St. Hildegard Church (Mannheim)
The St. Hildegard Church is a Catholic church in the Käfertal district of Mannheim . It was built between 1959 and 1961 according to plans by Heinz Heß .
history
After the First World War , a new housing estate was built south of Käfertal on Bäckerweg. In 1931 more than 3,000 people lived there, 1,400 of them Catholics. For church services they had to go to the Käfertaler St. Laurentius Church or the Neckarstadt St. Bonifatius Church . Between 1934 and 1935, according to the plans of the architect Josef Lutz, a right-angled building complex was built on the corner of Bäckerweg and Dürkheimer Straße, which included an emergency church , a rectory and a nurses' house. On February 17, 1935, the church was consecrated to Hildegard von Bingen and in April of the same year the Archbishop of Freiburg , Conrad Gröber, established a parish curate .
Due to the nearby BBC and Hommel plants, the area was a preferred target of Allied air raids during World War II and the church was badly damaged several times. After the war, the reconstruction followed, and in September 1946 the church was re benediziert be. As the settlement continued to grow, it became necessary to build a new, larger church. In 1959 the construction of today's St. Hildegard Church began, on June 21, 1961 it was consecrated . In 2003 the neighboring communities of St. Laurentius, St. Hildegard and Twelve Apostles ( Vogelstang ) merged to form the pastoral care unit Käfertal-Vogelstang. In 2008 hurricane Emma bent the cross on the church tower.
On the evening of October 17, 2017, an arson attack was carried out on the church tower. The police investigation into the case resulted in the arrest of a 24-year-old Pakistani man on December 5.
description
The St. Hildegard Church is in the east of Käfertal-Süd. Diagonally opposite is the Evangelical Philip Church, which was built almost at the same time . The style is reminiscent of the St. Pius Church in Neuostheim, which was built five years earlier . The yellow brick building has no windows; a four-row band of glass honeycombs is embedded in the upper quarter for lighting. The church is covered with a flat gable roof . The pillarless interior with its perforated brick walls is kept sober. The organ was consecrated in 2008.
The free-standing bell tower is placed on a square floor plan on the street and kept in the same style as the church. It is crowned by a white cross. Two arcades lead from the street to the church, which surround it and lead to the parish and rectory behind.
literature
- Karl Anton Straub: Mannheim Church History: Catholic Past and Present . Mannheim 1957.
- Andreas Schenk: Architectural Guide Mannheim . Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-496-01201-3 .
- Werner Wolf-Holzäpfel: Catholic Churches . In: Mannheim and its buildings 1907–2007. Volume 3: Buildings for education, cult, art and culture . Mannheim 2002, ISBN 3-923003-85-4 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mannheimer Morgen March 5th, 2008 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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Web links
Coordinates: 49 ° 30 ′ 18.5 " N , 8 ° 30 ′ 45.6" E