Petruskirche (Mannheim)

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Petruskirche

The Petruskirche is a Protestant church in the Wallstadt district of Mannheim . It was built between 1868 and 1871 according to plans by Hermann Behaghel .

history

In the Lorsch Codex in 788 a deed of donation mentioned a church in Wallstadt consecrated to Saint Sulpicius for the first time. In the Worms Synodal of 1496, a visitation protocol of the parishes of the diocese of Worms , the church now under the patronage of Peter was described. After the introduction of the Reformation in 1556, Wallstadt, like the entire Electoral Palatinate, was subject to multiple religious changes and the church and the village were destroyed in the Thirty Years' War . Only the tower and the surrounding walls were preserved, but continued to deteriorate in the period that followed. The church ruins fell to the Reformed when the Palatinate church was divided in 1705 . The Petruskirche was not rebuilt until 1791, but there was no separate pastor. Wallstadt remained a branch of the Reformed Church in Feudenheim .

Between 1868 and 1871 the old church was demolished and a new church built. The inauguration was on October 16, 1872. At the turn of the century, the number of Protestant residents in Feudenheim and Wallstadt rose sharply, so that in 1904 a separate vicariate and in 1918 a separate pastor's office were set up in Wallstadt. In World War II remained intact, the Church of St. Peter in 1954, 1979 and 2000 was renovated.

description

Layout

The Petruskirche is located in the center of Wallstadt, set back from the street, near the town hall. It was one of the first churches designed by the architect Hermann Behaghel after he became the head of the Protestant church building inspection in Heidelberg. The style of the facade and the arched windows is based on the neo-Romanesque and in the tower, the lower part of which was taken over from the previous building, on the neo-Gothic . The church has a single nave and a retracted, polygonal choir .

organ

The organ was built in 2011 by Rensch Orgelbau . The labia of the prospect pipes form a fish, symbol of the Petruskirche. The instrument has 14 registers (828 pipes) on two manuals and a pedal. In the main work there are two registers in advance.

I main work C – f 3
1. Principal 8th'
2. Reed flute 8th'
3. Octave 4 ′
4th Fifth (first number 5) 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
5. Sesquialter II 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
6th Octave (in advance No. 7) 2 ′
7th Mixture IV 2 ′
II Hinterwerk C – f 3
8th. viola 8th'
9. Covered 8th'
10. Hollow flute 4 ′
11. Piccolo 2 ′
12. Trumpet 8th'
13. Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Tremulant
Pedals C – f 1
14th Sub bass 16 ′
15th Viol flute 8th'
16. Tenor octave 4 ′
  • Coupling : II / I (also as sub-octave coupling), I / P, II / P

Peal

The bell consists of three bronze bells . The oldest bell, cast by Anselm Franz Speck in Heidelberg in 1791, had to be handed in during the Second World War. However, it escaped being melted down and was caught up again in 1947. The other two bells were cast in 1980 by the former Schilling foundry .

Surname symbol volume Casting year inscription Ø (mm) kg
Death bell fish f sharp '+2 1980 Watch and pray that you do not fall under temptation ( Mt 26,41  LUT ) 1055 680
Prayer bell ship a '+4 1980 God is love; and whoever
remains in love remains in God and God in him ( 1 Jn 4,16  LUT )		 935 440
Baptismal bell h '+2 1791 Anselm Speck in Heidelberg poured me into
the Reformed community in Walstatt in 1791		 700 172

literature

  • Andreas Schenk: Architectural Guide Mannheim . Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-496-01201-3 .
  • Hans Huth: The art monuments of the Mannheim II district . Munich 1982, ISBN 3-422-00556-0 .
  • Hans Weckesser: Wallstadt . In: Mannheim before the city was founded, Part II Volume 2: The Mannheim suburbs and districts . Regensburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-7917-2022-7 .
  • Wilhelm August Schulze: Wallstadt church history: Evangelical Petrusgemeinde and Evangelical Petruskirche Mannheim-Wallstadt 1556–1981 . Mannheim 1981.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Minst, Karl Josef [trans.]: Lorscher Codex (Volume 2), Certificate 505, July 11, 788 - Reg. 2054. In: Heidelberger historical stocks - digital. Heidelberg University Library, p. 174 , accessed on February 28, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Worms Synodale . P. 197.
  3. ↑ Mannheimer Morgen , November 23, 2011
  4. ↑ More information about the organ on the municipality's website

Web links

Commons : Petruskirche  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 49 ° 29 ′ 43.8 ″  N , 8 ° 33 ′ 1.8 ″  E