Schwanheim is a quarter of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It is part of the Ortsbezirk West and is subdivided into the Stadtbezirke Schwanheim, Goldstein-Ost and Goldstein-West. Schwanheim was evangelized during the early Christianization period by Irish-Scottish wandering monks. The Franconian apostle Kilian is said to have rested and preached at a flo…
Schwanheim is a quarter of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It is part of the Ortsbezirk West and is subdivided into the Stadtbezirke Schwanheim, Goldstein-Ost and Goldstein-West. Schwanheim was evangelized during the early Christianization period by Irish-Scottish wandering monks. The Franconian apostle Kilian is said to have rested and preached at a flood-free ridge in the Schwanheimer Unterfeld around the year 680. The old parish church of St. Martin im Feld, which was mentioned in a document from 880, was one of the few churches on the right bank of the Rhine at the time. The church's catchment area presumably extended beyond the boundaries of the long-stretched original district of Schwanheim, which went in the west from the Mönchhof near Raunheim via Klaraberg, Kelsterbach, the Goldstein, Niederrad, and Sachsenhausen to Oberrad. However, the decline of the church began 50 years before Luther posted his theses in Wittenberg. From 1468, the people of Schwanheim celebrated their church consecration festival to the patron Saint Mauritius on the Sunday in Mauritius. The final end of the Martinskirche was sealed with the effects of the Reformation of 1517, which also had an impact in the local Maingau. The branch chapel of St. Mauritius with a cemetery near the old village of Schwanheim was raised to the status of a parish church and expanded between 1557 and 1562. The Martinskirche in the field was without function and fell into disrepair. It served as a quarry during the Thirty Years' War, and when the "new" church was built in the village a good hundred years later, 72 wagons of stone were obtained from this ruin for the foundations of this third Schwanheim church building. From now on, Schwanheim remained true to the name Mauritius.
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