St. Sebastian (Ludwigshafen)
The St. Sebastian Church is a Catholic church in the Ludwigshafen district of Mundenheim . It was built between 1952 and 1954.
history
Mundenheim was first mentioned in a document in 770. The church of St. Sebastian and Peter is first mentioned in 1231. The church patronage belonged to the Weißenburg monastery , which sold it to the Worms Andreasstift in 1482 . In the 17th century Mundenheim came to the Speyer diocese , to which the place belonged until 1709. The church was destroyed several times by floods. Between 1869 and 1861 the nave and choir were rebuilt by the Ludwigshafen master builder Joseph Hoffmann . Only the tower, which already existed in 1610, was preserved.
During the Second World War , the church was badly damaged in 1943 and 1945. After the war, the ruins were torn down and in 1952 the construction of the new church began. The plans for this came from the architects Karl Lochner and Philipp Blaumer . The company Joseph Hoffmann & Sons took over the execution . On 29 August 1954, the new St. Sebastian Church was Bishop Isidor Markus Emanuel consecrated . The church was renovated in 2009/10.
On the outer south wall of the nave there used to be an epitaph for the Electoral Palatinate Minister Peter Emanuel von Zedtwitz (1715–1786), who was buried in the church , but has been lost since the reconstruction.
description
The St. Sebastian Church is a massive plastered building made of reinforced concrete. It rises above a T-shaped floor plan. A large rose window dominates the front . The 42 meter high free-standing bell tower stands on the substructure of its predecessor from 1610. A Madonna is placed on the church . The stone sculpture was created in 1854.
The equipment includes an Immakulata , which was created in the middle of the 18th century in Paul Egell's workshop . It was once located above the portal of the Sodality Church in Mannheim, which was destroyed in 1945 . The windows are designed by Albert Burkart . The organ was built by Scherpf in 1963. The instrument has 37 registers . The ringing consists of five bells from the Schilling foundry .
| Bells | ||
|---|---|---|
| year | Weight in kg | volume |
| 1958 | 3,024 | b 0 |
| 1958 | 2.014 | c 1 |
| 1958 | 1,261 | it 1 |
| 1958 | 1,024 | f 1 |
| 1958 | 700 | g 1 |
front
Madonna
organ
inner space
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
- Parish of St. Sebastian
- General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - district-free city of Ludwigshafen am Rhein. Mainz 2020, p. 19 (PDF; 4.9 MB).
- Bells of the Church of St. Sebastian
Individual evidence
- ↑ Church is being renovated. In: Mannheimer Morgen. January 2, 2010, accessed August 6, 2020 .
- ^ Diocese of Speyer ( Memento from January 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
Coordinates: 49 ° 27 ′ 51 ″ N , 8 ° 25 ′ 45.5 ″ E