Marienkirche (Frankfurt-Seckbach)
The Marienkirche is a Protestant church in Frankfurt am Main - Seckbach . It stands above the main thoroughfare in the churchyard with the historic cemetery and is bordered by the former Seckbacher schoolhouse built in 1709 at Wilhelmshöher Strasse 135, Zentgrafenstrasse , Ellerstrasse, An der Marienkirche and the Propst-Goebels-Weg, which also runs through Huthpark .
The area of the municipality extends in an east-west direction from Vilbeler Landstrasse to Bornheim, borders on Borsigallee in the south and extends to the old customs house on Friedberger Landstrasse in the north .
history
The Lutheran Church of St. Mary, built in the Baroque style , was inaugurated on September 7, 1710 in the then rural community of Seckbach , which at that time belonged to the County of Hanau . Since the incorporation on July 1, 1900, the place belongs to the city of Frankfurt am Main . The name of the church refers to the feast of the birth of the Virgin Mary , which was celebrated the day after the inauguration.
In the course of the history of the place Seckbach was sometimes Lutheran, sometimes Reformed, depending on the convictions of the respective sovereigns. In the course of the Reformation , Seckbach, although it belonged to the County of Hanau , became Lutheran under Frankfurt influence . When Philipp Ludwig II of Hanau introduced the Reformed Confession in the sense of Zwingli in his county in 1595 , the majority of the Seckbachers remained connected to the Lutheran confession.
Count Johann Ernst von Hanau-Münzenberg died in 1642 . With him, the Hanau-Munzenberg line , which professed the Reformed faith, died out. According to a contract of inheritance from 1610, Count Friedrich Casimir , who was oriented towards Lutheranism from the Hanau-Lichtenberg line, now also had the County of Hanau-Münzenberg. In the decades that followed, this led to the fact that, in addition to the Reformed regional church in the former county of Hanau-Münzenberg, a Lutheran regional church was established. In almost all places in the county, Lutheran congregations were founded in addition to the Reformed ones.
The Marienkirche followed the mountain church of St. Elisabeth first mentioned in a Mainz document in 1178, which had stood in the no longer existing village of Kirchberg between Seckbach and Bergen . As could be determined by archaeological excavations, this was roughly at the level of today's schools of the German book trade south of Wilhelmshöher Strasse . In the foundation walls of the former mountain church, further foundation walls of an even older, smaller church were found. In addition, both churches were built on the foundations of a Roman sanctuary.
In the 1660s, Seckbach and the not yet incorporated Frankfurt village of Bornheim formed a joint Lutheran parish, whose Seckbach church services initially took place in the Seckbach town hall until, from 1673, alternative quarters were found on the upper floor of the manorial wine press on nearby Wilhelmshöher Straße 158. These Lutheran church services displeased the pastor of the church in Kirchberg, which was reformed according to Zwingli's teaching . The St. Elisabeth mountain church was originally the parish responsible for the towns of Bergen, Enkheim, Fechenheim and Seckbach. The Seckbach Lutheran School, which was established in parallel to the Lutheran congregation in the 1660s, also held its lessons in the town hall until 1709. Later, a change to the half-timbered Lutheran school building at Wilhelmshöher Strasse 135, which still exists today, took place.
After the Marienkirche, the reformed Seckbacher Peterskirche was consecrated in 1764. It was built from 1757 from the stones of the mountain church, which was laid down from that year, and was located in Wilhelmshöher Straße, directly at the then eastern exit towards Bergen. After the union of the Lutheran and the Reformed to form the Evangelical Church ( Hanauer Union ) in 1834, it was used as another school building. It was demolished in 1966.
On May 3, 1868, the Mariengemeinde opened the so-called children's custody facility for children between the ages of 2 and 6 years. The immediate reason for this was a occurred in 1862 in scarlet fever - epidemic that killed 50 children are victims. Since their parents had to go about their work every day, the sick children had hardly any care and therefore did not survive. In the year of the epidemic, Pastor Hartmann started his work in the Mariengemeinde and set himself a preventive measure for the future, as he was confronted with the suffering of the children and the bereaved. The management of the Seckbacher Kinderbewahranstalt was entrusted to the trained sister Sophie Pfeiffer, who traveled from the motherhouse for child care in Nonnenweier in Baden .
Pastor Hartmann took great pains to finance a church's own school building in Schulstrasse (today Hochstädter Strasse 46). In the following years, this building also housed the community nurse and the Seckbach nursing station. After Seckbach was incorporated into Frankfurt in 1900, the Protestant church in Seckbach initially remained in the consistorial district of Kassel , which formed its own Protestant regional church from Lutheran, Reformed and United communities.
At the turn of the 19th / 20th In the late 19th century, the premises were no longer sufficient. In 1903 the construction of a parish and community center began in the formerly longer Ellerstraße (today this section of the street belongs to the Zentgrafenstraße), which was inaugurated in 1905. The toddler school building in the former Schulstrasse was sold to portfolio manager Wilhelm Kappes, who opened a restaurant there. The former children's detention center became today's kindergarten with -hort, which celebrated its 140th anniversary in 2008.
The warrior memorial for the Seckbachers who fell during the German Wars of Unification in 1864, 1866 and 1870/71 is in front of the churchyard of St. Mary's Church. It has a cuboid base with an obelisk-like attachment in which the name and dedication are carved. With the memorial for the dead in Seckbach , a local memorial was created in 1930 in Lohrpark on the Lohrberg .
On December 14, 1928, the Evangelical Church in Hessen-Kassel ceded its deanery in Bockenheim and the parish of Fechenheim, whose parish had now all been incorporated into the city of Frankfurt, to the Evangelical Church in Frankfurt am Main . During the Second World War , the church burned down completely after the bombing during the air raids on Frankfurt am Main in 1943. The service will take place in the neighboring Old Lutheran School until the reconstruction is complete. The church was rebuilt on the remains of the wall with the large participation of the Seckbach population. The bell tower , originally a three-stage Baroque - onion dome with Vlašský hood wore, was equipped for cost reasons with a copper-studded top. On the 1st of Advent 1951 the Marienkirche could be inaugurated again.
The pastor Karl Goebels (1901–1991), a member of the Confessing Church in the Third Reich , justified the changed steeple as follows:
“ We do not want to appear as though nothing has happened when we restore the old form of the church. A new form is to testify that the old has been broken, that the Lord is alive and active in our generation in the grace of his visitation. "
The Propst-Goebels-Weg adjoining the churchyard was named after him. In 1980 he wrote the foreword to the Festschrift, which was published on the occasion of Seckbach's 1100th anniversary.
In 2002 the church council decided to level the 300-year-old churchyard and cemetery, to rededicate it and to build a new community center there. Seckbach's citizens reacted to the plan for such a desecration with massive protest, so that it was given up.
The Marienkirche should be renovated and rebuilt by its 300th anniversary in 2010. Among other things, accessibility in the church and the sanitary facilities should be ensured. In addition, the heating system should be adapted to the applicable regulations and the sacristy enlarged. The Evangelical Regional Association approved 1.18 million euros for the work that the Darmstadt architect Joachim Gottstein was supposed to carry out . He was already involved in the construction of the community center in 2005 and was awarded the Hessian Monument Protection Prize by the Hessian Ministry for Science and Art .
However, after the Dietrich Bonhoeffer congregation from Niederursel and the Festeburg congregation from Preungesheim had appealed against the building concept of the Evangelical Regional Association for certain building plans, the latter refused to approve the construction work in the summer of 2010. Construction work had not yet started for the anniversary.
local community
Today the community has around 2,500 members, a pastor's office, 20 full-time and around 110 volunteer workers. A daycare center and a kindergarten are located in the community centers, as well as rooms for groups and circles, the community office and the children's and youth office. The youngest come together in the so-called mini-clubs and parent-child circles. For older there is the youth group of the YMCA , the Heliandpfadfinder the Evangelical Youth Office , a children's project group, Bible days, holiday games and camps. The one world shop is centrally located in the old town center. Adults meet for lectures, in a trombone choir , in a gospel project , in Bible study groups or in a theater group . The community announcements are published six times a year.
“The pleasure to give” is the name of a work of art by Klaus Schneider, which was inaugurated in 2006 in the garden hall of the parish center of the Marienkirche.
Ecumenism
For many years, the Mariengemeinde in Seckbach has been friends and lively cooperation with the Catholic Maria Rosenkranz Congregation in Seckbach . Several times a year the congregations celebrate their divine service ecumenically . The ecumenical church choir consists of around 30 singers who jointly organize concerts and church services.
Transport links
The use of public transport is recommended. The Seckbacher Marienkirche can be reached with the RMV -Linienbus 43. The steep stairway to the churchyard is close to the Zentgrafenschule stop. It takes about 8 minutes to walk from the last stop at Leonhardsgasse if you take the RMV bus line 44. A walk of about 5 minutes is required if you come from the terminus Atzelberg-Ost of the RMV bus route 38. From the Atzelberg development area, the churchyard and community center can also be reached via two different staircases.
Churchyard
The historic cemetery of St. Mary's Church is described as a botanical gem, as the low level of care and sealing, together with the old trees, created a natural park landscape and a retreat for native plants. Just like on the southern slope of the Lohrberg, the Easter lucei (Aristolochia clematitis), also called wolfweed, which is very rare in Frankfurt, thrives here , a plant that is probably not native to Europe and that may have found its way to this continent through viticulture .
literature
- Folker Rochelmeyer: Seckbach and its surroundings. Frankfurt am Main 1972.
- Festival committee 1100 years of Seckbach e. V. (Ed.), Folker Rochelmeyer: Festschrift 1100 Years of Seckbach, 880–1980. Frankfurt am Main 1980.
- Church council of the Evangelical Mariengemeinde (ed.): Festschrift 275 years Mariengemeinde. Frankfurt am Main 1985.
- Lino Masala, Volker Rödel, Heike Risse, Heinz Schomann: Monument topography city of Frankfurt am Main. Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-528-06238-X .
- Walter Sauer: Seckbacher story (s). A home book. Frankfurt am Main 2000.
- 50 years of culture and history association 1954 Frankfurt a. M.-Seckbach e. V. Frankfurt am Main 2004.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Evangelical Church in Frankfurt am Main, Mariengemeinde
- ↑ The deanery Bockenheim included the united parishes in Berkersheim, Bockenheim ( Jakobskirche ), Eschersheim ( Emmauskirche ), Eckenheim, Ginnheim ( Bethlehem Church), Praunheim, Preungesheim and Seckbach (Marienkirche).
- ↑ Jürgen Telschow, "Frankfurt's Evangelical Church in the 20th Century: Structures, Finances and Buildings of the Evangelical Church in Frankfurt" , in: Everything has its time: 100 years of Protestant parishes in the old Frankfurt city area, 100 years of Evangelical Community Association / Evangelical Regional Association Frankfurt am Main , Jürgen Telschow (Ed.), Frankfurt am Main: Evangelischer Regionalverband, 1999, (= series of publications of the Evangelical Regional Association Frankfurt am Main; Vol. 23), p. 116 ff., Here p. 12 (numbering in the PDF file differs from the one in the book; accessed on May 14, 2013). ISBN 3-922179-31-2 .
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from January 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Interior views of the Marienkirche
- ↑ http://www.ekhn.de/index.htm?http://www.ekhn.de/inhalt/kirche/profil/haben/chronologischer.php~inhalt ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Karl Goebels, Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from January 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. History of the Mariengemeinde Frankfurt am Main-Seckbach
- ↑ Andreas Müller: Sunshine in the House of God , Frankfurter Rundschau, May 12, 2009, accessed on May 20, 2009
- ↑ Petra Manning: Anniversary without a new shine. The redesign of the Marienkirche is delayed for an indefinite period ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in: Frankfurter Neue Presse from July 1, 2010, accessed November 27, 2011
- ^ Andreas Müller: Stadtteile in Frankfurt: Festjahr für Marien , Frankfurter Rundschau, September 1, 2010, accessed on November 27, 2011
- ↑ http://www.kunst-im-oefflichen-raum-frankfurt.de/de/page87.html?id=369 The pleasure to give, kunst-im-oefflichen-raum-frankfurt.de
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Historical cemetery and exterior views of St. Mary's Church
Web links
- Website of the Protestant Mariengemeinde, Frankfurt am Main
- Evangelical Church in Frankfurt am Main, Mariengemeinde
- Culture and History Association 1954 Frankfurt a. M.-Seckbach e. V.
- State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Ev. Marienkirche In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hessen
Coordinates: 50 ° 8 ′ 37 ″ N , 8 ° 43 ′ 32.5 ″ E