Wartburg Church (Frankfurt am Main)
The Evangelical Wartburg Church in Frankfurt 's Nordend district was built between 1959 and 1962 according to plans by the architect Werner W. Neumann and is named after the Eisenach Wartburg .
location
The church is located on the eastern edge of the north end on slightly elevated terrain in a residential area on Hartmann-Ibach-Straße and Hallgartenstraße. It is complemented by a parish hall from 2004 and a daycare center from 2012.
architecture
In an architectural competition held in 1958 , Neumann's design was awarded first prize by a jury chaired by Otto Bartning and then executed.
The architecture is characterized by a simple, hexagonal structure with a gable roof and a free-standing bell tower . The entrance and choir walls are bent in the middle. The aisle church , constructed using a reinforced concrete frame, is around thirty-four meters long, nineteen meters wide and twelve meters high. The side walls are made of brickwork and the kinked gable walls are made of roughly hewn limestone .
Glass surfaces structure the walls and create a light-flooded room inside. The church windows were designed by the Stuttgart glass painter Christian Oehler . A light band made of milk glass blocks leads to the north wall to the altar and baptistery. In the south wall there are four stained glass windows depicting Christ. The floor is made of bricks and the ceiling is clad with wood .
Werner Neumann characterizes his building design: "With simple, large building elements an urgency and clarity should be achieved that avoids all decorative, fleeting effects."
The church was consecrated on February 18, 1962. It is a cultural monument due to the Hessian Monument Protection Act .
Furnishing
The sculptor Jürgen Weber created the altar, pulpit and baptismal font from shell limestone as well as the bronze cross above the altar, the candlesticks and the relief on the choir organ parapet. The wooden seating comes from Egon Eiermann and offers space for five hundred people. Hans Wissel made the two portals from iron plates in the entrance wall. The organ by Werner Bosch Orgelbau has 26 registers, two manuals and a pedal. Seven bronze bells from the Rincker foundry hang in the forty-meter-high tower .
local community
The Evangelical Lutheran Wartburg congregation was founded in 1955 as a spin-off from the Bornheimer Johannis congregation .
literature
- Karin Berkemann : Post-war churches in Frankfurt am Main = monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Cultural monuments in Hessen. Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen . Wiesbaden 2013, p. 172f.
- Deutscher Werkbund Hessen , Wilhelm E. Opatz (Ed.): Once praised and almost forgotten, modern churches in Frankfurt a. M. 1948-1973 , Niggli-Verlag, Sulgen 2012, ISBN 978-3-7212-0842-9
- Bernd Kalusche and Wolf-Christian Setzepfandt : Architecture Guide Frankfurt am Main , Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin, 1992, ISBN 3-496-01100-9
Web links
- Website of the Wartburg community
- State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Ev. Wartburggemeinde, Kirche In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hessen
Individual evidence
- ↑ Berkemann, p. 172f.
Coordinates: 50 ° 7 '52 " N , 8 ° 41' 58.2" E