Community center Neuhermsheim

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Community center Neuhermsheim
View from the northeast with a cut to the courtyard
The oval-shaped courtyard

The Neuhermsheim Community Center is a Protestant religious building in the Neuhermsheim district of Mannheim . It was built between 2006 and 2007.

history

Neuhermsheim stands in the tradition of the lost village of Hermsheim, which was first mentioned in a document in 771 in the Lorsch Codex and given up in the 13th century. There was also a church in the old Hermsheim. The modern development of today's district began in 1930. In the 1920s and 1930s, several settlements emerged in Mannheim, including Neuhermsheim, which were laid out apart from the existing housing developments. The necessary infrastructure was initially inadequate, so the Church of St. Thomas in Neuostheim was also responsible for church supplies for the Evangelicals in Neuhermsheim, which already had 1,000 inhabitants after the Second World War .

At the end of 1952 a small wooden church was erected in Neuhermsheim on Husarenweg. It was originally procured from Switzerland as a field or army church, but was never used. After the war it was bought by the Ecumenical Council in Geneva, donated to the Konkordiengemeinde in Mannheim city center and built in square R 2. After the Konkordienkirche was restored, the wooden church finally came to Neuhermsheim.

The population remained almost constant over the next few decades; in 1985, for example, there were 1,068 inhabitants, so that the evangelical community saw no need to abandon the temporary structure. At the beginning of the 1990s, however, the Mannheim municipal council decided to expand Neuhermsheim to the east with a large new building area. And so the Evangelical Church decided in 2003 for the first time since 1982 to build a new church in Mannheim. It launched an architectural competition whose jury was chaired by Helmut Striffler . Construction began in 2006 and the following year, on October 6, 2007, the community center was inaugurated by Bishop Ulrich Fischer .

description

West side with bell bearer and row of trees

The community center is in the center of Neuhermsheim at the transition from the new building area to the old residential area. The single-storey building by the Darmstadt architecture firm netzwerkarchitekten is based on a rectangular floor plan with a horseshoe-shaped, green courtyard. Two rows of trees adorn the north and west sides, the other two sides are open. The exterior is characterized by distinctive precast concrete parts , the ornamental form structures, while the yard side generously glazed is. The foyer and community hall, group rooms and youth center are united under the green flat roof .

Inside, a translucent curtain blurs the outside world. The sculptor Ariel Auslender designed the glass altar , the pulpit , the font and the wooden cross . The bell is the former town hall bell of Lottstetten . It was cast in 1521 and was already in the roof turret of the wooden emergency church.

The BDA Baden-Württemberg awarded the Hugo Häring Prize in 2009 , which was the first time in 21 years that a building in Mannheim and for the first time ever a church building in the Evangelical Church in Baden were awarded the prize.

literature

  • Konstantin Groß : Neuhermsheim . In: Mannheim before the city was founded, Part II Volume 2: The Mannheim suburbs and districts . Regensburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-7917-2022-7 .
  • City Archive Mannheim - Institute for City History, Mannheimer Architektur- und Bauarchiv eV (Ed.), Andreas Schenk: Mannheim and its buildings 1907–2007: supplementary and register volume . Mannheim 2008, ISBN 978-3-923003-97-6 .
  • Hans Huth: The art monuments of the Mannheim II district . Munich 1982, ISBN 3-422-00556-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Minst, Karl Josef [transl.]: Lorscher Codex (Volume 2), Certificate 600, May 1, 771 - Reg. 608. In: Heidelberg historical stocks - digital. Heidelberg University Library, p. 218 , accessed on February 28, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Mittelrheinisches Urkundenbuch, Vol. 1, No. 58 ( Memento of the original from February 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rlb.de
  3. ^ Mannheimer Morgen, October 8, 2007
  4. ^ Evangelical Church in Mannheim , awards and prizes.

Web links

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Coordinates: 49 ° 27 ′ 56.8 "  N , 8 ° 30 ′ 29.6"  E