St. Nikolaus (Bremerhaven)

St. Nicholas Church

The Church of St. Nikolaus was the Catholic church in Wulsdorf , a district in the south of Bremerhaven in the state of Bremen . Most recently the church belonged to the parish of the Holy Heart of Jesus in the Bremerhaven district of Geestemünde , in the Bremerhaven deanery of the Hildesheim diocese . The church was named after St. Nicholas of Myra and was located at Lützowstraße 22 (corner of Krummenacker).

history

The church was built in 1959 and its consecration took place on December 6th of the same year (St. Nicholas' Day) . On January 1, 1963, the parish in Wulsdorf was established. In 1966 St. Nikolaus received the St. John the Baptist Church in Loxstedt, a branch church that became an independent parish in 1981. On September 16, 1979, the Wulsdorf parish was raised to a parish. Since November 1st, 2006 the church has belonged to the parish Hl. Herz Jesu in Geestemünde.

On February 27, 2010 , the church was profaned by Bishop Norbert Trelle , the church building was demolished in June 2010. Efforts to use the church building for another use were unsuccessful. The St. Nicholas Chapel was set up in the former parish house adjacent to the church; today it belongs to the parish of the Holy Heart of Jesus in Geestemünde.

Architecture and equipment

The church was the first church building by the architect Josef Filke (Bremerhaven), it was designed as a solid structure with a free-standing tower. The relief on the back wall of the altar "Christ stills the storm" and the altar cross are works by the Bremen sculptor Kurt Lettow.

See also

• List of profane churches in the Diocese of Hildesheim

literature

• Willi Stoffers: Diocese of Hildesheim today. Hildesheim 1987, ISBN 3-87065-418-X , p. 81

Web links

• Church closure on the website of the Diocese of Hildesheim  ( page no longer available )
• St. Nicholas Chapel on the website of the parish Hl. Herz Jesu  ( page no longer available )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.bild.de/regional/bremen/bremen-regional/ist-tieftraurig-heute-wird-meine-kirche-abgerissen-12813204.bild.html
2. ↑ Discussion of the exhibition catalog "Architecture of Tomorrow". Hamburg's post-war churches ( Memento from October 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ http://kurtlettowbildhauer.com/werkliste.html

Coordinates: 53 ° 30 ′ 33 "  N , 8 ° 36 ′ 16.6"  E