St. Johann (Oberneuland)
St. Johann is a Protestant parish church in Bremen in the Oberneuland district , Oberneulander Landstrasse 41 / Hohenkampsweg 6. It was completed in 1860 in the neo-Gothic style.
history
A small, dilapidated, Romanesque predecessor building came from the 12th century. The church was named St. John after John the Baptist .
From 1858 to 1860, a significantly larger neo-Gothic brick church was built according to plans by Heinrich Müller . The church received some formative changes in 1937. Instead of the black slate roof, the gable roof was re-covered with hollow panes. The fial and finial attachments disappeared.
architecture
The single-nave hall church has a retracted choir with a five-eighth end . The side walls of the ship are divided by five ogival , high windows with three-lane tracery and six slim, stepped buttresses . A large pointed triumphal arch opens the choir to the nave. The choir is three steps higher than the nave.
The church has a three-storey west tower on a square floor plan with multi-stepped buttresses. Two flanking extensions with pent roofs are accessed through ogival side entrances. The tower height with the top is 45 meters. The octagonal spire above the belfry was covered at the beginning with charcoal-colored slate. The clock is at a height of over 30 meters. A pointed arched west portal with two-tiered walls has a rosette with tracery at the top.
At the Oberneuland church cemetery there are war graves and a memorial for those who died in both world wars. Next to the chapel there are historical tombstones from former graves. There are many gravestones from before 1930.
The church has been a listed building in Bremen since 1999 (see list of cultural monuments in Oberneuland # 1234 ) .
Interior
Inside, a three-sided circumferential gallery has coffered panels with three pointed arches each. Around 1930, a flat, painted box ceiling replaced the Gothic vaulted ceiling . The painting comes from Otto Fischer-Trachau (1878–1958) from Hamburg. The ceiling rests on transverse beams with concave consoles .
The block altar set up axially in the apse is raised by two steps. The polygonal, wooden pulpit rests on an octagonal base. Originally above the altar, it is placed to the right of the baptismal font. The cup-shaped, octagonal baptismal font is the oldest object in the church. He stands in the middle of the church axially in front of the arch. The middle window in the east in the apse depicts the blessing Christ. This window was formerly in Bremen Cathedral and is said to have been created before 1850, in imitation of the Blessing Christ by Bertel Thorvaldsen .
In the 1960s, the church stalls in the lower part were replaced. It leaves a central aisle free.
organ
The previous organ was from organ builder Focke from 1860 and was designed by the company in 1938 Steinmeyer expanded. When it was lost, the East Frisian organ workshop Ahrend & Brunzema created a new instrument with 22 registers in 1966 . In 1996 Ahrend added seven parts to a third manual , the expansion of which had already been prepared. In terms of sound and the division into different works , the organ is in the tradition of the north German baroque organ. It is architecturally modern and shaped by structuralism . The prospectus of the Rückpositiv in the parapet is square, like the main work. In the main work, the middle and the two outer narrow pipe fields are connected by two-storey wide flat fields, while in the Rückpositiv the narrow middle field is flanked by two wide flat fields. All fields are closed by latticework. Since the expansion, the organ has the following disposition with 29 registers:
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Parish
The current activities of the parish are u. a .: Senior citizens group, discussion group, children's choir, terra nova church choir , trombone choir, Christian scouts.
The kindergarten in the old rectory was demolished in 2012 for a new building with a cafeteria.
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments - Bremen / Lower Saxony . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich and Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-422-00348-7 .
- Rudolf Stein : Village churches and farmhouses in the Bremen region . Bremen 1967.
Web links
- Oberneuland Church
- BEK: Parish of Oberneuland
- Ev. St. Johann Church in the database of the State Office for Monument Preservation Bremen .
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Ahrend Organ (PDF file; 199 kB), accessed on February 27, 2015.
- ↑ Disposition of the organ in Oberland (PDF file; 6 kB), accessed on February 27, 2015.
Coordinates: 53 ° 5 ′ 29.1 ″ N , 8 ° 56 ′ 16.8 ″ E