St. Joseph's Church (Frankfurt-Eschersheim)

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St. Josefs Church
Frankfurt am Main-Eschersheim
The St. Joseph's Church
Number of bells 5

The Church of St. Josef in Frankfurt - Eschersheim is one of three Roman Catholic church buildings in Frankfurt am Main that are consecrated to the patron saint Joseph of Nazareth . It is the parish church 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 . The sacred building , like the two other Josefskirchen ( St. Josef - Höchst and St. Josef - Bornheim ), is in the Limburg diocese .

history

Chancel of St. Joseph's Church
The steeple

20th century

founding

In 1901 the local chaplain in Frankfurt-Ginnheim Kurat Freidhof was given pastoral care for the Catholics in Eschersheim. As early as 1904, the first Catholic service since the Reformation was held in the premises of the Protestant school on the White Stone, built in 1902 . In 1907, the first planning began for the construction of a Catholic church in Eschersheim, which at that time belonged to the diocese of Fulda under canon law . The design for a neo-Romanesque church building comes from the architect Hermann Mahr , who received the building contract from the Episcopal General Vicariate in Fulda on November 17, 1910 . There, it was decided that the Church of the Holy. Joseph ordained to be.

After Eschersheim was incorporated into Frankfurt am Main, the first groundbreaking for the church took place on December 5, 1910. The foundation stone was laid the following March . The topping-out ceremony was celebrated on August 20, 1911 . On September 22nd, 1912, the five bells in the church with a total weight of 5597 kg were consecrated. On December 29, 1912, the assembly of the electorate Catholics Eschersheim took place to found the parish. In 1913, the official gazette for the Diocese of Fulda published the document signed by Bishop Joseph Damian Schmitt on the establishment of the Catholic parish in Eschersheim on January 15, 1913 and in 1914 the document on the establishment of the Catholic parish of St. Joseph on May 6, 1914. On May 10, 1914, the new church was consecrated by Bishop Schmitt in the presence of Lord Mayor Georg Voigt and other dignitaries. The first pastor was Rhaban Fröhlich, after whom a street in Eschersheim has been named since 1963 .

Pre-war period

On September 1, 1930, the Catholic parishes of the northern suburbs that had been incorporated into Frankfurt over the years, including the parish of Eschersheim, moved from the diocese of Fulda to the diocese of Limburg . In 1932 the first organ of the Späth organ building company was consecrated.

Second World War

In 1941 the organ was expanded by the Späth organ building company. In 1942, the community had to deliver four of the five bells for the metal donation of the German people . During the Second World War , the church suffered some minor damage in the air raids on Frankfurt am Main , with the entire windows being destroyed by an air mine on March 22, 1944 .

post war period

One of the bells given in the war was returned in 1947/1948. In 1948 the 16 windows in the central nave were temporarily re-glazed and in 1949 the lead glazing was renewed, but it was not until 1978 that the last windows could be replaced. In 1958 the church received a new bell from the FW Schilling foundry consisting of five bells. At the end of the 1950s, most of the war damage had been repaired and the parish hall and kindergarten could be opened. The exterior was renovated between 1965 and 1966. As a result of the liturgical reform by the Second Vatican Council , the pulpit and the altar in the high choir were removed from 1978 in the course of renovation work inside .

Exterior renovations were carried out again between 1988 and 1991, whereby the roof was partially renovated , but the roof structure was only extensively renovated in 2000.

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 St. Josef belonged to the pastoral area of Frankfurt-Nordost , which also includes the parishes of St. Albert in Dornbusch , Sancta Familia in Ginnheim , Most Holy Trinity in Frankfurter Berg , Herz Jesu in Eckenheim , St. Christophorus in Preungesheim , the Berkersheim district as well as the Korean Catholic Congregation and the Syro-Malankara Catholics . Since 2013 the church has had a new way of the cross with a modern design . In 2014 the 100th anniversary of the church was celebrated.

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 .

Location and transport links

The St. Josefskirche is located in the Eschersheim district of Frankfurt on Josephskirchstraße , in the immediate vicinity of the Weißer Stein underground station .

literature

Web links

Commons : St. Josephskirche (Frankfurt-Eschersheim)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Contact & contact person. In: homepage of the parish. Catholic Parish Sankt Franziskus Frankfurt, 2016, accessed on November 21, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Bernhard Merten ao: 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 November 20, 2019 .
  3. ↑ History & Way of the Cross - dreams come true - a way of the cross for St. Joseph. In: homepage of the parish. Catholic Parish Sankt Franziskus Frankfurt, 2016, accessed on November 20, 2019 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 9 ′ 22.8 ″  N , 8 ° 39 ′ 31.9 ″  E