St. Konrad Church (Mannheim)

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St. Konrad Church

The St. Konrad Church is a Roman Catholic church in the Casterfeld settlement belonging to the Rheinau district of Mannheim . It was built between 1962 and 1964 according to plans by Heinz Heß .

history

The Casterfeld settlement was built between Rheinau and Neckarau from 1934 . The nearest Catholic churches, St. Antonius and St. Jakobus, were located in the two districts . An emergency church, the so-called Marienkapelle , was built in the north of the Antonius parish in 1950 . It was a barrack about 25 m long and 6 m wide, which was divided into the actual chapel room and a kindergarten room by a folding door. As a special gem, this chapel, consecrated to the title of Queen Mary , received a picture of the Mater Ter Admirabilis donated by the Mannheim Schoenstatt family .

The steadily growing number of Catholics due to the influx after the Second World War soon made this emergency church too small. Therefore, in November 1962, the construction of its own church began. The foundation stone was laid on June 30, 1963. About a year later, the building of the church was completed. However, the consecration did not take place until June 19, 1966 because no bishop was available beforehand because of the Second Vatican Council . As patrons, the new church received the holy bishop Konrad von Konstanz and the holy pastor of Ars, Johannes Maria Vianney . At this church consecration, which the then Archbishop of Freiburg, Hermann Schäufele , carried out, relics of the holy martyrs Justin and Florentina were enclosed in the altar. Severe weather damage to the church, which was originally built in exposed concrete, made extensive renovation of the church necessary in 1982. The nave and tower of the church were clad with aluminum sheeting. In 2004 the roof was renovated.

In 1965 the future Archbishop Robert Zollitsch worked as a vicar at St. Konrad. The first and only “own” pastor was Bernhard Herrmann from the establishment of the St. Konrad Parish Curatia on October 1, 1964 to 2000. Then, due to the shortage of priests in the Catholic Church, the parishes of St. Konrad, St. Antonius, St. Johannes, St. Theresia and Heilig Kreuz merged on March 25, 2001 to form the Mannheim-Süd pastoral care unit. Pastor Stefan Schaaf became the leader of this pastoral care unit.

  • View to the apse

  • Sanctuary

  • View to the gallery

description

Entrance portal

The St. Konrad Church is located in the southern Casterfeld. It is based on a design by Dominikus Böhm from 1922. The floor plan is based on an ellipse . The facade is jagged with radially arranged concrete panes and transverse windows made of raw mirror glass. The roof, curved into a flat dome , could not be statically calculated, so that a Plexiglas model was built before the construction, which was then subjected to various load tests. The 46 meter high, cone-shaped tower is arranged above the eastern elliptical focal point . The original exposed concrete has only been visible in the interior since 1982; the exterior is dominated by the aluminum cladding applied in 1982 .

There is a three-part bell in the tower of the church. The small bell with the nominal f´´ was cast by Lucas Speck in Heidelberg in 1817 . It was originally intended for the Catholic Church in Ilvesheim. The middle and large bells with the nominal es´´ and c´´ were cast in 1953 for the then emergency church St. Antonius by Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling in Heidelberg and also came later to the St. Konrad Church.

Inside, the half-open tower continues, under which the altar is arranged. The chairs are grouped around him. The ceiling is coffered with diamonds . The only decoration at the opening of the church was the hanging cross by Hayno Focken . The organ was built in 1989 by the organ building workshop Fischer & Krämer . It has two manuals and 27 stops .

Picture gallery

  • Look into the tower

  • cross

  • altar

  • organ

  • Madonna

  • Ambo

literature

  • 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 .
  • Konstantin Groß : Rheinau II and Pfingstberg . In: Mannheim before the city was founded, Part II Volume 2: The Mannheim suburbs and districts . Regensburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-7917-2022-7 .

Web links

Commons : St. Konrad Church  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.architexx.de
  2. ↑ Mannheimer Morgen, June 18, 2003  ( 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.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.morgenweb.de  
  3. ↑ Mannheimer Morgen March 5th, 2010  ( 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.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.morgenweb.de  
  4. ↑ fischer-kraemer.de ( Memento of the original from October 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / fischer-kraemer.de

Coordinates: 49 ° 26 '27.8 "  N , 8 ° 31' 1.3"  E