Kreuzkirche (Hanau)

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The Kreuzkirche in Hanau is one of the four Protestant parish churches in the Evangelical City Parish of Hanau .

View of the church building from Karl-Marx-Straße

history

local community

The community was until February 7, 1954, the second parish of the municipality of St. John's Church was, and was spun off from there because the community by refugees and displaced persons , very quickly grew that were housed there in large newly built housing estates and apartment buildings. This led to the decision to plant a new church here. It was initially called the Evangelical Church Community of the Lamboy Area . On February 7, 1955, it was then renamed the Evangelical Kreuzkirchengemeinde Hanau - for the one year anniversary . At that time the congregation had about 7700 members. Traditionally, the church was the seat of the dean of the Hanau-Stadt dean 's office .

At the beginning of 2014, four Hanau inner-city parishes of the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck were merged into one parish. The former community now forms a district in the area of ​​the newly founded Evangelical City Church Community of Hanau .

Geographical location

The Kreuzkirche is located at Karl-Marx-Straße 43, in the Lamboyviertel district .

building

In front of the buildings that still exist today, there was a wooden barrack made available by the US Army in 1948 for the district , which was initially set up as a kindergarten, but also served as an emergency church . It has not been preserved.

The preserved buildings, the parish hall and the church are cultural monuments according to the Hessian Monument Protection Act .

Parish hall

The foundation stone was laid on May 21, 1953. Today's parish hall also housed a day-care center, two apartments for church workers and two youth rooms. The building, the kindergarten and a daycare center were inaugurated with a service by Bishop Adolf Wüstemann on February 7, 1954. In a second construction phase, the rectory was built in 1958, which was followed a few years later by a second in Lenbachstraße. In view of the fact that a new church was to follow later, the parish hall was designed so that it could initially be used as a church service room. For this purpose, a multi-functional, lockable gallery and doors closed by segment arches and windows divided by bars with tinted window glass were installed. The room shows white jointed brick masonry and a half-timbered choir wall originally designed for the upcoming demolition . The roof turret, which initially served as a replacement for the church tower , was dismantled when it became dilapidated. Its bronze bell is in the atrium. It was a gift from the municipalities of the Hanau district and was cast by the Rincker bell foundry in Sinn (Hesse) . Stylistically , the building still has numerous echoes of the Heimat style . It is brightly plastered on the outside.

In Hanau, the building is the last remaining evidence of a provisional church building from the early post-war period .

church

Building

From 1965 the new church followed. The foundation stone was laid on May 16, 1965. The foundation stone bears the inscription Soli Deo Gloria (Alone God be Glory) and is located in the atrium , which is in front of the church. The architect was construction officer Heinrich Otto Vogel , Trier . The new church was arranged at right angles to the parish hall and opened to it through a sliding door so that both rooms can be used at the same time. The 29 meter high bell tower with a small prayer room on the ground floor for about ten people is only connected to the church building and the parish hall by courtyard walls, so it is largely free. The church is a steel frame structure , which was lined with sand-lime brick . This was faced with bricks. The arched windows are decorated with colored glass windows by the glass painter Alois Plum , Mainz . The church can accommodate up to 350 people. The church was consecrated in 1966. The church building is the youngest Protestant church building in Hanau.

Furnishing

On the left wall of the church hangs the tapestry that shows the sower from the parable of the same name ( Mt 13 : 1-9  LUT ). It was made by Alexander Harder in 1954 and hung behind the altar when the parish hall was still used as a church service room . Behind the altar in use today hangs a relief by the Munich sculptor Karl Hemmeter , which shows Jesus washing the feet ( Jn 13 : 1-20  LUT ). The eavesdropper , a wooden relief on the pulpit, was made by the same artist . The baptismal font is on the right side of the church, in front of the pulpit.

Bells

The bells were created in the Rincker bell foundry on July 15, 1966 and hung in the bell cage on September 28, 1966 . They are tuned to the notes c, d, f, g, dedicated to certain functions and each provided with a cast saying:

  1. Praise the Lord my soul - thank you bell
  2. Serve the Lord with joy; Serve one another - service bell
  3. Call me in an emergency - storm bell
  4. Stop at the prayer - prayer bell

literature

  • Max Aschkewitz: Pastor history of the Hanau district ("Hanauer Union") until 1986 , Part 1 = Publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse 33. Marburg 1984, p. 77.
  • Carolin Krumm: Cultural monuments in Hesse - City of Hanau = monument topography Federal Republic of Germany - cultural monuments in Hesse. Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen. Wiesbaden 2006. p. 96. ISBN 3-8062-2054-9 , pp. 225-227

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Buschbeck: From the chronicle .
  2. ↑ Aschkewitz.
  3. ↑ a b c Denkxweb.de
  4. ↑ Crooked.
  5. ↑ a b Buschbeck: The foundation stone .
  6. ↑ a b Buschbeck: Our bells .
  7. ↑ a b Homepage of the Kreuzkirche.

Coordinates: 50 ° 8 ′ 26.1 ″  N , 8 ° 55 ′ 53.6 ″  E