St. Elisabeth (Augsburg-Lechhausen)

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St. Elisabeth seen from the south (2014)

The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Elisabeth in the Augsburg district of Lechhausen was built in the 1950s. It stands together with the attached to it rectory listed . The church patroness is Elisabeth of Thuringia .

location

The church is located on Elisabethstrasse at the corner of Kolbergstrasse. The parsonage as well as the parish and youth center are attached to the church in Gneisenaustrasse.

history

Before this church was built, there was only one Catholic church in Lechhausen, the parish church of St. Pankratius in Blücherstraße. In 1913 Lechhausen was incorporated. Industry grew in the north-east of Augsburg, and the influx of workers made another sufficiently large church necessary. In 1935 there were therefore three submission plans, including from Thomas Wechs . 1937 Wooden was on the present site emergency church built, and 1939 founded a church building association . The outbreak of the Second World War prevented the announcement of a competition.

Immediately after the end of the war, the renowned Augsburg church architect Michael Kurz was commissioned with the planning without a tender , and the last major new church was to be St. Elisabeth's. As early as 1945, Kurz, who was almost 70 years old at the time, presented drawings that tended to be based on the preliminary drafts from the pre-war period, but instead of a central façade tower, the lateral tower, which is now dominant, was used to determine the location. The construction work could only begin after the currency reform . The foundation stone was laid on July 4, 1951, the topping-out ceremony on December 19 of the same year.

After construction work was completed, the church was consecrated on November 1, 1952 by the Augsburg Bishop Joseph Freundorfer . At the same time, the construction of the rectory (by the same architect) and the kindergarten began. In the following years, the church received a large part of the furnishings, such as the altar, pulpit and baptismal font, based on designs by Michael Kurz. After his death, the former town planner Georg Werner took over the artistic supervision of the design.

From 1974 to 1975 the choir was extensively redesigned to meet the new liturgical requirements of the Second Vatican Council . The people's altar was built in during this construction project .

architecture

Exterior description

West facade with tower

The east-facing church is a traditional bare brick building . The different colors of the bricks due to the different burning times of the material made it possible to create a color-rich structure of the exposed brickwork . The compact structure extends over a length of 70 meters and is divided into a nave with a height of 30 meters and a slightly lower, retracted choir.

Both buildings are each provided with a gable roof closed at the top. The outer wall of the church is structured with pilaster strips . Daylight can penetrate unhindered into the nave through the undecorated arched windows . Stair towers allow access to the organ gallery and the roof structure. The west facade is also structured by a round arch motif. The west portal is reminiscent of a medieval funnel portal. The 48-meter-high facade tower on the north side of the church is free-standing on three sides and has a tent roof . The substructure is unadorned and only has small windows. In the upper third, the area around the bell chamber is divided by pilaster strips and the eight sound openings.

Inside description

The hall-like, monumental interior is closed at the top by an exposed concrete ceiling. As in the outside area, the walls are made of bare brick technology, structured by the arched motif and structure the ten-axis nave and the three-axis choir. The two stair towers at the transition from the nave to the choir open up towards the church interior like oratorios . The windows on the west facade, equipped with artistically designed stained glass, were created by the glass and textile artist Hilda Sandtner .

Furnishing

The large glass mosaics on the choir wall, also designed by Hilda Sandtner, determine the space . In the middle, the crucified Jesus is shown as the victor over death. The six subsequent depictions on the left and right show scenes from the life of the church patroness Elisabeth of Thuringia.

The tabernacle under the dominant Christ shows a pelican and a phoenix on the doors using enamel technology . In the upper part, a lecture cross stands on a ledge and shows the crucified. Originally the ensemble belonged to the high altar, which no longer exists today . This was torn down as part of the liturgical redesign and replaced by a people's altar created by the sculptor Reinhold Grübl on a raised altar island. The arched tabletop made of Jurassic limestone stands on four brick pillars. A spherical segment made of volcanic tuff is attached to the underside of the plate . The floor area under the altar table is sculptured with 21 pyramid-shaped elements.

The twelve large apostle figures on the side walls and the sculpture Maria with the child were also made by Reinhold Grübl in 1967. Each of the approximately two meter high sculptures was made from a block of linden wood. With their roughly hewn structure, they symbolize the "corners and edges" of the sitter. The color scheme is reserved, mainly in the colors red, blue and white. "They represent the artistically most demanding cycle of apostles of the 20th century in the diocese of Augsburg."

On the south wall of the nave are the 14 stations of the cross with wide oak frames , which were designed by the Oberschondorfer painter Eva Maria Kramel in restrained colors.

organ

organ
The organ pipes in colored lighting

In 1957 Otto Sandtner created the first organ for the Elisabeth Church. The instrument was built from inferior materials after the war , was considered used five decades later and was handed over to Novi Travnik (Diocese of Sarajevo).

The follow-up instrument was built by Siegfried Schmid and inaugurated on October 26, 2008. The work with 2530 pipes has 38 sounding registers and a transmission , distributed over two manuals and pedal . The action action of the slider chest instrument is mechanical, the stop action is electrical.

In terms of sound, the instrument follows the German romanticism of the organ, but does not represent a pure style copy. Completely new paths have been taken in the visual design. The instrument, which is vaguely reminiscent of the organ in the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles , is unique in its overall conception throughout Europe.

The middle section of the prospectus is classic and acts like a reference to the previous instrument. The inclined wooden pipes behind and in the outer fields were artistically designed by Andreas Armin d'Orfey with bright colors as well as religious texts and symbols at the suggestion of Pastor Robert Mair . Each pipe is individual. The basic colors are based on the Sandtner west window behind the organ, which additionally influences the color of the wooden pipes through its luminosity. The thematic execution is based on the church and the living environment of the community. For example, the largest pipe on the far left takes up the theme of the legend of the rose miracle of Saint Elizabeth . In addition, a lighting system that reacts to vibrations can dynamically illuminate the wooden pipes with bright colors. This gives the organ a "lightness" and symbolically refers to the heavenly Jerusalem .

The disposition is as follows:

I coupling manual C – g 3
II Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Principal 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Concert flute 8th'
4th Covered 8th'
5. Gamba 8th'
6th Salicional 8th'
7th Octave 4 ′
8th. Reed flute 4 ′
9. viola 4 ′
10. Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
11. Octave 2 ′
12. Mixture major IV 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
13. Mixture minor IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
14th Trumpet 16 ′
15th Trumpet 8th'
16. Trumpet 4 ′
III Swell C – g 3
17th Lovely covered 16 ′
18th Violin principal 8th'
19th Wooden flute 8th'
20th Aeoline 8th'
21st Vox coelestis 8th'
22nd Fugara 4 ′
23. Transverse flute 4 ′
24. Nasard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
25th Piccolo 2 ′
26th Third flute 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
27. Harmonia aetheria III – IV 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
28. Harmony trumpet 8th'
29 oboe 8th'
30th Clarinet (serving) 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
31. Pedestal 32 ′
32. Principal bass 16 ′
33. Sub bass 16 ′
Soft bass 16 ′
34. Octave bass 8th'
35. Gemshorn bass 8th'
36. Choral bass 4 ′
37. Bass tuba 16 ′
38. trombone 8th'
Normal coupling: III / II, II / P, III / P
Freely connectable coupling manual: II / I, III / I, sub-octave coupling I

For mobile use, yet is Truhenorgel the company Kubak present.

Bells

There are four bells in the church tower . They were cast by Karl Czudnochowsky in Erding and have the tone sequence A 0 -e 1 -g 1 -h 1 . You intone the Salve regina motif.

Pastoral care

There are daily worship services in the church. Organ masses take place temporarily at the usual church service times, during which the organ, sometimes played by guest organists, moves into the center of the musical design of the mass.

literature

  • Monika Soffner-Loibl: Augsburg-Lechhausen parish church of St. Elisabeth . Ed .: Catholic Parish Office St. Elisabeth. Art publisher PEDA, Passau 2016, ISBN 978-3-89643-971-0 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Peda art guide 971/2016: St. Elisabeth parish church, Augsburg-Lechhausen. Parish office St. Elisabeth, Augsburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-89643-971-0 .
  2. ↑ Eric Zwang-Eriksson: Festive dance on a unique organ. In: augsburger-allgemeine.de. April 30, 2009, accessed February 26, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Description on the organ consecration script.


Coordinates: 48 ° 23 ′ 4.5 "  N , 10 ° 54 ′ 41.3"  E