Gemeindezentrum Zeppelinheim, Religious community center in Zeppelinheim, Neu-Isenburg, Germany.
The Gemeindezentrum Zeppelinheim is a religious and community center in Zeppelinheim, Neu-Isenburg, serving both church functions and social gatherings. It combines contemporary architectural features with spaces designed for various religious services and community activities.
Zeppelinheim was laid out as a workers' settlement under the National Socialists without any religious building, so Protestant services were first held provisionally in the schoolhouse or the local inn. The Protestant community centre, built in bungalow style to plans by Helmut Siegert and Günter Hempel, was inaugurated on 11 April 1965 as the district's first sacred building. A second construction phase foreseen in the architects' designs was never realised; the lower, stylistically matching porch to the south was added later.
The five bells in the campanile were cast in 1965 by the Rincker bell foundry in Sinn, Middle Hesse. A bronze cross on the outer wall of the community house lists their inscriptions and pitches. The 1978/79 glazing by the Robert Münch workshop of Groß-Umstadt replaced the cathedral glass with abstract coloured leaded windows stylising the cross motif.
The complex faces the Bürgerhaus in the centre of Zeppelinheim. A metal-clad door on the west side of the community house leads through a foyer into the church hall; the seating faces northeast toward the altar area. The hall's left wooden wall can be opened to the adjoining community room.
The five bells in the campanile were cast in 1965 by the Rincker bell foundry in Sinn, Middle Hesse. A bronze cross on the outer wall of the community house lists their inscriptions and pitches, so a visitor can read the notes without entering.
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