Mannheim Palace Church

The Mannheim Palace Church, founded as a court chapel, was built in the 18th century and is part of the Mannheim Palace. The church served as court chapel for the prince-electors of the Electorate of the Palatinate between 1731 and 1777 and belongs to the oldest parish churches of the Old Catholic diocese in Germany.Organ (music)The organ was built by the company Steinmeyer (Oettingen) in 1956 and is a musical keyboard instrument with 34 organ stops (3 transmissions in the pedal) and an electro-pneumatic tracker (Taschenladen). At the balustrade is the Rückpositiv located that carries ornaments with the seal of Charles Philip III. Koppeln: II/I, III/I, III/II, I/P, II/P, III/P Spielhilfen: two free combinations, a free pedal combination, crescendo pedalBellsThere are three bells in the belfry, two of them are baroque bells that have their origins in the building time of the Mannheim Palace. Bell 1 h1, diameter 814 mm, 319 kg, cast in 1731 by Mannheim's official bell caster Blasius Sattler Bell 2 dis2, diameter 640 mm, 141 kg, cast in 1731 by Blasius Sattler Bell 3 fis2, diameter 546 mm, 113 kg, cast in 1956 by Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling in Heidelberg