Sancta Familia
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The Sancta Familia Church is a Roman Catholic church in the Ginnheim district of the city of Frankfurt am Main . She is the patron saint of the Holy Family consecrated . It is one of five branch churches of the Catholic parish St. Franziskus-Frankfurt , which bears the name of St. Francis . The parish is led by the Franciscan Father Anto Batinic OFM and is also looked after by the Schoenstatt Fathers and a pastoral team .
history
prehistory
In the Middle Ages, Ginnheim belonged to the Praunheim parish and was Protestant for about four hundred years after the Reformation.
19th and 20th centuries
From the end of the 19th century, Catholic Christians settled in Ginnheim. Twelve families founded an association in 1898 which, among other things, acquired a plot of land for the construction of a church. A so-called mission house was built on top of it and moved into on August 14, 1901. The first Catholic service in Ginnheim was celebrated in an inn in March of the same year. In 1913 Ginnheim was raised to an independent parish and from 1914 belonged to a parish association with Eschersheim .
With the involvement of the mission house, the new building of the church began in 1934 according to plans by the architect Martin Weber. The consecration took place on September 22, 1935 . In 1941 the parish was raised to its own parish. Due to the influx of residents in the post-war period, the church was expanded from 1963 to 1964 according to plans by the architect Bernhard Weber, the son of Martin Weber, and the area was roughly doubled. A community center was built in 1976.
21st century
On January 1, 2012, the parish boundaries within the Limburg diocese were redrawn as part of the “Willingness to move” process. By decree of Bishop Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst , ten newly cut pastoral rooms were built in Frankfurt. From 2012, Sancta Familia belonged to the pastoral area of Frankfurt-Nordost , which also includes the parishes of St. Josef in Eschersheim , St. Albert in Dornbusch , Most Holy Trinity in Frankfurter Berg , Sacred Heart in Eckenheim , St. Christophorus in Preungesheim , the Berkersheim district as well as the Korean Catholic Congregation and the Syro-Malankara Catholics .
The parish of the new type St. Franziskus Frankfurt was created in 2015 from the pastoral space . This includes the centralization of certain tasks, such as the parish office .
architecture
The original church building from 1935 was a simple, plastered brick building with a gable roof , whose symmetrically designed gable wall with an oversized arched window shaped the appearance. The northern extension by Bernhard Weber from 1964 meant that the north wall of the former church was demolished. Due to the approximately equally large extension, the church interior was given a square floor plan. The previous church building became the chancel . The sacristy and the parsonage were added to the site of the Magdalen Chapel, which had to be demolished together with the former mission house. The appearance of the building changed fundamentally as a result of the extension. The building continues the northern roof area downwards at the same angle of inclination and complements the western facade with a wall also plastered white, which is designed with numerous small horizontal window slots. The resulting asymmetrical main view shows the two different design elements and times of origin. The continuous roof and the light painting summarize the western view of the building. The frame of the remaining arched window is made of clear bricks , which forms an effective contrast to the white, smooth plastered walls. A continuous canopy visually connects the two building structures. The community center in the south with the name that can be seen from afar is part of the ensemble and frames the courtyard in front of the church.
The entrance was formerly in the western gable wall below the arched window before it was moved to the north due to the extension. From there you enter the interior. The former east-facing room has been rotated 90 degrees since the renovation. The altar was moved from the east to the south. The rows of pews face the altar and the cross in the south. Today's longitudinal walls are designed in the area of the annex on both sides with numerous small window slits that produce a diffuse white light. At first glance, the horizontal window slots appear to be arranged irregularly, but they follow a grid. By omitting individual windows, a playful, free wall design is created. For the static reinforcement of the longitudinal walls, a concrete structure made of columns and beams was added in the course of the extension.
The chancel receives colored light through the stained glass window in the arched window. The former arched window in the south wall was closed so that only the brick frame, which was offset in the middle, was preserved and still dominates the chancel today. It is separated from the rest of the church floor , which is covered with light gray natural stone , by four steps . The former side of the choir with a round arch opening in the east was closed in 1964. The interior walls are painted light. The sloping course of the roof can be seen. The ceiling is clad with natural wood and built in steps in the area of the extension.
Furnishing
The chancel was redesigned in 1981 by Paul Brandenburg . The stained glass windows were made to a design by Johannes Beeck and installed in 1986. In 1983 the congregation received a Stations of the Cross of 14 original sketches by the artist from the 1920s as a gift from the daughters of the Städel artist Georg Poppe .
organ
The organ was made in 1967 by the organ builder Johannes Klais .
Photo gallery
Interior east
West interior
Stained glass window
Sculpture at the entrance
literature
- Adrian Seib: The church builder Martin Weber (1890–1941): the life and work of an architect for liturgical renewal . Society for Middle Rhine Church History , Mainz 1999, ISBN 978-3-929135-25-1 .
- Franz Lerner: Ginnheim: From prehistory to the present . Frankfurter Sparkasse ( Polytechnic Society ), Frankfurt am Main 1983.
Web links
- Website of the parish of St. Francis (accessed on January 16, 2020)
- Website of the parish of Sancta Familia Ginnheim on the website of the parish of St. Franziskus (accessed on January 16, 2020)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Contact & contact person. In: homepage of the parish. Catholic Parish Sankt Franziskus Frankfurt, 2016, accessed on January 16, 2020 .
- ^ Bernhard Merten et al.: 100 years of St. Josef, Frankfurt am Main-Eschersheim. (PDF 1.3 MB) History of the Catholic parish of St. Josef. Catholic parish St. Josef Frankfurt-Eschersheim, April 13, 2014, accessed on January 16, 2020 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 8 ′ 35.2 ″ N , 8 ° 39 ′ 14.2 ″ E