St. Martini Church (Bremen-Lesum)

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St. Martini Church in Bremen-Lesum, view from Lesumhafen

The St. Martini Church is a church building in the Burglesum district of Bremen . It is located on a hill above the Lesum in the center of the district of the same name between the streets An der Lesumer Kirche and Hindenburgstraße . The church is registered as a monument.

history

St. Martini Church, south side

Surname

The Saint Martin , the church was dedicated, was the patron saint of the Frankish Empire .

Old church

The church was first mentioned in a document in 1235 (according to Dehio 1234). The church building was transferred to the Lilienthal nunnery, which had recently been founded, as "permanent property".

The year of construction of the original church is unknown; It can be assumed that soon after the beginning of the Christian mission in northern Germany in the late eighth century, a Romanesque church was also built in Lesum . The preserved church tower is probably as old as the original church was. The unhewn field stones, as they can still be seen inside the tower room, indicate the early formation. The old, single-nave , Romanesque church is said to have had 562 seats.

In the 16th century the Reformation was introduced in the Lesum community. The first Protestant pastor was Jodocus Müller, who came to Lesum in 1577.

New Church

St. Martini Church, tower entrance west side

In the second half of the 18th century the church was too small for the approximately 3500 congregation. The current, larger nave was therefore rebuilt in 1778/79 according to a design by the council architect Johann Dierks and inaugurated in September 1779, the tower was retained. The stones of the old church building were removed and used again in the construction of the new one. From the outside it can be seen that about two thirds of the walls of the church are made of old field stones and about one third of newer bricks. The rectangular building has entrances on the south and east sides.

On the night of October 29, 2017, the church was severely damaged by vandalism.

inner space

The interior from the 18th century has largely been preserved. The hall church has a central, late baroque pulpit altar , which is surrounded on three sides by an early classical gallery . Above the pulpit is a golden halo with representations of angels, in the middle of which the four letters of God's name ׳הוה ( YHWH ) can be read in Hebrew script . The four southern windows show the birth, baptism, crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus. They were created in 1930 by Georg Karl Ernst Rohde (1874–1959). The bronze altar cross and baptismal font also date from the 20th century (1961) ; both were made by the Worpswede artist Ulrich Conrad (* 1930). Instead of a crucifix , Conrad created a resurrection cross : The risen Jesus can no longer be found on the cross.

organ

St. Martini Church, organ on the west side

In 1765 the Lesum church got its first, small organ with ten organ registers , which was built by Dietrich Christoph Gloger . The current organ is the fourth in its place. It was built in 1992 by the Strasbourg company Alfred Kern & fils (Strasbourg) and contains 34 stops on three manuals and a pedal .

I Grand Orgue C–
1. Bourdon 16 ′
2. Montre 8th'
3. Bourdon 8th'
4th Prestant 4 ′
5. Flood 4 ′
6th Nazard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
7th Duplicate 2 ′
8th. Tierce 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
9. Fittings IV
10. Cornet V 8th'
11. Trumpets 8th'
12. Clairon 4 ′
13. Voix-Humaine 8th'
Tremblant
II Récit expressif C–
14th Bourdon 16 ′
15th Viole de gambe 8th'
16. Voix Celeste 8th'
17th Flute à cheminée 8th'
18th Principal 4 ′
19th Flute Octavin 4 ′
20th Octavine 2 ′
21st Larigot 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
22nd Fittings III
23. Trumpets 8th'
24. Basson-Hautbois 8th'
25th Cromorne 8th'
III echo C–
26th Flood 8th'
27. Cornet V 8th'
28. Trumpets 8th'


Pedale C–
29 Soubasse 16 ′
30th Flood 8th'
31. Octave 4 ′
32. Mixture IV
33. trombone 16 ′
34. Trumpets 8th'

Historic cemetery

St. Martini Church, historical tombstone

The churchyard has not served as a burial place for the community since 1882. 70 tombstones from the period between 1570 and the beginning of the 20th century have been preserved, the oldest - a crypt slab - is to the left of the entrance portal of the church. The tombstones of Anna Elisabeth and Friedrich von der Borch (1640–1705) are on the south side of the tower.

Parish

The Evangelical Lutheran parish of Bremen-Lesum includes the St. Martini Church and the Church of the Holy Cross Ritterhude-Werschenrege , which was built according to plans by Hermann Brede in 1965/66 and is the only church of the Bremen Evangelical Church on land in Lower Saxony .

The parish of St. Martini zu Bremen-Lesum is active in

literature

  • Rudolf Matzner : The Bremen monastery ox train. Bremen monastery and church stories. Interesting, unknown and curious. Druckerpresse-Verlag , Lilienthal 2011, pp. 32–40.
  • Hans-Martin Schäfer (Ed.): St. Martini in Lesum 1779-1979 . Self-published by the parish, Bremen 1979.
  • Heinrich Hoops: History of the Börde Lesum . Publishing house Gustav Winter, Bremen 1909.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Monument database of the LfD
  2. ↑ See HM Schäfer (Ed.): St. Martini in Lesum 1779-1979 , p. 6.
  3. ^ Monument database of the LfD , the tower is dated to "around 1200".
  4. ↑ http://www.presseportal.de/blaulicht/pm/35235/3774019
  5. ^ Organ St.Martini Bremen-Lesum. Orgelmanufaktur Kern, accessed on November 1, 2010 .
  6. ↑ Dehio 1977, p. 38

Web links

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Coordinates: 53 ° 10 ′ 5.3 "  N , 8 ° 41 ′ 26.7"  E