Stephanus Church (Hornau)
The Stephanuskirche in Hornau , a district of Kelkheim im Taunus , was inaugurated in 1969. It is consecrated to St. Stephen .
history
With the increase in the number of Protestants in Kelkheim after the Second World War , a parish in Kelkheim was spun off from the previous parish of Oberliederbach in 1959 . Finally, in 1967, the parish of Kelkheim was divided and the independent parish of Hornau was created, the first pastor of which was Michael Frodien.
The property Am Flachsland 28–32 was acquired as a location for a new parish church. Architect Rolf Romero and his partner Lothar Willius , who had built a number of modern church buildings, were commissioned with the planning .
Romero chose the New Jerusalem from the Revelation of John as the motif for the church :
“The city was laid out as a square and was as long as it was wide. He measured the city with the measuring stick; their length, width and height are the same "
“The city needs neither the sun nor the moon to shine for you. For the glory of God illuminates them and their lamp is the Lamb. "
Accordingly, Romero planned a cube with the same height, width and depth. However, this could not be implemented. A square floor plan remained in the implementation, the height had to be chosen lower. The square floor plan was taken up again in the design of the equally large forecourt. Buildings for kindergarten , community center and administration were created around this square .
window
The facade is structured by a regular pattern of square windows, which on the one hand take up the motif of the square and on the other hand make the church a room flooded with light.
In 1989 the windows were redesigned by the artist Karl-Martin Hartmann . The light space is structured by twelve orange steles, John's gates to heaven. The glass walls were divided into red, purple and orange color fields. Individual modules of the discs were decorated with different colored circles. These shapes are supposed to be reminiscent of precious stones. Karl-Martin Hartmann took up the motif of the Revelation of John again.
“The foundation stones of the city wall are adorned with precious stones of all kinds; the first cornerstone is a jasper, the second a sapphire, the third a chalcedony, the fourth an emerald, the fifth a sardonyx, the sixth a sardion, the seventh a chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth a topaz, the tenth a Chrysoprase, the eleventh a hyacinth, the twelfth an amethyst. "
literature
- Beate Matuschek: The Protestant Stephanus Church in Kelkheim - symbol of the "heavenly Jerusalem" ; in: Between Main and Taunus; Yearbook of the Main-Taunus-Kreis 1997, ISSN 0942-3419 , pp. 143-146
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Coordinates: 50 ° 8 ′ 44.4 " N , 8 ° 26 ′ 44.8" E