St. Ludwig (Speyer)

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St. Ludwig in Speyer, view from Wormser Gäßchen

St. Ludwig is a church building in Speyer that is to be profaned . Most recently it served the Catholic Church as the house church of the conference center of the diocese of St. Ludwig until its end. The current building dates from the time of the reconstruction of the city in 1698 after the great destruction of the city in 1689. The building is the reconstruction of the choir of the Gothic Dominican church that was destroyed at the time .

history

West facade with climbing plant
View of the organ 2011

Dominican monastery

The first Dominicans came to Speyer in 1262 . In 1264 they began building a large church, which was consecrated on March 31, 1308 by Bishop John of Strasbourg in the presence of King Albrecht of Austria . The Speyer bishop Walram von Veldenz was buried in front of the high altar in 1336 .

After the great destruction of the city in 1689 in the Palatinate War of Succession on the orders of Louis XIV , the nave was abandoned and the choir was renewed in its current form.

Revolution and Restoration

In 1794 the church was damaged by French revolutionary troops . In 1802 the French administration abolished the Dominican Convention. The buildings were auctioned and the church was used as a restaurant at times.

In 1825 and 1829, the Speyer diocese first bought the monastery buildings and then the church in order to set up a seminary or a Konvikt there. The church was redesigned as a seminary church under the direction of the architect August von Voit . At that time it received the patronage of St. Ludwig in honor of King Ludwig I of Bavaria . The church was bought in 1829 from the foundation of the cathedral provost Johann Valentin Metz , to whom a memorial stone was later placed next to the sacristy door.

20th century

In 1935 the architect Albert Boßlet was commissioned to add a yoke to the church . At that time, the important late Gothic Boßweiler Altar (around 1485), coming from the cathedral, was also installed there. The monastery building was the Episcopal Konvikt from 1839 to 1995. In 1990, after a thorough renovation, the St. Ludwig diocese house was used as an education and conference center for the diocese.

present

The diocese house St. Ludwig was closed in 2010 due to an urgent need for renovation. Initially, plans developed to extensively renovate the building and to relocate the diocesan seminary , which was located at St. Ludwig from 1834 to 1956, as well as the diocese headquarters of the Caritas Association there, were given up for financial reasons. The buildings are to be sold, but will retain their urban appearance.

Historical views

  • Model of the undestroyed church before 1689 (bottom right)

  • View around 1700 (nave wall of the church still preserved)

  • The half-destroyed church, 1716

  • View of the rest of the choir from the ruinous nave, 1783

  • Photo, before the renovation in 1935

literature

  • St. Ludwig Church. BOSSWEILER ALTAR IN SPEYER. Little church leader
  • mp: Diocese house was once a monastery of the Dominican order. A historical outline of the diocese of St. Ludwig, the Church of St. Ludwig and the seminary . In Speyerer Morgenpost from March 19, 2014, p. 3

Web links

Commons : St. Ludwig  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Michael Frey : Attempt at a geographical-historical-statistical description of the royal Bavarian Rhine district , Volume 2, p. 133, Speyer, 1836; (Digital scan)
  2. ↑ dominikaner.de
  3. ^ Franz Xaver Remling : Modern History of the Bishops of Speyer , Speyer, 1867, p. 371
  4. ^ Franz Xaver Remling: Documented history of the former abbeys and monasteries in what is now Rhine Bavaria , Volume 1, Neustadt, 1836, p. 192; (Digital scan)
  5. ↑ mrn-news.de , March 17, 2014

Coordinates: 49 ° 19 '4.7 "  N , 8 ° 26" 10.8 "  E