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The Katharinenkirche (St. Catherine's church) in

Oppenheim Oppenheim ( or ) is a town in the Mainz-Bingen district of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Geography Location The town lies on the Upper Rhine in Rhenish Hesse between Mainz and Worms. It is the seat of the Verbandsgemeinde (special ad ...

, Germany, is regarded as an important

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church building on the Rhine, along with the cathedrals of Cologne and

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. 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 traditio ...

. 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 (, EKHN) is a United Protestant church body in the German federal states of Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate. There is no bishop and therefore no cathedral. One of its most prominent churches is Katharinen ...

. The church is a venue of church music too. Church musicians are the organists Ralf and . 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 File:Katharinenkirche Oppenheim Lilienfenster 2.jpg File:Katharinenkirche Oppenheim Suedfassade.jpg, Katharinenkirche Oppenheim Suedfassade

Literature

Hildebrand Gurlitt Hildebrand Gurlitt (15 September 1895 – 9 November 1956) was a German art historian and 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 dea ...

: ''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 – 21 March 1932), was a Baltic German art historian. In 1900, Dehio started the "''Handbuch der deutschen Kunstgeschichte''" (Handbook of German Art History), published by Ernst Wasmuth Verlag, ...

: ''Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler'', Rheinland-Pfalz, Saarland,

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, 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, .

External links

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