St. Benedict (Bad Bederkesa)
The St. Benedict Chapel is the Roman Catholic branch church in the city of Geestland , Bad Bederkesa on the street Zum Hasengarten. It belongs to the parish Hl. Herz Jesu Bremerhaven-Lehe in the Dean's Office Bremerhaven of the Diocese of Hildesheim .
history
In 1940, for political reasons, a parish vicar in the Wesermünde -Lehe parish was commissioned for the first time with pastoral care in the Leherheide-Bederkesa 1 pastoral care district by the episcopal vicariate of Hildesheim. Holy masses took place in different places. Before the old Berghorn house passed into the possession of the Catholic community, it was labeled "Herbert Kimmer Furniture Store, formerly Schneidemühl (Pomerania)". On December 17, 1972, after a thorough renovation, the first St. Mass celebrated. The Sunday services continued to take place in the Evangelical St. Jakobi Church on Bergstrasse. The wish of the active community for their own place of worship was fulfilled in 1981.
The St. Benedict Chapel was built directly behind the parish hall according to plans by the architect Jo Filke and inaugurated on December 5, 1981 by the Hildesheim bishop Heinrich Maria Janssen . The parish hall was demolished in 1990 and replaced by a new building.
Architecture and equipment
The floor plan of the Benedict Chapel is an irregular hexagon, which is formed from two opposing trapezoids . The copper-clad roof rises like a tent from the front and back to the greatest height and width above the long side of the trapezoid. In the middle is the roof turret as a bell tower. A gold-plated cross has been on the top since 2006. The roof rests on the yellowish plastered closed side walls. It is clad in wood on the inside.
Sanctuary
The altar consists of a boulder weighing tons from the area (Wehdel). The natural stone was given a cafeteria , a large plate , by sawing off the cap . This was smoothed and polished. As the base of the altar, the floor was laid out with small stone slabs. On the left front of the altar there is a small metal capsule decorated with a cross: the reliquary grave with relics of St. Martyrs Romanus, Donatus and Faustinus.
To the right above the semicircular altar step, next to the window, hangs a life-size picture of Benedict, executed in pastel chalk in 2000 by the artist and graphic artist Wieslaw Smetek after a section from the triptych by the master of the Rinuccini Chapel (14th century) in Florence, Accademia di Belle Arti . 2
There is a mosaic on the front wall behind the altar. In a cross with short and wide arms there is a ram standing in smoke and flames. Red tongues of fire can be seen above his head. This mosaic shows the sacrifice of Abraham (Gen 22: 1-19).
On the side of the front wall two stained glass windows reaching from the floor to the ceiling can be seen: on the left the meeting of the siblings Benedict and Scholastika , on the right the death of Benedict. In addition to these windows, the deacon and graphic artist Klaus Kilian also designed the altar mosaic, the ambo and the tabernacle and the windows in the entrance area. On the front wall itself is a stand cross donated by Pastor Wolfgang Patzelt by the artist Herbert Illgner.
The Way of the Cross
After presenting a small wall hanging, a way of the cross in linocut print, Dr. Roman Bentkowski designed 15 Stations of the Cross. Women from the community copied the designs onto wooden panels and burned them into the wood with kilns . The panels were painted by Ernst Schulte. He also made the station crosses. The Way of the Cross was hung as a circumferential ribbon in the church. After the organ was installed, the panels had to be rearranged. Since then there has been no more space for the 15th station.
Entrance area
In the entrance area of the church there is a stone on which the shell of a Mediterranean mussel is attached as a holy water font. A slope is drawn in between the roof and the low entrance, which is closed to the interior with a high ribbon of windows. The central entrance area is flanked on the right by a side chapel in which there is a statue of the Virgin Mary, a copy of a Riemenschneider Madonna. On the left is a small confessional chamber.
On the left in front of the church is a statue of the Virgin Mary made by master stonemason Josef Diensberg from Mendig near Maria Laach. She had stood in front of the Berghorn house since 1976.
organ
The lobback organ from 2006 is located to the left of the confessional room . It is a loop wind charger organ with mechanical playing and stop action. It has eleven registers, divided into two manuals and a pedal, and a tremulant that varies the air flow. The organ has a total of 702 pipes.
Bell jar
The bell in the roof turret was cast in 1983 by the company Petit & Gebrüder Edelbrock from Gescher in Westphalia. It was consecrated by Cathedral Chapter Georg Aschemann. The bronze bell weighs 215 kg with a diameter of 71 cm. The inscription reads: VIVOS VOCO. MORTUOS PLANGO. FULGURA FRANGO. IN HONOREM SANCTI BENEDICTI. BEDERKESA MCMLXXXIII (I call out to the living. I mourn the dead. I break the lightning. In honor of St. Benedict. Bederkesa 1983).
See also
literature
- Karla-Maria Muhle: The history of the Catholic pastoral care district Bad Bederkesa. Bad Bederkesa 2006
- Ulrich Schmalstieg: Jo Filke's sacred buildings in the Hildesheim diocese. Pp. 300-303. In: Yearbook for History and Art in the Diocese of Hildesheim. 81st year, Hildesheim 2013
- People under God's tent - 100 years of the Herz Jesu Church Bremerhaven-Lehe 1911–2011. Pp. 52–58, Bremerhaven 2011
Web links
- ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
Individual evidence
1. This is the designation in the document of February 29, 1940, quoted in: K.-A. Muhle, The History of the Catholic Pastoral Care District Bad Bederkesa, Bad Bederkesa 2006, p. 19
2. published in: BENEDIKT - Eine Kulturgeschichte des Abendlandes. Mercatorfonds, Antwerp 1980, p. 72
Coordinates: 53 ° 37 '36.9 " N , 8 ° 50' 21.4" E