St. Elisabeth (Brandenburg an der Havel)
The St. Elisabeth Chapel is a Catholic branch church in the Görden district of the city of Brandenburg an der Havel , a barrack building .
history
Since 1942, Pastor Jochmann has been holding Catholic services in a Protestant emergency chapel in the Görden district. In 1947 the community acquired a house at Mendelssohnstraße 3 with an associated property and set up an emergency chapel in two rooms on the ground floor. Since after the end of the Second World War numerous Catholic expellees from the areas east of the Oder and from the Sudetenland also came to Brandenburg, the community on Görden had grown to 1,800 members. Even with three Sunday services, this crowd could not be accommodated in the church, which is why many drove to the Holy Trinity Parish Church in the city center to attend the services there.
In 1951, Kuratus Karl Rudolph Metzen took over the parish and tried to build a church. On November 1, 1951, the foundation stone was laid for St. Elisabeth's Church on the property in Mendelssohnstrasse behind the rectory. The church was built as a flat barrack building. The designs for the building come from the architects Hermann Lebegern and Conrad Puchalla and most of the construction work was carried out by members of the community. Six months after the foundation stone was laid, the church was consecrated to St. Elisabeth of Thuringia on May 25, 1952 by Georg Puchowski, Vicar General of the Diocese of Berlin . On June 1, 1956, the community was released into property independence.
In 1966 the chancel was redesigned, with the artist Paul Stippekohl making a new wooden altar.
Because of the dwindling membership, the St. Bernhard and St. Elisabeth Curatia were merged with the Trinity Congregation into one congregation.
Building
Sankt Elisabeth is a simple gray and flat post-war plastered building, a rare church still in the permanent form of a barracks. It is located in the back yard of the residential building at Mendelsohnstrasse 3 and is only partially visible from the street. Only part of the front and the roof turret carrying the bells can be seen. A brick base can be seen around the building. The portal opens to the east. The sides are bricked with yellow clinker bricks. They are simply graduated. The lintel protrudes as a suspicion . The door is made of wood double-leaf and has iron fittings and six divided by rungs window . Next to the portal there are windows, two ox eyes . Due to the flat roof construction, the gable triangle to the east is also very flat. On the ridge there is a small roof turret with sound openings for the bells and a pyramid roof . The tip of the rider forms a simple cross.
The northern facade is divided into five by four pilaster strips . In the first four areas from the east, two lattice windows were incorporated, in the westernmost, in the area of the chancel, there is a second portal with a single-winged door. The south wall shows four surfaces similar to the north side, formed by pilaster strips, each with two windows. The westernmost section at the level of the chancel is not designed to match that of the north side. It slopes slightly to the south-south-west at a flat angle compared to the south wall, so that the entire church building has an irregular pentagonal floor plan. The south-south-west wall, behind which the sacristy of the church is located, is divided into two by a pilaster, but has no windows or doors. From the north and south, corner pilaster strips touch the west wall, which is also divided into two. A large rectangular window to the chancel, designed with concrete and colored glass fragments, is striking. Next to this there is a small window to the sacristy.
Interior
Behind the east portal there is an anteroom to the church, which is used for community work. On the walls of the church hall there is a smaller version of the modern depiction of the Way of the Cross created by the artist Josef Krautwald , a larger version of which is in the Holy Trinity parish church. A virgin with child and, since 1999, a neo-Gothic statue of St. Elisabeth stand to the right and left of the altar made by Stippekohl.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Chronicle of the Catholic Parish of the Holy Trinity Brandenburg ad Havel . Accessed January 31, 2014.
Coordinates: 52 ° 25 '41.05 " N , 12 ° 30' 10.74" O