Emmaus Church (Mannheim)
The Emmauskirche is a Protestant church in the Mannheim district of Schönau . It was built between 1952 and 1953 according to the plans of Max Schmechel .
history
The Schönau settlement was laid out according to plan in the 1930s after an unauthorized settlement with emergency housing had emerged in this area after the First World War . Ecclesiastically, the Protestant residents belonged to the Sandhöfer community , which set up a parish vicariate in Schönau with the construction of a community hall in 1938. After the Second World War , it was raised to an independent parish on April 1, 1951. The following year the foundation stone for the church was laid on June 8th. The plans came from the Mannheim architect Max Schmechel , who was also responsible for the neighboring parish hall. On September 6, 1953, the church was consecrated by regional bishop Julius Bender and named after the biblical place Emmaus .
Since the number of parish members grew to over 10,000, a second parish was set up on October 1, 1959 at the Emmauskirche, which was responsible for Schönau-Nord and Blumenau to the north . At the end of the 1960s, the Stephanuskirche was built for them in the north of Schönau . In the course of time, a contrary trend set in and the Protestant Church lost members, so that in 2007 the Emmaus Parish and the Stephanus Parish were merged to form the Evangelical Parish Mannheim-Schönau. Initially, the services took place alternately in the two churches, until the Stephanuskirche was decommissioned in 2011. The cross, the altar Bible, the baptismal font and the sacrament implements were brought to the Emmaus Church.
description
The Emmauskirche is in the southern center of Schönau. The single-aisled hall church with a gabled roof with a high roof skylights covered. It is 25 meters long, 12 meters wide and 31 meters high. Erected as one of the first new Protestant church buildings in Mannheim after the Second World War, it is still in the traditional architectural style. Four other buildings, including the rectory and parish hall, are seamlessly connected in the same style and form a homogeneous complex. The organ was built in 1961 by the Mann brothers from Marktbreit . It has 13 stops on two manuals and a pedal and 874 pipes . The three bells of the Emmaus Church were cast by the Bachert bell foundry .
| inscription | kg | year |
|---|---|---|
| 172 | 1953 | |
| Glory to god | 103 | 1957 |
| The people to peace | 85 | 1957 |
literature
- Alfred Heierling: Mannheim-Schönau: From a peripheral settlement to a district . Mannheim 1999.
- Andreas Schenk: Architectural Guide Mannheim . Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-496-01201-3 .
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Coordinates: 49 ° 32 ′ 33.6 " N , 8 ° 28 ′ 30.9" E