St. Peter Church (Mannheim)
The St. Peter Church is a Catholic church in the Schwetzingerstadt district of Mannheim . It was built between 1927 and 1929 according to plans by Hermann Otto Künkel .
history
In the last third of the 19th century, the city of Mannheim was expanded beyond the city center to the east. The Upper Parish at the Jesuit Church was responsible for looking after the Catholics . In 1900 there were already 22,000 people in the expansion area, 7,900 of them Catholic, so that the Holy Spirit Church was built by 1903 . Even after that, the population continued to grow sharply. In 1914 the parish Heilig-Geist belonged to 14,439 Catholics and in 1919 it had grown to become the largest parish in the Archdiocese of Freiburg , so that another church was planned in the east of Schwetzingerstadt. Construction began in 1927 and was completed two years later. On June 29, 1930, the St. Peter's church was built by Archbishop Karl Fritz consecrated and in the same year Pfarrkuratie furnished.
The church was damaged several times during the Second World War and finally burned down completely in 1943. After the war, the choir was roofed over and served as an emergency church . Between 1951 and 1952 it was rebuilt in a simplified manner by Adam Müller . In 1954, the St. Peter's Curate was elevated to an independent parish. In 2004 the parishes of St. Peter, Heilig-Geist and St. Pius merged to form the pastoral care unit “Mannheim - Am Luisenpark”.
description
The St. Peter Church is in the east of Schwetzingerstadt. The original building was in the style of New Building with expressionist elements. The single-nave church has a recessed, rectangular choir and is 49.60 meters long, 22.60 meters wide and 18.85 meters high. The 54 meter high bell tower is placed in the middle on the left. The building had several models, including the Heilbronn St. Augustine Church by Hans Herkommer . The stepped gables and the large ogival window on the front are no longer preserved . The pointed arches of the side windows and the side portal were also removed during the reconstruction. The reliefs by Emil Sutor originally attached there were placed over the main entrance. They show events from the life of Peter .
The interior also saw radical changes. The tapered barrel ceiling in Zollbau lamellar construction with its typical diamond net was replaced by a flat ceiling. The Way of the Cross and the Good Friday Altar by Emil Sutor as well as the wall paintings by Willy Oeser have been lost . They showed Peter on the altar wall, Aloysius , Bernhard von Baden (left), Theresia of the Child Jesus , Agnes (right) on the side altars and Christ as the ruler of the world and Lioba , Petrus Canisius , Karl Borromäus , Konrad , Klara and Clemens Maria Hofbauer on the triumphal arch .
After the war, Oskar Martin-Amorbach created a choir mural in sgraffito and mosaic . Siegfried Fricker designed the wooden way of the cross in 1955/57 . He also created a relief with the evangelist symbols of the human figure, lion, bull and eagle, which was originally intended for the pulpit and was set into the left wall of the choir. The ringing of St. Peter's Church consists of five bells . The organ was built in 1957 by the Johannes Klais company in Bonn . It has 49 registers with three manuals and a pedal.
literature
- Karl Anton Straub: Mannheim Church History: Catholic Past and Present . Mannheim 1957.
- Helga Purm: Churches and schools during the Weimar Republic . In: Architecture in Mannheim: 1918–1939 . Mannheim 1994, ISBN 3-923003-59-5 .
- 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 .
- 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 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.siegfried-fricker.de
- ^ Günther Saltin: Signs on the way . Mannheim 2001.
Web links
Coordinates: 49 ° 28 ′ 32.8 " N , 8 ° 29 ′ 0.7" E