Dietrich Bonhoeffer Church (Frankfurt am Main)
The Protestant Dietrich Bonhoeffer Church in Frankfurt's north-west town was built in the course of the district development between 1967 and 1969 according to plans by the architect Werner W. Neumann and is named after Dietrich Bonhoeffer , a representative of the Confessing Church . The church is a cultural monument .
location
The church is located in the north of the satellite town on Niederurseler Gemarkung in the district center on Thomas-Mann-Straße. In addition to the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Church, this includes the Catholic St. Matthias Church , several childcare facilities and a shopping mall.
architecture
The church consists of a flat-roofed cube made of exposed concrete without a choir or tower. The outer walls are structured by vertical concrete strips of different widths and depths and light slots. You enter the building from the square to the west. A foyer, which is now used as a community room, leads to the church, which can accommodate 360 people.
The walls are made of brown brickwork and, like the outer wall, are structured by vertical projections and recesses. Inside, 38 wall-high window slots made of tin-plated lead foil, into which chunks of thick glass, some of which are colored, provide a subdued, festive light. They were designed by Hermann Goepfert , as was the round ceiling skylight above the altar with sculptural elements made of aluminum that cast a focused light onto the central area.
The church is now a cultural monument due to the Hessian Monument Protection Act .
Furnishing
Altar, baptismal font and pulpit are made of artificial stone. Some of them are designed with concrete reliefs by the artist Thomas Zach . The reliefs take up Bonhoeffer's thoughts, such as the saying pray and do what is just on the parapet of the gallery. The pulpit reminds of Bonhoeffer's advocacy for persecuted people in the time of National Socialism with the biblical phrase "Open your mouth for the dumb" ( Prov. 31,8 LUT ). The baptismal font takes up the description of the Last Judgment from the Gospel of Matthew : “I was hungry and thirsty, and you gave me something to eat and drink. I was a stranger and you took me in. I was naked and you dressed me. I was sick and you visited me. ”'( Mt 25 : 35-36 ESV )
The organ is located on the gallery above the entrance. The work of the organ building company Ott from Göttingen has 10 registers and was created in 1970.
The church is also used for exhibitions and concerts.
local community
The Dietrich Bonhoeffer Community was founded in 1965. Before that, since 1963 a chapel wagon on a semi-trailer had served as a “church on the way” for the first residents of the north-west town, built between 1962 and 1968. The chapel wagon offered space for around 80 people.
On Good Friday 1964, a barrack was inaugurated on the site of the future church.
See also
literature
- Karin Berkemann : Post-war churches in Frankfurt am Main (1945–1976) = monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Cultural monuments in Hessen. Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen . Wiesbaden 2013, pp. 194f., ISBN 978-3-8062-2812-0
- Clemens Jöckle: 100 buildings in Frankfurt am Main: a guide to buildings of historical and architectural standing , Schnell & Steiner publishing house, Regensburg, 1998
- Heike Kaiser: Monument topography city of Frankfurt am Main. Supplements. Limited special edition. Henrich, Frankfurt am Main 2000, p. 20.
- Joachim Proescholdt, Jürgen Telschow: Frankfurt's Protestant Churches through the ages, Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2011, pp. 178f., ISBN 978-3-942921-11-4
- Dr. Adrian Seib: Dietrich Bonhoeffer Church. In: Friends of Frankfurt eV, Wilhelm E. Opatz (ed.): Frankfurt 1960–1969. Architecture guide. Niggli Verlag, Zurich 2016, ISBN 978-3-7212-0943-3 , pp. 132-141.
Web links
- State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Ev. Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Gemeinde In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hessen
- Website of the Dietrich Bonhoeffer community
Individual evidence
- ↑ Berkemann, p. 194.
Coordinates: 50 ° 9 ′ 48.9 ″ N , 8 ° 37 ′ 5.7 ″ E