Resurrection Church (Ludwigshafen)

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Church of the Resurrection

The Resurrection Church is a Protestant church in the Ludwigshafen district of Oppau . It is already the seventh church at this point.

history

The first church in Oppau to be consecrated to St. Martin was first mentioned in a document in the Lorsch Codex in 808 . In 1556, the Palatine Elector Ottheinrich led the Lutheran confession. His successor Friedrich III. switched to Calvinism , after which the Oppau Church was almost entirely reformed and was finally assigned to the Reformed when the Palatinate church was divided in 1705.

The first church was destroyed by floods in 1243. Except for the foundation, it was made entirely of wood. The new church was built of stone, but it was also destroyed by floods in 1707. The successor building was built wider with the same length. It was also damaged several times by the water of the Rhine , so that the dilapidated church had to be demolished in 1827. The successor building had an L-shaped floor plan with the tower at an angle. In 1842 the church received an extension and the tower was given a new design. This church was destroyed in 1921 by the explosion of the Oppau nitrogen works .

The new building was inaugurated on June 24, 1923. The church was now much larger and already had the current floor plan. The plans for the building came from government master builder Schrade from Mannheim, the construction management was carried out by the architect Kullmann from Ludwigshafen. During the Second World War , this church was also destroyed after an air raid in 1943. The church was rebuilt in 1951/52 by Walter Blessing on the foundation walls, but in a different form . On the occasion of the inauguration on December 14, 1952, it was named Church of the Resurrection. In 2000 the church received an exterior renovation and an interior renovation in 2006.

description

The Resurrection Church is in the center of Oppau. It is a classical hall building . The half-retracted, 42-meter-high tower is arranged above the chancel. The nave is covered with a gable roof. There are five arched windows on each side. The three eastern yokes protrude and are structured with pilasters .

Inside there is a three-sided wooden gallery. Willy Oeser designed the window in the chancel . It shows Jesus with his wounds. The organ was built by Steinmeyer until 1957 . The instrument has 2,016 pipes and 24 registers on two manuals and a pedal. A bell from 1767 survived all the destruction and wars. It was the oldest bell in Ludwigshafen and was again repaired by BASF in 1947 . After being cracked, it was unusable and was converted into a baptismal font in 1978 . Today the ringing consists of four bells that were cast by the Bochum Association in 1954 :

Surname Ø (mm) kg volume
Death knell 1,510 1,665 d 1
Evening bed bell 1,260 1,000 f 1
Midday bed bell 1,180 970 g 1
Baptismal bell 1,050 710 a 1

literature

  • Protestant church community Lu-Oppau (ed.): 50 years of the Resurrection Church 1952–2002: 1200 years of the church in Oppau . Speyer 2002.
  • Friedhelm Borggrefe : On the way to the port of hope: 150 years of the Protestant Church in Ludwigshafen am Rhein . Ludwigshafen am Rhein 2003, ISBN 3-924667-31-4 .
  • Friedrich Schmitt: Ludwigshafen church building . Ludwigshafen / Rhine 1985.
  • Hans Caspary (edit.), Georg Dehio (start.): Handbook of German art monuments : Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland . Munich 1984, ISBN 3-422-00382-7 .
  • City archive of the city of Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Stefan Mörz , Klaus Jürgen Becker (eds.): History of the city of Ludwigshafen am Rhein: Vol. 1. From the beginnings to the end of the First World War . Ludwigshafen am Rhein 2003, ISBN 3-924667-35-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Minst, Karl Josef [trans.]: Lorscher Codex (Volume 2), Certificate 597, June 10, 808 - Reg. 2984. In: Heidelberger historical stocks - digital. Heidelberg University Library, p. 216 , accessed on March 13, 2016 .

Web links

Commons : Church of the Resurrection (Ludwigshafen-Oppau)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 49 ° 31 ′ 16.3 "  N , 8 ° 24 ′ 15.4"  E