St. Remberti (Bremen)
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St. Remberti (named after Archbishop Rembert ) is a Protestant parish in the Bremen district of Schwachhausen .
Rembertikirchen until the Second World War
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The first, small Remberti Chapel at the hospital of the same name was built in the Pagentorn field at the beginning of the 14th century . In 1524 Johann Bornemacher preached there until he was burned at the stake on January 3, 1526 in Verden , which was then Catholic . He was supposed to deliver many writings to the St. Remberti congregation that were written by Luther himself, which he failed to do. In 1547 the hospital and chapel, like the entire suburb, were demolished during the Schmalkaldic War because the city defenders wanted to create a clear field of fire in front of the city fortifications.
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The second Remberti church was built in 1596 at the hospital of the St. Remberti monastery in the eastern suburb . The bird's eye view from around 1640 shows a nave with a turret on the gable roof and slightly decorated gables.
The third Remberti Church, a simple hall church from 1736/1737, replaced the previous building. It resembled the earlier St. Pauli Church from 1682 in the Neustadt and had a hipped roof on which a roof turret stood. The building was dilapidated in the 19th century and had to be replaced.
Around 1834 the St. Remberti, pastor's house and around 1860 the St. Remberti, sister and parish house (Rembertiring 40 and 46) were built. Both houses have been preserved and are under Bremen monument protection .
The parish had Reformed pastors until 1826 and then also a Lutheran preacher, since after the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 1803, both church directions were increasingly merged equally through the work of Mayor Johann Smidt . Pastor Wilhelm Nagel from the Rembertigemeinde wrote an anonymous article in the Weser newspaper in 1844 on the occasion of a national natural scientist conference in Bremen . In it he denied the biblical view of the creation of the first man and of heaven and hell and called on the church to accept the facts of the sciences. When it became known who the author was, the ecclesiastical ministry expelled Nagel. Mayor Smidt and the Senate refused to approve the expulsion from the church. Nagel remained a pastor, but in 1845 he and other pastors had to declare under pressure that they would refrain from making such statements in the future.
The fourth Remberti Church was built in 1871 according to plans by Heinrich Müller as a neo-Gothic , three-aisled brook stone building, with two galleries in the side aisles, everything covered with wooden ceilings. The quadrangular choir extension behind the altar was flanked to the left and right by the sacristy and a staircase, above the choir gallery and the organ. The pulpit stood on the east wall. Eight fial towers flanked the hall church. The interior was designed in the Gothic style. The church had 1000 seats. She received a 67-meter square west tower of brick with an octagonal tower and a pointed spire .
The church was badly damaged in a bombing raid on June 4, 1942 during World War II and burned down. The ruin was blown up.
At the location of the fourth church on Rembertikreisel in close proximity to the city today still remember the Remberti pen from which the community was once emerged that Rembertistraße which Rembertikirchweg which Remberti tunnel (railway underpass), the Remberti School ( Fedelhören - today Goethe Institute ) and the Rembertikreisel .
The fifth Remberti Church
The fifth Rembertikirche was built as a new building in Bremen-Schwachhausen, especially since it could be assumed that fewer people would live in the destroyed city center in the future. In addition, it was evident that in connection with the town planning for the parts of the eastern suburb, a redesign of the station suburb was also planned. In 1950/1951, the new church and parish hall were built in the Riensberg district on Friedhofstrasse. A former farmhouse had to give way in 1956. The renowned architect Eberhard Gildemeister (1897–1978) provided the designs . The private house (Bultmann) on the same property was converted into a rectory . It has been used as a kindergarten since the renovation in 1987/1988, which was enlarged in 2009 with a contemporary new building.
The entire complex with the individual monuments church and parish hall has been a listed building since 1995.
Interior decoration
Inside the church is next to the altar a crucifix of the artist Ernst Barlach (1870-1938). The work was originally commissioned in 1917 for a military cemetery in the east - for the fallen of the First World War. In St. Remberti there is a second casting of this work, the first of which can be seen in the Marburg Elisabeth Church.
organ
The church has had its third organ since 1994 , which was built by the organ building company Fischer & Krämer ( Endingen / Kaiserstuhl, Baden). This instrument is a slide organ with mechanical play and electrical stop action; the 33 sounding registers are divided into main work , positive , swell and pedal . The tuning is equal at a 1 = 440 Hz. The basic concept of the organ in St. Remberti has been developed from the Baden-Alsatian type of the baroque organ.
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- Coupling: II / I, III / I, III / II, I / P II / P III / P
- Playing aids : 128-foldtypesetting system , memocard facility
Parish hall
In 2007, extensive renovation and conversion work was carried out in the parish hall, as an entire wing of the building was to be used for youth work. In addition to the room for confirmation classes, the room below (former choir room) and the youth cellar in the basement were renovated and some of the floor plan was changed.
All three floors now have bright rooms. They are connected by a spiral staircase that extends from the basement to the newly built panoramic window on the upper floor.
Church life
In the area of church music, the St. Remberti parish has been cooperating with the Andreas parish in Horn-Lehe since 2006 . A choir with around 100 members belongs to the common choir , as well as a community choir and various youth music groups in St. Remberti. What is special about the St. Remberti community in Bremen is that it is an undogmatic community. The current pastors are Dirk von Jutrczenka (since 2008), Isabel Klaus (since 2011) and Uli Bandt (since 2013).
On the Baltic Sea in Hohenfelde ( Plön district ), the community has maintained a camp since 1957, which is used for confirmation and family camps.
literature
- Walther Schomburg: St. Remberti. The story of a municipality in Bremen. Bremen 1962.
Personalities
Chronological order
- Johann Bornemacher († 1526), 1525/1526 first Lutheran preacher of St. Remberti.
- Lebrecht Grabau (1780–1852), organist in St. Remberti
- Wilhelm Nagel (theologian) (1805–1864), pastor of the Rembertigemeinde since 1842.
- Carl Hermann Manchot (1839–1909), pastor of the Rembertigemeinde from 1866 to 1883. He and pastor Heinrich Frickhöffer from the cathedral led a liberal Protestant association , held lectures on a more liberal theology and published articles in the North German Protestant Journal .
- Friedrich Steudel (1866–1939), 1897 to 1933 pastor of the Rembertigemeinde. He represented a scientific and philosophical interpretation of the Bible and wrote the Bremer Wanderbuch .
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Fig. 224 in: Bremen and its buildings. Edited by the Architects and Engineers Association. Bremen 1900.
- ^ Wilhelm Nagel: Some about the influence of the natural sciences on religion and popular education in general
- ↑ Declaration of the Senate of July 1845: “... that, since so-called religious courts in the Bremen Free State do not exist properly, no authorities are allowed to raise themselves about it. Pastor Nagel cannot and should not be expelled from the Ministerio, and the Ministerio will not hold a meeting without inviting him. "
- ^ Herbert Black Forest : History of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen . Volume II, pp. 169f; Edition Temmen , Bremen 1995, ISBN 3-86108-283-7 .
- ^ W. Sunkel: The churches of the modern times. In: Bremen and its buildings. Edited by the Architects and Engineers Association, Bremen 1900, p. 244ff.
- ^ Ruprecht Grossmann, Heike Grossmann: The St. Remberti pen. Bremen's oldest social settlement through the ages . Verlag Simmermann, Bremen 1998, p. 123, p. 150–155.
- ↑ overall system , Church and community center in the monument database of the LfD.
- ↑ To the disposition
- ^ The Fischer + Krämer organ in the St. Remberti Church in Bremen. A documentation. Published by the St. Remberti community, compiled by Meinhard Schulenberg, Bremen 1994.
- ↑ Compare the information from the German National Library
- ^ Wellmann: Ochernal, Karl Friedrich. In: Bremische Biographie of the nineteenth century . P. 358; Digitized
- ^ Herbert Black Forest: History of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen. Volume II, Edition Temmen, Bremen 1995, ISBN 3-86108-283-7 , p. 424f.