Jonakirche (Mannheim)
The Jonakirche , also known as the Blumenau chapel , is a Protestant church in the Blumenau settlement of the Mannheim district of Sandhofen . It was built in 1961 according to plans by Helmut Striffler . It is the earliest brutalist church in Baden-Württemberg.
history
The Blumenau settlement was built in the 1930s. Ecclesiastically, the evangelical residents belonged to the Sandhöfer parish , which set up a parish vicariate responsible for the Blumenau community with the construction of a parish hall in Schönau in 1938 . After the Second World War , it was raised to an independent parish in 1951 and the Emmaus Church in Schönau was inaugurated two years later . The garrison church built in 1952 in the neighboring Coleman Barracks was also used for church services. Due to the large increase in population, the Emmaus community was divided in 1959. The northern parish to which the Blumenauer were assigned was named after Stephanus .
In 1960 the Mannheim parish council finally approved the construction of a church in Blumenau. The following year, the foundation stone was laid on March 4th and Regional Bishop Julius Bender inaugurated the church on December 10th . In 1997 it was named after the Old Testament prophet Jonah . In 2009 it was added to the list of cultural monuments in Baden-Württemberg. Due to the consolidation of the Protestant Church in Mannheim, the Jonage congregation and the two Sandhofer congregations, Dreifaltigkeit and Jakobus, merged to form the Trinity congregation in March 2010 .
description
The Jonakirche rises above an irregular, rhombic floor plan. With the oval church tower, the floor plan is reminiscent of a fish. The original exposed concrete of the building was covered with a paint during a renovation. The deep-drawn roof is covered with copper sheet. Three narrow windows on the altar wall symbolize the Trinity .
The altar crucifix was created by Fritz Wiedemann . The wall relief, a fish, comes from Gerhard Dreher . The organ of Hartwig Späth has six registers on two manuals and was inaugurated 2,001th The ringing consists of three bells that were cast by Bachert Karlsruhe in 1961 .
| Surname | kg | volume |
|---|---|---|
| homeland | 390 | h¹ |
| peace | 275 | c sharp 2 |
| freedom | 165 | e 2 |
literature
- Alfred Heierling: Mannheim-Blumenau: "From the gardener's settlement to the district". Mannheim 2005.
- Andreas Schenk: Architectural Guide Mannheim. Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-496-01201-3 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Melanie Mertens: The really tough guys! Brutalism in church building in Baden-Württemberg . In: State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in the Stuttgart Regional Council (ed.): News sheet of the State Preservation of Monuments . No. 1 , 2020, p. 29-30 , doi : 10.11588 / nbdpfbw.2020.1.71975 .
- ↑ Mannheimer Morgen, May 6, 2009 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Mannheimer Morgen, February 24th, 2010 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 49 ° 33 ′ 38.7 " N , 8 ° 28 ′ 41.7" E