Unterliederbach village church
The Protestant village church in Unterliederbach , a district of Frankfurt am Main , is a baroque church on medieval foundations and a Hessian cultural monument .
Emergence
During excavations in 1988, brick foundations in a herringbone pattern were found , as they were only used in the 12th and 13th centuries, which belonged to a choir-less, medieval hall church . Before the Reformation, it was extended by a small choir room with a sacrament niche , which can still be seen today due to the large choir arch inside. In 1527 Unterliederbach became Protestant. The church was damaged during the Thirty Years' War and was gradually given its present form during the subsequent reconstruction. The west gallery was built in 1680. This year can still be read on the wooden support. City mason Daniel Kayser extended the choir by 3.60 meters in 1716 and added an entrance building to the west. In addition, the north gallery was built, which is connected to the extension via an external, covered staircase. The organ loft in the choir was installed in 1753.
architecture
To the north-west of Höchst lies Unterliederbach with its intact village center. The church stands in the middle of the former cemetery, which is entered from Heugasse through an archway. From there you can see the three-sided choir of the east-facing church. The elongated, brightly plastered building is structured by three high windows in the north and south facades. The steeply sloping slate roof is half hilted on the west side . The roof turret with the bells is also located here. On the west side you enter the interior through the extension. It is almost 20 meters long, only 6.5 meters wide and 5.5 meters high. The wooden gallery in the north divides the hall, which is mainly lit through the windows in the south. The pulpit is attached to the south archway. The baroque organ front and the historical paintings characterize the interior.
Furnishing
Below the organ is a wooden crucifix by the Darmstadt sculptor Johann Paul Eckard from 1760. It was donated by the Mainz cathedral provost Hugo Franz Karl Graf von Eltz . On the parapet of the organ gallery above the altar, images of the Annunciation , Birth , Resurrection and Ascension can be seen. They were created based on templates by Matthäus Merian . On the north gallery, pictures of the apostles were created around 1720 based on models by Lucas Kilian . The gallery pictures were exposed during a renovation at the beginning of the 1980s. An epitaph by the Frankfurt sculptor Schnorr from 1772 hangs above the south exit .
The organ brochure was made by Johann Christian Köhler in 1753. The historic organ was replaced in 1990 by a contemporary instrument from Orgelbau Schuke with twelve registers and two manuals, while maintaining its baroque appearance .
Bells
According to a statement by pastor Johann Reinhard Reccius, the first church bell was in the village church in 1651. In 1758 a second bell was added. Both bells no longer exist today.
Today the church has two new bells.
| No. | Nominal | Weight (kg) | year | Bell foundry |
| 1 | c 2 | 200 | 1893 | Andreas Hamm |
| 2 | a 2 | 450 | 1950 | Rincker |
Churchyard
The churchyard is surrounded by a wall and served as a cemetery until 1872. Carl Friedrich Emil von Ibell is buried here. His tombstone is there.
Roof turret in the west
Archway at the entrance to the churchyard
Interior with gallery and entrance
Organ and crucifix
Web links
- Website of the Protestant parish Unterliederbach
- State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Ev. Parish Church In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hessen
literature
- Joachim Proescholdt, Jürgen Telschow: Frankfurt's Protestant Churches through the ages, Frankfurter Societätsverlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-942921-11-4
- Parish council of the Protestant parish Unterliederbach: The village church in Unterliederbach , fourth version of the leaflet, 2008
Individual evidence
- ^ Wilhelm Frischholz: Alt-Höchst. A home book in words and pictures . Hauser, Frankfurt am Main 1926, p. 103.
Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 37.3 ″ N , 8 ° 31 ′ 53.1 ″ E