New Johannes Church (Hanau)
The New Johanneskirche in Hanau is the church building of the Johanneskirche community.
location
The church is located on the corner plot of Frankfurter Landstrasse / Theodor-Fontane-Strasse. Postally it is assigned to Theodor-Fontane-Straße. Visually and in terms of urban development, however, it refers to Frankfurter Landstrasse, from where it takes a dominant position.
history
After the death of the last Reformed Count of Hanau , Johann Ernst von Hanau-Münzenberg , in 1642 his closest male relative was the Lutheran Count Friedrich Casimir von Hanau-Lichtenberg . His assumption of government was problematic. In order to secure the necessary support from the reformed, financially strong, bourgeois ruling class in the royal seat of Hanau, the Count's guardian, Baron Georg II von Fleckenstein-Dagstuhl , had no choice but to lay down the county's reformed status quo.
Despite this assurance, a Lutheran congregation soon formed in Hanau, which from 1658 onwards built the Lutheran (old) Johanneskirche . The death knell for the resulting biconfessional structure in Hanau was the economic and financial crisis triggered by the Napoleonic wars . In 1818 it led to the Hanauer Union , with which the two Protestant regional churches merged. The denominationally organized personal congregations lost their right to exist and two territorial congregations were formed in Hanau: the Johanneskirche congregation for the western part of the city, the Marienkirche congregation for the eastern part. With the expansion of the city in the 19th century, the (old) Johanneskirche was very eccentric on the edge of its community. With the destruction of the church building in World War II , the opportunity arose to create a replacement that was much more central in the area of the community: The New Johannes Church.
The community has been a district of the Evangelical City Church Community of Hanau since January 1, 2014 .
The building
The building - more precisely: the group of buildings - consists of the church interior, the church tower and a connecting walkway . All three parts of the building are faced with quarry stone ( trachyte ), which gives the ensemble a monumental look. The architect was Heinrich Otto Vogel , Trier . The facility was built between 1958 and 1960.
church
The church building has a cubic shape and is set far back from Frankfurter Landstrasse. The interior is characterized on the one hand by closed walls and tall windows. Together with the strictly geometric wall painting in red, blue and gray tones as well as black, this is reminiscent of the architecture of Roman thermal baths . On the other hand, the extremely slim pillars - designed in the typical style of the 1950s without a base or chapter - that accompany the outer walls and in the middle of which are the seating (previously: benches, now replaced by chairs) for the worshipers are located.
Bell tower
The bell tower is set apart as a " campanile " from the church building. It is right on Frankfurter Landstrasse. There are also two rooms for church youth work .
Walkway
Originally a walkway connected the church building and the church tower. It is a typical set piece in the architecture of Heinrich Otto Vogel. It was intended as a quiet zone to separate the church from the hustle and bustle of the surrounding area. In fact, it was used as a storage facility for bicycles. This gallery was replaced in 2015/2016 by a parish hall, which, however, maintains the traditional appearance of the gallery on its front side.
local community
Known parishioners were:
literature
- Carolin Krumm: Cultural monuments in Hessen - City of Hanau . Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen. Wiesbaden 2006, p. 274, ISBN 3-8062-2054-9
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Frank Sommer: Finally a kitchen of your own . In: Frankfurter Rundschau v. June 30, 2016, p. R15.
Coordinates: 50 ° 8 ′ 20.7 ″ N , 8 ° 54 ′ 21.3 ″ E