St. Laurentius (Frankfurt-Kalbach)
The Catholic St. Laurentius Church is a baroque church and a Hessian cultural monument in Kalbach , a northern district of Frankfurt am Main . As a parish church, St. Laurentius has belonged to the parish of St. Catherine of Siena in the north-west of Frankfurt, which belongs to the Diocese of Limburg , since 2016, along with six other branch churches .
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Origin and development
In the Middle Ages , the Kalbach parish was a branch church of the Weißkirchen mother church in Crutzen and Bonames . From the year 1446 it is handed down that there was a simple wooden church on the raised place of today's St. Laurentiuskirche. After the extensive destruction of Kalbach in the Thirty Years War , a new, somewhat larger wooden church was built in 1652. Furthermore, the pastor from Weißkirchen came to Kalbach for the service. The population grew again in the decades after the war, so that the previous church became too small.
In 1733 the construction of today's St. Laurentius Church began. Tyrolean builders under the direction of master Christian Fritz built the building over several decades. For the substructure, stones from the Kreuzergut quarry and remnants of the destroyed church in Crutzen were used. The foundation stone was laid in 1736 . On August 11, 1765, the completed St. Laurentius Church was consecrated by Auxiliary Bishop Christoph Nebel . In 1847 the Weißkirchen branch separated and Kalbach became an independent parish.
architecture
The St. Laurentius Church is located in the center of the village on Kalbacher Hauptstrasse on a plateau. The baroque hall church is oriented to the northeast. The choir, staggered back from the main building, ends with a five-eighth closing . The sides of the building are about twenty-two and eleven meters. The plastered facades are structured by high arched windows. The steeply sloping slate roof ends in the west with a high ridge turret.
The interior has a baroque design and is characterized by the richly decorated altar . The figurative jewelry is set off in front of the brightly plastered walls. The three altars come from the old church. The side altars were created in 1608 and the high altar in 1700 and added in 1770. The pulpit was made at the time of construction.
Web links
- Website of the parish of St. Laurentius
- State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Kath. St. Laurentiuskirche In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments, Hessen II, Darmstadt District , Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2008
- Dagmar Wendler: Kalbach. From the story of a village on the northern outskirts of Frankfurt , Frankfurt a. M. 1979
Coordinates: 50 ° 11 ′ 19 ″ N , 8 ° 38 ′ 8.4 ″ E