St. Jacobi (Bremen-Seehausen)

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The Church of St. Jacobi in the Seehausen district of Bremen , Seehauser Landstrasse 168, is the parish church of the Evangelical Lutheran community and one of the oldest Gothic sacred buildings in the Hanseatic city .

history

St. Jacobi

The Seehausen parish formed a community with Hasenbüren and was first mentioned in a document in 1187. The village church was built after the Stedinger War in the 13th century and consecrated to the Apostle James . According to the parish, the year of construction is 1234, another source gives an estimate of 1250. Client and church patronage lay with the Counts of Hoya . In 1523, Count Jobst II von Hoya confessed to Luther's teachings . After the dynasty of the counts died out in 1582, the Duchy of Braunschweig-Lüneburg , later the Electorate of Hanover, became a liege lord, and Seehausen remained Lutheran.

The simple Jakobikirche was probably built in the Gothic style on the terp of a house destroyed in the Stedinger War or on the property of an old castle. The brick village church has a three-axis nave , covered by a simple, high pitched roof . The six arched windows structure the facade. The retracted, straight choir has two east windows. A very massive, square, three-storey west tower with a tent roof and a south portal connects directly to the ship. According to two inscriptions, a first renovation took place in 1637 and another one in 1797.

Around 1848 there was a parish school next to the church with two classes and 136 students. In 1854 a new building replaced the old school, which was expanded by one class in 1878 and another class in 1880 for 178 students.

The church was restored in 1889. As a result, the choir and nave were changed both inside and outside.

Interior

Inside, the roof beams have been partially visible since 1889. A remarkable small winged altar in the choir, from a Dutch school, dates from the 16th century. It shows representations of the Lord's Supper , the Annunciation , the Crucifixion and the Ascension as well as the apostles Peter and Paul . The community has a Bible from 1579. The church bell is from 1406.

organ

The organ from 1963 comes from Alfred Führer . It has two manuals , a large pedal and 12 registers .

graveyard

In the Evangelical Lutheran cemetery, which is still occupied, there are gravestones from the 17th and early 18th centuries.

Monument protection

In 1973 the St. Jacobi Church was listed as a historical monument .

Parish

The parish of St. Jacobi Seehausen has a kindergarten. Musically, the community has a trombone and a women's choir. The community center is located at Seehauser Landstrasse 162.

literature

Web link

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b http://www.kirche-bremen.de/gemeinden/51_st_jacobi_seehausen/51_st_jacobi_seehausen_friedhof.php
  2. ↑ a b Georg Dehio (Ed.): Bremen / Lower Saxony. German art publisher
  3. ^ Herbert Black Forest: The Great Bremen Lexicon. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003
  4. ↑ Monument database of the LfD Bremen

Coordinates: 53 ° 6 ′ 38.9 "  N , 8 ° 42 ′ 28.7"  E