St. Albanus und Leonhardus, Gothic Revival church in Manheim, Germany.
St. Albanus und Leonhardus is a former Catholic parish church in Manheim, part of Kerpen, built between 1898 and 1900 to plans by Franz Statz. The nave has red-brown pointed rib vaults on cream walls and pale stone columns, with dark wooden pews leading to an altar backed by three tall stained-glass lancet windows and a crucifix. A blue-fronted altar table, a tall carved retable, two wooden side shrines, an ambo and a lectern furnish the chancel; a statue stands on a column at left.
A church first stood at this location during the Carolingian period, though it was rebuilt several times over the centuries. The current building in Gothic Revival style was constructed in the late 1800s to replace its predecessors.
The church was dedicated to Saint Alban of Mainz and Saint Leonard of Limoges; an altar to Leonard is documented as early as 1540. The parish was dissolved on 1 January 2013 and merged into Saint Martinus in Kerpen, and the building was profaned on 18 May 2019. A chapel with about forty seats was proposed as a replacement in the new Manheim.
The church was profaned on 18 May 2019 and is no longer used for worship, so there are no opening times to check. It stands free on a slight rise in southern Manheim, ringed by a brick-walled green space, with Buirer Straße to the west, Sankt-Albanus-Straße to the south and Blatzheimer Straße to the east. Almost all neighbouring buildings were demolished between late 2019 and early 2020.
The building preserves sections of an original medieval choir within its later Gothic Revival structure. These older remnants reveal how different construction periods were layered into the same structure.
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