Festeburg Church

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The Festeburg Church is a Protestant church in Frankfurt am Main - Preungesheim .

Festeburg Church from the outside
inside view

history

The church was built according to a design by the architects Horst Römer and Helmut Baumgart and was consecrated on July 5, 1969. Originally planned as a church music school, the Festeburg Church has a recording studio control room and good acoustics , which is achieved, among other things, by a special stone arrangement on the rear wall that diffusely reflects the sound . Radio stations and recording companies therefore use the Festeburg Church for sound recordings with well-known artists such as Ewa Kupiec and Catherine Gordeladze . In addition, the Festeburg Church is the venue for chamber music concerts. The Friends of Sacred Music, Preungesheim e. V. organizes the Festeburg concert series of chamber music there . The initiator in 1976 was the piano builder Ernst Kochsiek , who was the artistic director for a long time.

wing

The church has a Steinway concert grand D 274 for concerts and recordings .

organ

The Festeburg Church has an organ with 25 registers , divided into two manuals and a pedal . It was built by the Werner Bosch Organ Building Workshop , Sandershausen, and erected on the west side of the church in the summer of 1970.

I Swell C – g 3
1. Dumped 8th'
2. Principal 4 ′
3. Coupling flute 4 ′
4th Nasat 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
5. Forest flute 2 '
6th Hörnlein II 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′ + 1 1 ⁄ 7  ′
7th Sif flute 1'
8th. Scharff IV 2 ⁄ 3 ′
9. Krummhorn 8th'
Tremulant
II Hauptwerk C – g 3
10. Quintad 16 ′
11. Principal 8th'
12. Reed flute 8th'
13. Viol 8th'
14th octave 4 ′
15th Kl. Gedackt 4 ′
16. Sesquialter II 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ + 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
17th octave 2 ′
18th Mixture IV-VI 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
19th Trumpet 8th'
Tremulant
Pedals C – f 1
20th Sub-bass 16 ′
21st Octave bass 8th'
22nd Gemshorn 4 ′
23. Pipe whistle 2 ′
24. Mixture VI 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
25th Silent trumpet 16 ′
  • Coupling: II / I, I / P, II / P

Concrete glass window

Architecturally, the Festeburg Church is characterized by its close connection between building and glass art. The concrete glass windows were designed by the painter, graphic artist and glass artist Johannes Schreiter . The cycle allows for different interpretations - from the train of the faithful to sermon and sacrament to the musical notes of the church music cultivated here. The windows are considered an early work and one of the artist's rare concrete glass windows.

Bell tower

The building complex includes a 29 meter high bell tower , which still defines the silhouette of the district today. The bell tower houses a six-part bell with the tone sequence f 'b' c "es" f "as". The bell was cast in the Bachert brothers' bell foundry in Karlsruhe .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information on the organ

literature

  • Karin Berkemann : Post-war churches in Frankfurt am Main (1945-76) (monument topography Federal Republic of Germany; cultural monuments in Hesse), Theiss-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-8062-2812-0 , Stuttgart 2013 [add. Diss., Neuendettelsau, 2012]
  • Joachim Proescholdt, Jürgen Telschow: Frankfurt's Protestant Churches through the ages, Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-942921-11-4
  • Hans Gercke / Rainer Volp (ed.): The glass pictures by Johannes Schreiter. The Sained Glass Art by Johannes Schreiter , Darmstadt 1988
  • Dr. Adrian Seib: Festeburg. In: Deutscher Werkbund Hessen, Wilhelm E. Opatz (Ed.): Once praised and almost forgotten. Modern churches in Frankfurt a. M. 1948-1973. Niggli Verlag, Sulgen 2012, ISBN 978-3-7212-0842-9 , pp. 148-153.

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Coordinates: 50 ° 8 ′ 51.2 "  N , 8 ° 41 ′ 51.5"  E