Friedenskirche (Hanau)
The Friedenskirche is a Protestant church in the Hanau district of Kesselstadt . The neo-Gothic church was built in 1904 based on a design by Heinrich Jassoy .
location
The church is located on the Lindenrain hill on Philippsruher Allee , which connects Hanau city center with Kesselstadt and runs along the Main . The Lindenrain, located below the former church on the banks of the Main, was largely a flood-proof area and was settled early on.
history
In addition to Celtic settlement remains from the pre-Roman Iron Age and a large Roman stone fort , traces of an early medieval settlement from the 8th and 9th centuries as well as the pit house of a craftsman (weaver) from the 10th century were found under the later choir of the church.
A church on this site was first mentioned in a document in 1275, where the place name "Kesselstatt" ( Kesselstadt ) is also mentioned. By archaeological excavations in 1985 is a Roman and the first construction compared with more Gothic previous church detected. The church was dedicated to Saint Catherine . The foundations found in the archaeological excavation are reproduced in the pavement of the forecourt at the southeast corner of the church. The archaeological evidence for the Romanesque building can only be narrowed down imprecisely - between the 10th and 12th centuries. The Romanesque church was expanded around 1470/1471. In the period that followed, until 1904 it served as a church in the village of Kesselstadt. Since the village of Kesselstadt belonged to the county of Hanau-Münzenberg , which changed denominations during the Reformation , its church also became Protestant.
New building
Because the medieval church had become too small and also dilapidated, the presbytery decided to build a new church at the turn of the century before last. The Friedenskirche was now erected in a north-south direction, contrary to the eastern orientation of the previous building. It was built in a neo-Gothic style, the wall and ceiling painting have echoes of Art Nouveau .
Pastor Johann Friedrich Hufnagel and the mayor of the then still independent community of Kesselstadt, Wilhelm Geibel , campaigned for the new building . The design for the church comes from the architect Heinrich Jassoy , born in Hanau in 1863 , who taught as a professor at the Technical University of Stuttgart . On September 25, 1904, the new church was consecrated and was named Friedenskirche .
It was the only one of the Hanau churches that survived the Second World War with only minor damage. When air mines fell on the frozen Main during the air raid in January 1945 , only their windows were destroyed.
Furnishing
The church interior has two aisles. The main nave has three bays, the rear of which is largely taken up by the entrance area and organ gallery. The aisle to the west is divided horizontally along its entire length by a gallery.
Above the side window the four evangelists are depicted: Mark as a lion, John as an eagle, Luke as a bull and Matthew as an angel or winged person.
The baptismal font is the oldest piece in the church. According to the inscription, it was donated by Johannes Opilio Plebanus in 1590 and probably comes from the previous building.
The oil painting on the eastern wall shows the mourning at the entombment of Christ. Created by Prof. Ludwig de Courdres in Karlsruhe , it was awarded a gold medal at the Cologne art exhibition in 1861. The J. Waltz family donated it to the Friedenskirche in 1898.
The two old sacrificial sticks at the entrance to the Friedenskirche also come from the broken-down Maria Magdalenen Church.
In 1954, for the 50th anniversary, the interior of the church was completely renovated. The choir windows were redesigned by August Peukert from Groß-Auheim . The central window has the theme “Jesus on the Cross”, the two side windows the themes “Annunciation” and “Last Supper”. The last interior renovation took place in 1985. In recent years, the natural stone of the facades has been renovated with considerable effort and support from the state preservation authorities.
organ
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In 1756 Johann Georg Zinck built a new organ for the previous building with a manual behind a five-part brochure . For the new church in 1906 Ratzmann built a new lateral work with 22 stops on two manuals and pedal . The Zinck prospectus was taken over and expanded on the sides with pipe towers and small connecting fields. In 1954 there was a conversion by Walcker and in 1969 an extension to 31 registers by Bernhard Schmidt in the sense of the organ movement . The organ was rearranged, the action electrified and provided with a free-standing console . After more and more deficiencies had occurred due to the renovations, the company Mitteldeutscher Orgelbau A. Voigt built a new work behind the historical prospectus in 2008/2009, including a large part of the existing registers. Today's disposition comprises 25 registers and is as follows:
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Pairing :
- Normal coupling: II / I, I / P, II / P
- Super octave coupling: II / I, II / II, I / P, II / P
- Sub-octave coupling: II / I, II / II
tower
The church tower is located to the west of the church building. The tower height is 49.5 m. The tower houses four bells, tuned in the tones d, e, g and a. The weight of the Our Father Bell is 650 kg, that of the Honor Bell 2000 kg.
The church tower clock also dates from 1904, making it the only fully mechanical tower clock in Hanau that has survived. Twice a week it has to be wound by hand using a crank.
literature
- Max Aschkewitz: Pastor history of the Hanau district (“Hanauer Union”) until 1986. Part 1. (= publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse , Volume 33.) Marburg 1984, p. 80 f.
- Peter Jüngling : Hanau-Kesselstadt. On the archeology of a parish church in Hanau. (= Hanau writings on archeology and history , Volume 1.) Hanau 2004.
- Carolin Krumm (arrangement): City of Hanau. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , cultural monuments in Hesse. ) Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 3-8062-2054-9 .
- Festschrift for the inauguration of the Friedenskirche in Kesselstadt on September 25, 1904. Kesselstadt 1904. ( reprint: Hanau 1979.)
- Jakob Rullmann : Attempt of a history of the parish village Kesselstadt . 1881. ( Reprinted in 1999.)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Martin Hoppe: Hanau and the Main . Hanau 2006, p. 3.
- ↑ Krystian Skoczowski : The organ builder family Zinck. A contribution to the research of organ building in the Wetterau and the Kinzig valley in the 18th century. Haag + Herchen, Hanau 2018, ISBN 978-3-89846-824-4 , p. 152.
- ^ Organ in Hanau-Kesselstadt , accessed on April 28, 2019.
Coordinates: 50 ° 7 ′ 43 " N , 8 ° 53 ′ 44.2" E