St. Jakobi Church (Bad Bederkesa)
The St. Jakobi Church in Bad Bederkesa , Am Markt and Beerster Mühlenweg 3, is a Lower Saxony monument and is included in the list of architectural monuments in Geestland .
history
The Lords of Bederkesa were ministers of the Archdiocese of Bremen from around 1000 . The first St. Jakobi church, probably made of field stones, was first mentioned in 1295 and named after the apostle James .
Bederkesa was owned by the city of Bremen from 1421 . After the Reformation , the area and the church were evangelically reformed .
In 1644 the first church building was replaced by a half-timbered church. In 1648 the Duchy of Bremen came to Sweden and Bederkesa was now Evangelical Lutheran . In 1720 the duchy was sold to the electorate of Hanover (later the Kingdom of Hanover ), which was the Prussian province of Hanover from 1866 .
The third -nave Neo-Gothic church of 1861 with an engaged 3 / 8- Choir statements was based on plans by Simon Loschen (Bremen). The square western tower has an octagonal spire . The interior was renovated from 1990 to 2010.
The sandstone baptismal font in the shape of a cup dates from the second quarter of the 17th century (around 1644). The relatively large Hillebrandt organ from 1969 to 1992 has 1390 pipes in 21 registers. The three-part altarpiece from 2006 in the form of a triptych is made of steel and burnt clay and was created by the artist Madeleine Dietz .
The 1,443.5 m² cemetery and the stone wall are also under monument protection.
Bad Bederkesa is the seat of the superintendent of the church district Wesermünde of the regional church Hanover .
literature
- Bederkesa. Ev. Church. In: Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments . Bremen Lower Saxony. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-422-03022-0 , p. 202.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Dehio: Bremen / Lower Saxony , 1977.
Coordinates: 53 ° 37 ′ 28.7 " N , 8 ° 50 ′ 27.8" E