St. Bartholomew (Oppenheim)

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The parish church of St. Bartholomew in Oppenheim

The Catholic parish church of St. Bartholomäus is a listed church building in Oppenheim . It is located below the market square and goes back to the former monastery church of the Franciscan monastery . As a mendicant order church , it is consecrated to the holy apostle Bartholomäus .

History and design

The big cross in the church choir

Around the year 1250 a monastery was built by the Franciscans in Oppenheim , which belonged to the Upper German or Strasbourg Order Province ( Provincia Argentina ). According to some sources, the Roman-German King Otto IV founded the current church building in 1211.

About 250 years later, around 1500, the large cross in the church choir was created .

When the Franciscans had to leave the monastery in the course of the Reformation in 1561, it was abolished by Elector Friedrich in 1568. At the instigation of the incumbent mayor Philipp Kiderich , whom the city council followed, the monastery was converted into a Latin school. The final church building as it exists today can be attributed to the efforts of Elector Philipp Wilhelm in 1686. Since then, the parish church has served as a place of prayer for Catholics living in Oppenheim. Former monastery buildings, which were connected to the building on the southern side, no longer exist today or can only be recognized as remains.

Around 1718, the organ builder Johann Anton Ignaz Will was given the task of repairing or replacing the existing church organ. Two years later, in 1720, the communion bench , the pulpit , the confessionals and the choir stalls were built. 30 years later, around 1750, the baroque figures of the church building were created. The cloister , which no longer exists today, dates from the turn of the century around 1900.

Current

Interior of the church today

In 1990/1991 the inventory underwent a comprehensive renovation: among other things, the altar , the altar retable , the tabernacle , the sediles , the ambo and the Easter candlestick were revised or newly created according to the designs of the German sculptor Hubert Elsässer .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c St. Bartholomew's Church - City of Oppenheim. In: stadt-oppenheim.de. Retrieved April 10, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Kirche_Oppenheim. In: dcms.bistummainz.de. Retrieved April 10, 2017 .

Web links

Commons : St. Bartholomäus (Oppenheim)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 49 ° 51 ′ 6.6 "  N , 8 ° 21 ′ 17.5"  E