House at the cathedral
The Haus am Dom is an educational, cultural and conference center of the Limburg diocese in Frankfurt am Main . It sees itself as a platform between church and society and as a hub of urban and social discourse. The house at the cathedral was opened on January 14, 2007 by Bishop Franz Kamphaus . Since then, round tables and academy conferences on current social, religious and cultural topics have brought people together. It is also the podium for the Current Forum of the Cathedral Circle Church and Science, the central event location for Frankfurt's Catholic parishes and an attractive conference location for non-church groups and institutions. Exhibition rooms in the Museum of Modern Art, the MMK customs hall, and the Cathedral Museum, the so-called sacristy, complete the offer. The center is housed in the city's former main customs office in Frankfurt's old town and in the immediate vicinity of the Imperial Cathedral of St. Bartholomew .
Church facilities in the Haus am Dom
The Haus am Dom also houses various institutions of the Catholic city church in Frankfurt and the Diocese of Limburg .
Many events are organized by the Catholic Academy Rabanus Maurus, Catholic Adult Education, the Office for Catholic Religious Education and the Frankfurt City Church .
In addition to the director, seven study leaders work at the Catholic Academy in the fields of philosophy / theology, ethics / science / medicine, economics and finance, contemporary history, art, social affairs and work in one world, as well as the art of living / literature / intercultural issues.
The Catholic adult education (KEB) comprises the management of the diocesan education center of the Diocese of Limburg, the education center Frankfurt and the education center Hochtaunus and Main-Taunus. Seat of the chairman of Catholic adult education - Landesarbeitsgemeinschaft Hessen .
The Office for Religious Education has an extensive library and media center ready.
The specialist office for Catholic city church work and its departments for Christian-Islamic dialogue and congregations with other mother tongues is responsible for the Catholic Church in the city of Frankfurt.
The Katholische Medienarbeit Rhein-Main works with various editorial offices, a radio studio for private radio, the “Catholic Church at HR” office, the Frankfurt editorial team of the diocese newspaper Der Sonntag am public image of the diocese.
The department for ideology issues is the point of contact for a wide range of inquiries, requests for information and advice in the broad field of religions and world views.
There is an Italian restaurant on the ground floor.
The director of the house is the qualified theologian Joachim Valentin (* 1965 in Hadamar).
history
A Catholic center in downtown Frankfurt has been planned and discussed in the Limburg diocese since 1990. After the visitation of Bishop Franz Kamphaus in 1989, the City Synodal Council demanded the redesign of a pastoral and meeting center. The old main customs office as the location for the diocese academy and other Catholic institutions was discussed at the end of 1996. In September 2000, a corresponding purchase agreement was concluded with the city of Frankfurt, which provided for the use of the customs hall by the Museum of Modern Art. After an architecture competition in 2001, the plans were developed by the Frankfurt architect Jochem Jourdan . Thanks to the extensive preservation of the historic building stock, the investment volume was reduced from the original 30 to around 20 million euros. The long period of planning and discussion gave the diocese the opportunity to build up sufficient reserves to enable the building of the house at the cathedral, although the development of church tax revenue is also forcing the diocese of Limburg to pursue strict austerity measures.
The building
The main customs office was built in 1927 by Werner Hebebrand in the middle of Frankfurt's old town as part of the New Frankfurt project . The center of the historical part of this building is the large customs hall, which will in future be used as an experimental exhibition space by the Museum of Modern Art (as MMK III), which is located diagonally across from the Haus am Dom. After the Second World War , the destroyed roof was replaced by a simplified one.
For reasons of cost, the diocese decided to completely preserve and renovate the so-called long building with an architecturally significant staircase from the time it was built and the customs hall, the southern part was demolished. The so-called head building was newly built, in which the hall, a restaurant and the seminar and event rooms have their place. The parts of the house are connected by a glass hall foyer. The house at the cathedral was given a slightly curved, steep gable roof, which had to be built by Werner Hebebrand in 1927 instead of the originally planned flat roof at the pressure of friends of the old town .
With the realization of the Frankfurt architects Jourdan & Müller, who won the architectural competition in 2001, elements of the original urban situation can be experienced again. The steep gable roof is reminiscent of the pointed gables of earlier old town houses, the facade of the old customs house, which is based on the Bauhaus era, and the modern glass building reflect the constant change in Frankfurt's urban architecture.
However, the building at the southern end does not keep the original parcel size of the main customs office, but moves significantly further into the northern building line of the old market and thus ahistorically close to the old town house Goldene Waage, which was reconstructed as part of the Dom-Römer project until 2018 .
Web links
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- Public relations house at the cathedral, Frankfurt
Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 39 ″ N , 8 ° 41 ′ 4 ″ E