St. Elisabeth (Bockenheim)
St. Elisabeth is a Roman Catholic church in the Frankfurt district of Bockenheim . It is part of the Diocese of Limburg and has belonged to the parish of Sankt Marien since January 1, 2017.
history
Before the church was built in the 19th century, the Bockenheim Catholics had to make do with many emergency solutions in order to be able to celebrate their services. Holy Mass was celebrated in small, self-furnished chapels , such as that of Bernhard Brentano in what was then Bockenheim Castle .
With the arrival of the first Catholic pastor for Bockenheim, Fidelis Müller, the first parish church was built, based on the designs of Georg Gottlob Ungewitter . On August 16, 1868, the foundation stone for the new church was laid on the southeast side of today's Kurfürstenplatz; the inauguration took place on December 16, 1870 on the patronage of St. Elisabeth of Thuringia .
The church was built in the neo-Gothic style; the interior was divided into a main and two side aisles by rows of columns. Between 1939 and 1944, the interior underwent a redesign, which was not completed due to the war events, according to the plans of Cologne Professor Scharz with the collaboration of Johannes Krahn, with a new free-standing altar table, a new font , pulpit and tabernacle .
On March 22, 1944 and September 12, 1944, the church was destroyed by air raids by British airmen. The figures of the destroyed medieval high altar, the tabernacle and the altar cross were recovered from the rubble . Only the (outsourced) Maria-Schlaf-Altar survived everything unscathed. Reconstruction began in 1948 on the ruins of the destroyed church according to plans by Hermann Mäckler . The church was rededicated on April 30, 1950.
1978–1983 the exterior facade and tower were renovated, in 2014/2015 the interior was redesigned, including a general overhaul of the organ.
Interior
Today's interior consists only of the main nave, a row of columns and the right aisle with the Maria-Schlaf-Altar . On the left side, the ceiling construction is bevelled with wooden paneling, the original choir windows were bricked up. The organ is located on the gallery above the main entrance area opposite the chancel.
The altar cross recovered after the war-related destruction of the church is now in the cross chapel under the gallery. The baptistery opposite the Kreuzkapelle is equipped with the marble baptismal font made between 1939 and 1944, a figure of Saint Anne carved from apple wood (around 1680) and a tapestry by Ortrud Diepen-Spatz (1962).
The Peitinger sculptor Ernst Wirtl created the ambo , the Easter candlestick and the altar candlestick in 1968. In the middle of the ambo, the sacrificed Lamb of God is depicted, surrounded by the symbols of the four evangelists .
On the walls of the nave there are pictures with motifs of the Way of the Cross , which were made as prints in 1962 based on woodcuts made by the Munich painter Peter Gitzinger in 1934/1935 .
Maria sleep altar
The Maria-Schlaf-Altar in the side aisle of the church, dated around 1380, was a gift from the Frankfurt city pastor Ernst Franz August Münzenberger . It is an artistically carved late Gothic group of figures with remains of the original oak version. The twelve apostles stand around the dying Mary. Christ holds the soul of the deceased (small figure) in his hands and carries it to heaven. The altar was supplemented by two neo-Gothic altar wings with paintings (oil / tempera) from the 19th century. The opened wings of the altar show the Annunciation on the left and the presentation of Jesus in the temple on the right . The death of Mary is depicted on both sides of the closed wings.
organ
The organ by EF Walcker & Cie . Equipped with 22 sounding registers on two manuals and pedal . dates from 1954 (Opus 3245) and was completely overhauled by Orgelbau Hardt in 2014 .
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- Coupling : I / II, I / P, II / P,
- Playing aids : 3 free combinations , tutti button, 1 pedal combination and single tongue holder , general tongue holder
Solar system
A solar system has been located on the southern roof above the aisle since 2002. The panels with solar cells are mounted on stainless steel frames that are screwed to the metal folds of the copper roof with clips. In addition, these are dowelled to the back wall. In April 2003 a display board was installed in front of the church, which shows the current energy production, solar radiation and the total energy production of the system.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Catholic parish Sankt Marien Frankfurt am Main (Hrsg.): History of the churches in Sankt Marien. Self-published, Frankfurt am Main 2017.
- ↑ a b brochure Catholic Church St. Elisabeth Frankfurt am Main-Bockenheim. (Ed .: Catholic parish Sankt Marien Frankfurt am Main)
- ^ Parish Saint Marien Frankfurt am Main
Coordinates: 50 ° 7 ′ 13.1 ″ N , 8 ° 38 ′ 36.3 ″ E