Christ Church (Ludwigshafen)
The Christ Church is a Protestant church in the Ludwigshafen district of Mundenheim . It was built between 1901 and 1903 according to plans by Franz Schöberl .
history
Mundenheim was first mentioned in a document in 770. Except for a short period between the middle of the 16th century and the Thirty Years' War , when the Lords of Hirschhorn introduced the Reformation , the St. Sebastian Church remained Catholic. In the last third of the 19th century, several factories were established due to Mundenheim's convenient location. With the influx of workers, the number of Protestants also grew, from 189 to 870 between 1880 and 1895 alone. The Protestant Church in Rheingönheim was responsible for the care , where a vicariate for Mundenheim was set up in 1899 .
In 1901 the construction of the Christ Church began. Two years later it was inaugurated on July 5, 1903. In the same year Mundenheim was raised to an independent parish. During the Second World War , the church was badly damaged in 1941 by a shock wave from a dropped bomb. After an air raid in 1943, it burned out almost completely after a makeshift repair. From 1952 the simplified reconstruction began under the direction of the architect Karl Otterstätter. The Christ Church was completed after two years. The interior was renovated in 1968 and the tower in 1971.
description
The Christ Church is in the southeast of Mundenheim. The architect Franz Schöberl built a historicist hall church with neo-Romanesque and neo-Gothic echoes. The once 50 meter high neo-Gothic church tower was simplified after the war and rebuilt eleven meters lower. The pointed hoods of the flanking stairwells were also lost. The sandstone block building is covered with a hipped roof.
In the interior there is a figure of Christ, which used to be above the main portal and survived the destruction of the church in 1943. The organ was built by Steinmeyer in 1962 . The instrument has 27 registers on two manuals and a pedal. The ringing consists of four bronze bells from the Bachert bell foundry . Before they were hung up in 1956, they rang the bell at the Evangelical Church Congress in Frankfurt.
| Surname | Ø (mm) | kg | volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunday and death bells | 1,460 | 1,770 | of the 1st |
| Prayer bell | 1,195 | 927 | f 1 |
| Wedding bell | 990 | 625 | as 1 |
| Baptismal bell | 905 | 483 | b1 |
literature
- Lutz Ritter: 100 years of the Christ Church in Mundenheim . Ludwigshafen-Mundenheim 2004.
- 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 .
Web links
- Protestant parish of Mundenheim
- General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - district-free city of Ludwigshafen am Rhein. Mainz 2020, p. 19 (PDF; 4.9 MB).
Coordinates: 49 ° 27 ′ 29.9 " N , 8 ° 25 ′ 44.3" E