St. Georg (Frankfurt (Oder))
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| address | Frankfurt (Oder) |
| Denomination | evangelical |
| local community | Kliestow and St. Georg (Lebuser Vorstadt) |
| Current usage | Parish church |
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| Year of construction (s) | 1926-1928 |
| style | expressionism |
The Sankt-Georg-Kirche is a Protestant church in Frankfurt (Oder) . It was built in 1926–1928 to replace a previous medieval building and is a listed building .
The medieval predecessor building
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In 1312 a house for lepers ( Latin domus leprosum ) is mentioned at the gates of the city of Frankfurt (Oder), the predecessor of the later Georgen Hospital was with Saint George as the patron saint of lepers. It is therefore assumed that St. George's Church was built during the same period. The documentary mention is in connection with an altar foundation in honor of Mary Magdalene . In research this was equated with the church patronage. It is unclear when the Georgen patronage prevailed. The original location of the church was at the confluence of Bergstrasse and today's Berliner Strasse .
In 1368 the church donated by dressmakers was confirmed by the Bishop of Lebus. However, it did not form an independent parish, but was part of the hospital that was run by the city or hospital foundations. A chaplain of the Marienkirche or a member of the theological faculty of the university took over the pastoral care. In the 16th century the church was united with the Kliestower parish. Around 1545 a new church was built from a donation from the Frankfurt patrician family Wins / Winse. During the Thirty Years War the church was badly damaged in 1631 and 1633, including when the Swedish Field Marshal Johan Banér tried to blow up the church tower. The western half of the nave collapsed . Reconstruction was not started until 1653 and was completed by 1656. In 1787, the simple hall building was expanded with wide extensions in the south and north based on a design by Martin Friedrich Knoblauch . In 1816 the cemetery, laid out to the north and south of the church at the end of the 13th century, was abandoned.
At the end of the 19th century the church was too small for the community and also dilapidated. A building report approved a new building in 1899. In 1900, the parish council and the city, which was obliged to build, agreed on a new building over the next ten years on a larger property. First a new parish hall was built between 1908 and 1909 at today's Karl-Ritter-Platz 4 (formerly Magazinplatz). In 1912 the consistory commissioned the architect Georg Büttner, who specializes in church building and restoration, with an expert opinion that recommended a new building at a different location, but the preservation of the existing church. The city refused a new building, so that the responsible church building council, architect Curt Steinberg, submitted two proposals for expansion in 1913. The parish demanded a financial redemption of the patronage in order to be able to build. However, the beginning of World War I and the subsequent economic crisis interrupted all building planning activities.
On May 1, 1922, the old church was closed by the building authorities. On March 30th and April 16th, 1924, the community turned to the public via the Oder-Zeitung and requested the building site that had been promised for decades. The city then offered a plot of land on Goepelstrasse, outside the inhabited catchment area of the community, and an inhabited plot of land between Luisenstrasse, Sophienstrasse and Taubenstrasse, for which the community should create new apartments. On September 2, 1924, the renovation and expansion of the existing building was approved, but this failed because of the costs. The city designated a building site for the new church at its current location on Bergstrasse and committed to cover most of the construction costs at the end of 1925. In return, they should receive the cleared property of the old George Church. On March 6, 1926, the parish of St. Georg and the city of Frankfurt (Oder) contractually agreed to swap the property at Berliner Strasse with the old church for the property at the intersection of Lennéstrasse and Bergstrasse.
After the Prussian Minister for Science, Art and Public Education Carl Heinrich Becker had granted the state demolition permit on May 15, 1926, the ground floor of the old building began to be demolished on June 7, 1926.
A part of the southern outer wall of the baroque extension building on the property fence remained from the rising masonry.
The new building 1926–1928
A new building was negotiated between the Protestant parish and the city of Frankfurt (Oder) until 1925. The city pledged to cover most of the construction costs. On September 5, 1926, the foundation stone was laid at the new location on the north side of Bergstrasse . Lennéstrasse limits the hillside property rising to the north to the west. The church, set back from the building line and surrounded by lawns as well as juniper and yew trees, stands higher than the surrounding residential buildings.
The church was built according to designs by the Berlin architect Curt Steinberg . The Frankfurt-based company Friedrich Paulke took on the execution of the building, which was very ambitious in terms of material and choice of company. Bricks from Ilse-Bergbau AG were chosen as facing bricks . The iron reinforcement work was carried out by Karl Kühn and Thyssen AG, Berlin. The renowned workshops Puhl & Wagner - Gottfried Heinersdorff from Berlin took over the mosaics and colored glazing . The art painting comes from Robert Sandfort , Berlin, who previously worked at the Frankfurt Hindenburg School.
The church was consecrated on April 1, 1928 , and the organ of the Sauer organ building workshop was installed in the same year .
In front of the Sankt-Georg-Kirche there is a sculpture of the dragon slayer Georg on a column. On this memorial to the fallen, created by Curt Steinberg and Paul Bronisch and consecrated on June 28, 1929, 168 names of members of the community who died in the First World War are engraved.
In 1990 the new organ was built with 27 registers .
With seating for 600 to 650 visitors, the Sankt-Georg-Kirche is the largest church in the Evangelical parish in Frankfurt (Oder). Church concerts as well as a number of important concerts take place regularly.
Building description
The church is a central building in the expressionist style with a separate south tower. In contrast to traditional churches with a frontal opposite of the altar and rows of pews, the Sankt-Georg-Kirche is a round church . The altar is surrounded by rows of pews. The dome measures 15 meters in diameter with a maximum interior height of 18 meters.
The reinforced concrete structure of the church with a clear structure looks monumental due to the facing with dark red bricks in a wide variety of colors. Even so, the church is not very big. The dome-shaped roof that swings out towards the wall connection is covered with dark plain tiles. A slim point crowns the dome. The slender tower presented is surrounded by an open walkway on narrow pillars that serves as weather protection. The tower itself, with its square base, is supported by narrow corner templates. Three narrow windows structure the east, south and west sides of the tower. The bell storey is characterized by large sound openings. Above it is a cylindrical section with clocks in all four directions. At the end there is an initially sweeping, tapered, pointed-cone spire crowned by a ball and a cross.
An outer wall shell surrounds the interior with a round floor plan. In between there are four stairs as access to the galleries. On the south side the gallery is two-story. On the north side, the wall shell surrounds the apse -like sacristy . This is led to the roof approach and is divided by three axes with a row of rectangular and above two rows of large oval openings. The east and west walls are divided into narrow windows, separated by wide supports and framed by flat pilaster strips, with a semicircular top. The dome rests on eight paired, clinker-clad pillars with iron girder cores in the manner of bundle pillars. The dome vault is coffered , the coffers are provided in the center with varying gilded fantasy ornaments. In the center of the dome there is a glazed light opening. The floor is covered with black and red tiles. Herringbone parquet lies between the rows of seats.
Furnishing
A six-armed bronze chandelier with a lion's head and a wild man from the 17th century hangs in the vaulted tower porch. The glazed vestibule door is decorated in its fields with Christian symbols cut into the frosted glass, some of which are gold-plated. Above the door is Psalm 84.12 "The Lord God is the sun and shield". On the two-storey gallery on the south side there is a window with the representation of the risen Christ. It was donated by the family of the Kommerzienrat Fritz Steinbock in memory of their deceased son Ulrich. The pulpit altar from 1927 was designed from travertine by Carl Schilling, Berlin. It is supported by four pillars and decorated with mosaics. The baptism from 1927 made of clinker brick with a baptismal font decorated with mosaic comes from Meckelburger, Berlin. The four bells were made from cast steel by the Vereinigte Stahlwerke AG, Bochumer Verein, from 1926 to 1928 .
literature
- Sybille Gramlich, Andreas Bernhard, Andreas Cante, Irmelin Küttner: Monument topography Frankfurt (Oder) . tape 3 , 2002, p. 109 ff .
- Heinrich Andriessen: Contemporary and cultural images from the church history of the city of Frankfurt (Oder) on the basis of archival studies: The Reformation in Frankfurt a. Or. The history of the Georgengemeinde. Frankfurt (Oder) 1909.
- Otto Riedrich: The Georgskirche in Frankfurt (Oder) . In: Deutsche Bauhütte . Issue 18, No. 33 , 1929, pp. 284 f .
- Fritz Bahr: St. Georg in Frankfurt (Oder) . Frankfurt (Oder) 1938.
- City council (ed.): Monuments and preservation of monuments in Frankfurt (Oder) . (around 1980).
- Ingrid Halbach, Matthias Rambow, Horst Büttner, Peter Rätzel: Architectural Guide GDR, Frankfurt (Oder) district . Ed .: Institute for Monument Preservation in the GDR. Berlin 1987.
- Martin Rost: Organs in Frankfurt (Oder). A contribution to the city's musical history . Berlin 1994.
- Gerhard Vinken u. a .: Handbook of German Art Monuments. Brandenburg . Ed .: Georg Dehio. Munich, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-422-03054-9 .
- Matthias Noell, Ulrike Schwarz: Weimar Republic and the time of National Socialism . In: Monument Preservation Brandenburg . 2001, p. 190-203 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Frankfurt Oder Tourist Office. In: www.tourismus-ffo.de. Retrieved April 19, 2016 .
Web links
- Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg
- Evangelical Church Ffo> St. Georg / Heiland. In: www.evangelische-kirche-ffo.de. Retrieved April 19, 2016 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 21 ′ 2.9 ″ N , 14 ° 32 ′ 24 ″ E