St. Remigius (Heddesheim)
The St. Remigius Church is a Catholic church in Heddesheim in the Rhein-Neckar district in northwest Baden-Württemberg . It was built in the 18th century and received a modern extension in the 20th century.
history
A church in Heddesheim was first mentioned in 1381. The Worms Synodale, a visitation report of the parishes in the Worms diocese , first described the patronage of St. Remigius in 1494 . Elector Ottheinrich introduced the Reformation in the Electoral Palatinate in 1556 . Heddesheim took part in all changes of denomination in the Palatinate, mainly between Lutherans and Reformed , before the St. Remigius Church was allocated to the Catholics after the Palatinate church division in 1707.
After the church was destroyed in the Dutch War in 1674, a temporary solution was created. A new church was built in 1758 and the nave was extended in 1793. Around 1900 an extension of the church was planned, but this was not carried out. In the 1970s, the architect Heinz Heß designed an extension. The St. Remigius parish and the Ladenburg St. Gallus parish merged in 2005 to form the Ladenburg-Heddesheim pastoral care unit. It belongs to the Dean's Office of Heidelberg-Weinheim in the Archdiocese of Freiburg .
description
The St. Remigius Church consists of two church buildings. The new building was added to the north of the old church. Glass doors connect the two structures. While the regular service takes place in the new church due to lack of space, the old building is mainly used on weekdays, but also for weddings.
Old church
The old baroque Remigius Church has a nave with five window axes. The church tower is placed to the east of the choir . It has two floors with a square floor plan, followed by the eight-sided bell chamber. The tower is covered with an onion dome . In the tympanum of the portal on the west side there is a representation of the patron St. Remigius , above a statue of the Good Shepherd .
The construction of the high altar dates from around 1880. The two large figures, on the left John the Baptist and on the right the Evangelist Matthew , were created in the second half of the 18th century. The two side altars and the marbled pulpit are just as old . The organ was built by Otto Mönch in 1932 . The instrument has 18 stops on two manuals and a pedal . A small organ with a manual from the secular church of St. Johannes in Ladenburg has also been here since 2017.
New Church
According to the plans of Heinz Hess , the extension was placed on the side of the old church facing away from the street. Due to the location and the low height, on the one hand it nestles inconspicuously against the old building, but on the other hand stands out from it through the architecture chosen. The sacred space has the shape of a hexagon. The pews face the altar radially. The organ was built in 1982 by Michael Weise . It has 28 stops on two manuals and a pedal.
literature
- Hans Huth: The art monuments of the Mannheim district: Without the city of Schwetzingen . Munich 1967.
- State Archive administration Baden-Württemberg in connection with d. Cities and districts Heidelberg u. Mannheim (Hrsg.): The city and the districts of Heidelberg and Mannheim: Official district description , Bd. 3: The city of Mannheim and the communities of the district of Mannheim . Karlsruhe 1970.
- Werner Wolf-Holzäpfel: Catholic church building in Mannheim from 1874 to today: On the history of sacred buildings in North Baden in the 19th and 20th centuries . Mannheim 1999, ISBN 3-926260-45-9 .
- Martin Kares, Michael Kaufmann, Godehard Weithoff: Organ guide Rhein-Neckar-Kreis . Heidelberg 2001, ISBN 3-932102-07-X .
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Coordinates: 49 ° 30 ′ 17.5 " N , 8 ° 36 ′ 1.5" E