St. Ursula (Bremen)

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The church of St. Ursula in Bremen - Schwachhausen , district Riensberg, Schwachhauser Heerstraße 166 / corner of Emmastraße is the largest Roman Catholic church in the city and is one of the most important buildings in Bremen .

history

St. Ursula
St. Ursula, entrance

The church was built in 1968 according to plans by Karl-Heinz Bruns from Bremen. Today it belongs to the parish of St. Katharina von Siena in Bremen with the church of St. Georg and the hospital chapel of St. Joseph-Stift .

The building with 500 seats is laid out in the shape of a Greek cross with two intersecting gable roofs . The octagonal church interior also includes the triangular gussets in the cross. The octagon is emphasized at the entrance gable, as here the structure protrudes four meters. Inside there is a tent-like spatial impression through the wood-paneled sub-layers of the hipped roof surfaces and the gable roofs. The altar area is roughly in the middle of the central room. The closed altar gable and three glazed gables create a spatial tension. The predominantly blue colored glazing between the vertical concrete slats was made by Günther Radloff. Later, an octagonal ridge turret was added at the intersection of the ridge lines with a conical roof ; it is also used for roof ventilation.

The architecture guide bremen writes: "Inside the ceiling area, hipped roof surfaces alternate with the soffits of the gable roofs - both wood paneled - for an attractive tent-like spatial impression".

The church is consecrated to Saint Ursula of Cologne .

organ

The organ was built in 1981 by the Alfred Führer workshop in Wilhelmshaven. It has 28 stops on two manuals and a pedal . The abrasive loading of the organ are with mechanical game contracture equipped, the register control is effected electrically. The following disposition was created at the time of construction:

Hauptwerk C – g 3
Drone 16 ′
Principal 8th'
Dumped 8th'
octave 4 ′
Gemshorn 4 ′
octave 2 ′
Hollow flute 2 ′
Sesquialtera II
Mixture IV-V 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Trumpet 8th'
Swell C – g 3
Reed flute 8th'
Gamba 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Flute 4 ′
Nasard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Forest flute 2 ′
third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
Sif flute 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Scharff IV – V 1'
Dulcian 16 ′
oboe 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
Sub-bass 16 ′
octave 8th'
Playing flute 8th'
octave 4 ′
Rauschpfeife IV 2 ′
trombone 16 ′
Trumpet 8th'

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ architecture guide bremen: Catholic St. Ursula Church and community rooms
  2. ↑ Disposal sheet of the Alfred Führer Orgelbau workshop, Wilhelmshaven, 1981
  3. ↑ The notation of the registers follows the representation on the disposition sheet.

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Coordinates: 53 ° 5 '12 "  N , 8 ° 51' 8.2"  E