Maria Queen Church (Mannheim)
The Maria-Königin-Kirche is a Catholic church in the Mannheim district of Neuhermsheim . It was built between 1989 and 1991 according to plans by Werner Wolf-Holzäpfel and Ludwig Fleige.
history
Hermsheim was first mentioned in 771 in the Lorsch Codex . A church in the village was mentioned in the year 826 in an exchange contract between the Prüm Abbey and Count Sigard from Kraichgau. At the beginning of the 11th century, the church , which was under the patronage of St. Martin , came into the possession of the Worms Monastery . In the 13th century, the Hermsheimers probably gave up their village because of flooding and moved to Neckarau , where the parish foundations were preserved. In the 18th century the Neckarauer pastor could prove that therefore the Kirchenbaupflicht in the decade-takers before the Palatine Hofgericht Domkapitel Worms , cathedral chapter Speyer and the Palatine Court Chamber was and so the construction of the St. Jacob's Church prevail. The old Hermsheim church was mentioned in a document until 1403 and its ruins were still there in the 18th century. The winning name "At the (Hermsheimer) Church" was a reminder of its location south of the Mannheim motorway junction until the 20th century .
The modern development and thus the emergence of the Neuhermsheim district began in 1930. The Neuostheim St. Pius Church was responsible for the Catholic residents of the settlement, which had around 1,000 inhabitants after the Second World War . Due to the spatial distance, a former barrack of the Reich Labor Service was erected in Neuhermsheim in 1959 , which was used as the Maria Queen Chapel until April 1989 . The need for renovation of the temporary arrangement and the decision of the Mannheim municipal council to expand Neuhermsheim with a large new building area to the east led to the decision to build a community center with a church. After two years of construction, the Maria-Königin-Kirche was consecrated on September 15, 1991 by Archbishop Oskar Saier . In 2004 the parishes of St. Pius, St. Peter and Heilig-Geist merged to form the pastoral care unit “Am Luisenpark”.
description
The community center with the Maria-Königin-Church is in the center of the old residential development in Neuhermsheim. The free-standing bell tower with its oak beams is placed on the street . The pent roofs of the buildings grouped around an atrium with striking red brick walls are inclined towards each other. Their height is based on the simple residential buildings. Two large round windows mark the church from the outside.
In the interior, visible wooden roof trusses support the roof. The bent pews are grouped around the altar . It is made of white Carrara marble and, like the ambo , tabernacle , eternal light and apostle chandelier, comes from the sculptor Bernd Stöcker . The windows were designed by the glass painter Raphael Seitz . The theme of the largest main window is “Mahl am See ”. The pipe organ by Michael Becker Orgelbau was installed in 2001. The BDA Baden-Württemberg awarded the building the “Good Buildings Award”.
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 .
- Andreas Schenk: Architectural Guide Mannheim . Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-496-01201-3 .
- Werner Wolf-Holzäpfel: Catholic Churches . In: Mannheim and its buildings 1907–2007. Volume 3: Buildings for education, cult, art and culture . Mannheim 2002, ISBN 3-923003-85-4 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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 .
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Hansjörg Probst : The Mannheimer Flurnamenlexikon . Ubstadt-Weiher 2010, ISBN 978-3-89735-631-3 , p. 78.
- ↑ Baden-Württemberg Chamber of Architects ( 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. , accessed February 25, 2012
- ↑ Archbishop's Building Office Heidelberg ( Memento of the original from July 11, 2002 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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Coordinates: 49 ° 28 ′ 3.2 ″ N , 8 ° 30 ′ 14.6 ″ E