St. Peter and Paul (Frankfurt am Main)

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St. Peter and Paul

The Church of St. Peter and Paul is a Catholic church in Frankfurt am Main - Heddernheim , Oranienstraße 16c. It was built in the neo-Gothic style from 1892 to 1893 as a parish church for the Catholics in what was then the village of Heddernheim . Since 1 January 2016 it is one of seven church places the parish new type St. Catherine of Siena , were summarized in the six Catholic parishes from the northern districts of Frankfurt, and branch church of the new parish church of St. Boniface (Bonames) . The former parish of St. Peter and Paul last had about 2900 members.

history

View from the street Alt-Heddernheim
Exterior view of the Church of St. Peter and Paul in Heddernheim
Interior view of the Church of St. Peter and Paul in Heddernheim

The village of Heddernheim on the Nidda , with its small chapel dedicated to Archangel Michael , belonged to the Mainz Cathedral Chapter until 1803 . The majority of the inhabitants - since the Reformation of the Lutheran denomination - belonged to the Protestant community in Praunheim , a few kilometers downstream.

For a long time, the Catholic residents were looked after by a priest in Weißkirchen . The first Catholic parish was not established in Heddernheim until 1746. The services took place in the chapel of the Heddernheimer Schloss . In 1840, the then lord of the castle, Baron Breidbach , founded the first church of St. Peter and Paul . It burned down in 1891 and was replaced by the current building in 1893. On June 29, 1899, Bishop Dominikus Willi consecrated the new building.

During the Second World War, the church was damaged by the air raids on Frankfurt am Main . During the restoration in the early 1950s, the wall paintings that were created after the First World War were removed.

Bells

Four bronze bells from the renowned Otto bell foundry from Bremen-Hemelingen hang in the church tower of St. Peter and Paul . You are tuned to: es' - g '- b' - e . They have the following diameters: 1340 mm, 1100 mm, 890 mm, 795 mm and weigh: 1650 kg, 800 kg, 500 kg, 350 kg.

See also

The Evangelical St. Thomas Church in Heddernheim, which was built in a similar style in 1898.

literature

  • Klaus Greef (Ed.): The Catholic Frankfurt - then and now , Verlag Josef Knecht, Frankfurt am Main 1989, ISBN 3-7820-0587-2 , p. 164f.

Web links

Commons : Church of St. Peter and Paul (Heddernheim)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ St. Peter and Paul. In: https://www.sankt-katharina-frankfurt.de/gemeinden/st-peter-und-paul/ . Retrieved November 2, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Heddernheim. Historical local dictionary for Hesse (as of September 24, 2015). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on September 12, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto Glocken - family and company history of the Otto bell foundry dynasty, self-published, Essen 2019, 588 pages, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , here in particular pp. 431, 464, 545.
  4. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen. Nijmegen 2019, 556 pages, Diss.Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770, here in particular pp. 405, 456, 503.

Coordinates: 50 ° 9 ′ 28.6 ″  N , 8 ° 38 ′ 51.9 ″  E