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The Katharinenkirche (St. Catherine's church) in
File:0ppenheim Katharinenkirche Suedfassade.jpg, Windows from the South
File:Westfassade mit Orgel Oppenheim Katharinenkirche.jpg, Organ
File:Taufstein Katharinenkirche in Oppenheim.jpg, Baptismal font
File:Johann von Dalberg und Anna von Bickenbach.jpg, Grave of
File:Katharinenkirche Oppenheim Lilienfenster.jpg, Katharinenkirche Oppenheim Lilienfenster
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File:Katharinenkirche Oppenheim Suedfassade.jpg, Katharinenkirche Oppenheim Suedfassade
Katharinenkirche Oppenheim
Oppenheim
Daten zur Bau- und Restaurierungsgeschichte der Katharinenkirche in Oppenheim
building history, Fraunhofer-Informationszentrum Raum und Bau IRB baufachinformation.de
image, dr-bernhard-peter.de
The Katharinenkirche (St. Catherine's church) in Oppenheim
Oppenheim () is a town in the Mainz-Bingen district of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The town is a well-known wine center, being the home of the German Winegrowing Museum, and is particularly known for the wines from the Oppenheimer Krötenbru ...
, Germany, is regarded as an important Gothic
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People and languages
*Goths or Gothic people, the ethnonym of a group of East Germanic tribes
**Gothic language, an extinct East Germanic language spoken by the Goths
**Crimean Gothic, the Gothic language spoken b ...
church building on the Rhine, along with the cathedrals of Cologne and Strasbourg
Strasbourg (, , ; german: Straßburg ; gsw, label=Bas Rhin Alsatian, Strossburi , gsw, label=Haut Rhin Alsatian, Strossburig ) is the prefecture and largest city of the Grand Est region of eastern France and the official seat of the Eu ...
. Construction began probably in 1225, when Oppenheim was granted Town privileges
Town privileges or borough rights were important features of European towns during most of the second millennium. The city law customary in Central Europe probably dates back to Italian models, which in turn were oriented towards the tradition ...
. Since the merger of the Lutheran and Reformed congregation in 1822, it is a United Protestant church and its congregation forms part of the Protestant Church in Hesse and Nassau
The Protestant Church in Hesse and Nassau (german: Evangelische Kirche in Hessen und Nassau, EKHN) is a United Protestant church body in the German states of Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate. There is no bishop and therefore no cathedral. One of it ...
. The church is a venue of church music too. Church musicians are the organists Ralf and .
Literature
*Hildebrand Gurlitt
Hildebrand Gurlitt (15 September 1895 – 9 November 1956) was a German art historian, art gallery director who dealt in Nazi-looted art as one of Hitler's and Goering's four authorized dealers for "degenerate art".
A Nazi-associated art dealer ...
: ''Baugeschichte der Katharinenkirche in Oppenheim a. Rh.'', Urban-Verlag, Freiburg i. Br. 1930, dissertation, Frankfurt University 1924)
* Georg Dehio
Georg Gottfried Julius Dehio (22 November 1850 in Reval (now Tallinn), Governorate of Estonia, Russian Empire – 21 March 1932 in Tübingen), was a Baltic German art historian.
In 1900, Dehio started the "''Handbuch der deutschen Kunstgesch ...
: ''Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler'', Rheinland-Pfalz, Saarland, Deutscher Kunstverlag
The Deutscher Kunstverlag (DKV) is an educational publishing house with offices in Berlin and Munich. The publisher specializes in books about art, cultural history, architecture, and historic preservation.
History
Deutscher Kunstverlag was fo ...
, München 1972, p. 686–691.
* Bernhard Schütz: ''Die Katharinenkirche in Oppenheim.'' de Gruyter, Berlin 1982, .
* Ivo Rauch: ''Memoria und Macht. Die mittelalterlichen Glasmalereien der Oppenheimer Katharinenkirche und ihre Stifter.'' Gesellschaft für Mittelrheinische Kirchengeschichte, Mainz 1997, .
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Katharinenkirche Oppenheim
Oppenheim
Daten zur Bau- und Restaurierungsgeschichte der Katharinenkirche in Oppenheim
building history, Fraunhofer-Informationszentrum Raum und Bau IRB baufachinformation.de
image, dr-bernhard-peter.de
Oppenheim
Oppenheim () is a town in the Mainz-Bingen district of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The town is a well-known wine center, being the home of the German Winegrowing Museum, and is particularly known for the wines from the Oppenheimer Krötenbru ...
Oppenheim
Oppenheim () is a town in the Mainz-Bingen district of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The town is a well-known wine center, being the home of the German Winegrowing Museum, and is particularly known for the wines from the Oppenheimer Krötenbru ...
Oppenheim
Oppenheim () is a town in the Mainz-Bingen district of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The town is a well-known wine center, being the home of the German Winegrowing Museum, and is particularly known for the wines from the Oppenheimer Krötenbru ...