Pauluskirche (Bremerhaven)
The Pauluskirche is a church in Bremerhaven - Lehe . It is the parish church of the Evangelical Lutheran Michaelis and Paulus Church Congregation, which merged in 2000. The Michaeliskirche with the parish hall was then transformed into a common parish center. Since 2002 the Pauluskirche has been registered in the list of monuments of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen .
history
In the neo-Gothic style of red brick built St. Paul's Church on the harbor road in Lehe was born on March 19, 1905 consecrated .
The sacred building was almost completely destroyed in the air raids on Wesermünde during the Second World War in 1944. On March 8, 1953, the Hanoverian regional bishop Hanns Lilje opened the rebuilt Pauluskirche.
The altar windows were made by the glass painter Heinz Lilienthal from Bremen. The three middle windows show representations of Easter . On the two outer windows are depictions of Jesus sleeping in the storm and Paul's experience of Damascus . The crucifix is made of hand-driven brass by the artist Stuhlmüller from Hamburg.
A church café has been set up in the Pauluskirche since 2003. As a special feature, there are guided tours to a viewing platform on the church tower, which can be reached via 196 steps.
organ
The organ was built in 1955 by the organ builder Paul Ott with a neo-baroque disposition . The instrument has 37 registers on three manuals and a pedal . The playing and stop actions are mechanical. In 2007 the organ builder Bartelt Immer restored the instrument.
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- Coupling : II / I, III / I, I / P, II / P
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Monument database of the LfD
- ↑ http://www.pauluskirche-bremerhaven.de/index.php?seite_id=2
- ↑ More information about the organ ( memento of the original from March 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 53 ° 33 ′ 30 " N , 8 ° 35 ′ 12" E