Nazareth Church (Frankfurt-Eckenheim)

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The Nazareth Church is the church of the Evangelical Nazareth Congregation in Frankfurt am Main - Eckenheim and a Hessian cultural monument . The community belongs to the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau . Church and congregation have been named after Nazareth in Galilee, the hometown of Jesus Christ , since December 1, 1929 .

Nazareth Church from the southwest
inner space

history

In the Middle Ages, Eckenheim initially belonged to the Bornheimerberg district . The Teutonic Order had church patronage since 1252 . In 1320 the place came to the County of Hanau . From 1736 it belonged to the Electorate of Hesse and from 1866 to Prussia . In 1910 the village was incorporated into Frankfurt am Main.

Since the Middle Ages, Eckenheim has belonged to the parish of Preungesheim as a branch parish . In 1548 a Lutheran pastor was first mentioned in Preungesheim; thus the Reformation also found its way into Eckenheim. A small wooden church was burned down in 1634 during the Thirty Years' War and only rebuilt in 1682 in the present old cemetery. Nevertheless, people went to church services in the Preungesheim church on Sundays and only celebrated the major church festivals in the Eckenheim church on the second holidays. It had to be closed as dilapidated in 1841. Afterwards, church celebrations took place temporarily in the school building.

In 1863 the new church was built according to plans by the master builder Simon Ochs and consecrated on November 15, 1863, but the parish remained connected to Preungesheim until 1895 . Only in 1895 was a separate pastor created.

The church was renovated in 1890 and the interior was artistically decorated with wall paintings and biblical words. During a major renovation in 1960, the interior was laid out in white.

architecture

The Nazareth Church is located on the southern edge of the town center at the confluence of Barchfeldstrasse and Eckenheimer Landstrasse . The simple hall church made of brick masonry has a floor area of ​​around twenty by eleven meters. The gable roof and the spire are covered with slate. The outer walls are made of red-brown bricks and are structured by pilaster strips . The building material was produced in a local brick factory at the time. The facade tower protrudes somewhat in the western gable wall and is crowned by a pointed dome. He marks the entrance.

You enter the bright interior through the portal. Walls, ceiling and the three-sided gallery are laid out in white. A few steps lead to the altar, on which there is a bronze cross with rock crystal and two candlesticks. The pulpit is placed in the middle above the altar. The organ with 21 registers was manufactured by Orgelbau Eisenbarth in 1963 . The Nazareth Church has two bells from 1950 that sound in a '(300 kg) and c' (500 kg). In both world wars, several bells were confiscated in 1917 and 1942.

There is a sgraffito by Hans Heinrich Adam on the neighboring parish hall . In the churchyard, which is surrounded by the historical fence, a war memorial commemorates those who died in the German-French War of 1870/71 in Eckenheim .

Web links

Commons : Nazarethkirche (Eckenheim)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

literature

  • Joachim Proescholdt, Jürgen Telschow: Frankfurt's Protestant Churches through the ages, Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 2011, ISBN 978-3-942921-11-4
  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments, Hessen II, Darmstadt District , Deutscher Kunstverlag 2008
  • Georg Esser: From the history of the Protestant parish in Frankfurt-Eckenheim on the 125th anniversary of the church building. 1863-1988 Frankfurt a. M. 1988

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ After Proescholdt / Telschow, Frankfurt's Evangelical churches through the ages , S. 208, was the country Hanauer builder mason architect of Eckenheimer church.

Coordinates: 50 ° 8 ′ 53.8 "  N , 8 ° 40 ′ 55.2"  E