Chapel (Heidelberg-Südstadt)

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View from the west of the church portal
View from northwest to southeast

The chapel in the southern part of Heidelberg is a listed former church building. It stands on the corner of Römerstrasse and Rheinstrasse in the area of ​​a former housing estate of the US Army , which is known as Mark-Twain-Village . It was built in 1951 according to plans by the Mannheim architect Emil Serini as a non-denominational church for members of the American armed forces.

The area of ​​Mark-Twain-Village was gradually returned to the Federal Agency for Real Estate Tasks (BIMA) as part of the withdrawal of the American army, which had meanwhile been completed, from the end of the 2000s . At the end of 2015, the company sold large parts of it to the city of Heidelberg as well as to an alliance of several cooperative banks and housing construction companies and the municipal housing association. As the new owner of the chapel, the city intends to set up a civic center for the Südstadt district. It will be in the area of ​​a new district center to be developed, and it will be operated by a sponsoring association . The district advisory board approved the plans at the beginning of June 2016.

The chapel is a symbol of the Cold War , but also of the denominational culture of American soldiers and their relatives in Heidelberg. Inside there is the church with a gallery , a smaller hall in the basement and several ancillary rooms. Noteworthy are the wooden trusses dividing the church hall and the windows, in which, in addition to religious representations, the coats of arms of military departments can be seen.

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  1. ↑ Being there for helpers - introduction of the evangelical pastors in the PHV. ( Memento of the original from July 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Press release of the Evangelical Church of Heidelberg from December 15, 2015, accessed on June 26, 2016  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ekihd.de
  2. ↑ Planning Campbell Barracks & Mark Twain Village. Information on the website of the City of Heidelberg, accessed on June 26, 2016
  3. ↑ a b Steffen Blatt: The community center should be in the "new center" of Heidelberg's southern part. Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung , June 7, 2016, accessed on June 26, 2016

Coordinates: 49 ° 23 ′ 21.7 ″  N , 8 ° 41 ′ 12 ″  E