St. Boniface (Frankfurt am Main)

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St. Boniface

St. Bonifatius is a Roman Catholic church in Frankfurt-Sachsenhausen , which belongs to the Limburg diocese . The church , built in the style of brick expressionism based on designs by Martin Weber , was consecrated in 1927. Since 2005, in addition to community work, the Catholic youth church JONA has been operated as a youth education and youth pastoral care facility.

history

Sachsenhausen has been part of Frankfurt am Main since it was founded . It was the seat of a commander of the Teutonic Order , who ran the hospital founded by Kuno I in 1193, but was only looked after by the Bartholomäusstift on the other side of the Main. It was not until 1452 that the small Dreikönigskirche received the rights of a subsidiary church. After the Dreikönigskirche became Lutheran during the Reformation , the only Catholic church in Sachsenhausen remained the Teutonic Order Church , which was secularized in 1809 during the Napoleonic occupation.

The few Catholics who remained in Frankfurt have belonged to the parish around St. Bartholomew's Cathedral since the Reformation . It was not until the 19th century that the number of Catholics increased significantly due to immigration. In 1836 the Roman Catholic parish priest of Frankfurt am Main appointed a parish administrator for Sachsenhausen, who was subject to the Teutonic Order until 1881. In 1889 Sachsenhausen became an independent pastoral care district in the city parish, then in 1917 the parish curate . In 1922, the Sachsenhausen parish curate was separated from the cathedral parish and placed under the patronage of St. Boniface . From 1909 Peter Josef Karst was rector, from 1922 then parish vicar. After the consecration of the newly built church in 1927, Karst was the parish's first pastor until 1940.

Church building

St. Boniface, church interior

The St. Bonifatius Church in Holbeinstrasse is considered to be the first modern Catholic church building in Frankfurt am Main and is associated with the New Frankfurt urban development program . In the competition announced in 1925 for the parish and war victims' memorial church of St. Bonifatius, the Frankfurt architect Martin Weber (1890-1941) won, who subsequently also took over the churches of Heilig Kreuz in Bornheim (1927) and Heilig-Geist in Riederwald (1931 ) built. With these Frankfurt churches, along with the Frauenfriedenskirche and the Limburg Pallottine Church, Martin Weber stands for New Building in the sense of the liturgical movement in the Roman Catholic Church .

The foundation stone was laid on June 27, 1926, the church was consecrated on August 7, 1927 by Limburg Bishop Augustinus Kilian . The view clinker has "expressive excessive echoes of north German brick Gothic " on the so-called Brick Expressionism . There is an octagonal tower above the chancel. The main hall has a barrel-shaped vault. The figure of the Virgin Mary on the Altar of Mary comes from the Frankfurt sculptor Johann Josef Belz . In the Church of St. Bonifatius the chancel is in its own choir, in the Holy Cross Church the chancel is on the front wall of the nave and the Holy Spirit Church, in contrast, has a centrally arranged altar area. The church was badly hit in the air raids during World War II .

After the major damage was repaired in 1948, the interior of the church was changed several times in the following decades. The renovation in 1987 under Pastor Richard Weiler largely restored the important expressionist interior. When the church was redesigned as a youth church, the benches were replaced with mobile seating. In addition, a second altar was erected in the middle of the church, around which the chairs are placed in a circle during youth services. A sail-shaped room divider then separates the worship room from the front part of the church with the high altar.

  • View into the nave

  • View of the organ

  • Altar area

  • Further interior view

Youth Church JONA

Service of the youth church JONA

The youth church JONA, opened in 2005, is a youth church of the Limburg diocese in the Sachsenhausen district of Frankfurt . The profile church is located in the rooms of the Church of St. Bonifatius.

Web links

Commons : St. Boniface  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b History of the Catholic parish of St. Bonifatius in the 20th century. (No longer available online.) In: Website of the parish of Sankt Bonifatius Frankfurt am Main. Archived from the original on January 8, 2017 ; accessed on January 8, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bonifatius-ffm.de
  2. ^ (Arch) bishops of Germany and Austria and the bishop of Bozen-Brixen (ed.): Gotteslob - Catholic prayer and hymn book . Edition for the Diocese of Limburg. 1st edition. Katholische Bibelanstalt GmbH / Lahn-Verlag GmbH, Stuttgart / Kevelaer 2013, ISBN 978-3-7840-0203-3 , Our diocese in history, p. 963 .
  3. ↑ a b Georg Dehio, Folkhard Cremer (Ed.): Handbook of German Art Monuments , Hesse II. Administrative region Darmstadt. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2008, p. 263.
  4. ↑ 75 years of the Holy Spirit Church Frankfurt Riederwald 1931-2006 - Festschrift for the 75th consecration of the Holy Spirit Church Frankfurt am Main-Riederwald. ( PDF ) (No longer available online.) Catholic parish of the Holy Spirit Frankfurt-Riederwald, archived from the original on October 15, 2016 ; accessed on January 8, 2017 .
  5. ^ Matthias Theodor Kloft: St. Bonifatius - Frankfurt . Schnell Art Guide No. 180, Regensburg 1997, ISBN 3-7954-6115-4 , 2.
  6. ↑ Georg Magirius: How young people believe - half-hour radio report on the occasion of the opening of the youth church JONA. ( MP3 , (14.5 MB)) Bayerischer Rundfunk , 2005, accessed on January 8, 2017 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 5 ′ 53.5 "  N , 8 ° 40 ′ 38.5"  E