St. Elisabeth (Bonn)
St. Elisabeth is a Roman Catholic parish church in the southern part of Bonn . The church is consecrated to St. Elisabeth of Thuringia . It stands as a monument under monument protection .
history
A rectangular, slightly elevated plot of land for the construction of a Catholic church was provided for when the Südstadtviertel was planned. The construction of the Elisabethkirche was planned as a branch church of the Bonn Minster at the beginning of the 20th century.
In 1906, the architect Ludwig Becker (Mainz) was commissioned to design a neo-Romanesque church that would accommodate 2,200 people. The contract also included the adjoining rectory complex, the award of the work and supervision of construction.
After the foundation stone was laid in November 1906, the shell was already completed in 1908. The subsequent design of the interior was also left to Ludwig Becker. However, the church council and the pastor had a contractually agreed right to have a say in the selection of the artists for the interior decoration. Rhenish artists were involved in the interior design, as well as painters and sculptors such as Georg Busch and the brothers Matthias and Heinrich Schiestl .
In 1910 the church was taken into use with the patronage of St. Elisabeth, and in 1912 it was consecrated after it had been elevated to parish church.
In 1969 a wooden, stepped altar with a celebration altar was built in the crossing.
Architecture and equipment
The Elizabeth Church is a free-standing, east - facing three-aisled basilica with a transept and an octagonal crossing tower . The portal front with the main tower is designed as a representative western building . The semicircular apse is flanked by two side apses . The central nave receives its light through the three-part cliff windows .
The exterior and interior architecture look like an ideal of a late Rhenish Romanesque church; However, dealing with possible models such as St. Apostles in Cologne make the Elisabethkirche a building of historicism. While the choir and west facade of Romanesque churches always appear closed, the height of the building cubes of St. Elisabeth combine to form a balanced silhouette. The balanced design of horizontal and vertical as well as stone-faced and plastered structural elements contribute to this impression. In contrast to Romanesque buildings, various decorative motifs cover the facades and stand out from the white facade as a stone. In doing so, emphasis was placed on a consistent variation of the decorative elements: z. B. the friezes designed differently, although they appear symmetrical at first glance.
The south side of the church, together with the relatively low rectory buildings, forms a courtyard enclosed on three sides. The rectory buildings are subordinate to the sacred building and were already included in the planning of the church, so that a special line of sight to the crossing tower could arise.
The church is richly endowed. In addition to the ceiling paintings, the wheel chandelier in the crossing and the pulpit, the altars are remarkable :
- the Elisabeth altar in the north side choir from 1915
- the altar of Mary,
- the main altar from 1912,
- Joseph Altar from 1922
- the Sacred Heart Altar from 1918.
Klais organ
The St. Elisabeth organ was built between 1910 and 1913 by the organ building company Johannes Klais (Bonn) in the German- Romantic style. Initially, a two-manual instrument with 32 registers was planned . In 1909 the construction of a three-manual instrument with 48 registers was commissioned. During the construction period, the planning was expanded to include a choir organ with eleven stops, playable from the fourth manual of the general console. The model for this organ, consisting of the main organ on the west gallery and the choir organ behind the high altar, was probably the large organ in Erfurt Cathedral, which had just been built at the time.
In 1911 the main organ with 48 registers was completed. It was not until 1989 that the organ system was "completed" according to the original plan, when the choir organ was built as a remote unit according to the plans from 1910 using original organ parts from that time. The main organ was restored in 1990 and equipped with an electro-pneumatic setting system in 2002. The case of the main organ goes back to the planning of Ludwig Becker , the sculptural work comes from Georg Busch , who also created the Sacred Heart Altar. The remote work (choir organ) was installed behind the high altar. The organ system today has a total of 59 registers on four manuals and pedal . The playing and stop actions are pneumatic.
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Couple
- Normal coupling: II / I, III / I, III / II, IV / I, I / P, II / P, III / P, IV / P
- Sub-octave coupling: II / I, IV / I, IV / IV
- Super octave coupling: I / I, III / I, III / II, IV / I, IV / IV
- Playing aids : two free registries, four fixed registries (p, mf, f, tutti), trigger, register crescendo, general coupler, various shutters, melody couplers I / II
Bells
Four bronze bells hang in the church tower, which were cast in 1908 by the bell caster Carl Maximilian Hubert Edelbrock (Gescher). The bells are made in heavy ribs . The bells are part of the original equipment of the church and are of monument value.
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No. |
Surname |
Casting year |
Foundry, casting location |
Diameter (mm) |
Mass (kg) |
Percussive ( HT - 1 / 16 ) |
| 1 | Joseph | 1908 | Carl Maximilian Hubert Edelbrock, Gescher | 1,594 | 2,750 | c 1 +1 |
| 2 | Gertrud | 1,330 | 1,500 | it 1 ± 0 | ||
| 3 | Elisabeth | 1,176 | 1,100 | f 1 +2 | ||
| 4th | Kunigunde | 1,035 | 700 | g 1 +4 |
Pastor
| Period | Pastor | Remarks |
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| 1910-1951 | Pastor Dr. Bernard Custodis | |
| 1951-1961 | Pastor Josef Mager | |
| 1961-1969 | Pastor Father H. Hendriks SMM | |
| 1969-1982 | Pastor Father Peter van Eunen SMM | 1976 Establishment of the German provincial council of the Montfortaner |
| 1982-2010 | Pastor Father Edmund Jäckel SMM | 2008–2010 as subsidiar |
| 2008–2012 | Pastor Ulrich Weeger | Pastor of the parish association Bonn-Süd |
| since 2012 | Pastor Father Jacek Styrczula SDB | Pastor of the parish association Bonn-Süd |
literature
- Wilhelm Passavanti (Ed.): Bonn churches and chapels. Ferd. Dümmler Verlag, Bonn 1989, ISBN 3-427-85031-5 , pp. 63-67.
- Andreas Denk , Ingeborg flag : Architectural guide Bonn. Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-496-01150-5 , p. 40.
- Josef Herberg (ed.): Churches in Bonn. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-237-6 , pp. 78-84. [not evaluated]
- Peter Jurgilewitsch, Wolfgang Pütz-Liebenow: The history of the organ in Bonn and in the Rhein-Sieg district. Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1990, ISBN 3-416-80606-9 , pp. 64-67. [not yet evaluated for this article]
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bonn (as of March 15, 2019), p. 11, number A 326
- ↑ Information on Church history on the ward website
- ↑ Information on equipment on the municipality's website
- ↑ More information about the organ on the website of the builder company; seen September 1, 2011.
- ↑ to disposition , seen Sept. 1, 2011.
- ↑ Short biography of Pastor Dr. Bernard Custodis in the Bonn city dictionary
Coordinates: 50 ° 43 ′ 21.4 " N , 7 ° 6 ′ 28.8" E