St. Michael Church (Bremen-Grohn)

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The St. Michael Church is the house of God of the Evangelical Lutheran parish of the same name of the Bremen Evangelical Church in the Grohn district in the north of Bremen .

St. Michael Church in Grohn
View from the west
View from the south with the rectory

history

Due to the increasing industrialization that began in the middle of the 19th century , the population of the formerly independent fishing village Grohn an der Lesum increased considerably. For the Grohner Protestant faith, which until then belonged to the parish of the St. Martini Church in Lesum , the construction of a separate church building had become necessary.

After the approval of the establishment of an independent Evangelical Lutheran congregation in Grohn by the responsible consistory of the General Diocese of Bremen-Verden in Stade and the constitution of the congregation on March 31, 1906, the construction of the church was carried out from 1906 to 1908 according to a design by the architect and consistorial master builder of the regional church of Hanover Karl Mohrmann realized. The construction of the rectory had already started on October 1, 1905 and was occupied on July 1, 1906. The foundation stone for the church was laid on September 30, 1906, and the inauguration took place on February 2, 1908.

On the site of a former mill in the center of Grohn, a cross-shaped quarry stone building, mainly made of Ibbenbüren sandstone with a crossing tower, confirmation hall and parsonage in neo-Romanesque style was built based on the model of late Romanesque churches in the Rhenish style and influenced by the Wiesbaden program . The ornamental decoration was carried out by the painter Karl Bohlmann (1877–1929) from Hanover and, like the furnishings, has been completely preserved from the time it was built. The stained glass windows come from the Bremen glass painter Georg Karl Rohde . The 55-meter-high square tower is solid up to the top and clad with copper plates above the bell storey. From an architectural and art-historical point of view, the church is remarkable because of the preserved furnishings from the construction period, the area-wide painting, the building materials used and the architectural style, as in the period of historicism in north-west Germany, especially in the Bremen region, church buildings were predominantly in Brick construction using neo-Gothic styles.

In 2016/2017 the building ensemble was expanded to include a new community hall.

The church, along with the rectory, confirmation hall and property enclosure, has been a listed building since 1977.

organ

The first organ was built in 1908 by the organ builder Faber (Salzhemmendorf). This instrument was replaced in 1929 by a new instrument that was built by the organ building company Furtwängler & Hammer. Remains today the prospectus facade . In 1972 this instrument was replaced by a new building with 27 registers. Today's organ comes from the Reichenstein organ building company , with parts of the predecessor organ made by Emil Hammer Orgelbau from 1972 and the prospectus from 1908/1929 being used. The instrument has 28 stops on two manuals and a pedal . The game actions are mechanical, the stop actions are electric.

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Drone 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Viol 8th'
4th Capstan flute 8th'
5. Octave 4 ′
6th Night horn 4 ′
7th Octave 2 ′
8th. Sesquialtera II
9. Mixture IV
10. Trumpet 8th'
II Swell C – g 3
11. Violin principal 8th'
12. Salicional 8th'
13. Vox Coelestis 8th'
14th Lovely Gedackt 8th'
15th Fugara 4 ′
16. Transverse flute 4 ′
17th Forest flute 2 ′
18th Mixture IV 2 ′
19th bassoon 16 ′
20th oboe 8th'
Tremulant
Pedals C – f 1
21st Sub bass 16 ′
22nd Quintbass 10 2 ⁄ 3  ′
23. Octavbass 8th'
24. cello 8th'
25th Dacked bass 8th'
26th Flute bass 4 ′
27. trombone 16 ′
28. Trumpet 8th'
  • Coupling: II / I (also as super octave coupling); I / P, II / P

Bells

The ringing consists of three bells in the tones e, g sharp and b. They are bronze bells. Together they weigh 2.1 tons. The bells were cast in 1926 by the renowned Otto bell foundry from Hemelingen / Bremen. They survived the confiscation and destruction of bells in World War II.

literature

  • Klaus Balz: Volle 100 - The story of St. Michaels in Bremen-Grohn, Bremen 2008

Web links

Side of the community

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Painter Karl Bohlmann
  2. ↑ Open Monument Day 2016
  3. ↑ https://www.weser-kurier.de/region/die-norddeutsche_artikel,-ins-zentrum-gerueckt-_arid,1652046.html
  4. ^ Monument database of the LfD
  5. ↑ http://www.oberlinger.de/orgeldetail/items/Ev._Kirche_in_Bremen_Grohn.html ( Memento from September 11, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Description of the organ
  6. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto Glocken - family and company history of the bell foundry dynasty Otto, self-published, Essen 2019, 588 pages, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , here in particular p. 527.
  7. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen. Nijmegen 2019, 556 pages, Diss.Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770, here in particular p. 489.

Coordinates: 53 ° 10 ′ 1.8 ″  N , 8 ° 38 ′ 3.7 ″  E