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Jesuit Church Mannheim Germany (Jesuitenkirche Mannheim) *
The Mannheim Jesuit Church is a Catholic church of historic and artistic importance in Mannheim, Germany. Church construction was begun in 1733 and completed in 1760. It was consecrated to St. Ignatius of Loyola and St. Francis Xavier.
During the Second World War, the church suffered severe damage from air attacks; after the war it was rebuilt in its historical style using original parts.The church displays many Baroque features in its exterior and interior. The exterior includes a twin towered facade, statues of the four cardinal virtues, and a 75 m high dome. The interior includes marble pilasters, a dome decorated with scenes from the life of the order's founder, and several organs.
The church was built between 1733 in 1756 as the Court Church of the Mannheim electors Charles Philip III and Charles Theodore to a design of the Italian architect Alessandro Galli da Bibiena. It was completed in 1760 and consecrated to St. Ignatius of Loyola and St. Francis Xavier by the Prince Bishop of Augsburg, Joseph of Hesse-Darmstadt.
The marble pilastered interior is in a late Baroque-early classical style. Egid Quirin Asam from Munich was instructed to decorate the church. He decorated the dome with scenes from the life of the order's founder, St. Ignatius of Loyola, while the nave had an over 400 square metre fresco whose content referred to the subject of the high altar, namely the Mission of St. Francis Xavier to India.
Even today, this church is still very rich in Baroque art. It still has the six side altars and font by Verschaffelt. In the crossing beneath the dome there are four frescoes representing the continents by the Mannheim Baroque painter Philip Jerome Brinckmann.
The main organ case in the west gallery is built according to a design of the elector’s court sculptor Paul Egell. It survived the bombing and the small damage it suffered was repaired in 1952.
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Die Jesuitenkirche St. Ignatius und Franz Xaver ist eine katholische Kirche in der Mannheimer Innenstadt im Quadrat A 4. Sie wurde 1738 bis 1760 erbaut und ist eine der Pfarrkirchen der Seelsorgeeinheit Mannheim-Johannes XXIII. sowie Sitz des Dekans des katholischen Stadtdekanats Mannheim. Der Kunsthistoriker Georg Dehio bezeichnete sie zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts als bedeutendste Barockkirche Südwestdeutschlands. #Jesuitenkirche #JesuitChurch #Mannheim
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Jesuit Church Mannheim
A4 2, 68159 Mannheim
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