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The Catholic Herz-Jesu-Kirche (Church of the Sacred Heart) is a
Herz Jesu Kirche
in the parish of St. Nikolaus, retrieved 1 January 2017 In 1969/70 north-side extension with community rooms and redesign of the choir room. The modern glass windows by Alois Blum, Mainz, impress especially in contrast with the equally high-quality neo-Gothic style. The Ketteler memorial chapel has a ceiling; it is worth climbing the spiral staircase, as the room above surprises with its height. Since the nave with its large tower was not built, the choir with its transept lacked an abutment. Securing the ring anchors was therefore necessary in 1999/2001. In the course of this renovation, the choir room was painted by Vitus Wurmdobler, Erbes Büdesheim. A design which, according to the church's monument preservation department, is unique in its kind. So it is not surprising that it was discussed controversial. The large abstract wooden cross of cubes and ashlars, originally by Alois Plum, was given a corpus with a baroque corona later. The replacement of the earlier original fluorescent tube lamps by modern "Mikado" incandescent wheel lamps is also worth a look. Since 2011, a 16-part Stations of the Cross has been impressive. Carved by the Mombacher citizen Jupp Schmitt from the wood of a lime tree that stood in the parish garden of St. Nilolaus.
The Catholic Herz-Jesu-Kirche (Church of the Sacred Heart) is a Neo-Gothic
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located in the borough Mombach
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city of Mainz
Mainz () is the capital and largest city of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
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. It is dedicated to the Sacred Heart
The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus ( la, Cor Jesu Sacratissimum) is one of the most widely practised and well-known Catholic devotions, wherein the heart of Jesus is viewed as a symbol of "God's boundless and passionate love for mankind". This devo ...
. The church calendar of 1911 says: The name "Sacred Heart Church" originated from the idea to honour the memory of the great social bishop von Ketteler, who throughout his life was a pious and zealous admirer of the Sacred Heart, in his hundredth year of birth.
History
The ''Herz-Jesu-Kirche'' was built by Ludwig Becker inGothic Revival architecture
Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic, neo-Gothic, or Gothick) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. The movement gained momentum and expanded in the first half of the 19th century, as increasingly ...
as a memorial of Bishop Wilhelm Emmanuel Freiherr von Ketteler
Baron Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler (25 December 181113 July 1877) was a German theologian and politician who served as Bishop of Mainz. His social teachings became influential during the papacy of Leo XIII and his encyclical '' Rerum novarum'' ...
in the largest working class district of Mainz. Constructive works began 9 August 1911, but were interrupted by the First World War. The Bishop of Mainz, Georg Heinrich Kirstein
Georg Heinrich Maria Kirstein (2 July 1858, Mainz – 15 April 1921, Mainz) was a German Roman Catholic clergyman. From 1904 until his death he served as Bishop of Mainz
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, laid the first stone. The work was previously completed 28 September 1913 for the choir.
Planned as a basilica with a façade flank tower, only the choir, transept and Ketteler memorial chapel were built. Neo-Late Gothic, picturesquely grouped plaster building with divisions in red sandstone. The church presents a polygonal choir with varied side choirs. Above the crossing is an eight-sided ridge turret with an idiosyncratically shaped copper pointed helmet with a crowning figure of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Tracery window. The clear spatial effect of the light-filled interior is characterised by net and star vaults above clustered pillars. Good stonemasonry work by Hans Steinheim and Josef Neumann, Eltville. South of the choir, representative sacristy building with stair tower. The sacred building, dominating the townscape, is typical of the late historian Becker's striving for monumentality of appearance. Its originality is expressed in the fusion of various historical models and their individual reformulation.
The stained glass windows were created by Alois Plum
Alois Johannes Plum (born Mainz, 2 March 1935) is an artist working in Mainz, Germany, who has acquired a national reputation for his stained glass, his paintings (esp. murals), and his plastic art. Plum has been active since the 1950s and his ...
. After the backup and restoration of the choir in 2001, the choir was painted by Vitus Wurmdobler.in the parish of St. Nikolaus, retrieved 1 January 2017 In 1969/70 north-side extension with community rooms and redesign of the choir room. The modern glass windows by Alois Blum, Mainz, impress especially in contrast with the equally high-quality neo-Gothic style. The Ketteler memorial chapel has a ceiling; it is worth climbing the spiral staircase, as the room above surprises with its height. Since the nave with its large tower was not built, the choir with its transept lacked an abutment. Securing the ring anchors was therefore necessary in 1999/2001. In the course of this renovation, the choir room was painted by Vitus Wurmdobler, Erbes Büdesheim. A design which, according to the church's monument preservation department, is unique in its kind. So it is not surprising that it was discussed controversial. The large abstract wooden cross of cubes and ashlars, originally by Alois Plum, was given a corpus with a baroque corona later. The replacement of the earlier original fluorescent tube lamps by modern "Mikado" incandescent wheel lamps is also worth a look. Since 2011, a 16-part Stations of the Cross has been impressive. Carved by the Mombacher citizen Jupp Schmitt from the wood of a lime tree that stood in the parish garden of St. Nilolaus.
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