Festeburgkirche, Modern church in Preungesheim district, Frankfurt, Germany
Festeburgkirche is a modern church building in Frankfurt's Preungesheim district, constructed with concrete, brick, glass, and oak parquet flooring. The carefully chosen materials create excellent acoustic conditions for musical performances and worship services.
The Festeburgkirche was built to designs by Horst Römer and Helmut Baumgart and consecrated on 5 July 1969. It was planned from the outset as a concert church for the planned Landeskirchenmusikhochschule Hessen. On 1 January 2021 the ZDF New Year's service was moved here at short notice from Dresden's Frauenkirche because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The church serves as a venue for chamber music concerts organized by the Friends of Sacred Music Preungesheim association. Several musical groups and choirs gather here regularly, shaping the neighborhood's cultural life.
Sunday worship services take place in the morning, and the building has professional recording facilities. Its excellent acoustic properties make it a preferred location for music recordings by broadcasting companies and record labels.
The concrete glass windows by Johannes Schreiter are an early work and among the few he made in this technique. Their cycle can be read as the congregation moving toward sermon and sacrament, or as the musical notation of the church music cultivated here.
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