Evangelical Church Sossenheim
The Evangelical Church Sossenheim in the same Frankfurt district Sossenheim is a cultural monument in 1898 in the style of historicism .
history
The village of Sossenheim was first mentioned in a document in 1218. For many centuries it belonged to the Catholic Kurmainz before it fell to the Principality of Nassau-Usingen , from 1806 Duchy of Nassau , in 1803 . The first Protestant Christian settled in Sossenheim in 1848. Initially, the evangelicals were looked after from the neighboring Nied . In the ecclesiastically liberal Nassau, the Christ Church was built as a simultaneous church in Nied in 1828 , so that the Protestant Sossenheimers celebrated worship with the Evangelicals in Nied for over half a century, and the same church building was also used by the Catholics in Nied. In 1890 an evangelical men and youth association was founded in Sossenheim to promote the community of evangelical Christians. At that time there were 230, in 1900 there were 666 and in 1911 1177 Protestant parishioners.
The increase in population prompted the construction of the church. It was built mainly with funds from the Gustav-Adolf-Verein . The foundation stone was laid on June 20, 1897, and the church was inaugurated in the summer of 1898.
In 1904 Sossenheim became an independent parish. The parish hall was built in 1953 to the west. Between 1966 and 1998 there were two evangelical parishes, the Tiberias parish in the east and the Dunant parish in the west of Sossenheim. In 1998 both parishes were merged to form the Rainbow Parish. The name is intended to recall the biblical story of the Flood . The Evangelical Rainbow Community of Sossenheim belongs to the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau .
architecture
The Evangelical Church is located north of the historic town center on Siegener Straße. It is the work of the architect Ludwig Hofmann from Herborn. The tower is located at the intersection with Westerwaldstrasse and characterizes the townscape. The west-facing church is about 17 meters long and 13 meters wide. The entrance is in the east. The hall church has a low aisle in the south and a choir with a five-eighth end in the west . The tower built on the side has a slate-covered gable roof , which is crowned by a ridge turret with a pointed helmet. The brightly plastered building is designed with neo-Gothic and neo-Romanesque style elements made of red-brown sandstone . The gable wall is adorned with a rose window , the upper tower shaft is designed with arched windows and the outer wall of the side aisle is structured with buttresses . The steeply sloping gable roof is covered with red tiles.
In the interior, plastered walls and components made of sandstone alternate. The side aisle borders the main room with a round arch arcade and a triumphal arch marks the transition to the choir room. The main nave is vaulted with a barrel- shaped wooden ceiling. Two bench blocks face the altar. The pulpit is on the right and the baptistery in the niche on the left . Above the entrance area is a wooden gallery with the organ. The stained glass windows in the chancel were created after a design by Rudolf Koch. The organ with 18 registers and two manuals was manufactured by Förster & Nicolaus in 1973 .
The church has two bells.
| No. | Nominal | year |
| 1 | e 1 | 1885 |
| 2 | g sharp 1 |
Web links
literature
- Joachim Proescholdt, Jürgen Telschow: Frankfurt's Protestant Churches through the ages, Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 2011, ISBN 978-3-942921-11-4
- Adalbert Vollert: Sossenheim. From the history of a Frankfurt district , Frankfurt a. M. 1980
Coordinates: 50 ° 7 ′ 19.5 ″ N , 8 ° 33 ′ 58.7 ″ E