St. Elisabeth Church (Mannheim)
The St. Elisabeth Church is a Catholic church in Mannheim 's Gartenstadt district . It was built between 1936 and 1937 according to plans by Fridolin Bosch .
history
The planned development of the garden city began in 1912. The pastor of the Waldhöfer St. Francis Church was responsible for the pastoral care of the Catholic residents . In the following time, the development of both the garden city and Waldhof was expanded again and again, so that as early as 1925 a building site for a church in the garden city was acquired. As a result, a small wooden church was built in 1933, which was dedicated to the Blessed Mother . In 1936 construction began on the new church. The plans were drawn up by Fridolin Bosch , while the architect Josef Lutz took over the construction management.
On November 21, 1937, under which it was patronage of St. Elizabeth standing Church of prelate Joseph Bauer benediziert . In 1942 the Archdiocese of Freiburg established a parish curate . The following year an air raid severely damaged the church building. By 1949, the damage could be repaired and on 6 November the Church by Archbishop was Wendelin Rauch consecrated .
Instead of the originally existing roof ridge , a massive church tower was added in 1954 according to plans by Anton Ohnmacht . In 1960 Archbishop Hermann Schäufele elevated St. Elisabeth to an independent parish. In 2002 the parishes of St. Elisabeth, St. Lioba and St. Franziskus were merged to form the pastoral care unit Mannheim-Waldhof-Gartenstadt.
description
The St. Elisabeth Church was built in the center of the garden city on a triangular plot in the simple style typical of the 1930s. The rectangular building is covered with a gable roof. The later added bell tower with its tent roof fits in seamlessly. The ringing originally consisted of three bells , but two of them had to be delivered during the Second World War. In 1951 three new bells were procured and in 1954 two more, with which the ringing was coordinated with Salve Regina .
Willy Oeser was responsible for the artistic design of the interior . He created three large group pictures with scenes from the life of St. Elisabeth, two frescoes over the side altars and the Way of the Cross . The sculptor Walter Mellmann made the figures of Maria and Joseph .
organ
The organ with 28 registers on two manuals and pedal was built in 2001 by the organ builder Karl Göckel . The sound is based on French romanticism. Disposition :
| I Hauptwerk C – g 3 | II C-g 3 | Pedal C – f 1 | |||
| Bourdon | 16 ′ | Flûte traversière | 8th' | Sub bass | 16 ′ |
| Principal | 8th' | Viol | 8th' | Flute | 8th' |
| Viole de Gambe | 8th' | Bourdon | 8th' | violoncello | 8th' |
| Flûte harmonique | 8th' | Voix céleste | 8th' | trombone | 16 ′ |
| Cor de nuit | 8th' | Flûte octaviante | 4 ′ | ||
| Octave | 4 ′ | Fugara | 4 ′ | ||
| Flute | 4 ′ | Nasard | 2 2 ⁄ 3 ′ | ||
| Fifth | 2 ′ | Octavine | 2 ′ | ||
| Octave | 2 ′ | Tierce | 1 3 ⁄ 5 ′ | ||
| Cornett III | 2 2 ⁄ 3 ′ | Progressio II-IV | 2 2 ⁄ 3 ′ | ||
| Mixture III-IV | 2 ′ | Trumpet harm. | 8th' | ||
| Mixture III | 1' | Hautbois | 8th' | ||
| Trumpet | 8th' | Tremulant | |||
literature
- Frieder Bellm, Reiner Albert, Günther Saltin (eds.): 100 years of the workers' congregation St. Franziskus Mannheim-Waldhof . Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-8258-0527-2 .
- City archive Mannheim, Mannheimer Architektur- und Bauarchiv eV (ed.), Andreas Schenk: Mannheim and its buildings 1907-2007: Volume 3 . Mannheim 2002, ISBN 3-923003-85-4 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Karl Göckel Orgelbau ( Memento from May 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
Web links
Coordinates: 49 ° 31 '49.4 " N , 8 ° 29" 48.6 " E