All Saints Church, Catholic church in Frankfurt-Bornheim/Ostend, Germany.
All Saints Church is a modern place of worship in Frankfurt-Bornheim featuring clear geometric forms and expansive windows. Natural light flows generously through the interior, creating a bright and open environment inside.
The Allerheiligen community was founded in 1922, when Frankfurt's Catholics were split into separate parishes; services were first held in a small chapel on the Untere Atzemer, destroyed in the Second World War. Architects Alois Giefer and Hermann Mäckler received the commission in 1952, and the church on the Thüringer Straße, beside the zoo wall, was consecrated in 1953 by Limburg auxiliary bishop Walther Kampe. In 1954 a jury of the Bund Deutscher Architekten named it a model building of Hesse.
The name refers to the medieval Allerheiligenkapelle near the Allerheiligentor, the gate linking the Ostend to the city centre. Since 2014 the parish has been a Kirchort of the Dompfarrei St. Bartholomäus and is known as an KunstKulturKirche. Spanish-language Masses of the Spanish community are held on Saturdays, Sundays and Tuesdays.
The church stands on Thüringer Straße directly against the zoo wall, in the northern residential part of the parish; the zoo divides the parish area into this northern section and an industrial southern one. Spanish-language Masses of the Spanish community are held on Saturdays, Sundays and Tuesdays. The building sits between the zoo and the former Brüderkrankenhaus.
The church was awarded the title "exemplary building in the state of Hesse" in November 1954 by a jury convened by the Bund Deutscher Architekten and the Hessian Minister of Finance, which included architects Werner Hebebrand, Konrad Rühl, Sep Ruf and Ernst Zinsser.
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