Frauenfriedenskirche
Sign in to savethumb|Entrance structure with mosaic thumb|View from the southwest thumb|Interior The Frauenfriedenskirche (German for ''Our Lady's Peace Church) is a Roman Catholic church in Bockenheim (Frankfurt am Main) (Germany). It was built by Hans Herkommer from 1927 to 1929, on a rise then known as Ginnheimer Höhe''. The church is an unusual example of interwar modernist church architecture, combining elements of expressionism with the "New Objectivity" of Bauhaus architecture, and using monumental mosaics for external and internal decoration.
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- Instance of
- church building
- Named after
- peace
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Country
- Germany
- Location
- Bockenheim
- Dedicated to
- Mary
- Official website
- www.frauenfrieden.de
- Image
- Frauenfriedenskirche, Frankfurt.jpg
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- architectural style
- modern architecture
- inception
- 1929-00-00
- Commons category
- Frauenfriedenskirche (Frankfurt am Main)
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thumb|Entrance structure with mosaic thumb|View from the southwest thumb|Interior The Frauenfriedenskirche (German for ''Our Lady's Peace Church) is a Roman Catholic church in Bockenheim (Frankfurt am Main) (Germany). It was built by Hans Herkommer from 1927 to 1929, on a rise then known as Ginnheimer Höhe. The church is an unusual example of interwar modernist church architecture, combining elements of expressionism with the "New Objectivity" of Bauhaus architecture, and using monumental mosaics for external and internal decoration.
The plan to build such a church was developed in 1916 by Hedwig Dransfeld, then chairperson of the Katholischer Deutscher Frauenbund'' (Catholic German Women's Organisation). The church was meant to represent a prayer for peace in stone and also serve as a memorial for the fallen of the First World War. The foundation money initially collected for the project was lost due to the 1914–1923 German hyperinflation.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Frauenfriedenskirche” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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