St. Michael (Ludwigshafen)

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St. Michaels Church
Front view

The St. Michaels Church is a Catholic church in the Maudach district of Ludwigshafen . It was built between 1749 and 1753. Parts of the church come from the previous building from the 16th century.

history

Maudach was first mentioned in 770 in the Lorsch Codex . A church is mentioned for the first time in 1307. It belonged to the diocese of Speyer , the right of patronage lay with the rule of Scharfeneck . After the Lords of Scharfeneck died out, the rights to the church were withdrawn from the Palatinate in 1427 . Elector Friedrich I bequeathed the rule of Scharfeneck and the County of Löwenstein in 1482 to his son Ludwig , who came from a morganatic marriage . In the following period the patronage right to the Maudach church was with the Counts of Löwenstein and from 1538 with the Göler von Ravensburg , who appointed a Lutheran pastor in 1547 . This was followed by the Lords of Hirschhorn , who were also turned towards Lutheranism and who finally introduced the Reformation after the Peace of Augsburg in 1555 . 1686, that ordered the Bishopric of Speyer a simultaneous to use the church before it was in 1699 solely to Catholics awarded.

From 1749 the nave and the choir of the church were rebuilt. The plans were probably made by Franz Wilhelm Rabaliatti . The new St. Michael's Church was founded on September 30, 1753 from Speyer Bishop Johann hump consecrated . The church was damaged in 1945 during the Second World War . It was repaired in 1950/51. In 1992 the church was restored and a new altar was consecrated.

Until 2015 the parish of St. Michael and the Rheingönheimer St. Joseph parish formed a parish community . Since January 1, 2016, the parishes of St. Bonifaz, St. Hedwig and St. Hildegard in the Garden City, St. Michael in Maudach and St. Joseph in Rheingönheim have formed the parish of  St. Catherine of Siena  with around 10,170 Catholics.

description

View of the old choir, now the sacristy

The characteristic St. Michaels Church is in the north of Maudach. The hall church has a baroque nave with a round choir . The 33 meter high tower is placed on the left flank of the choir and the sacristy on the right. The two late Gothic parts of the building are the oldest in the church and still come from the previous building. The tower with its pointed helmet was built around 1500, the sacristy from 1535 was once the three-sided closed choir. Above the main portal there is a statue of the church patron Archangel Michael .

The celebration altar and the sacrament altar were made by the sculptor Johannes Hillebrand . He also designed the central window, the ambo and the sediles . His brother Clemens Hillebrand painted the ceilings with celestial vaults in 1992 and the twelve pictures of the Way of the Cross in 1995 . The rococo-style pulpit was created by Christian Steiner in 1775 . Two paintings from the 18th century depict the Assumption of the Virgin and St. Nepomuk. They were probably part of the baroque side altars that have not survived. A devotional image of the Pietà dates from the 15th century. It was brought to the church from the Maudach field chapel in the 1930s. The organ case was created by Andreas Krämer in 1780 . The current plant was built in 1977 by Haerpfer & Erman . The ringing consists of three bells with the strike tone sequence g sharp 1 –h 1 –c sharp 2 . They were cast by the Hamm foundry in 1955 .

  • Michael statue

  • pulpit

  • organ

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

Commons : St. Michael Church  - Collection of Images

Coordinates: 49 ° 27 '23.1 "  N , 8 ° 22' 58.2"  E