Bethlehem Church (Frankfurt-Ginnheim)
The Evangelical Bethlehem Church in the Ginnheim district of Frankfurt from 1971 complements the Old Bethlehem Church in the community area.
prehistory
With the baroque church building, the Bethlehem congregation only had a comparatively small church. In the 1960s, the number of parishioners increased due to new residential areas. Therefore, a new church was planned. In order to limit the financial outlay and to accommodate new forms of congregational gathering, the church should also be a parish hall.
architecture
The Bethlehem Church was built according to plans by the architect Klaus Peter Heinrici and is located on Fuchshohl Street. The church is a central building on a hexagonal floor plan. The walls and the folded roof structure are made of concrete. A thirty meter high bell tower, which is connected to the church by a canopy, marks the entrance. A light dome in the middle of the roof and slots in the walls ensure a bright interior. Altar, pulpit and lectern are arranged in the middle of the room on a pedestal that can also be put away. The variable seating is grouped around it. The undirected, centered space can be used multifunctionally.
Furnishing
The entrance door was created by Hans Heinrich Adam . Else Bechteler-Moses designed the tapestry on the topic of God's Incarnation - task for us . It was made by the Nuremberg Gobelin Manufactory in 1988. The organ with 28 registers and two manuals comes from Orgelbau Friedrich Weigle .
Peal
The eight bells were made by the Rincker bell and art foundry .
| No. | Nominal | Weight (kg) |
| 1 | b 1 | 443 |
| 2 | c 2 | 314 |
| 3 | it 2 | 260 |
| 4th | f 2 | 163 |
| 5 | g 2 | 122 |
| 6th | as 2 | 94 |
| 7th | b 2 | 69 |
| 8th | c 3 | 49 |
A carillon system comes from Eduard Korfhage & Sons .
local community
The community was named after Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus, in 1910. From 1950 to 1960 Werner Hess was pastor of the community, who later became director of the Hessischer Rundfunk.
literature
- Joachim Proescholdt, Jürgen Telschow: Frankfurt's Protestant Churches through the ages . Frankfurter Societätsverlag, Frankfurt 2011, ISBN 978-3-942921-11-4 .
- Ulrike Schubert: New Bethlehem. 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. 158-163.
Coordinates: 50 ° 8 ′ 43.7 " N , 8 ° 39 ′ 10.4" E