Matthäuskirche (Darmstadt)
The Matthäuskirche is a Protestant church in Darmstadt .
church
The Matthäuskirche is one of 49 emergency churches built after the Second World War . It was built in 1949/50 according to plans by Otto Bartning with the help of community members and is now a listed building. The emergency church program was a wooden kit system in which everything from the rafters to the altar ceiling could be ordered from the catalog. In contrast to some other emergency churches in Germany - where an only partially destroyed church was renovated - the Matthäuskirche was completely rebuilt. The Darmstadt Heimstättensiedlung did not previously have its own Protestant church. The parishioners put the kit together themselves within 1,500 working hours. The foundation stone was laid on September 3, 1949. The church was consecrated on March 19, 1950.
In 1953, the St. Matthew Congregation began building its neighboring community center. 1959 Bartning designed the of concrete built bell tower . In 1960 the four church bells were inaugurated.
The inside of the prefabricated laminated wood beams were lined with the "rubble stone" typical of Darmstadt's reconstruction. The rubble stones were not plastered . The Heidelberg painter Will Sohl designed the rough, gray walls with biblical motifs in egg tempera .
The Matthäuskirche has been completely preserved, including its interior furnishings. The church building represents the "type B" with a polygonal chancel - the four floor plan variants of the Bartningschen Notkirchen program - and is therefore representative of the Notkirchen program in terms of shape and equipment.
local community
The Matthäusgemeinde was created in 1935, due to the establishment of the Heimstättensiedlung, by separating the areas west of Heidelberger Strasse from the Petrusgemeinde.
After the Second World War, the Matthäusgemeinde expanded through the further expansion of the Heimstättensiedlung. The parish today includes the Heimstättensiedlung, the industrial area south-west west of the Darmstadt – Heidelberg railway line and the western parts of Bessungen between Eschollbrücker Strasse, Donnersbergring and Rüdesheimer Strasse.
The community has a day-care center (expanded in 1997), a children's and youth center (built in 1990) with an adjoining learning and play room and a community center (rebuilt in 1998).
Particular focus of the community work is:
- the services ,
- the child and youth work ,
- the women's aid ,
- the elderly work ,
- the ecumenical cooperation with the Catholic parish Heilig Kreuz.
literature
- Günter Fries et al .: City of Darmstadt. ( Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany , cultural monuments in Hesse .) Vieweg Verlag, Braunschweig 1994, ISBN 3-528-06249-5 , p. 477ff.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stadtlexikon Darmstadt. Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2006, p. 226 f.
Coordinates: 49 ° 51 ′ 6.7 ″ N , 8 ° 38 ′ 4 ″ E