Church in Borgfeld

This article describes the church in the Borgfeld district of Bremen. For the church in the district of the same name in the Mecklenburg community of Kriesow, see Borgfeld village church .

Church in Borgfeld

The church in Borgfeld in Bremen - Borgfeld , Borgfelder Landstraße 15 is essentially one of the oldest churches in Bremen.

history

From 1113 the Borgfeld area south of the Wümme was drained and cultivated by Dutchmen on behalf of the archbishop . In 1281 (other sources 1384) there were the first references to the church in Borgfeld. The small single-nave, partly Romanesque and early Gothic village church has a Gothic, square west tower with a tent roof.

During the Thirty Years War in 1627 imperial troops badly damaged the village and the church. The bells were lost. In 1640 the church tower was rebuilt in Gothic style and new bells were hung. In 1701 the municipality replaced the half-timbered structure in the tower with a brick structure. From 1731 to 1733 the nave was extended by more than half of the medieval structure. Borgfeld had around 90 inhabitants at that time. In 1869 the church tower was rebuilt and three years later two new bells were cast from the old bells and gun bronze. In 1898 some renovations had to be carried out on the church.

The big church bell was melted down in 1918 during the First World War . In 1965 the chancel was redesigned. The slate covering of the church tower was replaced by a copper dome. The windows were roughly the same as they were in the 18th century. In the church, the old pulpit from 1780 from the St. Pauli church from the new town, which was destroyed in the war, was installed.

organ

The organ with two manuals and 17 registers from 1970 comes from Alfred Führer .

graveyard

The small cemetery of the Protestant parish, Katrepeler Landstrasse 9, is still occupied.

Monument protection

In 1973 the church in Borgfeld was placed under monument protection.

Parish

The Evangelical Church Community Bremen-Borgfeld maintains a kindergarten. Handicraft and pottery group, theater group, instrumental ensemble, youth group literature group, senior group, children's and teenage choir belong, among others. a. on the activities of the community.

literature

• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
• Rudolf Stein : Village churches and farmhouses in the Bremer Lande , Bremen 1967.
• Georg Dehio (Ed.): Bremen / Lower Saxony , Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1977.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ You Tube
2. ↑ Monument database of the LfD Bremen

Web link

• Church in Borgfeld

Coordinates: 53 ° 7 ′ 34.6 ″  N , 8 ° 54 ′ 20.6 ″  E