Evangelical Church of Bonames

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North elevation of the church

The Evangelical Church of Bonames is a late Gothic , Baroque redesigned church in Bonames , a district of Frankfurt am Main, dating back to the 15th century .

Origin and development

A first church was mentioned in a document in Bonames in 799. It was outside of today's location. As a replacement for this church, the builders Arnolt Holtzhusen and Henne Wisse built a church in the late Gothic style in 1477. Despite its location within the city walls of Bonames, it was built as a fortified church, which can still be seen today from the thickness of its walls. The church had a bell, as a bell ringer is mentioned in a document for 1483. The church patronage initially lay with the monastery of the Marienkirche in Lich . The Reformation was introduced in the 1530s . In the course of the Reformation, the Counts of Solms , as sovereigns over Lich, also took over the right of patronage for Bonames from the Marienstift.

In 1546, Bonames was sacked by imperial troops, and the church was also damaged and then repaired. On a plan of the Frankfurter Landwehr from 1572 it is shown intact again and with a bell. In 1618 the then Count von Solms sold the church patronage to the city of Frankfurt, which also held secular rule over Bonames. During the Thirty Years War the church was again badly damaged. For the repairs, money was collected in all the surrounding communities, including in the city of Frankfurt. The building was then restored between 1642 and 1661 and rebuilt in baroque style. Since then, the appearance of the church has remained almost unchanged. In 1752, two oval windows were added to the facade, and in 1776 the bell tower was extended to accommodate three bells. The interior has been supplemented since then. In 1930 the building was completely renovated under the direction of Martin Elsaesser . In the mid-1960s, the chancel was raised, the floor level of which was previously on the same level as the nave. A sacristy was added at the beginning of the 1980s .

architecture

The historic center of Bonames lies on a natural plateau north of the Nidda . The church stands there facing east on Homburger Landstrasse , within the former walled cemetery. The high, elongated building is plastered white and with a steep pitched roof covered by slate. The corners of the building are highlighted by red sandstone, just like the soffits of the windows are made of sandstone. Three high windows structure the southern facade. In the east, the choir closes off hexagonally. In the high gable wall in the west is the entrance with a canopy and an oval window. The tower in the form of a stepped canopy ridge is also on the west side. The two floors of the tower have an octagonal cross-section.

Inside the hall church has a gallery running around three sides and a flat ceiling. The arrangement of the gallery, the parapet pictures and the crucifix in the flower cross are reminiscent of the interior architecture of the Frankfurt Katharinenkirche , which served as a model.

The church is a cultural monument due to the Hessian Monument Protection Act .

Furnishing

Altar and organ

Twenty gallery images depict Christ and the twelve apostles as well as scenes from the Old and New Testaments . The altar with crucifix and two angels, the pulpit with images of the Gospels and the baptismal font were made in 1753. The baptismal font was donated by the Frankfurt governor and court scholar von Bonames, Leonhard Kühn . In 1894, the Holzhausen family donated a picture from 1670 showing the flight to Egypt . In 1920 a memorial picture by the Frankfurt painter Heiland was attached to commemorate those who died in the First World War . During the renovation in 1930, Martin Elsaesser provided for a colored painting. Seven grave monuments have been preserved in the church, including those of Achilles David Wunderer, Johann Adolf Wunderer, Pastor Johann Philipp Mann and Pastor Johann Heinrich Petersen .

The organ was manufactured by Bernhard Dreymann in 1851. It was renovated by Eifert from Stadtilm in 1898 and has had 17 registers since then.

Churchyard

The old churchyard was buried until 1867. Some grave slabs are attached to the outside wall of the church, including those of Johannes Holtzmann .

Picture gallery

  • Town center with church from the south

  • Northwest view

  • Tombstones

  • Gallery

  • pulpit

local community

The parish was first mentioned in 1297. Pastor Johann Heinrich Henrici Senior impressed Philipp Jakob Spener in 1667 because he gave the confirmation in the service, which was still unusual at the time. The Kalbach parish, which has been independent since 1979 , was reunited with the Bonames parish in 2008. The parish has since been called the Evangelical Miriam parish Bonames-Kalbach .

Web links

Commons : Evangelical Church Bonames  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

literature

  • Folkhard Cremer: "Dehio" Hessen II - Darmstadt administrative district . Berlin 2008, p. 295. ISBN 978-3-422-03117-3
  • Joachim Proescholdt and Jürgen Telschow: Frankfurt's Protestant Churches through the ages , Frankfurter Societätsverlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-942921-11-4
  • Heinz Schomann u. a .: Monument topography city of Frankfurt am Main . Braunschweig 1986, p. 456. ISBN 3-528-06238-X

Coordinates: 50 ° 10 ′ 53.4 "  N , 8 ° 39 ′ 50.3"  E