St. Hedwig (Bremen)
St. Hedwig is a Catholic church of the parish of St. Raphael , which was built until 1963 in the Bremer Vahr , district Neue Vahr Südost, Kurt-Schumacher-Allee 62 / Geschwister-Scholl-Straße.
History of the building
The Neue Vahr district was built from 1957 for around 30,000 residents, including many Catholic expellees from Upper Silesia and East Prussia . A provisional room for the divine service had been in the former barracks (today police headquarters) in the Vahr since 1958. In 1959 the Diocese of Osnabrück commissioned the Catholic community of Bremen to prepare the construction of a church in the Vahr. The construction competition chaired by Rudolf Schwarz with five invited participants was won in 1960 by the Osnabrück architects Theo Burlage and Bernd Niebuer, who carried out the further planning. Burlage had already planned the Elisabeth Church in Bremen- Hastedt in 1931 .
The church was built from September 1961 to March 1963 and consecrated in 1964. The area is very green.
Building description
The plan of the church resembles the shape of a Eucharistic fish , which is a symbol of Christ in iconography . This symbolism is only recognizable through the drawn floor plan . How u. a. In the Protestant Church of the Resurrection in Hastedt by the architect Carsten Schröck , an organic architecture was used here . The curved outer facade with the apse-like altar area facing the street was clinkered with red-brown stones. The roof with its overhangs, rising slightly to the south (altar), is set off by a narrow white cornice .
Through the west entrance the visitor gets under a gallery to the curved nave with a roof height of 15 m, which is closed at the top by a slightly inclined, smooth and wood-clad ceiling.
Opposite a plastered, white painted, concave curved wall stands the convex shaped west wall made of visible, red-brown bricks; a texture like the exterior facade. Three steps lead to the white apse of the altar area and the organ. The curved walls and the light and dark give the room contrast and tension.
To the right of this is a vertical stained glass window with white, red and blue, irregular glass blocks, designed by Rudolf Krüger.
A glass wall at the main entrance and the vertical windows like an overhang under the ceiling create a lot of light. The stained glass window by Krüger in the side chapel (formerly the baptistery) is said to show the burning thorn bush (Exodus 3.2; Ex 3.2 EU ) and the crossing of the Red Sea (Exodus 14.19-29; Ex 14.19 EU ) represent.
To the left of the entrance is the side chapel and to the east the two-story extension for the sacristy, the latter like a dorsal fin to the fish floor plan. The community buildings are to the west of the church. A planned, separate church tower was not built for financial reasons.
Furnishing
- altar
- The tabernacle , cross group, baptismal font and statue of the Virgin are by the artist Rudolf Krüger.
- Part of a Hedwig's relic from Breslau , which was given as a gift to Hildesheim Bishop Janssen in 1960
- Stations of the Cross representation in batik technique from 1981, created by Elisabeth Kaiser-Arentz
- St. statue. Hedwig by sculptor Poletty ( Altötting ) as a copy of a Gothic sculpture by an unknown artist around 1430, which in today Kloster Niederburg in Passau is
- The organ comes from Alfred Kern from Strasbourg .
Monument protection
The church building, the two-storey parish and parish house from 1964, the two-storey youth center from 1964 (all by Burlage and Niebuer) and the single-storey kindergarten, designed by Karl-Heinz Bruns in 1972, were listed as a historical monument in Bremen in 2000 .
Parish
In 1960, an independent pastoral parish of St. Raphael Bremen was founded for the districts of Neue Vahr Nord , Neue Vahr Südost and Neue Vahr Südwest . St. Hedwig is under the patronage of St. Hedwig - the patron saint of the Silesians . The community is also the parish of St. Antonius in Bremen- Osterholz , St. Godehard in Bremen- Hemelingen , St. Laurentius in the Gartenstadt Vahr district and St. Thomas in the Blockdiek district .
The community maintains the St. Hedwig day care center near St. Hedwig . There are at the community u. a. the talking circle, Kath. Junge Gemeinde , a senior group, the choir, the Ghana circle and the one-world store . A development association from 1981 supports the community.
See also
- In Bremen: Church of the Resurrection (Hastedt) (1959), St. Hedwig (1963), St. Lukas Church (Bremen-Grolland) (1963), St. Michael's Church in the Ostertor district (around 1983)
- Other important examples: Casa Batlló (1906) and Casa Milà (1910) in Barcelona , Einstein Tower in Potsdam (1922), Goetheanum in Dornach in the canton of Solothurn (1928), Notre-Dame-du-Haut (Ronchamp) in France (1955) , Berlin Philharmonic (1963), Aalto University main building in Helsinki (1964), Munich Olympic Stadium (1972)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Architecture guide Bremen: b.zb: 405
- ^ Monument database of the LfD
literature
- Anja Becker-Chouati: A Catholic church village in the middle of a modern high-rise housing estate - St. Hedwig in the Neue Vahr. In: Preservation of monuments in Bremen - architecture of the post-war period. Series of publications by the State Office for Monument Preservation , Vol. 12, Edition Temmen , Bremen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8378-1045-5 .
- Eberhard Syring: Bremen and its buildings - 1950–1979. S. 178.Schünemann Verlag, Bremen 2014, ISBN 978-3-944552-30-9 .
- Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
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Coordinates: 53 ° 4 ′ 46 ″ N , 8 ° 54 ′ 5 ″ E