Zionskirche (Bremen)

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Zionskirche seen from Kornstrasse

The Protestant Zionskirche and the community center in Bremen in the Neustadt district , Kornstrasse 31, are under monument protection .

history

First Zion Church

The first Zionskirche was built in 1893/94 as a branch church of the St. Pauli Church in the new town, built in the 17th century . The three-aisled , neo-Gothic church was built according to plans by the architect Weyhe. The central nave of the basilica had a wooden coffered ceiling . The choir and the two aisles were vaulted. Bombing raids destroyed the buildings in 1942 and 1944 .

Zion Church from 1957

In 1948 the Zion congregation separated from the St. Pauli congregation. The new church and the community center were built from 1955 to 1957 according to plans by the church architect Carsten Schröck on the site of the destroyed first Zionskirche. The modern church building is in a prominent urban development position on the corner of Kornstrasse and Kantstrasse. It was one of the first examples of modern post-war architecture in Bremen with a very clear design language.

The community center consists of two structures arranged in an L-plan and the tall and dominant bell tower in front of it on Kornstrasse. The three-story main building, which is set back from Kantstrasse, creates space and consists of a community hall, community office, pastors' consultation room, pastor's, sexton and sister's apartment. The flat-roofed buildings have a ground-floor porch facing the street. The ensemble is complemented at the rear of the inner courtyard by the separate, ground-floor youth hostel with a U-shaped floor plan and flat pitched pent roofs .

The square tower has a visible skeleton construction made of concrete, which was lined with red stones and includes a stylized globe in the upper, open part of the tower. The spire consists of a slender, high cross. In the church tower there are three bronze bells from the renowned Otto bell foundry from Bremen-Hemelingen from 1960. The bells are arranged as follows: d - e - g. The bells have the following diameters: 1392 mm, 1240 mm and 1042 mm. The ringing of the bells can be found on Youtube.

The interior of the rectangular church interior is clear and simple with red stones. The concrete shell roof is also visible from the inside. The altar wall shows undivided brick masonry . The vertical concrete glass windows are in the western side wall. The eastern stained glass windows show the theme of moving into Jerusalem , designed by the artist Erhart Mitzlaff from Fischerhude . The colored light falls on the liturgical places of the altar table, baptismal bowl and pulpit. In 1958 the church received a Führer organ with 21 stops on two manuals and a pedal.

The foyer with an asymmetrical filigree staircase is located in the wing on Kornstrasse. It is the link between the two wing structures and a passage to the protected inner courtyard.

The architecture guide bremen paid tribute to the building: “The complex can be seen as Bremen's first decidedly modern sacred building, which is expressed not only in the language of form but also in a spatial concept in which community work and opening up to society play an important role. "

From 1976 to 2009 Hans-Günter Sanders (* 1946) was pastor of the Zion congregation. Under his aegis, the Zion congregation granted the first church asylum in Bremen, accepted an African congregation and founded the first company kindergarten in a Bremen church. In addition, thanks to Pastor Hans-Günter Sanders' commitment, the Zion congregation campaigned for reconciliation with people who were forced to do forced labor in Bremen during the Nazi regime. A satellite camp of the Neuengamme concentration camp was located in the former Huckelriede barracks. In 2007, Sanders initiated the purchase of a community-owned crypt for the burial of destitute people in the cemetery of the Zionskirche.

In 2009 the monument group Zionskirche was placed under monument protection.

Parish current

The United Ev. Bremen-Neustadt community , Große Krankenstr. 11, since 2009 consists of the merger of the formerly independent parishes of Zion , St. Pauli and Matthias Claudius .

The Zion Church includes the Zion day care center at Gastfeldstrasse 53 and the Zion day care center at Kornstrasse. 31.

The Ady & the Zion Community Choir in Neustadt is a multicultural gospel choir that was founded in 1997 by Ady Ariwodo from the Zion Community Choir of the community. It served as a bridge between the German and an African church service community.

literature

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, here in particular p. 577 .
  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, here in particular p. 511 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (doctoral thesis at Radboud University Nijmegen).
  3. ↑ Ringing the bells on YouTube
  4. ↑ Architecture Guide Bremen: b.zb: 358
  5. ↑ Eiken Bruhn: Church: The political gardener goes . In: the daily newspaper . ( taz.de [accessed on March 13, 2017]).
  6. ↑ Making the crime visible. Retrieved March 13, 2017 .
  7. ^ Concentration camp prisoners and "Eastern workers" in Huckelriede | Searching for traces-Bremen. Retrieved on March 13, 2017 (German).
  8. ↑ Bremen parish buys crypt for burial of destitute people - Unemployed Forum Germany (ELO Forum). Retrieved March 13, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Monument database of the LfD Bremen

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Coordinates: 53 ° 4 ′ 0.2 ″  N , 8 ° 47 ′ 48.8 ″  E