Dorotheenstrasse 5 (Bad Homburg)
The listed building Dorotheenstrasse 5 in Dorotheenstrasse in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe was built as a French Reformed church and is now an exhibition center.
Church building by the French Reformed parish
Like his father, Landgrave Friedrich III also settled . from Hessen-Homburg to French religious refugees, the Huguenots in Homburg. The French Reformed parish of Homburg initially used the German Reformed chapel of the castle as a church .
As the congregation grew, the desire for their own place of worship increased. From 1718 to 1723, the Jacobskirche (later it was written Jakobskirche) was built on the previous French Reformed cemetery. The inauguration took place on the day of the Apostle Jacobus on July 25, 1724. Whether the choice of the patronage is related to the landgrave's middle name can only be guessed.
The church was a massive hall building with (formerly) two tapering buttresses on the long sides. The walls were divided by four or two high arched windows . At the entrance there is a round arched portal set with ears with an overlying "ox eye" and high round arched windows on the side. The roof of the church is a large-volume cripple -hip roof with a canopy ridge. The weather vane dates from 1718. Originally, the church had three-sided galleries that penetrated to the middle of the room and a pulpit on the south wall.
Catholic Church
Over the years, the French Reformed community became smaller. The cemetery behind the church was last occupied in 1770. Later burials took place in the Evangelical Cemetery .
In 1816 the French Reformed community rented the church to the city's Catholic community. In the evangelical town of Homburg this was very small. In 1820 she bought the building and used it until August 14, 1895. From then on, the new St. Mary's Church was used by the Catholic community.
gym
After a few years of vacancy, the Homburg gymnastics community (HTG) acquired the house for 28,000 marks. 1905 it was used by Louis Jacobi for gym remodeled. The single-storey entrance area was added to the north side and the hall was extended to the west to create space for cloakrooms and a stage. The front has also been redesigned. The large segmented arched window in the gable of the main facade defines the appearance.
Sale and conversion to the Jakobshallen Gallery
In 2012, the Homburg gymnastics community sold the building for € 500,000 and now uses the sports facilities on Niederstedter Weg. The buyer was Galerie Scheffel, which is known as the organizer of Blickachsen . Galerie Scheffel is planning to convert the house into a gallery for sculptures and has commissioned the architect Dietmar Schäfter to do this. The first exhibition opened on May 28, 2016 after three years of major renovation.
Monument protection
The house is protected as a cultural monument for reasons of architecture, church and local history.
The monument to Georg Schudt (1830–1890), which was attached to the outside wall of the gymnasium on October 21, 1910, is also under monument protection . The book printer owner , publisher of the Taunusbote , co-founder of the gymnastics club, the Bad Homburg volunteer fire brigade and founding member of the Homburg Taunus Club Georg Schudt was honored with the relief, also designed by Jacobi . The bronze was cast by the Knodt company, Frankfurt-Bockenheim.
Behind the gymnasium, the Homburger Turnverein eV (HTG) erected a monument in memory of the "gymnastics father" Friedrich Ludwig Jahn (1788–1852), a stone group made of Taunus quartzite blocks, designed by stonemason Philipp Holler. She wears a bronze medallion Jahns created by the sculptor August Stenger , which was cast in the Chr. Metzger machine factory at today's Europakreisel and inaugurated on September 1, 1912. After the gymnasium was sold, a conflict arose as to whether the monument should remain at its old location or whether it should be relocated to the new gymnasium location on Niederstedter Weg. After years of negotiations with the city's monument advisory board, HTG was allowed to move the monument to the new location of the gym, where it was unveiled in early May 2016.
Web links
- State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse (Ed.): Dorotheenstraße 5 In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
- State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Monument Schudt In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hessen
swell
- Gerta Walsch: "This street has culture every inch"; in; Taunus newspaper of May 18, 2013, p. 10
Individual evidence
- ^ "Art in the Artwork"; in: Taunuszeitung from January 17, 2013, p. 13
- ↑ Martina Propson-Hauck "Artful Jacob Halls"; in: Frankfurter Rundschau of May 28, 2016, page B2
- ↑ An incentive for today's youth; in: Taunuszeitung from 23 August 2012, page 13, online ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Quarrel about the gymnastics father; in: Taunuszeitung from 23 August 2012, page 13, online ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ "Turn father is moving"; in: Taunuszeitung from January 17, 2013, p. 13
- ↑ Revelation: Under gymnastics father Jahn's stern look; in Taunuszeitung on May 3, 2016, online
Coordinates: 50 ° 13 '36.3 " N , 8 ° 36' 45.8" E