St. Godehard (Bremen-Hemelingen)

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Former school, St. Godehard's Church and parish hall

The St. Godehard Church is a Roman Catholic church in Bremen - Hemelingen . It was built in the neo-Romanesque style from 1899–1900 based on a design by the Bremen architects Friedrich Wellermann and Paul Frölich . The area around the church and rectory has been a listed building as a whole since 2000 .

history

The original St. Joseph Congregation began to form in 1863 after the first missionary arrived in Hemelingen. After the first service took place in a tobacco shed , a small chapel was built on Godehardstrasse in autumn 1863. From 1866 the priest and bell expert Carl Otto worked as a missionary in Hemelingen, where he founded a bell foundry with his brother Franz Otto in 1873/4. On August 13, 1899 the foundation stone of St. Joseph's Church was laid. The solemn consecration took place on August 4, 1907. On New Year's Day 1941, the building was badly damaged in an air raid . After the end of the war, the first service took place in the renovated church on April 29, 1945. The parish also had a school to the left of the church. As a municipality in the Prussian province of Hanover , the municipality belonged to the diocese of Hildesheim . Currently all communities south of the Lesum in the state of Bremen belong to the Diocese of Osnabrück .

Because there was already a St. Josef parish in Oslebshausen in the dean's office in Bremen , it was decided in December 1969 to subordinate the church to the patronage of Saint Godehard of Hildesheim , in order to remember the past of the parish as part of the Hildesheim diocese. This decision was approved by decree from Rome in July 1973 .

At the beginning of 2007 the Catholic parishes in the east of Bremen merged to form the parish of St. Raphael.

Furnishing

The altar is made of sandstone and has neo-Romanesque shapes. The tabernacle and ambo were designed by Klaus Kilian (Braunschweig), they are made of bronze and adorned with rock crystals .

organ

The organ comes from the master organ builder Wolfgang Böttner and was manufactured in 1967. The previous organ had been in service since 1910. The organ was rebuilt in 1979. It has a mechanical action and 15 stops .

Bells

The bell founders Otto , beginning with the priest Carl Otto and his brother Franz, but also the sons Ernst Karl and Anton Ferdinand were patrons of the Catholic. Parish in Hemelingen. With their foundry, which was not far from the church, they cast several bells for the Catholic Church. Church in Hemelingen: 1883 (2 bells), 1901 (1 bell) 1922 (1 bell) 1926 (2 bells), 1930 (1 bell) and again 3 bells after the war in 1952. Most of the bells had been donated by the Ottos. The bells before 1945 were drawn in and melted down during the two world wars. The church has a three-part bell .

No.
  		volume
  		Casting year
  		Foundry, casting location
  		Mass
(kg) 		Diameter
 (mm) 		inscription
 
1 G' 1952 Bell foundry Otto , Bremen-Hemelingen 810 1100 Ring the bell for our deceased and fallen
2 a ' 1952 Bell foundry Otto, Bremen-Hemelingen 550 970 Patron of our church protect us and our families
3 H' 1952 Bell foundry Otto, Bremen-Hemelingen 370 860 Holy Mary, ask that God give us peace and put an end to all strife and war

literature

  • Wilhelm Tacke : Accepting strangers. 125 years of St. Godehard in Bremen-Hemelingen. History of a diaspora community in the early days. (Ed. on behalf of the St. Godehard Catholic Community in Bremen) Donat Verlag, Bremen 1988, ISBN 3-924444-43-9 .
  • Wilhelm Tacke : It all started with the windmill. 150 years of St. Joseph / St. Godehard congregation in Bremen-Hemelingen. Self-published by the St. Raphael Community, Bremen 2013.

Web links

Commons : St. Godehard (Hemelingen)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ overall system , Church and rectory in the monument database of the State Office for Monument Preservation Bremen .
  2. ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto bells. Family and company history of the Otto bell foundry dynasty . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, here in particular pp. 26-27 .
  3. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, here in particular pp. 48–50 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (doctoral thesis at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).
  4. ↑ St. Raphael's website
  5. ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto bells . Essen 2019, p. 255-256 .

Coordinates: 53 ° 3 ′ 31 ″  N , 8 ° 53 ′ 21 ″  E