St. Jakobi (Bremen-Neustadt)

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St. Jakobi

The St. Jakobi Church is a Protestant church in Bremen in the Neustadt district, Buntentor district , Kirchweg  57 / Kornstraße  150.

history

From 1872 a new church was necessary for the newly emerging districts, and in 1873 the purchase of the land and planning began. From 1875 to 1876 the parish church of St. Jakobi in the Neustadt was built according to plans by the architect Johannes Rippe in the neo-Gothic style. The red brick church is about 25 meters long and 16 meters wide. The roof was re-covered with natural slate in 1994.

The three-storey, square west tower with the approximately 1.5 meter high weather vane reaches a height of 47.2 meters. The octagonal spire with a belfry is covered with copper plates.

Bells

The bell cage houses three bells from the Otto bell foundry in Hemelingen. The disposition of the bells is: e '- g' - a '. While the first two bells were delivered after the war in 1953, the a 'bell from 1876 is the oldest Otto bell still in existence.

inner space

Wooden ceiling in St. Jakobi Bremen-Neustadt
Interior view and sanctuary St. Jakobi Bremen-Neustadt

The almost square interior is spanned by a wooden ceiling. The small altar was placed in the center of the choir.

organ

The organ on a gallery was built by the Walker and Sons company in 1880/81 . In 1962 a new organ with 1522 pipes from the Alfred Führer company from Wilhelmshaven was installed. Some components date from 1921 and were integrated from the previous organs. In 2019 the Emma organ was renovated with donations. She received a Zimbelstern ( effect register ).

Pastor and parish house

The single-storey neo-Gothic pastor's house with red stone views dates from 1876. A parish hall was built in 1893.

Monument protection

The church and pastor's house have been a listed building in Bremen since 1980 .

The architectural office Angelis & Partner received the Bremen Monument Preservation Prize 2016 for the repair work on the church tower, which was badly damaged by the weather.

Parish

The first pastor of the congregation was G. D. Fraedrich from 1876 to 1879. In 1884, at the request of the provisional church council, the senate approved the residents of the southern suburb to form an independent congregation.

The activities of the St. Jakobi Congregation are up-to-date: youth group, men's group house groups, senior group, lecturer group, church choir from 1933 and gospel choir from 1991.

The day care center Kinderhaus Arche from 1990, Buntentorsteinweg 149, is an institution of the St. Jakobi community. The Neander House from 1961 on Neanderstraße was used for youth work and was converted into a daycare center ( Kleine Arche ) in 2013 . From 1962 to 2018, the community's country home was in Nordwohlde , south of Bremen.

Pastors of the church

Benjamin Bathelt has been pastor of the congregation since October 1, 2019. It was announced on October 20, 2019 by Secretary Dr. Bernd Kuschnerus officially introduced into his office.

DG Fraedrich 1876-1879
Gustav Volkmann 1879-1919
Carl Lange 1913-1943
Wilhelm Müller Debus 1944-1945
Heinz Paulo 1944-1955
Friedrich Pagel 1945-1948
Arthur Kamradt 1948-1951
Friedrich Burger 1951-1965
Max-Geor Gutknecht-Stöhr 1961-1963
Ernst Nasner 1964-1966
Friedrich Cornelius 1966-1967
Manfred Bockstette 1967-1989
Dorit Asendorf 1990-2000
Fritz Weißflog 1989-2009
Jens Motschmann 2009-2010

(Vacancy replacement as pastor in retirement)

Yves Töllner 2010-2018
Benjamin Bathelt since 2019

literature

  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments - Bremen / Lower Saxony . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich and Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-422-00348-7 .
  • Gerhard Reinhold: Otto Glocken - Family and company history of the bell foundry dynasty Otto . Essen 2019. ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2
  • Rudolf Stein : Classicism and Romanticism in the Architecture of Bremen II . 1965.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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. 178-179 .
  2. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 576, here in particular pp. 173–175 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at the Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).
  3. ^ Margot Müller: Weird tones from the organ pipes. Retrieved November 4, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Ev. St. Jakobigemeinde, Bremen | chrismon community: 25,000 euros in funding for community projects. Accessed November 4, 2019 (German).
  5. ↑ a b Chronicle of the community ( Memento from April 30, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Monument database of the LfD Bremen
  7. ↑ Ev. St. Jakobi Church
  8. ↑ Ev. St. Jakobi Church, pastor's house
  9. ↑ Awarding of the Bremen Monument Preservation Prize 2016. denkmalpflege.bremen.de, accessed on November 26, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Website of the community: kirche-bremen.de. August 23, 2006. Retrieved October 29, 2019 .

Web links

Commons : St. Jakobikirche (Bremen-Neustadt)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 53 ° 3 ′ 38.7 "  N , 8 ° 48 ′ 25.5"  E