Old Lutheran School Seckbach

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Seckbach's old Lutheran school from 1709, view from the courtyard of the Marienkirche

The former Lutheran School Seckbach is now located in Wilhelmshöher Strasse in the city of Frankfurt am Main . The former rural community Seckbach was incorporated into Frankfurt on July 1, 1900 .

history

Façade Wilhelmshöher Strasse, left: Seckbach's war memorial 1870/71
Facade Wilhelmshöher Strasse

In the course of the Reformation , Seckbach, although it belonged to the County of Hanau , became Lutheran under Frankfurt influence . When Philipp Ludwig II of Hanau introduced the Reformed Confession in the sense of Zwingli in his county in 1595 , the majority of the Seckbachers remained connected to the Lutheran Confession.

Count Johann Ernst von Hanau-Münzenberg died in 1642 . With him, the Hanau-Munzenberg line , which professed the Reformed faith, died out. According to a contract of inheritance from 1610, Count Friedrich Casimir , who was oriented towards Lutheranism from the Hanau-Lichtenberg line, now also had the County of Hanau-Münzenberg. In the decades that followed, this led to the fact that, in addition to the Reformed regional church in the former county of Hanau-Münzenberg, a Lutheran regional church was established. In almost all places in the county, Lutheran congregations were founded in addition to the Reformed ones.

In the rural community of Seckbach and the Frankfurt village of Bornheim , which was not yet incorporated into Frankfurt , a joint Lutheran community was formed in the 1660s. Their Seckbach church services were held in the Seckbach town hall at Hofhausstraße 2 in the first few years . At that time, the Bornheimers owned a small church from the Middle Ages. From 1673, however, the Seckbach community was able to move into a second temporary spatial solution in Wilhelmshöher Strasse 158. However, this did not apply to the Lutheran school, whose children were taught in the town hall until a school house of its own was finally ready to move into.

Seckbach's Lutheran School was opened in 1709 at the time of the Baroque , a Franconian-style half-timbered house at Wilhelmshöher Straße 135. It remained intact during the Second World War during the air raids on Frankfurt am Main, which also hit Seckbach , and is therefore still preserved today.

The newly created Lutheran School in Seckbach was the first phase of construction that was to provide the Lutheran congregation with premises on its own site. In the following year, the baroque hall church Marienkirche was consecrated with its own church or cemetery. While the school was given a customary half-timbered house for cost reasons, which blended harmoniously into the townscape, the church was given more effort for obvious reasons. It was built with Baroque stylistic features from the foundation to the top of the church tower and was given a three-tier onion dome with a Welscher dome . Children and teachers from the Lutheran school were now housed in the direct vicinity of the new church. The Bornheimers only built a larger church in 1778/79, which was called Johanniskirche from 1896 .

Franconian half-timbering of the rural baroque
View from the Lohrberg pharmacy

In Seckbach, the lack of space runs like a red thread through school history. From 1834, after the union of the Reformed and Lutheran churches to form the Evangelical Church, the Reformed St. Peter's Church on Wilhelmshöher Strasse was no longer needed. It has been used as a school since then. The Lutheran school in Seckbach served its purpose from 1709 to 1879, but from 1881/82 it had to be reactivated for a third class of the new school that was inaugurated in 1879 (since the incorporation: Zentgrafenschule ) and around 1900 for other upper classes, because their premises were already there after only three years was no longer sufficient for the rapidly growing number of students during this period. For the Seckbach students and teachers, this meant for decades being spread over three locations.

From 1943 to 1951 the Protestant services are held in the Old Lutheran School, as the neighboring Marienkirche was destroyed in the air raids on Frankfurt am Main .

The Seckbach Lutheran school house and the church are located above Wilhelmshöher Straße on a hillside, enthroned above the historic center of Seckbach, as it were. The churchyard of the Marienkirche used to be directly on the outskirts, its surrounding wall formed the local border, but not that of the Seckbacher district.

The former Lutheran school house is now inhabited and is therefore not open to the public. The external facades can, however, be viewed both from Wilhelmshöher Strasse and from the churchyard of St. Mary's Church. The Seckbach local history museum is located opposite in Wilhelmshöher Straße 124 a.

Transport links

Parking spaces are hard to find in the center of Seckbach. Therefore, the use of public transport is recommended. The former Lutheran School of Seckbach at Wilhelmshöher Straße 135 can be reached with the RMV -Linienbus 43. The building is located directly at the Zentgrafenschule stop . It takes about 8 minutes to walk from the last stop at Leonhardsgasse if you take the RMV bus line 44. A walk of about the same length is required if you come from the terminus Atzelberg-Ost of the RMV bus route 38.

literature

  • Rochelmeyer, Folker: Seckbach and his surroundings , Frankfurter Sparkasse from 1822 - Polytechnische Gesellschaft (ed.), 1972, 84 p
  • Rochelmayer, Folker (ed.): Festschrift 1100 Years Seckbach, 880-1980 , Festival Committee 1100 Years Seckbach e. V. (ed.), 1980, 151 pp.
  • Walter Sauer: Seckbacher history (s) , Kultur- und Sportring Frankfurt a. M.-Seckbach 1954 e. V. (ed.), Frankfurt am Main, 2000, 164 pp
  • 50 years of culture and history association 1954 Frankfurt a. M.-Seckbach e. V. , dto. (Ed.), Ibid., 2004, 53 p., Illustrated

Web links

Commons : Alte Lutherische Schule Seckbach  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 50 ° 8 '37.4 "  N , 8 ° 43' 34.1"  E