Martinskirche (Mannheim)
The Martin Church is a Protestant church in which to Mannheim belonging district Rheinau-South . It was built between 1965 and 1967 according to plans by Fritz Henning .
history
From 1933, a settlement of IG Farben (today BASF ) was built south of Mannheim on the Brühl district . The Protestant residents were initially looked after from Brühl before they were re-parished to Mannheim in 1941. In 1944 the settlement was politically incorporated into Mannheim. From 1946, church services were celebrated in the school until a community hall was built in 1954. The vicars of the Rheinauer Michaelskirche (today the Church of Reconciliation) held here) regular Sunday service. In 1959 the Martinsgemeinde became independent and the following year a parish vicariate was set up, before the Martinsgemeinde became an independent parish in 1964. In 1965 the foundation stone for the Martinskirche was laid and two years later on October 31, 1967 it was inaugurated. It was renovated between 1990 and 1992.
In 2016, after several years of renovation by the architects' office klinkenberg | Architektur BDA the inauguration of the new community rooms and the church service room, which were built into the existing church as a free-standing block in the nave according to the "house-in-house" architectural principle.
description
The Martinskirche stands in the south of the old core settlement of Rheinau-Süd. The gable roof is pulled down low and is reminiscent of a tent . The bell tower is free-standing. The church got its present appearance after the renovation in 1992.
The ringing consists of three bells . The small bell has the inscription "Faith" and "Love". It was cast in 1957 by the Bachert bell foundry and was originally located in the roof turret of the community center. With the construction of the Martinskirche followed in 1966 and 1967 the two other bells with the pitches c and b. They bear the inscriptions "Hope" and "Patience" as well as "For the glory of God", "Peace" and "Joy".
literature
- Konstantin Groß : The longing for one's own home: From the IG settlement to the Rheinau-Süd district . Mannheim 2008, ISBN 978-3-9810851-7-4 .
- Udo Wennemuth: History of the Protestant Church in Mannheim . Sigmaringen 1996, ISBN 3-7995-0930-5 .
- City archive Mannheim, Mannheimer Architektur- und Bauarchiv eV (ed.), Andreas Schenk: Mannheim and its buildings 1907-2007: Volume 3 . Mannheim 2002, ISBN 3-923003-85-4 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.ekiba.de/html/content/mannheim_martinskirche.html
- ↑ Mannheimer Morgen, September 29, 2004 ( 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.
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Coordinates: 49 ° 25 ′ 3.7 ″ N , 8 ° 31 ′ 46.2 ″ E