Christ the King Church (Mannheim)
The Christ-König-Kirche is a Catholic church in the Wallstadt district of Mannheim . It was built between 1911 and 1914 according to plans by Ludwig Maier .
history
The village of Wallstadt was first mentioned in the Lorsch Codex in 766 . As early as 788, a deed of donation mentioned a church consecrated to Saint Sulpicius . In the Worms Synodal of 1496, a visitation protocol of the parishes of the diocese of Worms , the church now under the patronage of Peter was described. After the introduction of the Reformation in 1556, Wallstadt, like the entire Electoral Palatinate, was subject to multiple religious changes and the church and the village were destroyed in the Thirty Years' War . Only the tower and the surrounding walls were preserved, but continued to deteriorate in the period that followed. Unlike in the surrounding towns, the majority of the new settlers in Wallstatt were Catholic, so that by 1671 they made up the majority. The church ruins, however, fell to the Reformed when the Palatinate church was divided in 1705 , so that the Catholics built a small chapel in Wallstadt. They were looked after by the Feudenheim pastor of St. Peter and Paul Church .
Under Elector Carl Theodor , they were given permission to collect a new building. Dedicated to Saint Oswald consecrated church was perhaps in 1767 consecrated . As early as 1800 and again in 1848 there were plans to expand the church, but they were not implemented. At the turn of the century, the number of Catholics increased so much that a parish curate was set up in 1904 and the construction of a new church began in 1911. The Sacred Heart Church was consecrated on May 16, 1914 by the Archbishop of Freiburg , Thomas Nörber . During the Second World War , the church was badly damaged and then rebuilt in a different form under the direction of Alfred Schmitt until 1950. In the following year, Archbishop Wendelin Rauch changed the patronage to Christkönig in order to resolve the name collision with the Herz-Jesu-Kirche in Neckarstadt that had arisen from the incorporation of Wallstadt into Mannheim . In 1955 an independent parish was set up in Wallstadt . In 2005 the Christ-König-Congregation, the Feudenheimer St.-Peter-und-Paul-Congregation and the Ilvesheimer St.-Peter-Congregation merged to form the pastoral care unit Mannheim-Ost. Since January 1st, 2015, Christ-König and the parishes of the past pastoral care unit Käfertal-Vogelstang (St. Laurentius, St. Hildgard and Twelve Apostles) belong to the new pastoral care unit "Maria Magdalena".
description
The Christ-König-Kirche is located in the center of Wallstadt, set back from the street. As a late work by the architect Ludwig Maier , it was originally built in Art Nouveau style, which the tower still bears witness to today. However, the entrance facade with the vestibule was not restored to its original condition after the Second World War. With the round arches and the large tracery window , it now has neo-Romanesque echoes. The single-nave hall church is 31 meters long, 15 meters wide and 10 meters high. Pastor Udo Körner painted the Christ the King painting. The Steinmeyer organ with 2,032 pipes dates from 1952. It has 30 stops on two manuals and a pedal .
The bell tower is on the flank of the recessed choir . The ringing consists of four bronze bells, which were cast by the Bachert bell foundry in 2003 and have the tone sequence d'-e'-f sharp'-a '. It replaced the four iron bells from 1922. The second largest bell from the old peal with the inscription “I call the living to worship” is today on the lawn in front of the Christ the King Church, the third largest became in 2006 near the old one Mother Church, the St. Peter and Paul Church in Feudenheim.
literature
- Andreas Schenk: Architectural Guide Mannheim . Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-496-01201-3 .
- Hans Huth: The art monuments of the Mannheim II district . Munich 1982, ISBN 3-422-00556-0 .
- Hans Weckesser: Wallstadt . In: Mannheim before the city was founded, Part II Volume 2: The Mannheim suburbs and districts . Regensburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-7917-2022-7 .
- Wilhelm August Schulze: Wallstadt church history: Evangelical Petrusgemeinde and Evangelical Petruskirche Mannheim-Wallstadt 1556–1981 . Mannheim 1981.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Minst, Karl Josef [transl.]: Lorscher Codex (Volume 2), Certificate 482, March 8, 766 - Reg. 18. In: Heidelberg historical stocks - digital. Heidelberg University Library, p. 164 , accessed on February 27, 2016 .
- ↑ Minst, Karl Josef [trans.]: Lorscher Codex (Volume 2), Certificate 505, July 11, 788 - Reg. 2054. In: Heidelberger historical stocks - digital. Heidelberg University Library, p. 174 , accessed on February 28, 2016 .
- ↑ Worms Synodale . P. 197.
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Coordinates: 49 ° 29 '49.7 " N , 8 ° 32' 54.9" E