel Chapel received its first organ in 1908 from a no longer known organ builder. It was placed on the gallery above the altar. In 1958 the second organ was built by Gustav Brönstrup from Hude . In 1988/89 this instrument was replaced by Gerald Woehl from Marburg with an organ from the Überlinger workshop Wilhelm Schwarz & Sohn (1848–1912), which was built in 1909 for the church in Tauberbischofsheim and from 1945 in the Herz-Jesu-Kirche in Mannheim - Neckarstadt -West stand. In 1989, the third organ received by the former organ of the monastery Banz the viola da gamba of the main plant and the two additional reeds with zinc cups in the Swell . The organ has a baroque prospect .
Parish
Paul Tiefental was the first pastor of the Immanuel congregation from 1899 to 1932. Pastor Friedel Denkhaus followed until 1953, who courageously held the congregation to the Confessing Church during the time of National Socialism .
The current activities of the Immanuel Congregation include: a .: day care center, confused model "The Fleet Confis on the move", groups of children, young people and adults, RAZ (Ran to the future, project against youth unemployment), open youth meeting place, senior citizen work, church music, choir projects, one world shop , Refugee working group Walle.
Since 2005 (cooperation agreement 2007) the parish Walle in the Ritter-Raschen-Straße 41 has been working together with the Waller church and the Immanuel parish.
literature
- Axel Stiehler and Oliver Wilking (eds.): 101 stories from Immanuel - The Protestant Immanuel Chapel in Bremen 1909–2009 . Bremen 2009.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hundred Years of Immanuel ( Memento of the original from October 5, 2013 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.
Web links
Coordinates: 53 ° 5 ′ 49.4 " N , 8 ° 47 ′ 10.3" E