Parish Church Salzburg-St. Elisabeth
The European Church of Peace St. Elisabeth is a Roman Catholic parish church in Elisabeth-Vorstadt , a district of Salzburg . The parish of Salzburg-St. Elisabeth belongs to the city dean of Salzburg of the Archdiocese of Salzburg and is consecrated to St. Elisabeth of Thuringia , patronage day is November 19th.
Next to the church is the Caspisschlössl , built in 1685 , in which the Salzburg-St. Elisabeth is housed.
history
The urban development of Froschheim to today's Elisabeth-Vorstadt begins with the construction of the Salzburg main station of the railway line from Vienna to Salzburg, the "Westbahn" ( Kaiserin Elisabeth-Bahn ) in 1860. From 1931 there was a branch (branch church Froschheim) of St. Andrä . From 1932 - as chaplain - it was looked after by Kalasantine patres, from 1934 by Jesuit patres ( Austrian province , whose branch closed in 1953).
From 1931 to 1932 there was a Marienkapelle with a large cellar, which was intended as the crypt of the planned church. Hermann Rehrl designed it. The large cellar-like room, planned as a lower church and built in 1935, was later to serve as a popular venue for the amateur and amateur theater Elisabethbühne and various concert promoters from jazz and pop, as well as for cabaret for a few decades .
Since then, the parsonage has been the Caspisschlössl , built by Giovanni Gaspare Zuccalli for the freelance lords of Caspis in 1685 , which was later also called Schöneck Castle and then Villa Haimerle . The house is a listed building and today also houses the parish kindergarten.
On February 22nd, 1939, Archbishop Waitz raised the chaplaincy to a parish under the title of St. Elisabeth and dedicated it to St. Elisabeth of Thuringia ( patronage day November 19th).
The new church, which was only rudimentary, was badly damaged by bombs in 1944 and the lower church was rebuilt after the war. The Elisabeth Church is called the European Church of Peace St. Elisabeth , it was financed by donations from Austria, Germany and Switzerland and was the first Pax Christi Church in Austria. The tireless efforts of the parish priest at the time, Franz Wesenauer, are to be thanked for the financing .
From the end of the prince-archbishopric 1803 to 1979 today's parish area belonged partly to the city dean of Salzburg , partly to the dean's office of Bergheim (parish of Itzling from 1912), until 2011 to the dean's office of Salzburg-East , then the comprehensive city dean's office was re-established, and Gnigl to the parish association of Salzburg-Itzling - Salzburg-St.Andrä - Salzburg-St.Elisabeth - Salzburg-St.Severin assigned (PV 2, northeast of the city, Itzling , Elisabeth-Vorstadt, Schallmoos , Langwied , Gnigl-Nord ). The parish is bordered by the Salzach - railway line to Bavaria - tracks of the main train station (including the train station) - tracks to the (former) Shell branch - from there in a straight line to the Salzach .. Plainstrasse, which passes the church and is lined with wayside shrines For centuries the pilgrimage and pilgrimage route out of the city to the Plainberg with the pilgrimage church Maria Plain .
Today the parish has around 2,300 believers. The pastor is currently city pastor Heinrich Wagner.
Building description
The main parts of the St. Elisabeth Church - on the crypt of the pre-church as a lower church - were built in the form of a mighty three-aisled basilica between 1953 and 1955 , which aims to tie in with early Christian building elements and thus also with early Christian ideas. The plans of the church come from Bruno Maria Apollonj Ghetti , and can be assigned to neo-historicism ; a structurally identical church is in Italy.
A mighty round campanile was also planned , whose viewing platform could have been reached by elevator for an entrance fee. Since the high-rise Hotel Europa with a viewing café on the top floor was being built nearby , Pastor Franz Wesenauer abandoned the construction of the tower in favor of a small old people's home that was added to the church above the sacristy.
The interior is also traditional in the spatial concept with a three-sided gallery and round arches , but in the absolutely unadorned, reduced to the formalism of the lines in the style of Italian rationalism . The church is known for its good acoustics, which makes it particularly suitable for performing sacred music.
Web links
- Parish Salzburg-St. Elisabeth
- Story page
- The church (church leader) , pfarre-stelisabeth.at
- History: Pfarrhof Schloß Schönegg - parish - church , pfarre-stelisabeth.at
- Parish Salzburg-St.Elisabeth , Archdiocese Salzburg, parish directory, kirchen.net
- Parish Church of St. Elisabeth . In: Salzburger Nachrichten : Salzburgwiki .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Personnel of the world and religious clergy of the Archdiocese of Salzburg for 1957 ( Schematismus 1957), ed. from the Archbishop's Ordinariate Salzburg 1957, p. 155.
- ↑ History kalasantiner.at,
- ^ Jesuits - Austrian Province of the Society of Jesus , Section for the Cultural Assets of the Orders, kulturgueter.kath-orden.at
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↑ VO 31/2011 Dissolution of the deaneries in the city of Salzburg - establishment of the city deanery.
VO 32/2011 City of Salzburg: Decree on the division into parish associations.
both Ordinance Gazette of the Archdiocese of Salzburg (VOBL) No. 4, April 2011, p. 40 ff (pdf, kirchen.net) -
^ Description 23 November 1952; History: Parish ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , pfarre-stelisabeth.at
the former Shell branch was at the current end of Plainstrasse directly north of the ASV sports facility -
↑ cf. Apollonj Ghetti Bruno Maria . In Sistema Informativo Unificato per le Soprintendenze Archivistiche (SIUSA) . beniculturali.it;
Bruno Maria Apollonj-Ghetti. In: arch INFORM .
it: Bruno Maria Apollonj Ghetti - ↑ Photo of a model of the church: ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. History in pictures , picture 2/6], pfarre-stelisabeth.at (at the end of the website, accessed January 10, 2012)
Coordinates: 47 ° 48 '56.6 " N , 13 ° 2' 26.1" E