St. Nicholas Church (Mannheim)

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St. Nicholas Church

The St. Nicholas Church ( listen ? / I ) is a Catholic church in the Neckarstadt-West district of Mannheim . It was built in the New Objectivity style between 1930 and 1932 according to plans by Hermann Otto Künkel . Audio file / audio sample

history

Housing development in Neckarstadt began in the second half of the 19th century. In 1904 the Herz-Jesu-Kirche was built. In order to counter the housing shortage in Mannheim after the First World War , the city administration pushed housing construction in the area between the Neckarstadt and the Waldhof . This is how the Erlenhofsiedlung came into being in the 1920s and the Herz-Jesu parish became the most populous parish in the diocese of Freiburg . In 1926, a building site for a new church was acquired and construction began in 1930. It was completed and consecrated two years later . Because of its proximity to the industrial port, Saint Nicholas , the patron saint of boatmen, was chosen as the patronage of the curate that was established in the same year .

In World War II , the St. Nicholas Church in 1943 was heavily damaged. The reconstruction took place under the direction of Hans Rolli until 1948. In 1956 St. Nikolaus was raised to a parish . Due to the shortage of priests, the pastor of the Sacred Heart Church was commissioned to look after the community in 2001 , and in 2007 St. Nicholas and the Sacred Heart of Jesus were merged into the Neckarstadt-West pastoral care unit. Today the parishes of St. Nikolaus and Herz-Jesu with St. Bonifatius and St. Bernhard form the Catholic parish Mannheim-Neckarstadt in the Archdiocese of Freiburg .

Front view

description

The St. Nicholas Church is on Waldhofstrasse in the northern vicinity of the Erlenhofsiedlung . It adapts to it in the style of New Objectivity . The reduced architecture, which does not have any decorative elements, is based on designs by Hans Herkommer , who raised allegations of plagiarism. The basilical building is characterized by its mighty tower, which is flanked by two semicircular apses . The church is 46 meters long, 18 meters wide and 15 meters high. Because of the reinforced concrete skeleton construction, the interior does not have any supports.

The altar area in the recessed, rectangular choir is raised by several steps. On the wall there is a larger than life crucifixion group , which was created by the sculptor Emil Sutor as well as the Way of the Cross . The ringing originally consisted of three bells . However, two bells had to be delivered in World War II and only the St Joseph bell remained.

organ

The organ was built in 1972 by the organ builder Michael Weise (Plattling). The instrument has 30 registers on three manuals and a pedal .

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Principal 8th'
2. Tube bare 8th'
3. Black viola 8th'
4th octave 4 ′
5. Flute 4 ′
6th Sesquialtera II 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
7th Super octave 2 ′
8th. Zimbel III 2 ⁄ 3 ′
9. Mixture IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
10. Trumpet 8th'
11. Clarine 4 ′
II Swell C – g 3
12. Harp principal 8th'
13. Dumped 8th'
14th octave 4 ′
15th Pointed flute 4 ′
16. Nasat 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
17th Forest flute 2 ′
18th third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
19th Flageolet 1'
20th Mixture IV 1'
21st shawm 8th'
22nd Wooden dulcian 16 ′
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
23. Sub bass 16 ′
24. octave 8th'
25th Gemshorn 8th'
26th Greater sesquialtera II 5 1 ⁄ 3  ′
27. octave 4 ′
28. Mixture III 2 ′
29 bassoon 16 ′
30th Cornett 2 ′

reception

The church construction was received differently. While the Neue Mannheimer Zeitung praised one of the “best architectural views of modern Mannheim”, the National Socialist press insulted the “Bolshevik architecture”. The displeasure in parts of the population and church districts about the “New Building” led to resolutions by the Archbishop's Ordinariate in 1932 that, among other things, the design suitable for secular buildings such as train station halls and concert halls cannot simply be transferred to sacred buildings.

literature

  • 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 .
  • Helga Purm: Churches and schools during the Weimar Republic . In architecture in Mannheim: 1918–1939 . Mannheim 1994, ISBN 3-923003-59-5 .
  • Karl Anton Straub: Mannheim Church History: Catholic Past and Present . Mannheim 1957.
  • Andreas Schenk: Architectural Guide Mannheim . Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-496-01201-3 .
  • Hans Huth: The historical monuments of the city circle Mannheim I . Munich 1982, ISBN 3-422-00556-0 .
  • Reiner Albert, Günther Saltin: 100 years 100 impressions: Church and congregation of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Mannheim-Neckarstadt 1908–2008 . Mannheim 2008.

Individual evidence

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Web links

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Coordinates: 49 ° 30 ′ 30.8 "  N , 8 ° 28 ′ 11.5"  E