Parish church Nieder-Eschbach
The Nieder-Eschbach parish church is a Protestant church in the Nieder-Eschbach district of Frankfurt . It is a cultural monument according to the Hessian Monument Protection Act .
prehistory
A church in Nieder-Eschbach was first mentioned in 774, as well as in 1397 and 1487. In the time of Count Ludwig zu Stolberg , the Nieder-Eschbachers were Lutheran and in 1578 under Philipp Ludwig II of Hanau-Münzenberg . Since the church was in disrepair, it was demolished in 1617 except for the tower, which was higher than the current tower. In the period from 1617 to 1618, a baroque hall church was built according to a design by Konrad Rossbach . It was damaged in the Thirty Years War and restored from 1654 to 1655.
description
The church is located in the town center between Deuil-La-Barre-Straße and Glockengasse. Until 1819 it was surrounded by a cemetery, which was converted into a green area. The brightly plastered building is characterized by the semicircular choir wall in the east and the squat tower in the west. The tent roof from 1772 emphasizes the clear shape of the building. The narrow high windows take up the late Gothic shape of the tracery windows of the tower. The entrance is in the middle on the north side.
The interior was redesigned by Christian Ludwig Hermann in 1747 and 1765 to 1766 . The altar was moved into the chancel and a wooden gallery was built on three sides. A Frankfurt citizen donated a pulpit, the sound cover of which is decorated with baroque leaf ornaments and a cross. It was moved in the middle behind the altar in 1853. The stained glass windows installed in 1866 were replaced in 1934. In the 1950s, the building, which had been damaged in the Second World War, was restored. An altar made of Odenwald red sandstone replaced the earlier wooden altar. At the end of the 1950s the church received a wooden cross with the blessing Christ. The last renovation was in 2000.
The organ was made in 1892 by Heinrich Bechstein from Groß-Umstadt. The instrument, comprising 16 registers and two manuals, was completely overhauled in 1984 by Werner Bosch Orgelbau . The bells come from Dilman Schmid (g 1 , 1686 in Aßlar, since the 20th century as an exchange from Nieder-Wöllstadt for a bell from 1764), Nikolaus Göbel (b 1 , 1571 in Frankfurt) and the Rincker bell and art foundry ( c 2 , 1949 in Sinn). They sound in the Te Deum motif.
South view
North elevation
East view
Interior with altar
literature
- Joachim Proescholdt and Jürgen Telschow: Frankfurt's Protestant Churches through the ages , Frankfurter Societätsverlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-942921-11-4
Web links
- Website of the evangelical parish Nieder-Eschbach
- State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Ev. Parish Church In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hessen
Coordinates: 50 ° 12 ′ 1.5 ″ N , 8 ° 40 ′ 30 ″ E