Heilandskirche (Frankfurt am Main)

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The Savior's Church in Frankfurt was the church of the same congregation of the Evangelical Church in Hessen and Nassau in Frankfurt area Bornheim . After the merger with the Johannis parish , the church was demolished .

Tower of the Heilandskirche 2003

history

construction

On April 1, 1955, the Heilandsgemeinde was founded from the Johannisgemeinde in Frankfurt-Bornheim. At that time it had around 8,500 members. The municipality was spatially limited to the west by Berger Straße , to the south by the Bornheimer Landwehr , to the east by Bornheimer Hang and to the north by the streets Löwengasse , Inheidener Straße and Buchwaldstraße. The Saalburgallee divided the community into a north and an east district. In 1963 a retirement home was opened next to the church .

demolition

After declining membership numbers in the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau , a series of mergers between parishes took place in Frankfurt. The Heilandsgemeinde and the Johannisgemeinde also united on January 1, 2003 under the name "Evangelical Church Community Frankfurt am Main-Bornheim". Since one of the two church buildings was no longer needed, the community decided to keep the historic St. John's Church . The Heilandskirche also had a considerable need for renovation, and the centrally located property was easy to recycle. The entire development with the church, community center and retirement home was demolished in 2005.

Tower cross

The tower cross of the Heilandskirche was erected in 2007 on the Riedberg . During the construction of the Riedberg Church, it became the center of a labyrinth . Since the completion of the construction work on the church on the Riedberg, the cross with a memorial plaque has stood between a small group of trees near the Riedberg underground station.

church

building

In the run-up to the foundation of the community, a separate church with a community center, kindergarten and apartments for pastors and employees was planned and built on the corner of Saalburgallee and Andreaestrasse . It was possible to combine several plots of land there for the project, which was difficult because the building was erected in an already built-up area. Due to the building area that was ultimately gained, the main building could then be erected far from the property boundary, which was desired in terms of urban planning . The excavation of the construction pit began in spring 1954, the foundation stone was laid on June 13, 1954, the topping-out ceremony was celebrated on October 23, 1954 and the church and community center were inaugurated on September 4, 1955. The confirmation could already be celebrated in the not yet completed building.

The construction department of the Evangelical Community Association had prepared a design with the architects Ernst Görcke, Rakete and Krause and the independent architect Hans Bartolmes . The elaboration was then carried out by Hans Bartolmes. The facility was two-story: Above was the church service room for 380 visitors, which could be expanded by a further 100 seats if the room divider under the gallery was pushed aside. One floor below were the community rooms with the large community hall. The 43 meter high church tower above the entrance area consisted of four corner pillars that were connected by four platforms above the entrance. On top of it stood an octagonal steel structure that supported the belfry .

A sgraffito on the outside of the choir wall based on a design by Otto Weber-Hartl depicts the risen Christ and the worshiping community.

Furnishing

Also pulpit , Altar , font (all from limestone ) and the Italian marble mosaic of the wall behind the altar, it is a monumental, about 4 feet high Christusmonogramm from brass bore, designed by the architect. The stained glass windows , round windows on all walls, except for the altar wall, came from Anneliese Müller and Horst Schober from the Offenbach Art School under the direction of Gottfried Diehl . The three on the east wall showed the symbols of the Trinity , the four on the west wall the evangelist symbols , and the two above the gallery represented love and faith in red and blue.

The organ was built by Förster & Nicolaus Orgelbau in 1955/56 and had 25 stops . It was sold in 2008 to the Roman Catholic parish of St. Albertus in Giessen . The four bells were cast by the Rincker bell and art foundry . The bells were coordinated with the neighboring churches, the Johanniskirche and the Roman Catholic Holy Cross Church , so that the bells could sound together without disharmony . After the demolition, the bells were sold to the Christ Church (Frankfurt-Nied) .

Pastor

  • Ernst Klöss - He worked in Barcelona between November 1939 and 1945 and was pastor of the Heilandsgemeinde between 1955 and 1974. In 1972 he was awarded the plaque of honor of the city of Frankfurt am Main . As an author he dealt with the first years of the German School in Barcelona.
  • Helmut Kiworr (born October 8, 1932 in Erlangen ; † May 2, 1998 in Mainz ) grew up between 1935 and 1945 in the East Prussian town of Allenstein and therefore felt like East Prussians, especially since his family came from there. Between 1970 and 1974 he was pastor of the Heilandsgemeinde. Before that, from 1965 to 1970 he was at the Evangelical Lutheran Parish Spachbrücken in Reinheim in the Darmstadt-Dieburg district and in 1974 moved to the Melanchthon parish in Mainz, where he was also responsible for pastoral care for the blind in Rheinhessen. He retired on July 1, 1997. As an author, he went on the trail of Scottish monks with his wife Karin, who worked as a hospital chaplain.

Old people's home

Just one year after the opening of the new church, the congregation started the project to build a home for the elderly . The existing, well-rehearsed dispenser structure was used for the church. The area adjacent to the church and community center, located directly on the corner of Saalburgallee and Andreaestrasse, was available as a building plot. However, it took a few years until the necessary equity capital was collected . The project was coordinated with the town planning department . Contrary to the original plan, the number of places was increased from 32 to 42 for economic reasons and a five-story instead of a four-story building was built. The four residential floors were each equipped with six single and two double rooms. There were two more single rooms on the ground floor. The sanitary rooms were still common rooms. There was a smoking hall on the ground floor . In order to avoid resistance from the regional church to the fact that a single parish operated a retirement home instead of delegating this task to the Diakonisches Werk, for example , a separate sponsoring association was founded from within the parish. At the same time as the old people's home, a second rectory was built, which closed the gap between the old people's home, community center and church. This created a closed, uniform building complex. The foundation stone was laid on June 13, 1962, the topping-out ceremony was celebrated on December 14, 1962, and it was inaugurated a year later.

House Saalburg and Heilandskapelle

The Agaplesion Frankfurter Diakonie Kliniken took over the property on a long lease and built the new Haus Saalburg nursing home here . An ecumenical chapel was set up in the Saalburg house , which is named Heilandskapelle in memory of the Heilandskirche.

literature

  • Hans Bartolmes: Building report of the architect . In: Evangelical-Lutheran Heilandsgemeinde (ed.): The urban community center of the Heilandsgemeinde Frankfurt M. - Bornheim, which was expanded in the years 1954–1963 - Festschrift for the inauguration of the Heilandsgemeinde's old people's home in Frankfurt a. M. - Bornheim . Frankfurt 1963, pp. 16-19.
  • Walter G. Beck: Sacred buildings in Frankfurt am Main . Hamburg 1956.
  • Karin Berkemann : Post-war churches in Frankfurt am Main (= monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Cultural monuments in Hesse ). Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen . Wiesbaden 2013.
  • Ernst Görcke: The Architects - The community center of the ev.-luth. Heilandsgemeinde. In: Ernst Klöß (Ed.): Festschrift for the inauguration of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy Savior in Frankfurt / Main on September 4, 1955. Frankfurt [1955], p. 9 f.
  • Ernst Klöß: About the development and growth of the nursing home. In: Evangelical-Lutheran Heilandsgemeinde (ed.): The urban community center of the Heilandsgemeinde Frankfurt M. - Bornheim, which was expanded in the years 1954–1963 - Festschrift for the inauguration of the Heilandsgemeinde's old people's home in Frankfurt a. M. - Bornheim. Frankfurt 1963, pp. 25-34.
  • Joachim Proescholdt u. Jürgen Teleschow: Frankfurt's Protestant Churches through the ages . Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-942921-11-4 , p. 234 f.
  • Ernst Weber: The building committee - the construction of the Heilandskirche as a task of the building and working committee. In: Ernst Klöß (Hrsg.): Festschrift for the inauguration of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Savior in Frankfurt / Main on September 4, 1955. Frankfurt [1955], pp. 11–15.

Web links

Commons : Heilandskirche  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ Bartolmes, p. 16, speaks of 120,000 DM , Klöß, p. 25, of 250,000 DM.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Klöß, p. 25.
  2. ↑ Berkemann, p. 225
  3. ↑ Erika Maier-Bartholmes: The tower cross of the Heilandskirche . In: We in Bornheim - community newspaper of the evangelical parish Frankfurt am Main-Bornheim . No. 2 (April / May), 2014, pp. 9 .
  4. ^ NN: Riedberg instead of Bornheim. In: Evangelical Frankfurt . 2014/3, p. 15.
  5. ^ Weber, p. 14.
  6. ^ Weber, p. 11.
  7. ↑ a b Weber, p. 13.
  8. ↑ a b Görcke.
  9. ^ Weber, p. 15.
  10. ^ Francis Watson: The Nazi Spy Pastor: Carl Krepper and the War in America . ISBN 978-1-4408-2808-9 , p. 77.
  11. ↑ Andreas Hansert: Georg Hartmann (1870-1954): Biography of a Frankfurt Schriftgiessers, bibliophiles and art patron . Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2009. ISBN 978-3-205-78322-0 , p. 178.
  12. ↑ Evangelical Lutheran Heilandsgemeinde (ed.) / Ernst Klöß (co-author): Festschrift for the dedication of the Evangelical Lutheran Heilandskirche . Erhardt Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1955.
  13. ↑ Honor plaque of the city of Frankfurt am Main . From: frankfurt.de, accessed on August 5, 2017.
  14. ^ Ernst Klöss: From the early years of the German School in Barcelona . German newspaper for Spain (ed.), Barcelona 1944.
  15. ↑ In Memoriam. The deceased pastors of the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau 1997–1998 . In: Hessisches Pfarrblatt September 2001, special issue, p. 25f.
  16. ↑ Helmut Kiworr / Karin Kiworr: In the footsteps of the Scottish monks . Matthias Grünewald Verlag, Ostfildern 1999. ISBN 978-3-7867-2162-8 .
  17. ↑ Bartolmes.
  18. ↑ Klöß, p. 26.
  19. ↑ Bartolmes; Klöß, p. 26.

Coordinates: 50 ° 7 ′ 33 "  N , 8 ° 42 ′ 40.3"  E