St. Alban (Effelder)
St. Alban is the Roman Catholic. Parish church of Effelder in Obereichsfeld in Thuringia . It is popularly known as the Eichsfeld Cathedral , along with the St. Cyriakus Provost Church in Duderstadt . It is built at an altitude of 497 m, making it the highest church in Eichsfeld . Its towering tower makes it visible from afar: from the Hoher Meißner , from the Klüschen Hagis , from the Hülfensberg , from the Heldrastein and, on a clear day, even from the Harz .
Building history
The three-aisled hall church with protruding cross wing, 42 meters long and 20 meters wide, is considered a masterpiece of the church builder, the Franciscan Paschalis Gratze . The tower is 56 meters high. The nave offers seating for 670 people. The walls of the church are made of gray shell limestone, which was inexpensively broken in Effelder itself.
The Eichsfeld Cathedral is a replacement for a baroque church from 1717, which burned down in 1890 due to a lightning strike. On October 4th, 1892, the foundation stone for the new house of worship in neo-Gothic style was laid. The construction was mostly done in-house by members of the parish. Shell limestone from the quarry near Effelder was used as the stone. On November 6, 1894, the new church was opened by Auxiliary Bishop Dr. Consecrated to Augustinus Gockel from Paderborn. The tower was completed a year later. The interior was painted in 1921 by the church painter Norbert Kromer from southern Germany. In 1934 the roof of the nave and the steeple were given copper weather protection. In 1950 the new sacristy was added. From 1959 to 1965 the interior of the church was completely renovated. The verdigris created on the roof surface gave the Eichsfeld Cathedral its typical appearance until it was renovated in 2016 and 2017. Weather-resistant copper was used for the roof renovation, which makes the church shimmer dark red.
There are several attractions inside. The colorful majolica Way of the Cross by Georg Kemper with its 14 stations, the Marian altar with the 14 helpers in the right aisle and the brightly colored windows of the chancel (church patron St. Alban with sword, local patron St. Vitus and Jesus as the Risen) mentioned.
The church lost parts of its bells in both world wars through melting down. She currently owns five bronze bells with the tone sequence c '(Albanus bell), es' (Christ the King's bell), f' (Vitus bell), g '(Joseph's bell) and b' (Mary's bell), the 1951 and 1975/76 in the Apolda foundry Schilling.
organ
The organ in St. Alban was originally built by the Krell company from Duderstadt in 1898 and redesigned in neo-baroque style by Gerhard Kühn, Merseburg in the 1960s. Karl Brode from Heilbad Heiligenstadt took over the rebuilding in 1997. The organ has 44 registers , distributed over 3 manuals and pedal . The disposition is as follows:
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- Coupling : II / I, III / I, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P
- Playing aids : crescendo roller, 2 free combinations, single tongue storage
literature
- Preparatory group 100 years of Eichsfeld Cathedral Effelder (1995): 100 years of Eichsfeld Cathedral of Effelder. 152 p., Duderstadt.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Preparatory group 100 years of Eichsfeld Cathedral 1995, p. 6
Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 21 ″ N , 10 ° 14 ′ 56 ″ E