St. Elisabeth (Ellingen)
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The Catholic hospital church St. Elisabeth forms the dominant baroque north end of Ellingen , a town in the central Franconian district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen .
history
The Elisabethspital was founded in the second half of the 12th century by Walter von Ellingen and his wife Kunigunde. It has been under the administration of the Teutonic Order since 1216 . In 1705 it was relocated outside the city under Landkomptur Philipp Benedikt Forstmeier von Gelnhausen. The church was built in 1708. The hospital was expanded in 1753 under the Landkomtur Carl von Eyb to include the building wing defining the street and thus received the external shape that has been preserved to this day.
Building description
The interior of the hall church was uniformly furnished under the provincial commander Karl Heinrich von Hornstein in the period around 1730–1740. The fine stucco in the art style of Régence by Franz Joseph Roth and the ceiling painting with Christian motifs are characteristic .
The nave, which is covered with a gable roof , carries a roof turret and several dormers . The interior is illuminated through large windows . The axes are separated by marbled pilasters . The semicircular retracted choir and the room for the layperson , which offers space for 100 visitors, are separated from each other by a choir arch . The builder's coat of arms is painted over it. The nave has a flat barrel vault with small stitch caps over the windows, the choir has a cap vault .
The theme of the large central ceiling painting is the feeding of the five thousand . In addition, the pictures in the stitch caps above the windows show some Beatitudes from the Sermon on the Mount . The pictures in the spandrels are painted in monochrome . They represent the virtues emblematically .
Architectural elements were dispensed with in the high altar . It consists of the cafeteria , tabernacle and the large-format painting in which the church patroness , Elisabeth of Thuringia , is depicted. The wide picture frame is carved with lush acanthus tendrils . Behind the altar there is another room that serves as a sacristy . The two side altars also consist of pictures, a crucifixion and a pietà . The three-part confessional was created around 1730.
literature
- Gotthard Kießling: Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume V.70 / 1 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-87490-581-0 .
- Katholisches Pfarramt St. Georg (Ed.): The churches of the parish Ellingen . without year and without ISBN.
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Coordinates: 49 ° 3 '59.7 " N , 10 ° 58' 3.5" E