Sankt Elisabeth (Darmstadt)

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The Sankt-Elisabeth-Kirche is a Roman Catholic church in Darmstadt .

history

For the construction of the - after St. Ludwig - second Roman Catholic parish church in Darmstadt behind the Prinz-Georg-Palais , the Mainz cathedral master builder Ludwig Becker provided the draft of a historicizing church building. The construction of the church took into account the not inconsiderable increase in the number of Catholics at the turn of the 20th century. With its approx. 80 m high bell tower, the St. Elisabeth Church, consecrated in 1905, forms a demonstrative accent in the city silhouette and a conscious counterpart to the Protestant city ​​church .

Ludwig Becker did not build a high Gothic ideal type, but oriented himself to the regional medieval tradition and followed the basic scheme of the Protestant town church. The interior fittings, which were almost completely destroyed in an air raid in September 1944, with the carved altars and the large colored windows also followed the historicist concept.

Building design

Sankt Elisabeth has a short, three-aisled, four-bay nave, to the east a polygonal broken choir adjoins the width of the central nave. The Marienkapelle , the so-called upper church, is located above the south aisle . Overall, the Sankt-Elisabeth-Kirche appears as a historically grown architecture, the substance of which was founded in the early Middle Ages, but its vivid character preserves the image of the local bourgeois town church of the late Middle Ages, which is continued in the design of the rectory with its distinctive stepped gable.

Instead of the destroyed net vaults, a wooden ceiling was put in over the choir and central nave during the reconstruction. Parts of the former high altar by Georg Busch (1823–1895) were saved and restored and are now in the Marienkapelle, in the rectory and in the northern transept chapel. The former Mother of God altar by Jakob and Joseph Michael Busch, which was exhibited in Paris in 1900 , now adorns the high altar in the choir. The southern transept and the aisle are characterized by the theologically and artistically important Elisabeth window (1978) and the Franziskus window (1983) by Bruno Müller-Linow .

Patronage

The choice of the patronage of St. Elisabeth of Thuringia demonstrates this since Leo XIII. the new social profile of the Roman Catholic Church and, at the same time, the regional ties to the patron saint and “ancestral mother” of the Hessian ruling house. The larger than life statue of the saint on the southwest corner testifies to this.

Bells

In 1905 the Otto bell foundry from Hemelingen / Bremen cast a four-part bronze bell for the Elisabeth Church. The bells survived the confiscation of bells in the two world wars of the past century. Although they were removed and removed in 1942, they were not melted down and returned to Darmstadt in 1947. The strike note series of this "important sound monument of the early 20th century" is: b 0 - d # - f '- g'. The bells have the following diameters: 1820 mm, 1442 mm, 1230 mm, 1100 mm. They weigh 3989 kg, 1910 kg, 1209 kg, 820 kg.

literature

  • Festschrift for the inauguration of the Catholic St. Elisabethen Church in Darmstadt on September 30, 1905 , Darmstadt 1905
  • Martin Fink (pastor): The interior of the St Elisabeth Church in Darmstadt , Darmstadt 1930
  • St. Elisabeth Church Darmstadt 1905-1908 , published for the 75th anniversary of the Elisabeth Church , Mainz 1979
  • Johannes Angert: 75 years of St. Elisabeth Darmstadt , published by the Administrative Council of the Catholic Parish of St. Elisabeth zu Darmstadt, Darmstadt 1981
  • Klaus Honold (editor): St. Elisabeth in Darmstadt , Schnell Art Guide No. 1536, Schnell & Steiner, Munich 1985
  • Martin Ludwig Klassert: 100 years of the Catholic parish church St. Elisabeth in Darmstadt. In: Archive for Hessian History and Archeology New Series (AHG NF) 61, 2003, pp. 93–192.

Web links

Commons : St. Elisabeth (Darmstadt)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stadtlexikon Darmstadt. Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2006, p. 849
  2. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, here in particular pp. 276, 277, 442, 443, 514 .
  3. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, here in particular pp. 246 to 249, 479, 525 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).

Coordinates: 49 ° 52 ′ 48.5 ″  N , 8 ° 39 ′ 13 ″  E