Antoniuskirche (Westend)

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Antonius Church
The Antoniuskirche in front of the Trianon

The St. Antonius Church is a Catholic church in Frankfurt am Main . It was built in the neo-Gothic style in the Westend district in 1899/1900 . After its destruction in the Second World War and its reconstruction, it served as the parish church of the parish of St. Antonius . From September 1, 2007 to December 31, 2013 it was a branch church of the parish of St. Ignatius and St. Antonius , and since January 1, 2014 it has been a parish of the cathedral parish of St. Bartholomew . It is not to be confused with the Antoniuskirche in Frankfurt's Rödelheim district .

history

In the course of the 19th century, a number of new districts emerged around the historic city ​​center of Frankfurt. The Westend developed into a middle-class residential area in which there were initially no churches . In 1899, Landgravine Anna von Hessen , a born Princess of Prussia, founded a Catholic church in the Westend, which was to be consecrated to Saint Anthony of Padua . The Berlin government architect August Menken designed a neo-Gothic church building, which was consecrated on May 26, 1900 by the Limburg bishop Adalbert Endert . In October 1901 , the founder converted to Catholicism in Fulda .

The pastoral care at the church was taken over by six Capuchin Fathers , with which the order was able to resettle in Frankfurt after an almost one hundred year break. Already from 1722 until the secularization in 1802 the Capuchins owned the former Antoniterkirche in Töngesgasse , named after them (in Frankfurterisch) .

Until 1917, all of Frankfurt's Catholic churches remained part of a single parish with around 86,000 members at the end, whose parish church was the Imperial Cathedral of St. Bartholomew . On April 2, 1917, several Kuratiegemeinden , including St. Antonius im Westend, were spun off. The Capuchins took over the Church of Our Lady , the first pastor of the new Antonius parish was Paul Loreth.

After it had already been damaged in several air raids , the Antoniuskirche burned down completely in the great destruction attack on March 22, 1944 , in which the Frankfurt old town and almost all of the historic churches there were destroyed. It was temporarily rebuilt between 1947 and 1949. In 1963 the interior was given a new coffered ceiling and new glass windows in the choir . In addition, her pointed spire has been restored. Another renovation followed in 1974.

In 2007 the Antoniusgemeinde merged with the Ignatiusgemeinde am Gärtnerweg. As part of the reorganization of the Catholic parishes in the city center, the parishes of All Saints , St. Bernhard , Teutonic Order , Liebfrauen as well as St. Ignatius and St. Antonius with the parish Dom / St. Leonhard became the new type of parish with the name on January 1, 2014 Parish of St. Bartholomew merged. The previous parishes are to remain as church locations and ensure an active and interesting parish life. A church location is a place within a parish in which there is a chapel or a church in which the Eucharist or celebration of the Word of God takes place on Sundays or at regular intervals. The leading priests of the religious communities Deutschorden, Liebfrauen and St. Ignatius are referred to as church rectors and not as pastors.

location

The address of the church is Savignystr. 15 in the south west end . Contrary to the usual orientation , the choir of the church is in the west, the church tower with the main entrance in the east on Savignystraße. The church has a parsonage in Bettinastr. 28, in which the community office is housed, and a daycare center in Bettinastr. 26. In the immediate vicinity of the church are the high-rise buildings Westendstraße 1 (208 meters) and City-Haus I (142 meters), which tower above the church tower many times over. Photographs of the church against the backdrop of the Frankfurt skyline are a popular motif.

Furnishing

Choir window

The five choir windows designed in 1958 by Johannes Beeck from Hinsbeck showed the secrets of the rosary . The Gothic high altar is the work of an unknown master from the first half of the 15th century. It comes from a collection of medieval altars that the then Catholic parish priest Franz August Munzenberger created in the 19th century and has been in the Antoniuskirche since 1974. In the middle it shows the coronation of Mary , in the lower part of the retable portraits of Saints Sebastian and Stephan .

organ

The organ, created in 1965 by the Späth brothers from Ennetach as opus 805, is one of the largest church organs in Frankfurt with 4,318 pipes and 56 registers , spread over 4 manuals and pedal . Its special features include a particularly deep bass register, the 32 contrabassoon in the pedal and a Spanish trumpet in the main work.

The instrument has the following disposition :

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Gedacktpommer 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Tube bare 8th'
4th octave 4 ′
5. Coupling flute 4 ′
6th Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
7th Mixture VI-VIII 2 ′
8th. Non cornet V
9. bassoon 16 ′
10. Spanish trumpet 8th'
II upper structure C – g 3
11. Metal dacked 8th'
12. Quintad 8th'
13. Principal 4 ′
14th Reed flute 4 ′
15th Schwiegel 2 ′
16. Sesquialter II 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
17th Seventh 1 1 ⁄ 7  ′
18th Scharff IV-V 1'
19th Schalmey oboe 8th'
tremolo
III Positive C-g 3
20th Pointed 8th'
21st recorder 4 ′
22nd Light principal 2 ′
23. Minor fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
24. Bell Tenter II 4 ⁄ 5 ′
25th Zymbel III 1 ⁄ 2 ′
26th Vox humana 8th'
31. Nasard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
tremolo
IV Swell C – g 3
32. Flûte Harmonique 8th'
33. Bourdon 8th'
34. Voix célèste 8th'
35. Préstant 4 ′
36. Flute Octaviante 4 ′
37. Nasard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
38. Flageolet 2 ′
39. Tièrce 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
40. Piccolo 1'
41. Fittings IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
42. Trompeta magna 16 ′
43. Trumpets 8th'
44. Clairon 4 ′
tremolo
Pedal C – f 1
45. Grand principal 16 ′
46. Sub bass 16 ′
47. Subtle bass 16 ′
48. Octave bass 8th'
49. Thack flute 8th'
50. Quintbass 5 1 ⁄ 3  ′
51. Choral bass 4 ′
52. Night horn 4 ′
53. Wide whistle 2 ′
54. Intoxication III 3 1 ⁄ 5  ′
55. Pedal mix V-VI 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
56. Contrabassoon 32 ′
57. Bombard 16 ′
58. Bass trumpet 8th'
59. zinc 4 ′
60. Fifth 10 2 ⁄ 3  ′
  • Coupling : 10 normal coupling, coupling IV pedal 4 ′
  • Playing aids : 3 free and 3 fixed combinations, 3 pedal combinations, individual and collective racks for tongues and mixtures; Tutti, roller, Zimbelstern

Bells

Three of the four original bells were confiscated and melted down in 1942. It was not until 1999, for the centenary of the church, that the peal could be supplemented with three bells from the foundry Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock in Gescher . The peal now has four bells again with the following disposition:

  1. Carolus c ', 2,500 kg, cast in 1999
  2. Antonius d ', 1,600 kg, cast in 1999
  3. Maria f ', 950 kg, cast in 1999
  4. Josef g ', 600 kg, cast in 1899

Another bell ( Corpus Christi a ', 480 kg) should complement the ringing later.

Trivia

In the 1990s, the church was one of the filming locations for the SAT1 television series Schwarz intervenes .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 50 years of the St. Antonius organ. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 27, 2016 ; accessed on May 27, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dom-frankfurt.de
  2. ↑ A brief summary of the contents and a picture of the church tower can be found under - ( Memento of the original from February 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kath.de

Web links

Commons : Antoniuskirche  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 41 ″  N , 8 ° 39 ′ 39 ″  E