Christian Schrade

Mannheim Christ Church

Christian Schrade (born May 29, 1876 in Mehrstetten ; † April 10, 1964 in Mannheim ) was a German architect .

He was born the son of a Wagner in Mehrstetten, Württemberg. From 1896 to 1900 he studied at the Technical University of Stuttgart and the Technical University of Munich . Gustav Halmhuber , the architect of the Mannheim water tower, was one of his teachers in Stuttgart . He received a two-year travel grant from the Württemberg government, with which he studied Renaissance architecture in Italy. Schrade was then employed in an architectural office in Essen, for which he worked, among other things, on the construction of the Speyer Memorial Church.

When the Protestant community of Mannheim announced the construction of a “central representative church” in the new Oststadt district , Schrade worked on the plans for the winning design as an employee of the Stuttgart architect Theophil Frey . Since Frey died shortly afterwards, the contract to build the Christ Church was given to Schrade, whereupon he moved to Mannheim in 1905. This early work was also to become the main work of his architectural life.

Later works in Mannheim were the CUG block of flats in the garrison Street (1929), the Church of the Resurrection (1936) and the St. Thomas Church (1950), but also in other places, he built churches so in Steinsfurt and Brötzingen . After the destruction of World War II, he led the reconstruction of the Friedenskirche . Schrade could not assert himself with the Trinity Church , his baroque design no longer corresponded to the taste of the time. One of his last works in Mannheim in 1959 was the restoration of the superstructures of the arcade houses on Friedrichsplatz .

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  Church of the Resurrection

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  Steinsfurt Church

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  Thomas Church

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  Arcade houses

literature

• Andreas Schenk: Christian Schrade. On the life and work of the architect of the Christ Church. In: Congregational Letter Christ Church , April / May 2009 edition.
• Rudolf Günther, Kurt F. Müller: 75 Years of the Christ Church Mannheim 1911–1986. Mannheim 1986, ISBN 3-923003-34-X .

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