St. Bartholomew Church (Mannheim)
The St. Bartholomew Church is a Catholic church in the Mannheim district of Sandhofen . It was built between 1894 and 1896 according to plans by Ludwig Maier in the neo-Gothic style.
history
As an extension of the northern Scharhof , Sandhofen also belonged to Scharhof, where a church was mentioned in a document as early as 764. A chapel in Sandhofen was first mentioned in the 15th century before the Marienkirche was built in 1515. After the introduction of the Reformation in 1556, the church, like the entire Electoral Palatinate , was subject to multiple religious changes until it was finally assigned to the Reformed in 1706/07 after the Palatinate church was divided. The Catholics therefore built a new church in 1712, which was consecrated to Bartholomew . The pastors of Lampertheim were responsible for pastoral care until Sandhofen was raised to an independent parish in 1774.
After the diocese of Worms was dissolved, the community was assigned to the Archdiocese of Freiburg and there to the Dean's Office in Heidelberg in 1827 . In 1913 she came to the city dean of Mannheim . During the industrialization towards the end of the 19th century, the population of Sandhofen grew rapidly from 1,944 in 1875 to 6,364 in 1905, which is why the construction of a larger church became inevitable. There was financial support from the Boniface Association . According to the plans of the archbishop's building inspector Ludwig Maier, the first of a total of ten representative churches in today's districts of Mannheim was built. On 10 June 1894, the foundation stone of the new St. Bartholomew Church took place, and two years later was it completed and Bishop on September 27, 1899 Justus Knecht consecrated to be.
In the last days of World War II , the church was damaged by shell fire. The damage was then repaired by 1951 and the church was renovated, with the high altar being replaced by a new design. St. Bartholomäus was the mother community of the later settlements of Schönau ( Good Shepherd ) and Blumenau ( St. Michael ). In 2003 the three parishes were merged to form the pastoral care unit Sandhofen-Schönau.
description
The St. Bartholomew Church, built in neo-Gothic style, is located in the center of Sandhofen. It is a three- aisled hall church with a transept and 5/8 choir closure . The brick building is 34 meters long, 14 meters wide and 11 meters high. The church tower with its pointed tent roof is positioned in the corner between the transept and the choir . There are mosaics of Saints Bartholomew and Boniface above the main portal, and Joseph and Mary with baby Jesus on the sides .
Inside there is a Madonna , around 1470 from the medieval Marienkirche, and a baptismal font made of red sandstone from 1715. A baroque wooden statue of John of Nepomuk comes from the 18th century, other neo-Gothic carved figures from the end of the 19th century: Elisabeth of Thuringia , Agnes , Franz von Assisi and Bonifatius were probably part of the old high altar from 1896 and works by the sculptor workshop Simmler & Venator from Offenburg. John the Baptist , originally part of one of the two side altars, was created in 1897 by Peter Paul Hausch from Horb. The crucifix was carved by Franz Bernhard in 1954 . The Way of the Cross from 1966 was also made by him .
The choir windows show biblical themes and were created in 1981 based on designs by Peter Valentin Feuerstein . The organ was built in 1921 by Voit and Sons . It was rebuilt after the Second World War and restored in 1996. The ringing consists of four bells from the Hermann Hamm foundry from 1956 and one bell from the Franz Schilling und Söhne foundry from 1914/15 with the striking note sequence c'– es' – f'– as' – c ”.
Boniface and Bartholomew above the main portal
Maria above the left side portal
Josef above the right side portal
literature
- Hans Huth: The art monuments of the Mannheim II district . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-422-00556-0 .
- Hans Huth: St. Bartholomäus Mannheim-Sandhofen . 2nd edition, Schnell & Steiner Regensburg 2001, ISBN 3-7954-5082-9 .
- Sabine Bruss: The work of the architect Ludwig Maier (1848–1915) . Ludwig, Kiel 1999, ISBN 3-933598-04-4 , pp. 133-141.
- Andreas Schenk: Architectural Guide Mannheim . Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-496-01201-3 .
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Coordinates: 49 ° 32 ′ 45 ″ N , 8 ° 26 ′ 50.1 ″ E