St. Aegidius Church (Mannheim)

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St. Aegidius Church

The St. Aegidius Church is a Catholic church in the Mannheim district of Seckenheim . It was built between 1904 and 1906 according to plans by Ludwig Maier in the neo-baroque style. Parts of the tower and the furnishings date from the 18th century. The St. Aegidius Church is the fourth church on this site since the Middle Ages .

history

Seckenheim was first mentioned in 766 in the Lorsch Codex . A church in the village was mentioned in 823 when Emperor Ludwig the Pious gave it to Lorsch Abbey . The same document states that the church had previously been purchased by Count Warin for the king. Since Warin was recorded in the last third of the 8th century, the church must have existed before. This makes it one of the oldest churches on the right bank of the Rhine in the Worms diocese . Like the Lorsch monastery, the church was under the patronage of Saint Nazarius . In 1232 the monastery came to the Archdiocese of Mainz . The village of Seckenheim fell to the Palatinate near Rhine in 1247 after a feud with the Archbishop of Mainz . 1358 the Palatine Elector transferred the church to St. Giles pen in Neustadt , so a change of Patroziniums of Nazarius to Giles was associated.

The church was rebuilt around 1470. It was single-aisled and directed to the east . On the gable roof was a ridge turret with bells. After the Reformation was introduced by Elector Ottheinrich in 1556, several changes of denomination followed in the Electoral Palatinate over time. During the Thirty Years War , Kurmainz raised territorial claims on Seckenheim and re-Catholicized the place. In the Bergstrasse recess , Seckenheim went back to the Electoral Palatinate, but as compensation it was agreed that the St. Aegidius Church would be used simultaneously by Catholics and Reformed from 1651 . In 1673 and 1674 the church was devastated by French soldiers, but in the Palatinate War of Succession (1688–1697) it was one of the few churches in the region that was not destroyed.

Floor plan and elevation (Sigismund Zeller 1737)

Thanks to the simultaneous use, the church in Seckenheim in the Protestant Electoral Palatinate was the only church south of the Neckar where Catholic services could be celebrated. Seckenheim was therefore also responsible for the neighboring towns for a long time: 1648–1698 for Mannheim , 1648–1699 for Feudenheim , 1648–1726 for Neckarau , 1648–1747 for Ilvesheim , 1690–1901 for Friedrichsfeld , until 1900 for the Stengelhof (later Rheinau ) and 1924–1933 for Pfingstberg . The pastoral care was initially taken over by Capuchins who came from Ladenburg , before a parish was set up again in Seckenheim in 1706 .

In the 18th century, St. Aegidius Church was in very poor condition. The entablature was rotten and the foundation sank due to the proximity of the Neckar , creating cracks in the walls. In 1732 the court architect Sigismund Zeller recommended a new building. According to his plans, the new church was built between 1737 and 1738 in the Baroque style. The floor plan was rotated 45 degrees so that the church was parallel to the main street. In 1779 the church was given a gallery by Johann Faxlunger .

After more than two centuries, the simultaneous use of the church was coming to an end because the population of Seckenheim was too large. The wealthier Protestant community decided to leave the St. Aegidius Church to the Catholics and to build their own church. In 1869 she was able to inaugurate the Church of the Redeemer . The Catholics renewed the interior of the St. Aegidius Church and procured a new high altar and a new organ. Due to the steady population growth, the church soon became too small for the Catholic community. Initial plans envisaged an expansion of the church, but in 1901 it was decided to build a new one.

View from the southeast, in the foreground the Neckar

In 1904 the demolition of the old church began and after two years of construction the new, three times as large St. Aegidius Church was completed according to the plans of the architect Ludwig Maier . On 27 May 1906, she was from Freiburg Archbishop Thomas Nörber consecrated . The floor plan had been rotated again, this time by 90 degrees so that the main front faces Seckenheimer Hauptstrasse. The bells of the church had to be delivered in the First World War . The bell was replaced in 1921, but was drafted again in 1940 during the Second World War . The church itself survived the war unscathed until, on the last day of the war, on March 28, 1945, it was shelled by American artillery and burned down to the outer walls. Until 1951, under the direction of Anton Ohnmacht, the outside of the church was largely true to the original, while the inside was simplified and rebuilt. In 1975 the church was renovated. In 2002 the parishes of St. Aegidius, St. Bonifatius ( Mannheim-Friedrichsfeld ), St. Andreas and St. Brother Klaus ( Edingen-Neckarhausen ) merged to form the pastoral care unit Mannheim-Südost - now Mannheim St. Martin. For the centenary, the interior of the church was renovated and redesigned in 2006/07.

architecture

Layout
Bell for Sunday service

The St. Aegidius Church is in the northeast of Seckenheim directly on the Neckar . It is a three-aisled hall church with a transept and a retracted, rectangular choir . It is 35 meters long, 14 meters wide and 11 meters high. The church tower is located on the southwest corner . The lower part still comes from the previous church. In the new building, the tower was raised and, as before, provided with a Welschen hood . The facade of the church is structured with red sandstone . There is a figure niche with the Immaculate above the main entrance .

Around the St. Aegidius Church was the mixed denominational churchyard , which was occupied until 1845 . In 1868 he was abandoned. Today there are still eight heavily weathered tombstones. Behind the choir of the church there is a statue of Nepomuk made of red sandstone. It was originally set up on a bridge on Schwabenstrasse before it was moved here. The heavily damaged original from the 18th century was replaced by a copy around 1950.

  • Figure niche with Immakulata

  • Nepomuk statue

  • Epitaph on the outside wall

Furnishing

The interior is kept entirely in white and light yellow tones. The altar stands on a circular three-tiered island in the transept. The pews face him from three sides. In the choir there is a free-standing wall with a crucifixion group , which Emil Sutor created in 1958/60. Eleven baroque carved figures have survived from the 18th century: the four evangelists , six putti and a figure of Christ . After the church was rebuilt in 1906, they were not erected again, but kept in a barn, which enabled them to escape the fire in 1945. After the Second World War, they were brought back to the church.

The ringing consists of five bells with the strike tone sequence es'-ges'-as'-b'-des'´. It was cast in 1952 by FW Schilling in Heidelberg.

organ

The organ, which Romanus Seifert completed in 2017, stands on the west gallery. The instrument has 32 registers , which are distributed over two manuals and pedal . There are three extensions in the pedals . In terms of sound, the work is based on the predecessor instrument by Andreas Krämer, who built an organ in the South German style with French influence in 1780. The disposition is as follows:

I main work C – f 3
Quintathön 16 ′
Principal 8th'
Traverso (from f 0 ) 8th'
Gemshorn 8th'
Viola di gamba 8th'
Octav 4 ′
Rohrflöth 4 ′
Quint 3 ′
Super octave 2 ′
Sextquilatera II 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Mixture III-IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Trumpet 8th'
II Hinterwerk C – f 3
Wooden principal 8th'
Coppel 8th'
Salicional 8th'
Dolce 8th'
Piffara (from c 0 ) 8th'
Fugara 4 ′
Spitzflöth 4 ′
Nazat 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Waldflöth 2 ′
third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
Sifflöth 1'
Chalumeau 8th'
Pedal C – d 1
Principal bass 16 ′
Violonbass 16 ′
Sub-bass 16 ′
Octave bass (Ext. No. 25) 8th'
Cello bass 8th'
Gedacktbass (Ext. No. 27) 8th'
Trombone bass 16 ′
Trombone (ext. No.31) 8th'
  • Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
  • Secondary voices: Accord star

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Minst, Karl Josef [transl.]: Lorscher Codex (Volume 2), Certificate 617, March 14, 766 - Reg. 25. In: Heidelberg historical stocks - digital. Heidelberg University Library, p. 225 , accessed on February 28, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Minst, Karl Josef [transl.]: Lorscher Codex (Volume 1), Certificate 22, June 22, 823 - Reg. 3174. In: Heidelberger historical stocks - digital. Heidelberg University Library, p. 82 , accessed on February 28, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Worms Synodale . P. 417.
  4. ↑ Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung of March 29, 2017: New organ for the Catholic Church of St. Aegidius in Seckenheim , accessed on June 12, 2017.

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Coordinates: 49 ° 27 ′ 56.7 "  N , 8 ° 33 ′ 56.3"  E