St. Godehard
St. Godehard is a Roman Catholic church in Bremen’s Hemelingen district, built in Neo-Romanesque style. Friedrich Wellermann and Paul Frölich designed the building between 1899 and 1900. The church and its parish house have stood under heritage protection since 2000.
Catholic worship in Hemelingen began in 1863, first inside a tobacco shed and later in a chapel on Godehardstraße. The foundation stone followed on 13 August 1899, and consecration took place on 4 August 1907. An air raid damaged the church on New Year’s Day 1941, while restoration brought worship back on 29 April 1945. In 1973, the church received its dedication to Saint Godehard of Hildesheim.
Sandstone shapes the altar, while bronze work by Claus Kilian includes rock-crystal decoration on the tabernacle and ambo. Wolfgang Böttner’s 1967 organ has mechanical action, fifteen stops, two manuals, and a pedal. Three bells now form the chime, recast by the Otto foundry in 1952 after earlier bells were melted down during the world wars.
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