Holy Cross Church (Frankfurt-Bornheim)

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Holy Cross Church
Frankfurt am Main-Bornheim
Church and parish hall
length 53.20 meters
width 18.52 meters
height 15.50 meters
Tower height 25.00 meters
Height of tower crosses 6 meters
Broad tower crosses 1.50 meters
Number of bells 3

The Holy Cross Church is a Catholic Church in Frankfurt area Bornheim in the settlement Bornheimer Hang . It is a branch church of the parish St. Josef Frankfurt am Main and is located in the Diocese of Limburg . On August 1, 2007, the diocese gave the church a new purpose as a profile church and established the center for Christian meditation and spirituality of the diocese of Limburg in it. The center was managed by Helmut Schlegel until July 2018 and by Samuel Stricker since November 2018.

Since the restoration of the interior of the St. Leonhards Church began , the services of the local international English-speaking congregation have been taking place in the Holy Cross Church since May 7, 2011. This remains at home in the Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche even after the work is finished.

The church is similar in its design to the Frauenfriedenskirche in Frankfurt-Bockenheim .

history

20th century

founding

Bell tower of the Holy Cross on Martin-Weber-Platz
The figures of Arnold Hensler symbolizing the four evangelists on the south side of the tower
East side of the Holy Cross Church, seen from the park on Bornheimer Hang
North side of the nave with circular writing “Im Kreuz ist Heil” by Arnold Hensler
Chancel, Christmas 2007
Interior of the Holy Cross Church, 5th anniversary of the meditation center in 2012
Veronica's handkerchief on the south side of the church tower by Arnold Hensler
Pietà by Arnold Hensler in the entrance hall
Memorial plaque inside the church
The organ on the gallery
Cretan Advent - labyrinth of 2500 burning tea lights on December 11, 2011 in the church
Creation and use of the advent maze 2013
Christmas crib with figures by Arnold Hensler in 2012
Wooden crucifix in the crypt

The Holy Cross Church was designed as a sacred building from 1928 to 1929 by the church builder Martin Weber , who earlier (1927) also built the Church of St. Bonifatius in Sachsenhausen and later (1931) the Church of the Holy Spirit in Riederwald . With these Frankfurt churches, along with the Frauenfriedenskirche and the Limburg Pallottine Church, Martin Weber stands for New Building in the sense of the liturgical movement in the Roman Catholic Church .

The church is located on the eastern edge of the settlement planned by Ernst May above the Bornheimer slope . The community house originally planned for the settlement at the end of Wittelsbacherallee was not realized, so that space was available for the construction of a church. The Holy Cross Church was the second Catholic church in the Bornheim district of Frankfurt. The parish was originally a spin-off of the later neighboring parish of St. Josef, the first Catholic church in Bornheim. The reason was the expansion of the Bornheim district to the east and the associated increase in the number of Catholics in the district.

After the Catholic community had acquired the land required for the construction of the church in 1926 and 1927, the church board decided in May 1927 to call for a restricted architectural competition . Four architecture firms were invited: Hans (1872–1952) and Christoph Rummel (1881–1961) (Frankfurt), Richard Steidle (1881-1958) (Munich), Martin Weber (1890-1941) (Frankfurt) and Robert. B. Witte (Dresden). The jury consisted of representatives of the church, the city building officer Ernst May and the architect Hans Herkommer . The architects were given various specifications, including the position of the tower front on Wittelsbacher Allee and the number of 700 to 800 seats. In addition, a high altar and two side altars and an organ gallery for 150 people were required. On August 3, 1927, the jury decided in favor of the design by the church builder Martin Weber. The architect called the building model the slope crown , as the church was supposed to "crown" the Bornheim slope.

Construction work began on February 19, 1928 with the groundbreaking ceremony . The foundation stone was laid on March 18, 1928 . The topping-out ceremony was celebrated on September 14, 1928. On 25 August 1929, the church of which it was Mainz Bishop Hugo ordained . The name Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche was chosen because medieval Frankfurt had several places dedicated to the Holy Cross . One of them was the chapel of the Holy Cross Hospital , founded by Wicker Frosch in 1343 . This chapel together with the chapel of the Katharinenkloster from 1354 formed a small double church, the predecessor of today's Evangelical-Lutheran Katharinenkirche at the main guard . In the Holy Cross Church there is a reliquary with a splinter of the Holy Cross. Until 1950 the parish was still part of the St. Joseph Parish, with which it had a joint church council.

Second World War

In the period from 1933 the Heilig Kreuz parish was also affected by the oppression by the National Socialists and from 1939 had to complain about the loss of parishioners in the Second World War . Because of its exposed location, the church was used as a landmark for the navigation of the USAAF and RAF bombers . The windows on the west side of the church were destroyed on October 4, 1943 as a result of an air raid that was to hit the waterworks at Bornheimer Friedhof . During the first major attack on Frankfurt on the evening of the same day, the windows on the east side and the rectory were also destroyed by a series of aerial bombs that fell in the allotment gardens on Bornheimer Hang. In the next major attack on the city on January 29, 1944 , the rectory was badly hit. On the night of March 18-19, 1944 , the church was hit by several fire bombs , which penetrated the roof beams but could be extinguished inside the church. On 11 December 1944 the west side of the church received three bomb hits, the large staircase on the west side of the church tower and behind it need chapel in the tower room on the ground floor of the tower destroyed and a large hole in the west side of the nave torn. The services then had to be held in the boiler room below the tower.

post war period

The boiler room below the tower building was used as a church until July 1, 1946. During the period of reconstruction, from September 26, 1948, the parish hall below the church was used as the lower church, which at that time was still connected to the later crypt in which the chancel was located. In 1950 Heilig Kreuz became an independent parish with its own church council. In 1951 the order for the restoration of the church was awarded. In 1952 the interior of the church was again in an intact condition. The church windows were re-glazed by the glass painter Lorenz Matheis with lead-framed panes in white and golden yellow. The interior walls and the ceiling were given a monochrome light paint. In 1957 the still existing kindergarten was built to the west of the church . In 1965 the parish hall under the nave was given a stage for events as part of a renovation. In 1968 the sanctuary was redesigned as a result of the liturgical reform by the Second Vatican Council . The altar was moved so that the priest could celebrate the service facing the congregation. A stone ambo replaced the demolished pulpit . The baptismal font now stood in the place of the old altar under the large wall cross in the choir . The ceiling was painted orange-red and the walls were painted light beige. In 1969 the first parish council election took place. In 1975 the board of directors elected by the parish council took the place of the church council. In 1990, as part of a restoration under the direction of the architect Bernhard Weber (1930-2000), the chancel was redesigned again . The baptismal font was moved to the entrance area of ​​the church. In its place, a sacramental altar with the tabernacle was built , which took the place of the earlier high altar . From 1991 the pastor of the parish was also pastor of the neighboring parish Maria Rosenkranz in Seckbach . During the renovation of the interior of the church in 1992, the interior decoration with the checkerboard pattern in light and dark red was largely restored. In 1997 the previously unnamed square in front of the church tower at the top of Wittelsbacher Allee was redesigned and given the name Martin-Weber-Platz.

21st century

Center for Christian Meditation and Spirituality

On August 1, 2007, the diocese of Limburg designated the church as the center for Christian meditation and spirituality on the instructions of the former bishop Franz Kamphaus . The meditation church is a pastoral institution of the diocese and reports to the department head for pastoral services of the episcopal ordinariate (status 12/2017: Prof. Dr. Hildegard Wustmans). The Franziskaner Helmut Schlegel ( German Franciscan Province ) was responsible for the offer until July 2018 as head of the center and until June 2019 as a priestly employee. In November 2018 the theologian Samuel Stricker took over the management of the meditation center and in August 2019 Olaf Lindenberg took over as a priestly assistant. The team includes other speakers , including those from the Medical Mission Sisters . It was the first facility of its kind in Germany . The Holy Cross Church is one of five themed churches in the Limburg diocese. Moreover, there is next to the also founded in 2007, Center for Grief Counseling in the Church of St. Michael in Frankfurt-Nordend , the three founded in 2005 youth churches crossover in the church of St. Hildegard in Limburg an der Lahn , Jonah in the Church of St. Boniface in Frankfurt-Sachsenhausen and Kana in the Maria-Hilf church in Wiesbaden-Nordost .

Small changes were gradually implemented in the interior of the church until 2010. The previous pews were replaced by folding chairs , which enable more flexible use of the available space. The previous main altar is no longer used for the services of the meditation center and has been replaced in its function by a small wooden altar that forms a circle with the folding chairs. For barrier-free access to the church interior or other rooms, stair lifts or wheelchair ramps were installed. The crypt and the rooms of the former rectory were redesigned to be used as a meditation center.

The centre's program had to be suspended in March 2020 because all church services in Germany and therefore all other events had to be canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany . However, at certain times the church is open to a limited number of people for meditation. In May, services were resumed on Saturdays under special conditions.

From the new parish of St. Joseph to a new type of parish

With the establishment of the Center for Christian Meditation and Christian Spirituality, the Holy Cross Church lost its previous role as a parish church . The previous parish of Heilig Kreuz belonged again to the parish of St. Joseph from which the parish had once emerged. The two Catholic Bornheim parishes were merged with part of the parish of the previous parish of St. Michael to form the new parish of St. Josef. The Church of St. Michael became the center for funeral pastoral care of the Diocese of Limburg . The mother parish of St. Josef in Bornheim and the neighboring parish Maria Rosenkranz in Seckbach initially formed the common pastoral area of Frankfurt-Bornheim. Together with its neighboring congregation Maria Rosenkranz in Seckbach , the new St. Josef congregation formed the pastoral area of Frankfurt-Bornheim until December 31, 2011 , in which there was a stronger cooperation than before. At that time, the parish of St. Josef was one of the largest in the Limburg diocese with almost 11,000 Catholics. On January 1, 2012, the pastoral rooms in Frankfurt were restructured and the two pastoral rooms Frankfurt-Bornheim with the parishes St. Josef-Bornheim and Maria Rosenkranz in Seckbach and Frankfurt-Ost with the two parishes Heilig-Geist im Riederwald and Herz -Jesus in Fechenheim , a new pastoral space called Frankfurt-Ost was created. This existed until December 31, 2014.

On January 1, 2015, the four parishes of the pastoral area of ​​Frankfurt-Ost St. Josef in Bornheim, Maria Rosenkranz in Seckbach, Heilig-Geist in Riederwald and Herz-Jesu in Fechenheim became a new type of parish under the name of St. Josef Frankfurt am Main with the churches of Sankt Josef Bornheim, Maria Rosenkranz Seckbach , Heilig Geist Riederwald and Herz Jesu Fechenheim . This includes the centralization of certain tasks, such as the parish secretariat. At that time the parish had around 16,500 members. The Holy Cross Church is one of the profile churches of the diocese. Due to its location in the area of ​​the new type of parish St. Josef Frankfurt am Main, it is also their branch church . The buildings are administered by the Stadtkirche Frankfurt am Main.

The construction

The church, with flat gable roofs and a steel frame construction , is entered via the large open staircase in front of Wittelsbacher Allee . The church interior is one floor above street level. Martin Weber understood the floor plan of the church as a further development of the floor plan of the Bonifatiuskirche in Frankfurt-Sachsenhausen .

The nave is oriented exactly in north-south direction, the sanctuary is on its north side. After its inauguration, the interior was initially painted red and pink checkered. The original windows had large letters that were legible from the inside. It was a German translation of the Latin hymn Vexilla regis (The sign of the cross moves along) . The letters appeared dark by day against the light shining through the windows from outside. In the dark, they shone through the reflection of the light from the church lighting. The tower crosses have the typical Martin Weber ratio of width to height of 1: 4 (1.50 × 6.00 meters) ("Weber Cross").

In the Holy Cross Church the chancel is on the front wall of the nave, in the Church of St. Bonifatius in Frankfurt-Sachsenhausen the chancel is in its own choir and the Holy Spirit Church in Frankfurt-Riederwald has a contrast a centrally arranged altar area.

During the Second World War, the church and the adjacent rectory on Kettelerallee were damaged by several bomb hits. The church windows were destroyed in 1943 by shock waves from nearby bombs. The large main staircase on the tower was destroyed by a bomb hit in 1944 and the church roof was penetrated by fire bombs. After the reconstruction, the church interior was painted white on the walls with an orange ceiling from 1951. The new church windows were re-glazed in a yellowish shade. The two side altars have been removed. In addition, there were a total of five side chapels in the church, which were located between the pillars inside the church and the two side walls of the nave. They were dedicated to various saints, e.g. B. Saint Elizabeth , Saint Rita and Saint Agnes . Behind the left front column was the staircase to the pulpit , which had a rectangular sound cover . The church was placed under monument protection in 1986 together with its location and the assignment to the Ernst May settlement . Extensive renovation work began in 1990, during which the chancel was redesigned and in 1992 the interior was given its original paintwork, also for reasons of monument protection.

The church has a three-part bell . In 1955, the bells of the then newly built Evangelical Church of the Savior were matched to those of the Holy Cross Church and St. John's Church so that all bells could sound together without disharmony .

Under the church is the crypt , which was completely renovated and redesigned to mark the founding of the Center for Christian Meditation and Spirituality. Among other things, the floor was covered with parquet and the actual meditation area was provided with panels of linen and a door frame made of wood as access. On the south wall there is a wooden crucifix measuring 183 × 138 cm . Presumably it originally came from the Alpine region of the 17th or 18th century. It comes from the estate of the Catholic Mrs. May (born Ethel Mary Villers Forbes from the house of the Earl of Granard Plymouth ) of the Jewish entrepreneur Carl von Weinberg , who died in 1937 , who was the first pastor of Heilig-Kreuz Georg Nilges from his time as chaplain in Frankfurt -Know low wheel .

Next to the crypt is a large event hall with a stage, the parish hall of the former Holy Cross congregation. In the foot of the tower building , which consists of seven floors, there is also the tower hall, which will continue to be used by the new St. Joseph community. On the outside walls of the side aisles, the inside of the left front partition wall of the left side aisle to the church and the back wall of the entrance hall in the tower building is a painted way of the cross by artist Georg Poppe. The penultimate (13th) station of the cross is the wooden Pietà by the sculptor Arnold Hensler , which is also located in the entrance hall. On the side of the altar there is a large cross , which was redesigned during the reconstruction in 1952 , on which there is a painting with the risen Jesus . Until the Second World War, there were two large painted angels on the wall to the left and right of the cross .

On the southern outer wall of the tower, the beams supporting the belfry end in four winged animal figures with the heads of humans , lions , bulls and eagles , which symbolize the four evangelists Matthew , Mark , Luke and John . Originally, the heads of the four figures were decorated with halos made of metal. The four bars bear the inscription “We preach Christ crucified, Christ power and God's wisdom” ( 1 Cor. 1, 23-24 ). Under the animal figures there is a plaster relief plastic of the Veronica's handkerchief . The relief and the animal figures were created by the Wiesbaden sculptor Arnold Hensler. On the west and east side of the tower there is a tower clock without a number . On the property there is also the kindergarten built in 1957 , the former parsonage with a parish office and apartments , a building with group and club rooms, as well as a football field that was once popular with young people and is now mainly used as a parking lot . The kindergarten was expanded in 2011 by another building in the former vicarage on Ortenberger Straße.

organ

In 1964 the organ building company Gebr. Späth Orgelbau installed a typical organ at that time . The tone action works electrically, the register loops are controlled electro-pneumatically. The organ was cleaned and overhauled in 2019 by the successor company, Freiburger Orgelbau Hartwig and Tilmann Späth . The free-standing gaming table has been completely redesigned and provided with new rocker registers and LED lighting. The electrics were partially renewed, as well as the leather of the bellows , the membranes and other electropneumatic parts. The wind chests were overhauled and stabilizes the wind power through new Balgregulierungen and a new engine. On the tonal level, the post-intonation gave the organ more character and softened loud sharpness. After the reconstruction and relocation, the Pommer 16 'sounded as a supporting drone.

I. Main work Cg 3
1. Drone 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Gemshorn 8th'
4th octave 4 ′
5. Reed flute 4 ′
6th Nasat 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
7th octave 2 ′
8th. mixture 6-8 times
9. Trumpet 8th'
II. Swell C – g 3
10. Coupling flute 8th'
11. Quintad 8th'
12. Principal 4 ′
13. Night horn 4 ′
14th Schwiegel 2 ′
15th Sif flute 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
16. Sesquialter 2-fold
17th Spicy mixture 4-fold
18th Shawl yoboe 8th'
Pedal C-f1
19th Sub bass 16 '
Subtle bass 16 'TM I.
20th Principal bass 8th'
21st Covered bass 8th'
22nd Intoxicating bass 4-fold
23. trombone 16 ′
  • Pairing : II-I, IP, II-P, Sub II-I, Super II-I
  • Playing aids : 2 free combinations, 1 free pedal combination, crescendo roller, tutti, shutter release, slide chests, electric game action, electropneumatic stop action

Transport links

The Holy Cross Church is from the tram -End haltestelle Ernst-May-place the line 14 in the Wittelsbacherallee in about a minute and from that of the light rail - U7 the Frankfurt U-Bahn approached Metro Station Eissporthalle / Festplatz to be reached in a few minutes on foot. The Frankfurt-Ost junction of the 661 federal motorway is also nearby .

Way of St. James

A branch of the German Way of St. James runs below the Bornheimer slope to the east of the church . This is based on the course of the historic long-distance trade route from Leipzig to Frankfurt am Main ( Des Reiches Strasse ). It starts in the Episcopal City of Fulda , via Schlüchtern , Steinau , Bad Orb , Gelnhausen , Langenselbold , Erlensee and Bruchkoebel and belongs to the network of the main routes of Jacob pilgrim in Europe after de Santiago Compostela for suspected grave of St. Jacob in the cathedral there. The route leads for a total of 116 km past the Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche past the Frankfurt Ostpark, past the new building of the European Central Bank on the site of the former wholesale market hall, on to the banks of the Main in downtown Frankfurt , further along the Main to the Eiserner Steg , on the left Mainuferweg in the direction of Mainz and then on to Trier .

Trivia

novel

A scene set in Frankfurt from the novel by the German writer Martin Mosebach , published in 1999 and awarded the Heimito von Doderer Prize for Literature , The Turk was inspired by the Church of the Holy Cross. The described scenery around the “ Chiricoesque basilica ” resembles the Holy Cross Church on Bornheimer Hang .

TV movie

End of June 2019 were in the Holy Cross Church as a location several scenes, such as a confession scene for the Sat.1 - TV movie Murderous day - Julia Durant established the Julia Durant series of Andreas Franz and Daniel Holbe with Sandra Borgmann in the title role was shot by the director Nicolai Rohde . The script came from Kai-Uwe Hasenheit and Andreas Bareiss . For the shooting, the film team installed chairs with black seats and backrests inside the church, as well as a specially made confessional that incorporates design elements and color schemes from the doors of the church. Inside the church, for example, you can see the mural of a grave scene in the entrance area, the organ and the confessional as a film set. The outside staircase and the houses of the Bornheimer Hang settlement opposite in Ortenberger Straße can be seen several times . Drone images of the tower building were also used. The tower can be seen from above in several scenes. The television film was first broadcast on November 10, 2019 on Sat.1 emotions and on November 11, 2019 on Sat.1.

literature

  • Kath. Pfarramt Heilig Kreuz (Ed.): 30 years Heilig Kreuz-Pfarrei Frankfurt a. M. October 1959 . Holy Cross, Frankfurt am Main 1959.
  • Parish council Heilig Kreuz (Ed.): 50 years Heilig Kreuz in Frankfurt 1929–1979 . Holy Cross, Frankfurt am Main 1979.
  • Heike Risse: Early Modernism in Frankfurt am Main. 1920-1933 . Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1984, ISBN 3-7973-0422-6 .
  • Paul Bachmann, Anja Haag, Ingeborg Lüddecke (Red.): Festschrift for the 75th anniversary of the Holy Cross Church Frankfurt-Bornheim 1929–2004 . Parish Council Heilig Kreuz, Frankfurt am Main 2004.
  • Franz Manneck, Anneliese Hollerbach: Way of the Cross Holy Cross Church Frankfurt am Main-Bornheim . Technical Committee Liturgy and Catechesis Heilig Kreuz, Frankfurt am Main 2004.
  • Hermann Gille, P. Helmut Schlegel : Catholic Holy Cross Church Frankfurt-Bornheim . Schnell und Steiner publishing house, Regensburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-7954-6808-8 .
  • Helen Barr, Ulrike May, Rahel Welsen: The New Frankfurt - Walks through the Ernst May settlements and the architecture of its time . B3 Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-938783-20-7 .
  • Adrian Seib: Martin Weber - The churches of the Holy Cross and Holy Spirit in Frankfurt am Main as pioneering sacred buildings in the work of the architect . In: das münster - magazine for Christian art and cultural studies . 64th year, no. 1 . Verlag Schnell and Steiner, 2011, ISSN  0027-299X , p. 3-9 .
  • Franz Josef Hamm: Martin Weber and Arnold Hensler - an artist partnership . In: das münster - magazine for Christian art and cultural studies . 64th year, no. 1 . Verlag Schnell and Steiner, 2011, ISSN  0027-299X , p. 10-19 .

Web links

Commons : Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche (Frankfurt am Main)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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Coordinates: 50 ° 7 ′ 37 ″  N , 8 ° 43 ′ 6 ″  E