North-East Church (Frankfurt am Main)

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The Protestant North-East Church is the church of the Evangelical Personalkirchengemeinde Nord-Ost in the Frankfurt district of Ostend , the establishment of which goes back to Carl de Neufville .

North-east church, south view
inner space

history

The Frankfurt merchant and banker Carl de Neufville spent several years in the United States of America as a young man in the second half of the 19th century. There he learned about the evangelistic work of Dwight Moody in Chicago and was greatly influenced by it. On his return in 1885 he took over the missionary work called Vereinhaus Nordost . In 1887 he founded a youth club and began building the Northeast clubhouse. The building, inaugurated in 1889, included a church hall that could seat a thousand people. The Northeast Club House was also home to a Sunday school , theChristian Association of Young Men , the Blue Cross , the White Cross , the prison mission, the baker's and railwayman mission and a distribution of Christian scriptures. In 1900 the Evangelical North-East Association for evangelism and community care and in 1929 the Evangelical Personal Parish North-East was founded by the regional church.

The Nordost clubhouse was destroyed in the air raids on Frankfurt am Main in 1943 during World War II. From 1958, the new north-east church was built in Wingertstrasse according to plans by the architect Fritz Coutandin and inaugurated on December 11, 1960. The Evangelical Personal Parish North-East belongs to the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau .

architecture

Church hall of the old north-east church

The original Nordost clubhouse was a large building, which, in terms of its construction, is more of a secular meeting place than a church. It had a half-hip roof , large dormers, a roof turret and arched windows . The interior was characterized by the wooden roof structure.

The north-east church from 1960 is significantly smaller than the former clubhouse. The simple building can be recognized as a sacred building facing the street through the church tower. The interior is characterized by a simple design with a simple table-like altar and a large wooden cross. The organ from 1964 with two manuals and 27 registers was made by Förster & Nicolaus Orgelbau .

Web links

Commons : North East Church  - 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
  • Evangelical Association North-East for Evangelism and Community Care (Ed.): 100 Years North-East , Frankfurt am Main 1987

Coordinates: 50 ° 7 '12.9 "  N , 8 ° 42' 4.8"  E