Christ the King (Frankfurt am Main)
Christ the King is the name of the church building and the parish of the Episcopal and Anglican Church in Frankfurt am Main .
location
The church building of Christ the King is located in Frankfurt's Westend-Nord district on Sebastian-Rinz-Straße, near where it joins Miquelallee . The postal address of the church is Sebastian-Rinz-Straße 22. To the west, the property borders on the northern part of Grüneburgpark .
history
With the US occupation of Frankfurt, an English-speaking episcopal congregation also emerged in the city . For their initial needs, the US Army made a plot of land on the corner of Hansaallee and Miquelallee available, and the British donated a Nissen hut as a church building. The church was consecrated on Good Friday 1949 .
This provisional solution was soon no longer sufficient. The Anglican Church, on the one hand, and the Old Catholic Congregation, on the other hand, came together to build a simultaneous church. The latter provided the building site, while the former mainly covered the cost of building and equipping the church, although a donation from the women's association of the American Episcopal Church made the construction possible. Accordingly, the church initially had two names: St. Willibrord and St. Christopher . It was not until the 1970s that the two communities agreed on the common name Christ the King / Christ König . In 1985 the two congregations separated after the Old Catholic Congregation had decided to build an independent church. The Anglican Congregation took over the Christ the King Church on January 1, 1986 and has been using it alone ever since.
building
The architect of the church was Johannes Schmidt from Frankfurt . The foundation stone was laid on July 7, 1956, and the consecration took place on August 24, 1958. An originally planned church tower , which should stand free next to the church building, was ultimately not built.
The building widens from the west to the semicircular choir in the east . The stage-like chancel is located there. The building has two floors: the lower floor contains the community rooms, above the church with a gallery . The main entrance is on the west. The baptistery is also located there . Around 250 people can be seated in the church. A row of round windows on the side walls of the nave give the room light. The stained glass windows were added in 1967. Another window illuminates the ambulatory and can be seen better from the street than from the nave . A historicist window from the English Church of Bad Ems , which was bombed in the Second World War, was installed there. This window is said to have broken in the late 1960s. Instead, a modern stained glass window was installed in 1989, which was damaged in 1993 by detonating fireworks . It was finally expanded in 2011.
The organ of was built in 1960 by EF Walcker & Cie. built-in. It has eleven registers, a mechanical keyboard, two manuals and a pedal.
local community
The community was originally shaped by members of the US armed forces. With their withdrawal, the number of parishioners who belonged to the armed forces also decreased. At the same time, however, the number of English-speaking immigrants and English-speaking people who only worked temporarily in the economic and financial center of the Rhine-Main area increased.
literature
- Karin Berkemann : Post-war churches in Frankfurt am Main = monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Cultural monuments in Hessen. Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen . Wiesbaden 2013, p. 61.
- Ulrike Schubert: Christ the King . In: Wilhelm E. Opatz (Ed.): Once praised and almost forgotten. Modern churches in Frankfurt aM 1948–1973 . Frankfurt 2012. ISBN 978-3-7212-0842-9 , pp. 60f.
Web link
Individual evidence
- ^ City of Frankfurt am Main, Environment Agency (ed.): The green belt leisure map . 8th edition, 2017
- ↑ a b Website of the parish: History ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2013 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.
- ^ So: Schubert. According to the website of the parish: History ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2013 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. the name was only changed after the Anglican community had taken over the building alone in 1986.
- ↑ Berkemann: Post-war churches in Frankfurt am Main
Coordinates: 50 ° 7 ′ 52.2 ″ N , 8 ° 39 ′ 44 ″ E