St. Elisabeth (Eisenach)
The Church of St. Elizabeth is the Catholic parish church of Eisenach . It was after the approval of the Grand Duke Carl Alexander in the years 1886 to 1888 to plans by the Kassel architect Hugo Schneider in the neo-gothic built style.
The patroness of the church is St. Elisabeth , Landgrave of Thuringia , whose life is closely connected to Eisenach and the Wartburg . The Elisabeth Church in Marburg - especially its tower shape - was the model for the much smaller Eisenach building.
In Eisenach, which was part of the heartland of the Reformation , there had been no Catholics for over three centuries. It was not until 1840 that a small congregation came into being through immigration, for which a small prayer hall was built on the property of today's Elisabeth Church and the first Holy Mass could be celebrated on Elisabeth Day, November 19, 1844 .
Three decades later the community had grown so much that the church could be planned. Approval was obtained from Grand Duke Carl Alexander, who was tolerant in matters of faith, and from the state government; From 1882 onwards, a collection of donations for the new church of St. Elisabeth in “her” city was arranged to finance it. It met with a great response, especially in the Catholic region of Fulda. On September 8, 1888, the Fulda Bishop Joseph Weyland consecrated the finished building .
The original stained glass windows were destroyed in the Second World War , but the building fabric remained intact.
After an initial redesign in 1965, an interior renovation was carried out in 1987/1988. The interior and exterior were renovated from 2000 to 2002.
The Jehmlich - organ from 1972 in 1996 by Bernhard launches renewed.
Altar room with winged altar (late Gothic figures, 19th century paintings)
Elizabeth statue and reliquary
literature
- HA Egenolf: 1988 . 100 years of St. Elisabeth Church in Eisenach. Druckhaus Frank Schroeter, Friedrichroda 1988, p. 10 .
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Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 34.8 ″ N , 10 ° 19 ′ 14.6 ″ E