Church of the Resurrection (Frankfurt-Praunheim)
The Resurrection Church is a baroque Protestant hall church in the Praunheim district of Frankfurt , Graebestraße 8-10. It was built from 1770 to 1773 and rebuilt in 1949 after it was destroyed in World War II by air raids on Frankfurt am Main . The Resurrection Church is a cultural monument according to the Hessian Monument Protection Act . The parish has been part of the Lydia parish since 2020 after the merger with the Evangelical Church Community in Frankfurt-Hausen and the Wichern parish.
history
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prehistory
A church in Praunheim was first mentioned in 1132. This year bought Archbishop Adalbert of Mainz from the outdoor Godfrey of breaking the law . In 1247 and 1251 there was a dispute over the right of presentation between the empire and the diocese. In 1286 King Rudolf von Habsburg appointed the cleric Berthold as pastor. At this point the legal position of the empire seemed to have prevailed. In 1318 King Ludwig the Bavarian gave the patronage right to the St. Maria and Georg monastery, which later became the St. Leonhard monastery . This held the right of patronage until the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss 1803 .
Count Friedrich Magnus von Solms-Rödelheim introduced Lutheran teaching in the county of Solms-Rödelheim in 1545 .
The old church
A sketch and a floor plan from 1760 have been preserved of the church, which burned down in 1748. The church was oriented in an east-west direction and was 38 meters long and 10 meters wide. The church tower was in the west in front of the nave of the church.
On July 20, 1748, despite a warning, a carpenter smoked while he was working in the old church. The church was completely destroyed in the subsequent fire. For the next 24 years the services took place in the neighboring barn. Reconstruction was delayed because the Catholic monastery did not support the establishment of a Lutheran church. A lawsuit was filed against this before the Reich Chamber of Commerce . The community also refused to pay tithing . In a recess payment of the tithe was finally agreed, as well as - after deduction of the tithe - the payment of a further 1,600 guilders by the monastery. However , the monastery was unable to pay due to contributions in the Seven Years' War .
New building 1770/1773
Between 1770 and 1773 a baroque hall church was built in the town center on Graebestrasse . It had a polygonal choir closure and a canopy ridge. Altar, pulpit and organ were arranged one above the other, as is customary in Protestant preaching churches. The foundation stone was laid on September 16, 1770, the topping-out ceremony was celebrated on July 29, 1771, and the inauguration took place on Rogate Sunday in 1772. Most of the costs were raised through collections; the tower and bells were paid for by the municipality of Praunheim. The inauguration of the bells followed on Christmas 1773.
In connection with the new building there was a dispute with the evangelical residents of Hausen . They did not want to participate in the financing of the new church and formed their own parish. They kept the parish meadows in the Hausen district for financing. In 1821 the Heddernheimer community separated from Praunheim.
The right of patronage passed to the city of Frankfurt after the main Reichsdeputation final in 1803. It was replaced by a contract of January 10, 1906 for a one-off payment. Therefore, there has been no patronage since 1906. The Lutheran parish from 1646 became an Evangelical Uniate Parish in 1819 and in 1927 an Evangelical Uniate Resurrection Congregation.
The Praunheimer Friedhof surrounded the church until 1835, after which it was moved to Haingrabenstrasse.
From the founding of the congregation up to 1857, the pastor's profession was mostly closely linked to the schoolmaster's function. Part of the salary was paid by the townspeople. From a list of the Hessian government from 1831 it can be concluded that the Praunheim school was one of the best endowed in all of Hesse.
War destruction and rebuilding
The building was destroyed by aerial bombs during the air raids on Frankfurt am Main in 1945 . The Church of the Resurrection was one of the first Frankfurt churches to be rebuilt after its destruction in World War II and consecrated on June 5, 1949. Until then, the resurrection community used the Catholic Christ the King Church .
Architecture and interior design
According to the plans of the building management of the Evangelical Community Association, a building with unplastered natural stone facades was created, the dimensions and external appearance of which corresponded to the previous church. A simple design was chosen for the interior.
In 1980 the wooden fixtures were laid out in the historic colors of red and green. Two stained glass windows based on designs by the Praunheim painter Willi Petri were installed in 1990. The chandelier and two wood carvings are gifts from Poland as thanks for the aid transports organized there by the community in the 1980s. Hans Steinbrenner created the altar from shell limestone in 2003.
organ
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In 1996 the Church of the Resurrection received a new organ - financed by donations from parishioners - by the organ building workshop Karl Schuke in Berlin. The organ has 17 registers , divided into two manuals and a pedal . It has a mechanical tone action and a mechanical register system. There are a total of 1004 pipes in the organ.
The organ case picks up the colors and the rhythm of the ornaments on the gallery parapet and continues them. The disposition is:
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- Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
- Temperature control: Neidhardt 1
Bells
One of the three bells dates from 1840 by the Bach foundry , the other two were made in 1954 by Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling .
| No. | Nominal | Weight (kg) | year |
| 1 | d 1 | 200 | 1954 |
| 2 | h 1 | 250 | 1840 |
| 3 | a 1 | 500 | 1954 |
New construction of the community hall
In 1997 the Evangelical Regional Association (ERV) informed the congregation that the upkeep for the congregation and youth center was to be borne by the community. In 2000 there were first talks with ERV about the conversion of the two buildings and the property. In 2008 the ERV asked the municipality to create a workable concept by the end of 2010. A reduction in area of 66% should take place according to the EKHN regulation. After approval of a construction volume of 1.5 million euros and a tender by ERV, the design by the architect Ferdinand Heide was unanimously adopted in 2012. In 2013, the demolition of the old buildings began.
The remains of a Roman well were found under the house. The shell construction was completed after 80 days and the topping-out ceremony took place on October 7, 2013. The interior was completed at the end of June 2014 . The inauguration ceremony took place on November 2nd, 2014.
Former buildings: rectory, youth club and parish hall
It is not certain since when the rectory was in the immediate vicinity of the church. It was partially destroyed in World War II and rebuilt in 1949. In 1950 a small annex was built, which was first a community hall and later a community office. In 2013 the rectory was demolished and a new parish hall was built in its place. In the course of the new construction of the parish hall and a merger of the Wichern parish, Hausen parish and the resurrection parish accelerated and carried out in January 2020
The youth club of the Resurrection Church and the parish hall were located further in the direction of Praunheimer Brücke . The building of the youth club was used as a kindergarten until 1973 before it moved to Jean-Albert-Schwarz-Straße. The buildings of the youth club and the parish hall were demolished in 2013 and the land was given to the regional association for utilization on a long lease . The residential buildings erected there were completed in 2017. The youth club found a new home in the building of the former branch of the Praunheimer workshops Alt-Praunheim 2 .
Side door to the church
Memorial linden tree in the churchyard
Old rectory (demolished 2013)
Former youth club
Former parish hall
New construction of the community hall
Web links
literature
- Joachim Proescholdt, Jürgen Telschow: Frankfurt's Protestant Churches through the ages . Frankfurter Societätsverlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-942921-11-4 , pp. 162-163.
- Evangelical Resurrection Congregation Frankfurt am Main - Praunheim Inauguration of the new parish hall on Sunday, November 2, 2014
- Heinz Schomann, Volker Rödel, Heike Kaiser: Monument topography city of Frankfurt am Main. Revised 2nd edition, limited special edition on the occasion of the 1200th anniversary of the city of Frankfurt am Main. Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-7973-0576-1 ( Materials on Monument Protection in Frankfurt am Main 1), p. 691.
- Alfred Hansmann: 1200 years of Praunheim. 2004, ISBN 3-00-013189-2 , pp. 78-82.
- State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Ev. Church of Resurrection In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hessen
Individual evidence
- ↑ Corridor 7, parcel 46/11
- ^ Church messengers . 1/2020
- ↑ Ev. Resurrection Church on the website Kulturdenkmäler in Hessen
- ↑ Pastor - Ev. Lydia community Frankfurt am Main -. Accessed January 30, 2020 .
- ↑ Pictures of the Praunheim story. Frankfurter Sparkasse, 1822.
- ↑ Disposition of the Schuke organ ( Memento from September 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ The organ of the Church of the Resurrection in Frankfurt am Main. In: The organ landscape of the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau. Ed .: Center proclamation of the EKHN .
- ↑ Evangelical Resurrection Congregation Frankfurt am Main - Praunheim Inauguration of the new parish hall Sunday, November 2nd, 2014
- ↑ Congregational Letter of the Resurrection Congregation Praunheim Oct. + Nov. 2019
- ↑ FrankGruppe.de: Frankfurt-Praunheim. Retrieved April 10, 2019 .
- ↑ http://jcp.junetz.de/. Accessed April 10, 2019 (German).
Coordinates: 50 ° 9 ′ 0.1 ″ N , 8 ° 37 ′ 23.3 ″ E