Evangelical town church Höchst
The Evangelical City Church Höchst is a church in Frankfurt-Höchst . The church belongs to the Evangelical Reformed community in Höchst. In the church there are regular organ concerts on the Ahrend organ from 1975.
Building
The church was built in the neo-renaissance style between 1877 and 1882. The building is made of red brick and has the floor plan of a clover-shaped cross. The interior is simple and unadorned.
The construction costs for the church were borne by the industrialist Adolf von Brüning , who belonged to the Evangelical Reformed Church. In Höchst, traditionally a catholic through the centuries of Mainz rule , the town church was the first Protestant church building.
organ
For the new church, the brothers Karl and Heinrich Voigt built a romantic organ with 25 stops on two manuals and a pedal . In 1915, Walcker converted it to 32 registers. In 1975 Jürgen Ahrend built a new instrument in the style of the north German baroque organ. The disposition is as follows:
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Parish
Due to the industrialization of Höchst in the 19th century, there was a significant influx of Protestant Christians to Höchst. The Protestant congregation Höchst was founded at the end of the 19th century. The congregation, which belongs to the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau , has 2096 congregational members according to the 2011 edition of the Frankfurt Church Yearbook (as of September 2010).
Web links
- Website of the Protestant community in Höchst
- State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Ev. Stadtkirche In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hessen
Individual evidence
- ^ Franz Bösken : Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine (= contributions to the Middle Rhine music history . Volume 7.1 ). tape 2 : The area of the former administrative district of Wiesbaden. Part 1: A-K . Schott, Mainz 1975, ISBN 3-7957-1307-2 , p. 267 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 5 ′ 57 ″ N , 8 ° 32 ′ 39.5 ″ E