All Saints Church (Frankfurt am Main)

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The All Saints Church
Front of the All Saints Church
Steeple
Depiction of saints above the entrance

The All Saints Church is a Catholic church in the Ostend district of Frankfurt . The All Saints parish since 2014, a church town, the cathedral parish of St. Bartholomew , and is best known as an art church culture downtown Frankfurt.

history

In the course of the 19th century, a number of new districts emerged around the historic city ​​center of Frankfurt. The Ostend developed into a densely populated residential area, in which there were initially no churches. While the first Protestant church was built at the beginning of the 20th century with the New St. Nicolaikirche at the Zoo , the Catholics of Frankfurt formed a single parish until 1917 with around 86,000 members, whose parish church was the Imperial Cathedral of St. Bartholomew . On April 2, 1917, several Kuratiegemeinde were spun off. In 1922 a Catholic parish, the All Saints Parish, was also established in Ostend .

The name is reminiscent of the All Saints Gate, which leads from the Ostend to the city center, and the small All Saints Chapel near the gate in the Middle Ages . The pastoral care was taken over by the Merciful Brothers from Montabaur . The services initially took place in a small chapel in the Untere Atzemer , which was destroyed in the air raids on Frankfurt am Main during World War II .

Martin Weber had designed a new building as early as 1927, but it was never implemented. From 1948, the community was able to use the rebuilt chapel of the brothers' hospital. In 1952, the architects Alois Giefer and Hermann Mäckler were commissioned to build a new church on Thüringer Strasse , right next to the zoo wall. The church was consecrated in 1953 by the Limburg auxiliary bishop Walther Kampe . The zoo divides the community area into a northern part, a residential area in which the church is also located, and a southern part, which is characterized by industry and commerce.

In November 1954, a jury convened by the Association of German Architects and the Hessian Minister of Finance recognized the building as an “exemplary building in the state of Hesse”. The jury included the following architects: Werner Hebebrand , Konrad Rühl , Sep Ruf and Ernst Zinsser .

As part of the reorganization of the Catholic parishes in the city center, the parishes of All Saints, St. Bernhard , Teutonic Order , Liebfrauen and St. Ignatius and St. Antonius with the parish of Dom / St. Leonhard became a new large parish of St. Bartholomew's Cathedral on January 1, 2014 merged. The previous parishes are to remain as church locations and ensure an active and interesting parish life. The leading priests of the religious communities Deutschorden, Liebfrauen and St. Ignatius are referred to as church rectors and not as pastors.

On Saturdays, Sundays and Tuesdays, Spanish-language masses of the Spanish community take place in the All Saints Church.

Architecture and equipment

The All Saints Church with a campanile rises on a parabolic floor plan between the zoo and the former hospital of the brothers . On the outside, the walls are characterized by the alternation of yellow and white sand-lime bricks, inside the walls are simply white. The building is framed to the west and east by side rooms with galleries. A light dome rises above the altar on four slender supports. The All Saints' Reliefs above the main portals by Hans Mettel are particularly noteworthy.

organ

The organ of the All Saints Church was built in 1955 by the organ building company Euler , Hofgeismar . The instrument has 26 registers (approx. 2000 pipes ) on three manuals and a pedal . The instrument is a cultural monument according to the Hessian Monument Protection Act . The "post-war instrument" is in need of repair, is being restored in various stages and at the same time expanded into a "contemporary instrument". The plan is to install a swellable multiplex movement whose registers can be linked to the individual works.

I Breast swelling C – g 3
Night horn covered 8th'
Gemshorn 4 ′
Forest flute 2 ′
Quintzimbel III 1 ⁄ 3 ′
Wooden shelf 8th'
II Hauptwerk C – g 3
Quintad 16 ′
Principal 8th'
Reed flute 8th'
octave 4 ′
Dumped 4 ′
recorder 2 ′
Mixture IV-VI 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Trumpet 8th'
III Upper threshold C – g 3
Wooden dacked 8th'
Pointed flute 4 ′
Principal 2 ′
Sif flute 1'
Sesquialtera II 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Scharff IV 1'
Rankett 16 ′
Schalmey 4 ′
Pedals C – f 1
Sub bass 16 '
Principal bass 8th'
Choral bass 4 '
Back set IV 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
trombone 16 ′
Multiplex plant
Wooden principal 16 ′ I, II, P
Wooden fifth 10 2 ⁄ 3  ′ P
Salicional 8th' I, III, P
Salicional 6 2 ⁄ 5  ′ P
Salicional 4 ′ P
Beat 8th' I, III
(Continuation)
Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ II, P
Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ I, II
third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′ I, II, III
Seventh 1 1 ⁄ 7  ′ I, II, III
None 8 ⁄ 9 ′ I, II, III
Eleventh 8 ⁄ 11 ′ I, II, III
(Continuation)
bassoon 16 ′ II, P
Fifth bassoon 10 2 ⁄ 3  ′ P
oboe 8th' I, II, III, P
Aeoline 8th' I, III, P
Aeoline 5 1 ⁄ 3  ′ P
oboe 4 ′ P
Aeoline 4 ′ P
Aeoline 2 ′ P
(Continuation)
Psaltery I, II, P
xylophone I, II, P
Tuning forks I, II, III
Sound harp I, II, III, P
  • Pairing :
    • Normal coupling: I / II, III / I, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P
    • Sub-octave coupling: III / II
  • Playing aids : Koppelmixtur III (main work / pedal), wind throttles, tremulants for all works, hi-hat, wind chimes, rainmaker, electronic typesetting system
  • Remarks:
I = multiplex register, playable on the first manual
II = multiplex register, playable on the II. Manual
III = multiplex register, playable on the III. manual
P = multiplex register, playable on the pedal

literature

  • Karin Berkemann : Post-war churches in Frankfurt am Main (1945-76) (= monument topography Federal Republic of Germany; cultural monuments in Hesse ). Theiss-Verlag, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-8062-2812-0 , [zugl. Diss., Neuendettelsau, 2012].
  • Bernhard Letter: Unity of space and instrument . In: Monument Preservation and Cultural History. Vol. 15, Issue 1, 2012, ISSN  1436-168X , p. 11 f.
  • Klaus Greef (Ed.): Catholic Frankfurt - then and now . Verlag Josef Knecht, Frankfurt am Main 1989, ISBN 3-7820-0587-2 .
  • Hugo Schnell: All Saints Church, Frankfurt (= small art guide ). Munich / Zurich 1962.
  • Dr. Adrian Seib: All Saints' Day. In: Deutscher Werkbund Hessen, Wilhelm E. Opatz (Ed.): Once praised and almost forgotten. Modern churches in Frankfurt a. M. 1948-1973. Niggli Verlag, Sulgen 2012, ISBN 978-3-7212-0842-9 , pp. 34-39.

Web links

Commons : All Saints Church  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Award for exemplary buildings in the state of Hesse on November 6, 1954 . In: The Hessian Minister of Finance (Hrsg.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1955 no. 4 , p. 70 , point 75 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 3.6 MB ]).
  2. ^ All Saints' Day Divine Services ( Memento from February 27, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ a b Bernhard letter: Unity of space and instrument . In: Monument Preservation and Cultural History . tape 15 , ISSN  1436-168X .
  4. ↑ More information on the multiplex project ( Memento from March 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive )

Coordinates: 50 ° 7 '0.8 "  N , 8 ° 42' 8.8"  E