Emmaus Church (Frankfurt am Main)

View of the Emmauskirche from the east

Chancel with Ratzmann organ

The Emmauskirche in Frankfurt-Eschersheim is the Protestant local church in this Frankfurt district. It is a listed building .

history

The current church building was erected from 1752, consecrated as a reformed church on February 10, 1754 and replaced a half-timbered building that came from the pre-Reformation period and was originally consecrated to Peter . With the Hanauer Union in 1818 in the former county of Hanau-Münzenberg , to which Eschersheim belonged at the time, the church became a union . After Eschersheim was incorporated into Frankfurt in 1910, the Protestant church in Escherheim remained in the consistorial district of Kassel , which formed its own Protestant regional church from Lutheran, Reformed and United communities.

On December 14, 1928, the Evangelical Church in Hessen-Kassel ceded its deanery in Bockenheim and the parish of Fechenheim, whose parish had now all been incorporated into the city of Frankfurt, to the Evangelical Church in Frankfurt am Main . The church got its current name when in 1929 a number of parishes of the former deanery in Bockenheim , which until then had been simply referred to as the "Evangelical Church" of the respective place and now part of Frankfurt, took on biblical names.

construction

The simple, baroque hall church has a gallery running around on two sides . The choir , presumably Gothic and still from the previous building, has a five-eighth closure . On the outside it is reinforced by buttresses . The stained glass windows arranged in between , showing Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchthon , are unusual for a (former) Reformed church, but only date from the first half of the 20th century.

The gable side is dominated in the middle by a small tower that was subsequently added there in 1768, more like a roof turret with a slated hood , as many churches in the former county of Hanau-Münzenberg received at this time. One of the two bells dates from 1661, the other from 1950. In 1954 the sacristy was added. The church is a cultural monument due to the Hessian Monument Protection Act .

An organ was also only installed a few years after the inauguration, after the takeover offer for the organ from the Lutheran church in Ginnheim had been rejected: the presbytery did not want a “Lutheran” organ! Today's organ dates from 1909. It was supplied by Wilhelm Ratzmann from Gelnhausen and rebuilt and expanded in 1953, 1960 and 1991.

literature

Dieter Epping: Church music - about the beauty of music and the difficulty of maintaining it . In: Die Emmausgemeinde 1754-2004. Frankfurt 2004, pp. 18-24.
Monika Ilkenhans: Building - where congregation takes place . In: Die Emmausgemeinde 1754-2004. Frankfurt 2004, pp. 10-17.
Georg Lotz: Lively past. Festschrift for the 200th anniversary of the Emmaus Church in Frankfurt aM-Eschersheim on February 10, 1954 . Frankfurt 1954.
Heinz Schomann u. a .: Monument topography city of Frankfurt am Main . Braunschweig 1986, p. 500.

Individual evidence

↑ The church district Bockenheim included the united parishes in Berkersheim, Bockenheim ( Jakobskirche ), Eschersheim (Emmauskirche), Eckenheim, Ginnheim ( Bethlehem Church ) , Praunheim, Preungesheim and Seckbach ( Marienkirche ).

↑ Jürgen Telschow, "Frankfurt's Evangelical Church in the 20th Century: Structures, Finances and Buildings of the Evangelical Church in Frankfurt" , in: Everything has its time: 100 years of Protestant parishes in the old Frankfurt city area, 100 years of Evangelical Community Association / Evangelical Regional Association Frankfurt am Main , Jürgen Telschow (Ed.), Frankfurt am Main: Evangelischer Regionalverband, 1999, (= series of publications of the Evangelical Regional Association Frankfurt am Main; Vol. 23), p. 116 ff., Here p. 12 (numbering in the PDF file differs from the one in the book; accessed on May 14, 2013). ISBN 3-922179-31-2 .

Web links

Commons : Emmauskirche - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Website of the Emmaus community Frankfurt-Eschersheim (accessed on August 31, 2012)
State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Ev. Emmauskirche In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hessen

50.159319 8.654416Coordinates: 50 ° 9 ′ 33.5 ″ N , 8 ° 39 ′ 15.9 ″ E

[1] The church district Bockenheim included the united parishes in Berkersheim, Bockenheim ( Jakobskirche ), Eschersheim (Emmauskirche), Eckenheim, Ginnheim ( Bethlehem Church ) , Praunheim, Preungesheim and Seckbach ( Marienkirche ).

[Telschow_1999_12-2] Jürgen Telschow, "Frankfurt's Evangelical Church in the 20th Century: Structures, Finances and Buildings of the Evangelical Church in Frankfurt" , in: Everything has its time: 100 years of Protestant parishes in the old Frankfurt city area, 100 years of Evangelical Community Association / Evangelical Regional Association Frankfurt am Main , Jürgen Telschow (Ed.), Frankfurt am Main: Evangelischer Regionalverband, 1999, (= series of publications of the Evangelical Regional Association Frankfurt am Main; Vol. 23), p. 116 ff., Here p. 12 (numbering in the PDF file differs from the one in the book; accessed on May 14, 2013). ISBN 3-922179-31-2 .