St. Gallus (Ludwigshafen)
The St. Gallus Church is a Catholic church in the Ludwigshafen district of Friesenheim . It was built between 1847 and 1848.
history
Friesenheim was first mentioned in 771 in the Lorsch Codex . A church is mentioned for the first time in 1238, which belonged to the Lorsch monastery . Due to the patronage of St. Leodegar , one suspects an early medieval foundation by the Murbach monastery . In 1247 the Lorsch Vogtei and with it the right of patronage over the church in Friesenheim came to the Count Palatine near the Rhine . Elector Ottheinrich introduced the Reformation in the Electoral Palatinate in 1556 . When the Palatinate church was divided in 1705, however, the church fell to the Catholics. It was not until 1738 that Friesenheim received its own parish again.
In 1753 a new church was built after the old one fell victim to the floods. Patron was now St. Gallus . Why the change took place is not known. In 1843 the church had to be closed due to dilapidation. The new building was built from 1847 according to plans by Jakob and Gabriel Foltz. In the following year, the new St. Gallus Church was completed and in 1849 it was consecrated. With the St. Joseph parish that was separated in 1922, St. Gallus now forms a parish community .
description
The St. Gallus Church is in the center of Altfriesenheim. The hall church was built in the neo-Gothic style. The crucifixion group in the apse was created by August Weckbecker in 1938 . Georg Wimmer made the figures of Maria and St. Gallus for the side altars in 1950. The baroque pulpit from the 18th century has been preserved from the previous church. The rich carvings come from Johann Matthäus van den Branden . Two marble tombstones are from 1749 and 1774. The organ was built in 1966 by Scherpf. The chimes consists of four bells with Schlagtonfolge dis 1 -fis 1 -GIS 1 -ais 1 . Three were cast after the war, the Marienglocke dates from 1889.
Choir
pulpit
Baptismal font
literature
- Friedrich Schmitt: Ludwigshafen church building . Ludwigshafen / Rhine 1985.
- Hans Caspary (edit.), Georg Dehio (start.): Handbook of German art monuments : Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland . Munich 1984, ISBN 3-422-00382-7 .
- City archive of the city of Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Stefan Mörz , Klaus Jürgen Becker (eds.): History of the city of Ludwigshafen am Rhein: Vol. 1. From the beginnings to the end of the First World War . Ludwigshafen am Rhein 2003, ISBN 3-924667-35-7 .
Web links
- Parish community St. Cäcilia (fellowship with St. Joseph and St. Gallus)
- General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - district-free city of Ludwigshafen am Rhein. Mainz 2020, p. 16 (PDF; 4.9 MB).
Coordinates: 49 ° 29 ′ 49.3 " N , 8 ° 24 ′ 36.6" E