St. Theresa Church (Mannheim)
The St. Theresa Church is a Catholic church in the Mannheim district of Pfingstberg . It was built between 1959 and 1961 according to plans by Heinz Heß .
history
The Pfingstberg settlement was only built in 1921 near the marshalling yard between Seckenheim and Rheinau . In terms of church, the Catholic residents initially belonged to the Rheinau St. Antonius community . In 1930 a sister house with a chapel was inaugurated. The benches came from the Mannheim St. Bonifatius Church . The following year, a curate was set up with the patroness Theresia von Lisieux . Only six years after her canonization , this was a novelty in the Archdiocese of Freiburg .
In 1959 it was raised to a parish , which in addition to Pfingstberg also included the Hochstätt district, and in the same year construction began on a new church. On 29 January 1961 she was auxiliary bishop of Karl Gnädinger consecrated . In 2001 the parishes in the south of Mannheim, St. Theresia, Heilig-Kreuz (Hochstätt), St. Antonius (Rheinau), St. Johannes ( Rheinau-Süd ) and St. Konrad ( Casterfeld ) merged to form the pastoral care unit Mannheim-Süd.
description
The St. Theresa Church is centrally located in the Pfingstbergplatz district. It has an elegantly curved, circular segment-shaped floor plan. When it was completed, it was the first Catholic church in North Baden that was not aligned lengthways but widthways. Because of this and the benches arranged with a slight incline, it is reminiscent of an ancient amphitheater . The open bell tower from concrete is 28 meters high. The ringing consists of four bells with the disposition e1 f sharp1 a1 c sharp2, cast by Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling from Heidelberg in 1960. The exterior of the church is characterized by the alternating alternation of the bossed masonry and the windows designed by the Mannheim artist Karl Rödel . The three portals lead radially to the altar . Harry McLean from Heidelberg created the wrought-iron frieze .
literature
- Konstantin Groß : Between green and track: 75 years of the Mannheim district of Pfingstberg . Mannheim 1997, ISBN 3-92323-02-5 .
- 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 .
- Hans Huth: The art monuments of the Mannheim II district . Munich 1982, ISBN 3-422-00556-0 .
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Coordinates: 49 ° 26 ′ 47.3 " N , 8 ° 31 ′ 56.5" E