Vegesack town church

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Vegesack town church

The town church Vegesack is the place of worship and community center of the United Evangelical Protestant church to Bremen-Vegesack in Bremen district of Vegesack . The church has been a listed building since 1973.

history

With the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 1803, Vegesack came to Bremen. At the same time, the population wanted their own church, but the French occupation prevented these plans. In 1812, shortly after the liberation, the slowly growing port town had 1,379 inhabitants who were either parish off to Blumenthal (Reformed) or Lesum (Lutheran) and had to walk long distances to their churches. In 1815 Dr. jur. August Christian Wilmanns appointed the first bailiff in Vegesack. He initiated the founding of the United Evangelical-Protestant Church Congregation in Bremen-Vegesack. On the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the Reformation on October 31, 1817, the Vegesack supporters of the Lutheran and Reformed faiths united to form a uniate parish based on the Prussian model . The construction of a separate church for Vegesack was also initiated by Wilmanns. The construction costs were raised entirely by donations from the town (3000 Thaler), the city of Bremen (12,000 Thaler) and from abroad, the foundation stone was laid on June 13, 1819 by Wilmanns and the pastor of St. Ansgarii Johann Heinrich Bernhard Dräseke (Dräsecke) .

Building

The city church Vegesack was built as a classicist , rectangular hall building with a roof turret based on the model of the St. Pauli Church in Bremen Neustadt, built in 1679/82, from 1819 to 1821 according to the plans of the Bremen builders Friedrich Wendt (1780-1832) and Gerhard Tölken (1785–1860) built. With around 500 seats, the church was soon too small for the rapidly growing community, especially since the village of Lesumbrok in Werderland was parish in 1824 .

According to plans by the Bremen architect Jacob Ephraim Polzin and the constructional assistance of the Vegesack master builder Johann Friedrich Kimm (1792–1867), the nave was extended to the west and east by two window axes each in 1832 and now offered space for 800 people. At the same time, a slim five-story tower was added to the west of the church, on which the station of an optical telegraph was located from 1847 to 1851 . The red / yellow vestibule facade is marked by four pilasters with Ionic capitals , above which is the gable with the slogan "One God - One Christ - One Congregation" . A corresponding sacristy was added to the rear .

The hipped roof transversely mounted nave has two by three window openings on both sides, set into high arched niches. According to plans by the Bremen architect Frank Püffel, the attic of the church was converted into the " Oberdeck " community center in 2009 , and since then there have been ten arched dormers in the roof. The staircase extension in the east corresponds to the western tower extension and was increased slightly during the last extension. Püffel Architekten received recognition for the renovation as part of the Bremen Monument Preservation Prize 2010.

Interior view of the city church Vegesack, 2018

Inside

Inside the Vegesack town church are the wide, encircling galleries on three sides . Opposite the entrance is the pulpit altar , deliberately matching the vestibule, also in the form of a temple, adorned with the Apostle's saying: "One is your Master, Christ, but you are all brothers" (Matthew 23: 8). The pulpit made of mahogany and two monumental paintings: " Crucifixion of Christ " painted around 1825 by Henriette Amy geb. Kuerpenning (1798–1852) after Peter Paul Rubens and “ Descent from the Cross ” 1823 painted by Joseph Sutter (1781–1866) after Raffael . Next to the pulpit hangs a model of the Braker full ship Theodore (seaman's work around 1890) as a votive offering . Furthermore, the portraits of the pastors Christoph Hermann Gottfried Hasenkamp (1835 by BD Funke), Heinrich Friedrich Iken (1854 by Addig Jaburg ) and Heinrich Albrecht Zedler (1893 by Oltmann Jaburg ), as well as the unsigned portrait of the bailiff and patron of the parish August Christian Wilmanns . The six glass windows on the north side of the church and two in the room behind the pulpit with the motifs of the four apostles were created in 1903/04 by the glass painter Georg Karl Rohde from Oldenburg. The organ from 1967 comes from the workshop of Alfred Führer , Wilhelmshaven.

Outside

The cemetery surrounding the church was closed in 1876 and converted into a public park in 1906, in which, in addition to a memorial erected in 1925, there are individual classicist tombs, including those of the botanist Dr. med. Albrecht Wilhelm Roth , the bailiff August Christian Wilmanns or the shipbuilder Jürgen Sager . A stone bears the slogan: "You walk over graves in the sunlight - Honor this place and do not desecrate it" . The community's current cemetery is located in the Fähr-Lobbendorf district on Lindenstrasse .

reachability

The city church Vegesack can be reached with the bus lines 87, 90 to 92, 94, 95, 98, 99 and 677 of the Bremer Straßenbahn AG . The closest stops are Gerhard-Rohlfs-Straße, Aumunder Church and Gustav-Heinemann-Bürgerhaus.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Monument database of the LfD
  2. Eyewitness report Gustav Ferdinand Dwerhagen (September 12, 1803 - July 29, 1831)
  3. Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung from 1819, third volume. Edited by CA Schwetschke. Hall 1819, p. 1149.
  4. ^ Website of the Vegesack cemetery

literature

  • Thomas Begerow, Volker Keller, Ingbert Lindemann (eds.): 200 years of the Evangelical Church Community Vegesack 1817-2017 , Bremen ( Donat Verlag ) 2017, ISBN 978-3-943425-73-4 .
  • Thomas Begerow: The Vegesack city church. A signpost through the church and the churchyard , Berlin / Bremen 2010.
  • F. Caron ‐ Bleiker: Vegesack town church is changing its face. In: Die Norddeutsche (regional section of "Bremer Nachrichten") from February 18, 2009.
  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments Bremen / Lower Saxony . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-422-00348-7 , p. 46.
  • Lüder Halenbeck : History of the City of Vegesack , 2nd expanded edition, Vegesack 1893.
  • Diedrich Steilen : Church of Vegesack . Vegesack 1921.
  • Rudolf Stein : Classicism and Romanticism in the Art of Architecture in Bremen , Volume 2, Hauschild Verlag , Bremen 1964, pp. 392–396.

Web links

Commons : Stadtkirche Vegesack  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 53 ° 10 '23.8 "  N , 8 ° 37' 17.4"  E