Michael Church (Bremen)

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The Michaelkirche in the Kleine Meinkenstrasse in Bremen-Mitte

The Michaelkirche is the religious meeting place of the Christian community Bremen . It is located on Kleine Meinkenstrasse in the Mitte / Ostertor district . The building was constructed from 1991 and consecrated in 1994.

Church building

The church building is designed in the style of anthroposophical architecture . It has no outer walls standing at right angles to one another. The floor plan of the church interior is almost an ellipse with the widest point in front of the altar. This is also where the vaulted ceiling is highest. The room has seats and can accommodate around 200 visitors. Particular emphasis was placed on the room acoustics during construction. The floor is made of sealed natural stone, the use of textiles is limited to the seat cushions of the chairs. The pulpit is raised by one step, another three steps lead to the altar made of Norwegian granite. The organ stands on a pedestal on the back wall. There are several adjoining rooms in which children's services and other community events take place.

When the foundation stone of the Michael Church was laid in 1992, emphasis was placed on esoteric beliefs. The foundation stone therefore consists of a copper pentagon dodecahedron with a gemstone, usually crystals , worked into each of its 12 sides .

history

The Christian Community Bremen taught in the early 1920s, first in the Protestant Martinikirche first "People ordination actions" and a series of lectures from their own youth work has been established. The community work later had to be moved to a painter's studio in the Sparkasse, and in 1925 to a basement room in Parkallee .

In 1936 the growing community was able to inherit the house at Am Dobben  111. In 1939 the synod of the North German employees of the Christian Community met in Bremen. In the same year the Gestapo banned the community in Bremen (1941 nationwide). After the war, community work was continued in the Am Dobben house.

In 1986 the “Bremen Society for Urban Renewal, Urban Development and Housing GmbH” offered the community a building plot on Rembertiring. The Berlin architect and anthroposophist Jens Ebert drafted the plans for the church and the rectory. The company Zech-Bau from Bremen built the shell. The new church was consecrated on March 27, 1994.

literature

  • Bremen Center for Building Culture (Ed.): Light tent and strong castle. Schünemann, Bremen 2016, ISBN 978-3-944552-91-0 , 2nd expanded edition of the exhibition catalog for the exhibition of the same name in the Bremen Center for Building Culture from August 21 to October 4, 2009

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Church of the Christian Community for Bremen Church description on architekturführer-bremen.de. Retrieved December 3, 2019.
  2. ↑ "the anthroposophic Michael's Church at the Salvador Allende street may stay in their Le Corbusier present -Artigkeit." Henning Bleyl: religious , taz.am weekend of 2 October 2009, Bremen News, page 44, in Article Archive of the TAZ. Retrieved December 3, 2019.
  3. ↑ a b Christine Holch: Schlumpfkirche is ready - Michael Church of the Christian Community at Remberti-Kreisel officially opened , taz. The daily newspaper of March 28, 1994, Inland, p. 24, article in the TAZ archive. Retrieved December 4, 2019.
  4. ^ Jürgen Meyer: Church acoustics. Erwin Bochinsky, Frankfurt / Main 2003, pp. 226-228, ISBN 978-3-923639-41-0 , pp. 226-228.
  5. ↑ bus: And they built a church . In: The daily newspaper: taz . February 22, 1993, ISSN  0931-9085 , p. 23 ( taz.de [accessed December 11, 2019]).
  6. ↑ Jürgen Meyer: Kirchenakustik, Verlag Erwin Bochinsky, 2003, p. 227 f. [1]
  7. ↑ And they built a church . In: taz of February 22, 1993, p. 23. Retrieved December 5, 2019.
  8. ^ Building history in the community chronicle

Coordinates: 53 ° 4 ′ 33.1 ″  N , 8 ° 49 ′ 7.6 ″  E