Friedenskirche (Frankfurt-Gallus)
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The Protestant Peace Church is located in the Gallus district of Frankfurt and is the house of worship of the Evangelical Church Community for Peace and Reconciliation , which belongs to the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau . The building is a monument in the style of brick expressionism .
history
At the end of the 19th century, the Gallusviertel developed into an urban Wilhelminian style residential area. For the pastoral care of the evangelical residents, the St. Matthew's Church, located on the edge of the neighboring Westend, and temporarily the Friedens-Wanderkirche, had been available since 1903 . The removable , wooden traveling church was initially located on Niddastraße in the adjacent station district and was later built on Hufnagelstraße in Gallus. It was named after the Peace of Frankfurt of 1871. In 1909, the new peace community was founded for Gallus from a part of the Matthäusgemeinde and named after the peace traveling church that has since been dismantled. Nowadays, the name of the community is also associated with the theological message as found in the New Testament in 1 Corinthians 14.33: God of peace .
A plot of land on Frankenallee was selected for the new building of the church and a first architectural competition was launched in 1911 . The First World War initially ended the project. In 1923 another architectural competition was carried out. Based on the findings from the earlier drafts, the participants were told that the "church tower for Frankenallee should be a dominant landmark". The second laureate, Karl Blattner , fulfilled the requirement and was commissioned with the execution. Construction of the Friedenskirche began in 1925 and its inauguration was celebrated on March 11, 1928.
During the Second World War , the building was badly damaged in the bombing raids in March 1944 . Shortly after the end of the war, a roof was built in the ruins and a makeshift church hall in the lower church. The reconstruction of the Friedenskirche was carried out by the architect Hans Bartholmes and was completed in 1953.
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architecture
The Friedenskirche is located in Frankenallee on the corner of Krifteler Straße. The footprint of the north-facing church is around 28 meters in length and almost 24 meters in width. The entrance is in the south on Frankenallee , one of the district's main access roads.
The massive front with porch and two towers gives the church the dominance desired at the time and still shapes the townscape today. The clinker brick construction determines the architecture of the Friedenskirche and leads to the expressive, expressionistic appearance. It was typical of the time and can also be found in numerous other sacred and commercial buildings from the 1920s, such as: St. Bonifatius , Hoechst administration building , Chilehaus and church on Hohenzollernplatz . Brick Expressionism developed parallel to the new, functional architecture of the Bauhaus .
The design references of the Friedenskirche are diverse. The monumental tower wall is reminiscent of the western building of north German brick churches. The material also adapts to the surrounding industrial buildings. The rectory and kindergarten are in extensions on both sides of the church. The parish hall is under the church. Despite the modernity of the architecture, the roof and window design are reminiscent of the formal language of historicism .
The interior was no longer designed according to the Wiesbaden program . Rather, the room is directed and aims at the massive altar block and the bronze figure of Christ in the flat, pointed-arched altar niche. The statue of Christ was created by Richard Scheibe in 1928 and represents the blessing Christ.
With the reconstruction, the church received stained glass windows based on designs by the painter Hans Heinrich Adam , which were made by Bernd Gossel. They address the Christian holidays of Christmas, Good Friday, Easter and Pentecost.
The organ from 1953 with originally 18 registers was made by the organ builder Balthasar Conrad Euler and expanded by four registers in 1963 by Förster & Nicolaus Orgelbau . In 1981 Rudolf von Beckerath Orgelbau created a new instrument with 25 registers and two manuals.
The Friedenskirche has four bells.
| No. | Nominal | Weight | year | foundry | Saying |
| 1 | c 1 | 1150 kg | 1957 | Bochum Association | God's bell |
| 2 | it 1 | 1050 kg | 1957 | Bochum Association | Christ bell |
| 3 | f 1 | 550 kg | 1957 | Bochum Association | Community bell |
| 4th | g 1 | 750 kg | 1927 | Rincker | Prayer bell |
literature
- Joachim Proescholdt, Jürgen Telschow: Frankfurt's Protestant Churches through the ages, Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 2011, ISBN 978-3-942921-11-4
- Evangelical Church Community Peace and Reconciliation (ed.), Text Gernot Gottwals: Evangelical Peace Church in Frankfurt am Main , Frankfurt am Main 2010
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments, Hessen II, Darmstadt District , Deutscher Kunstverlag 2008
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Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 14.5 " N , 8 ° 37 ′ 56.6" E