Dornbuschkirche
The Dornbuschkirche is a Protestant church in the Frankfurt district of Dornbusch , after which it is named.
prehistory
From around 1910 a residential area was built on Eschersheimer Landstrasse in the area of the former Frankfurter Landwehr . The neighborhood was after with Gebück planted and thorns Landwehr Dornbusch called. On August 1, 1929, a new Protestant parish of the same name was founded. A wooden emergency church was built in 1930 according to plans by the synodal master builder Fritz Schöppe. Since it was designed as a temporary building, a new church was planned from the end of the 1950s.
description
When the Dornbusch settlement came into being , the new church was built on a plot of land on Mierendorffstrasse at the corner of Carl-Goerdeler-Strasse. The inauguration was on March 11, 1962. According to plans by the architects Ernst Görcke and Ludwig Müller from the church building administration, a cubic building with a separate tower and parish hall was built. The external appearance was characterized by a flat-roofed concrete building with generous window openings. On the entrance side in the south there was a projecting canopy made of concrete, which was supported by two structurally independent, sloping supports. The construction was shaped accordingly on the inside and functioned as an organ gallery. The floor plan was trapezoidal so that the interior opened up towards the altar. In the east wall at the altar there is a large choir window by Hans Heinrich Adam , which shows the blessing Christ.
In the meantime, the concrete was in dire need of renovation and the church was considered too big by the community. That is why it was fundamentally rebuilt and reduced in size in the years 2003-2005 by the architects Meixner, Schlüter, Wendt . Two thirds of the building were demolished. The stained glass window was retained and the room was closed with a three-dimensional wall. It shows design elements of the old church such as traces of the former south facade. A large church square was created between the reduced renovation and the bell tower, which reproduces the original floor plan.
The organ was made by Hugo Mayer in 2005 .
Bells
The bells come from the Rincker bell and art foundry from 1961:
| No. | Nominal | Weight (kg) | designation |
| 1 | of the 1st | 1700 | He is our peace! |
| 2 | f 1 | 890 | O land, land, land, hear the word of the Lord! |
| 3 | as 1 | 600 | Glory to God in the highest |
| 4th | b 1 | 430 | Jesus Christ yesterday and today and the same forever! |
| 5 | c 2 | 300 | Lord teach us to pray! |
literature
- Joachim Proescholdt and Jürgen Telschow: Frankfurt's Protestant Churches through the ages , Frankfurter Societätsverlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-942921-11-4
Web links
Coordinates: 50 ° 8 ′ 25.7 " N , 8 ° 40 ′ 23.9" E
Individual evidence
- ^ Rudolf Schmitz: Vitalizing partial demolition. The successful renovation of a church in Frankfurt , in: FAZ , July 11, 2005, p. 34.
- ↑ Christian Holl: Dismantling a church - physical absenteeism , in: tec 21, Heft 10, 2006, p. 12.
- ↑ Enrico Santifaller: Dornbuschkirche: demolition, renovation and new building in Frankfurt / M , in: Bauwelt 26, 2005, pp. 24–28 (pdf).