Evangelical Church Hausen
The Evangelical Church Hausen is located in the Frankfurt district of Hausen and is a Hessian cultural monument in the style of classicism .
history
Hausen was first mentioned in 1132. The city of Frankfurt bought the village from the Lords of Praunheim in 1428 . However, the place still belonged to the Praunheim parish as a branch for three and a half centuries . During this time there were repeated clashes between the three parties. From 1772 the Frankfurt church authority, the consistory , was responsible for Hausen. It created a new pastorate so that on July 12, 1772 the first Protestant service was celebrated in Hausen. It took place in the school house as there was no church yet. The wealthy city, which was also responsible for the pastor's apartment, built a parsonage in Hausen between 1775 and 1776. The baroque building has survived and is now a listed building. It took almost forty years to build a church before the poor Hausen parish built a simple church in 1813. It was dilapidated after a few decades and was replaced by the late classicist church in 1851. It was built according to plans by the master mason Brandt from Bockenheim and completed in 1852. The pulpit and altar were taken over from the old church. The Frankfurt families Bethmann , Metzler and De Neufville contributed financially to the construction. During the Second World War , the church was badly damaged in the air raids on Frankfurt am Main and was rebuilt between 1950 and 1951.
architecture
In the center of Hausen, the church is located on a widening of Hausener Obergasse and Alt-Hausen street. The facade tower on the western entrance side of the hall church characterizes the townscape. The nine meter narrow and almost twenty meter long building has a stone-faced facade made of roughly hewn red sandstone and dark basalt lava . The tower has a square floor plan that merges into an octagonal shape above the clock and is covered by a similarly shaped, pointed dome. The hipped roof is covered with slate . A circular window is arranged above the entrance portal. Arched windows and pilasters with tympanum structure the facades.
The interior is dominated by the organ above the altar. Caroline Cornill-Dechent designed the back wall behind the altar from metal. The baptismal font and the lamps were made by the Klemisch art workshop in Offenbach. The organ dates from the second half of the 19th century and was made by Daniel Raßmann . The instrument with nine registers was rebuilt by Heinrich Voigt in 1960 and by Werner Bosch Orgelbau in 1972 and today has 14 registers and two manuals.
The three bells were made in 1965 by the Rincker bell and art foundry .
| No. | Nominal | Weight | Saying |
| 1 | d 2 | 226 kg | God Holy Spirit |
| 2 | e 2 | 156 kg | Prove your might, Lord Jesus Christ, Lord of all lords |
| 3 | g 2 | 122 kg | Keep us Lord by your word |
Web links
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments, Hessen II, Darmstadt District , Deutscher Kunstverlag 2008
- Church council of the evangelical parish Frankfurt-Hausen: Festschrift 150 Years of Evangelical Church Buildings Hausen , Frankfurt a. M. 2002
- Helmut Lenz, Franz Lerner: Hausen - From Mühlendorf to a modern district in the country , Frankfurt a. M. 1998
Coordinates: 50 ° 7 ′ 55.9 ″ N , 8 ° 37 ′ 26.5 ″ E