Good Shepherd Church (Mannheim)
Good Shepherd is a Catholic church in the Schönau district of Mannheim . It was built between 1952 and 1953 according to plans by Hans Rolli .
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 . The Catholics initially belonged to the Waldhöfer St. Franziskus community . From 1938 the newly built Protestant community center in Schönau could be used for church services, which involved a change to the Sandhöfer St. Bartholomew Parish .
After the Second World War , a wooden barrack with a turret was inaugurated as an emergency church, which was given the Good Shepherd as patron . On September 24, 1949, Archbishop Wendelin Rauch raised Schönau, together with the neighboring settlement of Blumenau to the north, to become a parish curate. Since the area on which the emergency church stood was owned by the municipal housing association GBG and - to remedy the housing shortage after the Second World War - was intended for residential buildings, the city of Mannheim issued an eviction notice in 1951. In the following year the groundbreaking ceremony for the new Church of the Good Shepherds took place and it was consecrated by missionary bishop Augustin Olbert on November 22, 1953 . The architect Hans Rolli was responsible for the plans . The church tower was built in 1959 and on December 17, 1962 Archbishop Hermann Schäufele elevated the curate to a parish. In 2003 the parishes of Guter Hirte, St. Michael (Blumenau) and St. Bartholomäus (Sandhofen) were merged to form the pastoral care unit Sandhofen-Schönau.
description
The Good Shepherd Church is in the center of Schönau. As the first new Catholic church in Mannheim after the Second World War, its architecture bridges the gap between traditional construction and modern, purist approaches. The hall church has a flat gable roof and a low aisle on the south side. It is 16.30 meters wide, 42.50 meters long and 13.50 meters high. The reinforced concrete skeleton is left visible outside and inside. The detached, 38 meter high church tower is crowned by a cross.
On the front facade there is a ceramic work of art created by Franz Bernhard , which depicts Jesus as the good shepherd. Inside there is a large depiction of the Last Supper by Willy Oeser on the altar wall . He also designed two stained glass windows depicting the resurrection of Christ and the resurrection of Jairus' daughter , as well as the Way of the Cross in 1957 . The organ was built in 1966 by the company Xaver Mönch & Söhne . It has 34 registers and 2,560 pipes . The ringing consists of five bronze bells with the beat tones dis 1 , fis 1 , g # 1 , h 1 and cis 2 . It has a total weight of three tons and was cast in 1959 by the Hamm company in Frankenthal.
literature
- Chronicle of the Good Shepherd and St. Michael . Mannheim 1987.
- 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 .
- Werner Wolf-Holzäpfel: Catholic church building in Mannheim from 1874 to today: On the history of sacred buildings in North Baden in the 19th and 20th centuries . Mannheim 1999, ISBN 3-926260-45-9 .
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Coordinates: 49 ° 32 ′ 41.6 " N , 8 ° 28 ′ 28.8" E