Resurrection Church (Mainz)
The Resurrection Church is a church building of architectural and urban significance in the Hartenberg-Münchfeld district of the Rhineland-Palatinate state capital Mainz . The building is a listed building as an individual monument .
location
The church with its community center, rectory and kindergarten is enclosed on three sides by the state broadcasting center of the SWR ; in the immediate vicinity is the old Judensand . The address is Am Fort Gonsenheim 151 , the buildings also border Wallstrasse .
history
From the mid-1950s and in the 1960s and 1970s, massive construction and living space were created on the Hartenberg and Münchfeld in order to remedy the precarious housing shortage of the post-war period in downtown Mainz.
In World War II, all three Protestant churches were destroyed in Mainz. The need to establish another Protestant church to meet the spiritual needs of Protestant Christians was perceived in the mid-1950s. After an architectural competition was announced, the design by Hans-Joachim Lenz was selected. The implementation took place in 1961 with the laying of the foundation stone and on November 11, 1962 the Church of the Resurrection was consecrated by the Church President Martin Niemöller . In a survey, 70% of the congregation members expressed their support for the resurrection of Jesus Christ as one of the central beliefs for naming the church and congregation.
Construction and equipment
The church is located on a slope sloping to the east and protrudes from the area. The cubature of the building is that of a cuboid made of fair-faced concrete on all sides , not concealed anywhere, unmistakably shaped by the architectural style of the 1960s. The other buildings in the area are also all flat-roofed concrete cubes. There is a free-standing campanile next to the church building . The external decoration of the church building is a continuous concrete frieze on the overhanging flat roof, designed in 1961 by Heinz Hemrich , who tells biblical stories in forty pictures. There is an outside staircase in front of the glass entrance .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Portrait of the Protestant Resurrection Community Mainz ( Memento from December 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Concrete frieze of the Resurrection Church
Coordinates: 50 ° 0 ′ 16.3 " N , 8 ° 14 ′ 51.2" E