Kreuzkirche (Bremerhaven)
The Evangelical Lutheran Kreuzkirche Bremerhaven was built in 1863 on the corner of Rampenstrasse and Keilstrasse and replaced in 1877 by a slightly larger church at the same location, which was destroyed in 1944 during World War II. In 1952, a former ethnographic museum at Mayor Martin Donandt Platz was converted into the third cruciform church, making it Bremerhaven's first post-war church.
history
When the Free Imperial and Hanseatic City of Bremen docked its upstream port in the northern corner between Geeste and Weser from 1827 , Mayor Smidt in the new Bremerhaven only wanted a united (uniate) parish for all Protestant denominations - Reformed and Lutherans as well as so-called sects - together to have. In 1860, 46 Lutheran heads of household applied to the Bremen Senate in vain to give them an independent Evangelical Lutheran in Bremerhaven. To allow parish. In 1861 they at least got permission to found an association for the employment of a Lutheran preacher. On January 7, 1862, Justus Ruperti was ordained the association's first Lutheran pastor, who had preached in the chapel of the emigration center since 1857.
1. Church (1863–1876)
In 1863 the association built the first Kreuzkirche with 340 seats on the corner of Rampenstrasse and Keilstrasse, where the Catholic Edith Stein School is now. The church had no tower and looked more like a chapel, especially when the Catholic Church of St. Mary was built to the west of it. The first cruciform church was built in a north-south direction, contrary to the usual, with the entrance in the south and a small choir in the north. To the left (west) of the church there was a small prayer house or classroom for confirmation classes.
In the previous year the rectory for Pastor Ruperti and his family had been built at Rampenstrasse 14. In 1865 the association was named ev.-luth. Parish recognized by the Bremen Senate.
2. Church (1877–1944)
Pastor Justus Ruperti's successor was his later son-in-law Friedrich Hashagen . After just 14 years, he had the cruciform church built by his father-in-law demolished and in 1877 inaugurated the second cruciform church at the same location with space for 500 visitors. This church too had only one roof turret, but traditionally stood in an east-west direction along Keilstrasse.
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In 1937 the church received a new organ from W. Sauer (Frankfurt / Oder) with 32 sounding voices on three manuals and pedal . The layout draft came from the Bremen cathedral organist Richard Liesche .
On September 18, 1944, the old Kreuzkirche fell victim to the bombs, like almost the entire inner city of the then large city of Wesermünde.
Churchless time
The church services of the Kreuzkirche parish first took place in a classroom of the partially destroyed Körner School, then in the drawing room of the Uhland School and after the reconstruction of the Bgm.-Smidt-Schule (school center middle / Lloyd-Gymnasium) in its auditorium.
3. Church (1952)
In 1952, the third cruciform church on the Bürgermeister-Martin-Donandt-Platz was put into operation together with the old hall. In 1955 the rectory was added. In 1961/62 the Kreuzkirche received a free-standing tower as well as the New Hall, office and group rooms and service apartments. The kindergarten completed the community center in 1972. The community hall burned down in 1983 and had to be renovated. In January 2012 the new family center in the community center was inaugurated.
The crucifix is from Georg Grygo .
anniversary
In 2012, the Kreuzkirchengemeinde celebrated its 150th anniversary with a variety of events that spanned the entire first half of 2012. A commemorative publication was published for the anniversary.
Pastors
- 1863–1871: Justus Ruperti
- 1871–1879: Friedrich Hashagen
- 1879–1882: Walter Kreusler
- 1882–1924: Jacob Schnackenberg
- 1924–1930: Walter Tappenbeck
- 1931–1937: Ernst Minor
- 1938–1944: Hermann Junker
- 1945–1953: Otto Gehrke
- 1954–1960: Martin Kiunke
- 1960–1963: Carl-Jürgen Kiefer
- 1961–1991: Joachim Scholz
- 1965–1975: Gerold Maaß
- 1976–1983: Hans Joachim Schliep
- 1983–1994: Hans Dittmar
- 1992–1994: Monika Drewes
- 1993–1994: Johannes Link
- 1994–2009: Andreas Maack
- 1995–2002: Wolf-Dietmar Seidel
- 2003–2012: Stefan Warnecke
- since 2010: Götz Weber
Church music
The Kreuzkirchengemeinde maintains a choir, a trombone choir and a classical guitar group.
literature
- Justus Ruperti: Inauguration of the Evangelical Lutheran Kreuzkirche in Bremerhaven. Bremen 1863.
- Jacob Schnackenberg: Celebration, held on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Evangelical Lutheran Lutheran Church. Parish of the Kreuzkirche in Bremerhaven on February 6, 1887. Bremerhaven 1887.
- Friedrich Hashagen: Sermon, held on the 50th anniversary of the Lutheran Kreuzkirche in Bremerhaven (= The Pilgrim to Home , Issue 30). 1912, pp. 73f., 81f., 89f.
- Paul Oehlkers : Sermon, held in the evening service for the 50th anniversary of the Kreuzkirche in Bremerhaven (= The Pilgrim to Home , Issue 30). 1912, pp. 97-99.
- Jacob Schnackenberg: The 50th anniversary of our Evangelical Lutheran Kreuzkirche in Bremerhaven (= The Pilgrim to Home , Issue 30). 1912, pp. 67f., 75f., 83f., 91f., 100.
- Joachim Scholz: 100 years of ev.-luth. Parish to the Kreuzkirche Bremerhaven. Bremerhaven 1962.
- Christa Kraemer (Ed.): 1862–1987 Ev.-luth. Parish to the Kreuzkirche Bremerhaven. Bremerhaven 1987.
- Dieter Riemer : 1952–2002, 50 years of Ev.-luth. Kreuzkirche am Donandtplatz, 140 years of the Kreuzkirche parish in Bremerhaven-Mitte. Bremerhaven 2002.
- Dieter Riemer (Ed.): 150 years of the Evangelical Lutheran Congregation for the Kreuzkirche in Bremerhaven. Bremerhaven 2012.
Web links
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 53 ° 33 ′ 4.9 " N , 8 ° 34 ′ 27.8" E