St. Joseph (Mainz)

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The Church of St. Joseph was built in Mainz-Neustadt from 1955 to 1957 according to plans by Hugo Becker as a modern building in the form of a truncated ellipse at the corner of Josephsstrasse and Raimundistrasse.

history

Alt-St. Joseph (around 1900)

The parish was established on December 6, 1888 as a parish curate for the Neustadt. This re-establishment had become necessary because the city expansion into the garden field had also increased the need for church buildings. In the previous years 1850–1887, new land was created for the planned expansion of the city by backfilling on the banks of the Rhine. During this time the area was ecclesiastically assigned to the parishes of St. Peter and St. Emmeran . Until the new church building was erected, the Bilhildiskapelle in Josefstrasse Lage was the spiritual center of the new building area. In January 1894 there was a separation into the independent parishes “St. Joseph ”and“ St. Boniface ”.

From 1890 to 1892 the old St. Josephs Church was built, which was consecrated on July 2, 1892 by Bishop Paul Leopold Haffner . The architect of this church in the style of the north German brick Gothic was the Mainz cathedral builder Joseph HA Lucas . Mainly red and yellow bricks were used. The three-aisled basilica church architecture led to a choir with a five-eighth end .

During the air raids on Mainz on February 27, 1945, the premises were destroyed. Until 1950 the church services were celebrated in the auditorium of the Feldberg School on Feldbergplatz and until 1957 again in the chapel of the Bilhildiskloster. After a new building was possible, the community was able to win Hugo Becker as an architect, who at the same time built the Catholic parish church of St. Petrus Canisius in Mainz-Gonsenheim. On October 6, 1957, the church was consecrated by Bishop Albert Stohr .

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The brick building is now listed as a cultural monument in the register of cultural monuments in the district-free city of Mainz .

  • St. Joseph 2015

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b August Schuchert : The Mainz churches and chapels. Copy 150 of 200. Verlag Johann Falk III. Sons, Mainz 1931.
  2. ↑ Michael Kläger: Mainz on the way to the big city (1866-1914) . In: Mainz: The history of the city . Verlag von Zabern, Mainz 1998, p. 467.
  3. ^ Wilhelm Huber: The Mainz Lexicon. Verlag Hermann Schmidt, Mainz 2002, ISBN 3-87439-600-2 .
  4. ^ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - district-free city of Mainz. Mainz 2020, p. 5 (PDF; 5.4 MB).

Coordinates: 50 ° 0 ′ 35.4 "  N , 8 ° 15 ′ 45"  E