Parish Church of St. Bartholomew (Heidelberg-Wieblingen)
The new St. Bartholomew Church is the Catholic parish church in the Wieblingen district of Heidelberg . It was built between 1955 and 1956 because the old St. Bartholomew Church had become too small. It is a listed building.
history
At the beginning of the 20th century, the baroque St. Bartholomew's Church on Mannheimer Strasse had become too small for the grown Catholic community, and so there were plans for a new building even before the First World War. The capital raised for this, however, was lost due to the war and the subsequent inflation. After the Second World War, the community had grown so much with the influx of displaced people that a larger church was finally needed. To the north of the old cemetery, a new rectory was built and the foundation stone was laid for the church in 1955, which was completed a year later and consecrated on September 23, 1956. She took over the patronage of St. Bartholomew from the old church.
The plans for the new building came from the archbishop's architect Manfred Schmitt-Fiebig , who later u. a. also designed the Christ the King Church in Eppelheim , St. Michael in the Heidelberg Südstadt or St. Johannes in Rohrbach. The municipality initially rejected the modern design with the separate campanile and had an alternative design drawn up. The dispute was so intense that the Archbishop of Freiburg intervened personally and decided in favor of Schmitt-Fiebig's design.
description
Exterior
The church is oriented to the west, the tower stands as a campanile free on the forecourt. Above the portal there is a mosaic of St. Bartholomäus , which was created from natural stones by Emil Wachter . The apostle Bartholomew can be seen on the left side of the mosaic. According to legend, he is said to have preached the Gospel in Armenia and suffered a martyr's death there: his skin was stripped off while he was alive - then he was beheaded. Accordingly, a knife can be seen on the right and the apostle wears his own skin over his shoulders and hanging down in front. The walls of a city can be seen below the knife, it is a representation of the “ heavenly Jerusalem ”, which is described in the Revelation of John (Rev 21: 9ff) as a city with a high wall and twelve gates. At the bottom of the mosaic is a snake as a symbol of Satan at the apostle's feet. At the top there are three circles with symbols of the Trinity , on the left an eye for God the Father, on the right a hand for Jesus Christ and in the middle a dove for the Holy Spirit .
inner space
The steel skeleton construction on a rectangular floor plan is a unified hall space inside, which is reminiscent of a traditional three-aisled basilica with the slender concrete pillars and the slightly lower side corridors . In contrast to many later church buildings, the chancel is raised and still clearly separated from the parish area.
The tabernacle, altar candlesticks and the cross above the high altar are by Otto Herbert Hajek , the limestone reliefs on the side altars and the Way of the Cross by Gisela Bär . The relief of the left side altar shows the coronation of Mary , the right relief the representation of the death of Joseph , which is very unusual in art . The large, abstract stained glass windows were designed by Emil Wachter. In addition to the modern equipment, there are also some figures of saints that were transferred from the old church. There are two baroque paintings above the two side entrances, also from the old church. Looking towards the left hangs a work by the Mannheim theater painter Franz Anton Leydensdorff , which shows the martyrdom of Bartholomäus, on the right the martyrdom of St. Sebastian by an unknown artist.
Bells
The church has three bells that are tuned in b ', des "and es". They were cast in 1951 by the Schilling bell foundry in Heidelberg for the old church and after the completion of the new church they were hung in the tower.
literature
- Hans Gercke: Churches in Heidelberg . Schnell und Steiner publishing house, Regensburg, 1st edition 2011 ( ISBN 978-3-7954-2413-8 )
- W. Petschan: 50 years of St. Bartholomew. Catholics in Wieblingen celebrated their church anniversary . In: Church on the Way, No. 11, December 2006, p. 7 ( PDF )
- State Office for Monument Preservation (publisher): Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany, cultural monuments in Baden-Württemberg, city district of Heidelberg , Thorbecke-Verlag 2013, ISBN 978-3-7995-0426-3
Web links
- Pastoral care unit Christophorus
- Bells of the Catholic Parish Church of St. Bartholomew in Heidelberg-Wieblingen (Bell Inspection for the Archdiocese of Freiburg)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Walter Petschan: 50 years of the new parish church of St. Bartholomew Heidelberg-Wieblingen . Heidelberg 2006, p. 29f
- ↑ Walter Petschan: 50 years of the new parish church St. Bartholomäus Heidelberg-Wieblingen . Heidelberg 2006, p. 32
Coordinates: 49 ° 25 ′ 19.9 ″ N , 8 ° 38 ′ 53.5 ″ E