St. Mark's Church (Bremen)

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St. Mark's Church

The Protestant St. Mark's Church in Bremen , Obervieland district, Kattenturm district , Arsterdamm 12-16, was built in 1955 according to plans by Fritz Brandt . The building has been a listed building in Bremen since 1995 .

history

The Jakobi community had owned the Poppesche Landgut on Arster Damm since 1928 in order to establish a branch . In 1949 there was a parish hall and kindergarten here. It was soon too small for the rapidly growing district of Kattenturm. In 1953 the St. Markus Congregation was founded as a split from the Jakobi Congregation. Obervieland continued to grow and so in 1962 the Thomas parish in Kattenesch and in 1975 the Abraham parish in Kattenturm emerged from this parish.

The church named after the evangelist Mark was built from 1953 to 1955 in the style of a conservative modernity . Designed in the form of a north-south facing basilica with an asymmetrical axis and a western side aisle , it forms an ensemble grouped around the inner courtyard with the community hall, office, sexton's apartment and bell tower .

The almost free-standing, low, brick bell tower with a reinforced concrete bell cradle attachment and resembles a campanile in design and shape . Four bronze bells (tones g, a, c, d) from the Otto bell foundry in Hemelingen hang in it . The relatively low height of the bell tower is due to the location of the church in the approach path of the neighboring airport . On the top of the tower there is a weather vane in the shape of a winged lion, the symbol of the evangelist Mark.

The clinker facade shows elements of the Baroque style . The interior of the church, on the other hand, is simply designed and muddy white. Above the entrance door there is a relief that was designed for the church by the sculptor Herbert Kubica .

The organ (2 manuals / pedal) was built in 1956 by the Alfred Führer organ building workshop in Wilhelmshaven.

The State Office for Monument Preservation Bremen found: “... generous space-forming grouping of the buildings; Preference for simple basic forms, asymmetries ... forms from medieval church architecture translated into the modern ... "

After 1950, the architect Fritz Brandt realized five churches with similar design features in Bremen.

In 1968 a day-care center was built on the church property, which complements the building complex on the eastern side.

St. Mark's Congregation

The community has different circles for u. a. Seniors, women, men, confirmands, young people, scouts, children, theater, sports, flute players, wind instruments, choir and children's choir. She runs a daycare center. The congregation works in the Missionary Church Working Group and in the Evangelical Alliance .

literature

  • Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen , Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
  • Gerhard Reinhold: Otto Glocken - Family and company history of the bell foundry dynasty Otto. Essen 2019. ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 .
  • Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen. Diss. Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, 2919. DNB access signature L-2019-333968.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Monument database of the LfD
  2. ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto bells. Family and company history of the bell founder Otto . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 558 (especially p. 553).
  3. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen (=  dissertation at the Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen ). Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556 (here in particular p. 508).

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Coordinates: 53 ° 2 ′ 47.4 "  N , 8 ° 49 ′ 12.8"  E