St. Raphael (Heidelberg)
St. Raphael is a Catholic church in the Neuenheim district of Heidelberg . It was built in the neo-Romanesque style between 1903 and 1905 and is dedicated to the Archangel Raphael .
history
The Electoral Palatinate had been Protestant since the Reformation , and so the old Neuenheimer Johanneskirche was also used by the evangelical community. After Neuenheim was incorporated into Heidelberg in 1891, the new district grew rapidly. The number of Catholics who belonged to St. Vitus in Handschuhsheim also increased, which soon led to the desire for their own church. The construction was planned by the head of the Archbishop's Building Office, Ludwig Maier , who was also responsible for St. Bonifatius in the Weststadt and St. Peter in Kirchheim in Heidelberg . In 1902 Neuenheim was promoted to curate , in 1903 the foundation stone for the new church was laid and the first service was celebrated at Christmas 1904. On October 16, 1905 St. Raphael was consecrated by the Archbishop of Freiburg, Thomas Nörber .
A considerable contribution to the building was donated by a family in memory of their son, the zoology professor Raphael Slidell von Erlanger , who died early and whose epitaph is in the church. St. Raphael also owes its unusual patronage to this foundation .
In 1967/68 the high altar and the side altars were removed and the choir room redesigned in accordance with the liturgical reform of the Second Vatican Council . For the centenary in 2005, the church was extensively renovated. The parish, which was once separated from St. Vitus, now forms the Heidelberg-North pastoral care unit with it .
description
architecture
St. Raphael - kept in a neo-Romanesque style based on Italian models - is a three-aisled, transept- free pillar basilica of the early Christian type with a wide, flat-roofed central nave. The narrow aisles are five Jochen arched. For urban planning reasons, the church faces west, the facade faces east towards Werderstrasse and is roughly in the line of sight of Weberstrasse. The outer walls consist of yellowish clinker brick and are structured by pilasters , pilaster strips , cornices and arched friezes. While the tower with pyramidal roof of Venetian reminds churches, served for the facade with its blind arches of the Cathedral of Pisa as a model. It is crowned by a crucifixion group, on the sloping gable there is a kneeling angel on the left and right.
Interior
Today, the interior appears functional and modern, little of the original neo-Romanesque furnishings has been preserved, the altars by Alfons Marmon have been removed. Since the last renovation, the flat ceiling has been kept in deep lapis lazuli blue based on medieval and historical models . The pulpit, created by Karl Baur in 1939 , is supported by four pillars and shows the Sermon on the Mount, the sending of the disciples and the sacraments. The choir was redesigned several times after the original high altar was removed. Since 1995 it has been dominated by Udo Körner's picture collage “Scream and Cloud”, which is supposed to commemorate the death and resurrection of Jesus.
On the north side, the original glass windows of Heinrich Beiler's stained glass factory in Heidelberg with figures of saints have been preserved; the windows in the south aisle were damaged by a fire bomb in 1944. They were replaced in 1954 by a window cycle by Willy Oeser , which depicts the Raphael story from the book Tobit . Willy Oeser also created the Stations of the Cross and the windows and mosaics in the choir.
There are also some older works of art, such as the torso of a wayside cross from the 18th century and an almost life-size crescent moon Madonna from the late 15th century in the left side apse.
organ
On March 6, 2016, the new organ was inaugurated by Hendrik Ahrend . The instrument has 32 sounding registers , which are distributed over two manuals and pedal. The disposition is as follows:
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- Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
- Secondary register: Zimbelstern , drum, tremulant allegro / adagio
Bells
St. Raphael has five bells tuned to the tones e ', f sharp', g sharp ', b' and c sharp "and dedicated to the Immaculate Conception , John the Baptist and the archangels Raphael, Gabriel and Michael . The largest and The oldest bell dates back to the time it was built, it was cast in bronze by Benjamin Grüninger in 1904 and weighs 1050 kg. It was the only one to survive both World Wars. The four other bronze bells come from the Heidelberg bell foundry Schilling from 1954.
literature
- Sabine Bruss: The work of the architect Ludwig Maier (1848–1915) . Ludwig, Kiel 1999, ISBN 3-933598-04-4 , pp. 174-183.
- Friedrich Herold: 100 years of St. Raphael in Neuenheim . In: Church on the Way , No. 10, October 2005, p. 5.
- Hans Gercke: St. Raphael Heidelberg . Schnell und Steiner publishing house, Regensburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-7954-6707-4 .
Web links
- Pastoral care unit Heidelberg-Nord
- Interior renovation of the Catholic Church of St. Raphael (PDF file) (Archbishop's Building Authority Heidelberg)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Critical to Martin Mosebach : Heresy of formlessness. The Roman liturgy and its enemy . 4th edition, Karolinger, Vienna / Leipzig 2002, ISBN 3-85418-102-7 , pp. 69-87.
- ↑ Organ in St. Raphael, Heidelberg ( Memento of the original from June 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed June 22, 2016.
- ↑ Bells of the Catholic parish church of St. Raphael in Heidelberg-Neuenheim (Bell inspection of the Archdiocese of Freiburg)
Coordinates: 49 ° 25 ′ 6.6 " N , 8 ° 41 ′ 12.1" E