Christ Church (Frankfurt-Nied)
The Evangelical Christ Church is a former simultaneous church that was used by both Christian denominations . It is a Hessian cultural monument in the style of classicism in Nied , a district of Frankfurt am Main .
history
A parish in Nied was first mentioned in 1160 and a church in 1218. The sovereign Philipp von Hanau ordered the construction of a stone church in 1489. At this time the patronage of St. Martin is documented. Since then there have been quarrels between the county of Hanau and the Archdiocese of Mainz , which intensified when the Hanau residents became Protestant in 1554. In Nied there were Catholic and Protestant Christians for many centuries, but there was no permanent church support for them. In the Thirty Years War , Nied was badly destroyed and the church was badly damaged. Since 1684 the place belonged to the catholic Kurmainz . In 1803 Nied came to the Duchy of Nassau , and since then evangelical services have been celebrated again.
Between 1826 and 1828, today's Simultankirche was built in ecclesiastically liberal Nassau in place of the old church ruins, so that both denominations could use the same church building for almost a century. Towards the end of the 19th century, both parishes had grown so much that the desire for their own churches arose. The Protestant community paid out the Catholic community in 1907 and has kept the church building ever since. The Catholic community built the St. Mark's Church. Since then the Protestant church has been called the Christ Church. It was redesigned by the architect Ludwig Hofmann in 1908 into a purely Protestant preaching church. The Wiesbaden program was the guideline. Renovations and changes were made in 1931, 1958, 1977 and 2009.
architecture
The Christ Church is located in the historic town center in the street Alt-Nied. The cubic structure is around 26 meters long and almost 15 meters wide. The classicist hall church closes in the northeast with an apse . The hipped roof was formerly crowned by a ridge turret on the south-western entrance side. This was replaced by the tower that was built on the side in 1908. The church is characterized by a stone-faced facade made of red sandstone and dark basalt lava . The western front is structured by a gable resting on two risalits and the entrance portal. The original door with a round arch was replaced by a portal with Art Nouveau design elements by Ludwig Hoffmann . The longitudinal walls each have three high arched windows. The tower from the renovation period is designed to match the classicist church.
During the time as a simultaneous church, the interior was designed for both denominations. In the apse stood a silver-blue high altar from the secularized Franciscan church in Hadamar , which was flanked by two angels. Above that, a triangle with the eye of God as a symbol of the Trinity was attached to the ceiling . There was a large crucifix behind the altar. A half-height barrier separated the choir from the nave, according to the Catholic understanding. A Protestant altar table had stood in front of the barrier since 1846. Individual parts of the equipment were covered with cloths, depending on which congregation was celebrating worship.
In the course of the renovation in 1908, the interior was fundamentally changed. The simultaneous cult church became a ring church . A large organ was placed in the deep apse. Before that, a semicircular seat was created for the choir. The other half of the community circle forms the community seated in the semicircle. The altar stands in the middle, which is also marked by a cross painted on the ceiling. The pulpit was placed next to the choir stalls. The simple altar table was supplemented in 1928 with a crucifix, candles, paraments and a Bible. The ceiling cross was painted over as part of a renovation in 1931. A marble altar, which was raised by one more step, has replaced the simple table since 1960. During renovation work in 1977, paintings from 1931 with shell symbolism were discovered that were reapplied. In 2009 the Christ Church was transformed into an event church for concerts and theater performances.
The organ from 1908 has 28 registers and 2 manuals. The Steinmeyer instrument was modified and supplemented in 1955, 1971 by Euler and 2009 by Orgelbau Hardt .
In 1923, three chilled cast iron bells from Ulrich & Weule with the striking tones f 1 as 1 b 1 compensated for the bronze bells given in the First World War . They were replaced in 2005 by four bronze bells with the chimes e 1 f sharp 1 a 1 h 1 , cast in 1955 by the Rincker brothers , which were taken over by the Bornheim Heilandskirche after its demolition.
Web links
- Website of the Evangelical Community of Nied
- State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Ev. Christ Church In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hessen
literature
- Joachim Proescholdt and Jürgen Telschow: Frankfurt's Protestant Churches through the ages , Frankfurter Societätsverlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-942921-11-4
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments, Hessen II, Darmstadt District , Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2008
- Heinz Andres: The Evangelical Christ Church Community in Frankfurt-Nied , Frankfurt, 1967
- Adalbert Vollert: Church in Nied 1160-1992 , Frankfurt, 1992
Individual evidence
- ^ "Nied, City of Frankfurt am Main". Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Coordinates: 50 ° 5 ′ 59.5 ″ N , 8 ° 33 ′ 55 ″ E