St. Jakobi (Bremen)
St. Jakobi (originally also St. Jacobi ) is the name of two consecutive churches in Bremen : a medieval former church building in the old town that was profaned in modern times and a neo-Gothic church built in the south of the new town in the 19th century.
Old St. Jakobi Church
53 ° 4 '40.7 " N , 8 ° 48' 9.5" E
The beginnings of the church, which has since been completely removed, go back to the private patronage church of Gerhardus de Caminata (Gerhard von Kemenade, later also called Gerhard von St. Jakob), which was founded soon after 1188 . After his death, the church came into the possession of the collegiate monastery of St. Ansgarii , which used the chapel until the consecration of the Ansgarii church in the later 13th century. The Jacobikirche was renovated in the 13th century as a brick basilica with a west tower and a polygonal choir .
In the course of the Reformation it was profaned early on : in 1523 the Bremen council handed the building over to the blacksmith's office (allegedly for their involvement in the resignation of the St. Paul monastery ), which held its meetings there and used it as an official building (guild house).
In the 17th century the tower and in 1697 the nave were torn down due to disrepair. After the Bremen guilds were dissolved in 1861, the remains of the choir by Simon Loschen , a Bremen architect, were integrated into his new building of a large inn, the Jakobihalle . Inside and outside in the neo-Gothic style, it contained a ballroom and the imperial hall with portraits of the German emperors above the restaurant with wine tavern . Only a few testimonies of the old furnishings have been preserved in the Focke Museum : the so-called blacksmith's chandelier (a candlestick crown carved around 1500 with a double figure mercy seat / maize dress ), the complimentarius (a saluting machine from the 17th century that was originally in the Schütting ) and one of on the outer wall, a grave relief with a crucifixion dated 1423 . In 1944 the Jakobihalle was badly hit by bombs, and in 1960 its remains were completely demolished. Today, a parking lot accessible via the short pilgrimage with the street name Jakobikirchhof in the otherwise closed building block between Hutfilterstrasse and Martinistrasse is a reminder of the historic site.
St. Jakobi Church in the New Town
53 ° 3 '38.5 " N , 8 ° 48'24.7" E
The Buntentorsteinweg , formerly Bremen's arterial road to the south, with its side and parallel streets was a main artery of the city expansion on the left side of the Weser. In Bremen-Neustadt , a district with a population of workers and craftsmen, after resistance, but with the support of the Inner Mission, a separate , independent congregation was established in 1884, separated from the mother church of St. Pauli . The new St. Jakobi Church was built at Kornstrasse 150. In 1875/76, Johann Rippe designed the neo-Gothic brick building on a square floor plan with a rectangular choir. The angular brick tower merges into an eight-sided lantern with a high point and forms a point de vue from the line of sight of the church path that runs towards it. The plain interior is vaulted over a wooden ceiling with an open structure. The church was the only one in the Neustadt to survive the Second World War without major damage. In the post-war period she received colored glass windows from A. Kröning.
The parish hall is from 1893. Since 1980 the entire complex with church and pastor's house has been a listed building.
Individual evidence
- ↑ overall system , Church and pastor's house in the monument database of the LfD.
literature
- Klaus Heitmann: From Abraham to Zion , Bremen 1985, pp. 165–166
- Franz Buchenau: The Free Hanseatic City of Bremen , Bremen 1934, pp. 308, 316 f.
- Andreas Röpcke (ed.): Bremen church history in the 19th and 20th centuries. Bremen 1994.
See also
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St. Peter's Cathedral | Church of Our Lady | St. Johann | St. Martini | St. Stephani
St. Ansgarii moved from the historic old town
Old St. Jakobi Church left after 1945