St. Johannis (Arbergen)

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St. John's Church

The St. Johannis Church was named after John the Baptist and is located in Bremen - Arbergen , Arberger Heerstraße 69. It is one of the oldest village churches in the Bremen area.

history

East Side
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Arbergen was first mentioned in a document in 1230. The inner wall of the tower of today's Evangelical Lutheran village church of St. Johannis was built around 1000, the outer wall around 1100 during the Romanesque period . The nave of the hall church, newly built in 1719, has four bays and is covered by a gable roof. The Romanesque west tower has a tent roof. The building was in very poor condition at the beginning of the 18th century. A renovation failed because the Kingdom of Sweden, which ruled the Duchy of Bremen , did not provide any financial aid due to its difficulties during the loss-making Northern War . Only when the Duchy of Bremen fell to Chur-Hanover did change begin in 1718/19 and financial support could be obtained.

Pastor Daniel Gerhard Heisius , pastor in Arbergen from 1705 to 1747, - unlike his predecessors Johannes Heseler and Augustin Holstein, who failed because of leading men in the agricultural village hierarchy - successfully built a new nave instead of an extension. He was supported by the Swedish / Hanoverian Lieutenant General Balthasar von Klinkowström, who resided in nearby Uphusen . At the beginning of 1719 the cost of a new building was estimated. After the consistory in Hanover finally agreed, the old nave was demolished in April 1719 and the new nave was erected from May to November 1719 in a record time of 30 weeks for 2,194 Reichstaler. The new building based on plans by Georg Vick gave the church many stylistic elements from the Baroque and Rococo periods .

In the 18th century, Johann Georg Olbers (1716–1772), the father of the doctor and astronomer Wilhelm Olbers , was pastor at the church from 1747 to 1760.

The Bremen today municipality Hastedt formerly belonged to Sprengel Arbergen; Hemelingen was part of the Arbergen district until 1890.

Bells

After the only possible bell of St. John's Church was confiscated and melted down in 1917, the Otto Hemelingen bell foundry delivered a new bell with a Christ cross, an iron cross and a swastika at the request of the Arberg church council, consisting of "German Christians" . This bell was melted down again in World War II. Today the community has three bells, the oldest of which still dates from the 13th century. Two OTTO bells from 1956, tuned to es 'and as', diameter 1305 mm and 977 mm, as well as the historical bell of unknown origin with the strike sound ″.

graveyard

The small (~ 2 ha) cemetery of the Protestant parish, Arberger Heerstraße 77, is used.

Monument protection

In 1973 the church in Arbergen was listed as a historical monument .

Parish

The Evangelical Church Community of St. Johannis Arbergen maintains a half-day kindergarten, a handicraft and handicraft group, a singing school, two choirs, the pathfinders of the Heinrich von Zütphen tribe, a literature group, a discussion group and the like. a.

literature

  • Friedhelm Blüthner: The farmer and the pastor. An attempt at an agricultural and church history from the Middle Ages to industrialization using the example of the Arberg parish . Bremen 2003.
  • Friedhelm Blüthner: The Arberg parish in the "Third Reich". Attempt of a historical-critical investigation . Bremen 2009.
  • Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
  • Rudolf Stein : Village churches and farmhouses in the Bremer Lande , Bremen 1967.
  • Georg Dehio (Ed.): Bremen / Lower Saxony , Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1977.
  • Wilhelm Berner: Daniel Gerhard Heisius and The New Church Building . In: Bremisches Jahrbuch , vol. 52, p. 113 ff and p. 118 ff, Schünemann Verlag, Bremen 1972.

Web links

Commons : St. Johannis  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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, especially pages 535, 554 .
  2. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, in particular pp. 495, 509 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).
  3. ↑ Monument database of the LfD Bremen

Coordinates: 53 ° 2 ′ 17.8 "  N , 8 ° 55 ′ 2.2"  E