Cantate Domino Church (Frankfurt am Main)

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Cantate Domino Church, bell wall

The Protestant Cantate Domino Church is located in the north-west of Frankfurt and was built in the course of urban development between 1963 and 1966 according to plans by the architects Walter Schwagenscheidt and Tassilo Sittmann .

location

The church is located on Ernst-Kahn-Straße in the south of the north-west part of the Heddernheim district. It is part of a district center with social and educational facilities. In addition to the Cantate Domino Church, this includes a kindergarten, the Catholic St. Sebastian Church and the Roman City School . Following Walter Schwagenscheidt's idea of ​​the spatial city , according to which different building types are grouped around the open spaces in the north-west city, the church center is integrated into the surrounding residential area.

architecture

Cantate Domino Church, interior

With its cubic appearance, the Cantate Domino Church fits in with the surrounding residential buildings. No tower indicates the church. It consists of a group of buildings with flat roofs of different heights, which also includes parish rooms and the rectory. There is a square in front of the actual church building, which extends from west to east. A modest wall of bells on the edge indicates the function of the complex. The outside unadorned and almost windowless church has white outer walls. Only later was the name of the church written on the facade in large letters. It is the program, because Cantate Domino is ascribed to the cultivation of church music - accordingly the church name is reminiscent of Psalm 98 .

A foyer leads to the daylight-flooded interior, the walls of which are white muddy. The almost unadorned, around twelve meter high room receives its light from glass domes in the roof. The acoustics of the interior were designed according to the church name. The walls have irregularly distributed perforated stone fields and acoustic elements hang on the concrete ribs of the ceiling. The room is divided by the cantilevered (singing) gallery on the north wall and the south-facing side room with organ gallery. Below the gallery, the music room is separated by a glass wall - originally the room was used as a "day band" open to visitors, among other things for contemplative reading. The ceiling above the gallery is also provided with acoustic elements made of wood. The altar area in the east is slightly raised by three steps.

The church is now a cultural monument due to the Hessian Monument Protection Act .

Furnishing

The bright church is characterized by floor-to-ceiling colored curtains on the wall behind the altar. The ten meter long and three meter wide wool carpet was designed by Heinz Kreutz and is abstract in different colors. The altar made of olive wood, stand cross and baptismal font were planned by the architects and executed by Gotthold Schönwandt , who also made the sacrament implements. Originally, the altar (seen from the community) was accompanied by a pulpit on the right. Even at the time of construction, individual furnishing elements were kept moveable in order to be able to use the church space for various liturgical and church music events. Today's sloping benches offer space for 220 people. The bells come from the Schilling foundry .

organ

Cantate Domino Church, organ loft

The organ was built in 1970 by Ahrend & Brunzema in the style of the north German baroque organ. The same company carried out a restoration on the organ, which is now a listed building , in 2017.

It is characterized by the structure of the movement with a Rückpositiv , main movement, breastwork and free-standing pedal tower . The three-manual instrument with mechanical slide chests has 32 registers and has the following disposition :

I Rückpositiv C – f 3
Dumped 8th'
Praestant 4 ′
Reed flute 4 ′
Forest flute 2 ′
Nasat 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Sesquialtera II
Scharff IV
Krummhorn 8th'
Tremulant
II Hauptwerk C – f 3
Drone 16 ′
Praestant 8th'
Pointed 8th'
octave 4 ′
Coupling flute 4 ′
Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
octave 2 ′
Cornett V
Mixture IV
Trumpet 8th'
III Breastwork C – f 3
Wooden dacked 8th'
Wooden principal 4 ′
Reed flute 2 ′
recorder 1'
Zimbel II
shelf 8th'
Carillon (from c)
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
Praestant 16 ′
Sub bass 16 ′
octave 8th'
octave 4 ′
Mixture V
trombone 16 ′
Trumpet 8th'
Clarine 4 ′

local community

The Cantate Domino Congregation was founded in June 1960. Until the construction of the north-west town in the 1960s, the Römerstadt settlement , which was built in the late 1920s, did not have its own parish, but belonged to the Heddernheimer Thomasgemeinde. In 1980 the Roman township was renamed Cantate Domino.

literature

  • Karin Berkemann : Post-war churches in Frankfurt am Main (1945–76). Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany; Cultural monuments in Hessen. Theiss-Verlag, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-8062-2812-0 (plus dissertation, Neuendettelsau, 2012).
  • 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 .
  • Joachim Proescholdt, Jürgen Telschow: Frankfurt's Protestant Churches through the ages . Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-942921-11-4 .
  • Hugo Schnell: Church construction in Germany in the 20th century. Regensburg 1973.

Web links

Commons : Cantate-Domino-Kirche (Frankfurt am Main)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Beckmann, p. 150f.
  2. ^ Bernhard Letters: Groundbreaking in their time . In: Monument Preservation and Cultural History 1-2018, p. 9f.
  3. ↑ Hans Martin Balz : Divine Music. Organs in Germany (=  230th publication by the Society of Organ Friends ). Konrad Theiss, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-8062-2062-9 , pp. 168 ( online [PDF; 2.2 MB ]).

Coordinates: 50 ° 9 '17.4 "  N , 8 ° 37' 57.6"  E