New Apostolic Church (Mannheim)
The New Apostolic Church in Mannheim 's Neckarstadt-Ost district was built in the New Objectivity style between 1929 and 1930 based on plans by Wilhelm Würth . It is the central church of the New Apostolic church district of Mannheim.
history
The New Apostolic congregation Mannheim was founded in 1900 in the mirror colony . The services initially took place in various private apartments. From 1904 to 1913, premises in the Jungbusch district were rented and then the auditorium of the secondary school in Oststadt was used. In 1929 construction began on its own church and the following year it was consecrated on August 31st. Chief Apostle Johann Gottfried Bischoff led the festive divine service . The church was spared major damage during the Second World War . In 1974 the building was renovated and fundamentally rebuilt between 1994 and 1995.
description
The church is on Moselstrasse in the center of Neckarstadt-Ost. One place conveys to the Lange Rötterstrasse. The building consists of three cubes of different heights. In the southern part there are apartments. The height of the building corresponds to the five-story residential development in the neighborhood. The 22 meter high staircase tower mediates between the residential wing and the church. The street front of the tower is characterized by a continuous, vertical ribbon of windows. On the other sides the windows form a cross . The church building has three large rectangular windows on the long sides and another, which has been covered by the organ since 1995, on the retracted choir . The bright artificial stone cuboids and the flat roofs complete the New Objectivity style of the building.
organ
The organ has 24 registers and 1,700 pipes and was built by Hehl Orgelbau in 1995 . She has the following disposition:
| I main work | II swell | pedal | |||
| Bourdon | 16 ′ | Dumped | 8th' | Principal bass | 16 ′ |
| Principal | 8th' | Salicional | 8th' | Sub bass | 16 ′ |
| Reed flute | 8th' | Vox celeste | 8th' | Octave bass | 8th' |
| octave | 4 ′ | Principal | 4 ′ | Bourdon | 8th' |
| Wooden flute | 4 ′ | Transverse flute | 4 ′ | Dolcan | 4 ′ |
| octave | 2 ′ | Nasard | 2 2 ⁄ 3 ′ | bassoon | 16 ′ |
| Mixture V | 2 ′ | Gemshorn | 2 ′ | ||
| Trumpet | 8th' | Third flute | 1 3 ⁄ 5 ′ | ||
| Sharp III | 1' | ||||
| oboe | 8th' | ||||
| Tremulant | |||||
- Pairing : II / I, Super II / I, I / P, II / P.
literature
- Helga Purm: Churches and schools during the Weimar Republic . In architecture in Mannheim: 1918–1939 . Mannheim 1994, ISBN 3-923003-59-5 .
- Andreas Schenk: Cultural buildings of other religious societies . In Mannheim and its buildings 1907–2007. Volume 3: Buildings for education, cult, art and culture . Mannheim 2002, ISBN 3-923003-85-4 .
- Andreas Schenk: Architectural Guide Mannheim . Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-496-01201-3 .
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Coordinates: 49 ° 29 ′ 52.1 ″ N , 8 ° 29 ′ 3.1 ″ E