Dreikönigskirche
The Dreikönigskirche stands on Frankfurt’s south bank of the Main, in Sachsenhausen, opposite Frankfurt Cathedral. The Lutheran church serves Frankfurt’s largest Protestant parish.
Franz Josef Denzinger designed the present building in Gothic Revival style, with pointed arches, ribbed vaults and flying buttresses. The church replaced an older structure that had deteriorated.
A hospital chapel dedicated to the Three Kings occupied this site from the fourteenth century, linking the church with Frankfurt’s trading routes. During the Reformation, Frankfurt’s church became the city’s first with exclusively Protestant pastors.
Inside, Charles Crodel’s stained-glass windows accompany a Berlin organ built by Karl Schuke, a focus of the church’s musical tradition. Kurt Thomas and Helmut Walcha shaped that tradition after the Second World War.
The listed monument also preserves a history of concerts, cantata services and the parish’s early association with the Bekennende Kirche.
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