Paul-Gerhardt-Church (Frankfurt-Niederrad)
The Protestant Paul Gerhardt Church , also known as the Kleine Kirche Niederrad or Niederräder Church , is a baroque church and a Hessian cultural monument in Niederrad , a district of Frankfurt am Main . The Paul Gerhardt Community Center is another church building belonging to the community of the same name. It and its two churches have been named after Paul Gerhardt , who was an important Protestant theologian and hymn poet, since 1926 .
Origin and development
The village of Niederrad was first mentioned in a document in 1151. Ecclesiastically with Schwanheim it belonged to the Bartholomäusstift of the Frankfurt Imperial Cathedral of St. Bartholomäus . Since the Reformation , the Protestant Christians have been part of the Gutleuthof on the other side of the Main , where they also took the boat for worship . That did not change in 1608, when a small Protestant half-timbered church was built in Niederrad , which only served as a Sunday school . In 1726 the church that still exists today was built. It was severely damaged by the war in the air raids on Frankfurt am Main in the 1940s and rebuilt in a simplified form from 1951 to 1952 according to plans by the architect Hans Bartolmes .
architecture
The baroque hall church is located in the center of Niederrad on Kelsterbacher Straße. The three-sided choir faces south. The plastered building is structured by two arched windows in the longitudinal walls. The steep slate roof is crowned on the north side with a roof turret, which serves as a belfry. You enter the interior directly from the street through a portal in the north gable wall . Lina von Schauroth made glass windows between the two world wars. Altar and pulpit are from the architect. A historical crucifix hangs over the altar. The arched windows on both sides of the altar were created by the artist couple Gisela Dreher-Richels and Gerhard Dreher . The organ with 13 registers and two manuals was installed by Ismayer in 1971.
Web links
- Website of the Paul Gerhardt community
- State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Ev. Paul-Gerhard-Kirche In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hessen
literature
- Joachim Proescholdt, Jürgen Telschow: Frankfurt's Protestant Churches through the ages, Frankfurter Societätsverlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-942921-11-4
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments, Hessen II, Darmstadt District , Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2008
Coordinates: 50 ° 5 ′ 19.3 " N , 8 ° 38 ′ 38.9" E