St. Elisabeth (Essen-Frohnhausen)

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St. Elisabeth Church

The parish church of St. Elisabeth is located in the western Essen district of Frohnhausen . It was designed in 1911 according to plans by the architect Carl Moritz and rebuilt after war damage by the architect Emil Steffann . The patroness is the landgrave and saint of the Catholic Church, Elisabeth of Thuringia . The church is the only Roman Catholic church in Germany to have an iconostasis .

history

Due to the rapidly growing population of Essen at the turn of the century 1900, due to the immigration of workers for the steel industry and coal mining, another Catholic church was needed in the west of Essen with the St. Elisabeth Church. The board of directors of the St. Antonius congregation was looking for a plot of land as early as 1906. So on March 17, 1910, the groundbreaking ceremony took place at the current location. The St. Elisabeth Church was built according to the plans of the Cologne architect Carl Moritz. On June 5, 1911, Dean Franz Rudolf Bornewasser blessed the church. That year the first Holy Mass took place in the St. Elisabeth Church. The consecration followed on November 15, 1914 by the Cologne Auxiliary Bishop Peter Joseph Lausberg , after St. Elisabeth became a parish.

During the Second World War , after the first bomb hits in 1943, large parts of the church and the rectory were destroyed in 1944.

After several years of makeshift planks and sheet metal, the St. Elisabeth Church could only be rebuilt on a completely different floor plan between 1957 and 1959, whereby the tower and choir were retained. This happened under the direction of the architects Emil Steffann and Nikolaus Rosiny .

local community

With the construction of the church in 1911 , the parish, which was elevated to a parish in 1913, was constituted under the leadership of the parish rector Johannes Dollendorf , who was previously chaplain to St. Antonius, with Dollendorf as pastor. Since April 2008, St. Elisabeth is part of the new large parish of St. Antonius.

Leading clergy

  • 1911–1950: Johannes Dollendorf; In December 1957, the part of Kerkhoffstrasse that leads past the church was named after him.
  • 1950–1967: Paul Heinrichs
  • 1967–1975: Klaus Malangré
  • 1975-1996: Norbert Dziekan
  • 1996–2001: Klaus Kohl
  • 2001–2014: Bernhard Alshut
  • September 2014 – May 2017: Enzio Grunert
  • since September 2017: Deacon Ludger Höller with the support of the clergy of the newly established external establishment of the Jesuit order

Equipment of today's church

Iconostasis

Pastor Paul Heinrichs (pastor 1950–1967), who looked after Russian prisoners of war and approached the Orthodox, wanted to continue to cultivate this in Frohnhausen. Since 1964, the St. Elisabeth Church has been the only Roman Catholic church in Germany to have an iconostasis , a picture wall installed above and next to the chancel with Russian Orthodox motifs in the tradition of the Eastern Church liturgy. The St. Elisabeth Church thus forms an ecumenical movement and is reminiscent of the division of the Church into the Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches in 1054. As is customary in an Orthodox church, a grid wall, created by Fritz Kühn, separates the vestibule from the church interior. The icons were designed by the Russian exile Alexej A. Swaljew between 1960 and 1962, whereby the twelve icons in the upper rows represent the feast days of the year in the order of the church year, i.e. the birth of the Virgin Mary, the Exaltation of the Cross, the birth of Christ, the baptism of the Lord , Presentation of the Lord, Annunciation, Entry into Jerusalem, Resurrection of Christ, Ascension, Pentecost, Transfiguration of the Lord and the asleep of Mary. On the left side of the altar, the five lower icons show Jesus Christ , the evangelist Mark , the evangelists John , John the Baptist and Gregory the Great , and on the right side of the altar, John of Damascus , Elizabeth of Thuringia , the evangelist Matthew , the evangelist Luke , and the image of Mary.

organ

The organ is located in a side aisle above the weekday church. In 1964, the St. Elisabeth Church received its present organ from the Karl Schuke organ workshop in Berlin. The organ case was designed by Ernst Bittcher. With 42 registers , the organ has 3328 pipes . The Zimbelstern and the Spanish trumpet are a specialty.

I Rückpositiv C-
Quintadena 8th'
Capstan whistle 4 '
Hollow pipe 2 '
Sif flute 1'
Sesquialtera II 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Principal 4 '
Mixture V
Terzcymbel III
Dulcian 16 '
Hopper shelf 8th'
Tremulant
II main work C–
Bourdon 16 '
Gemshorn 8th'
Dumped 4 '
Rauschpfeife 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Sif flute 1'
Principal 8th'
octave 4 '
Mixture V-VI
Trumpet 16 '
Trumpet 8th'
horizontal:
Trumpet 4 '
III breastwork C–
Wooden dacked 8th'
Pointed 4 '
Principal 2 '
Scharff III-V
third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Sept-Quart II 1 1 ⁄ 7  ′
musette 16 '
Krummhorn 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C–
Sub-bass 16 '
Funnel-shaped 8th'
Hollow flute 4 '
Pipe pommer 2 '
Sesquialtera III 5 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Principal 16 '
octave 8th'
Back set IV 4 '
Mixture III
Trumpet 8th'
shawm 4 '
  • Coupling : I / II, III / I, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P

Altar cross

The ebony altar cross, next to the white marble altar, comes from the old church, which was largely destroyed in the war. It represents the Lord upright with a royal crown and stands on a mountain that serves as a stand, under which four dragons can be seen. The origin of the cross is not known. In 1919 it was stolen from the church and later found again badly damaged by playing children. In what is now the post-war church, the altar cross was not put up again until 1981.

window

The large windows under the roof of the nave of the church are by Wilhelm Teuwen . The eastern window differs from the others in that it shows an egg as a sign of the resurrection.

The twelve small, colored glazed windows, distributed in the church and each designed differently, were created by Ludwig Schaffrath .

crypt

The church received a small crypt room when it was rebuilt after the war. This was expanded into a new crypt in 1991 by the architect Franz Wortmann . The entire equipment of the crypt comes from the artist Ernst Rasche (* 1926 in Mülheim an der Ruhr ).

Bells

In the years 1884 and 1891 the Otto bell foundry in Bremen-Hemelingen cast  three bronze bells for St. Antonius with the striking notes: f ′ - as ′ - b ′. The bells have the following diameters: 1120 mm, 900 mm, 800 mm and weigh: 850 kg, 407 kg, 270 kg. After the Second World War, the bells came to the St. Elisabeth Church. It is the oldest still completely preserved bell from the renowned Otto bell foundry. In 1975 the bell was extended to include a des ″ bell from the Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock foundry.

Further equipment

Ernst Rasche created the baptistery with the baptismal font made of Greek marble in 1986 for the 75th anniversary of the church. He also created the tabernacle, the bronze Easter candlestick from 1986, the consignatory as a storage place for the holy oils and the bronze storage place for the Bible from 1987. Finally, in 1975 Ernst Rasche also designed the interior of the weekday church, which is located in the east aisle is located.

Stone carvings were carried out by Konrad Rasche and blacksmithing by Josef Butenberg .

graveyard

The cemetery at the St. Elisabeth Church houses the graves of priests. The iron bars used as the entrance gates to the cemetery bear the inscription Death is the gate to life . The cemetery designed by Ernst Rasche was built in 1994 and was blessed on November 3, 1994 on the 40th anniversary of the death of the first pastor of the old St. Elisabeth Church, Johannes Dollendorf. After relocating from Margaret Cemetery, he found his final resting place here. The second grave is that of Pastor Paul Heinrichs. Both memorial plaques in the cemetery had previously been kept in the anteroom of the former crypt.

Two younger graves are opposite the only cemetery path. The pastor Norbert Dziekan and the senior teacher of the Alfred-Krupp-Gymnasium, Willi Regelsky, also president of the Kolping family for 22 years, are buried here.

A rondel designed by Ernst Rasche marks the center of the small cemetery. It is located on the old tombstone of Pastor Dollendorf on the Margaretenfriedhof, which acts as a foundation.

  • Graves of Johannes Dollendorf, Paul Heinrichs

  • Graves Norbert Dziekan, Willi Regelsky

literature

  • Heinz Dohmen, Eckehard Sons: Churches, chapels, synagogues in Essen. Nobel-Verlag, Essen 1998, ISBN 3-922785-52-2 .
  • Norbert Dziekan, Elisabeth Klaes: St. Elisabeth. A treasure to be looked for. Essen 1995.
  • Heinz J. Kramer, Norbert Dziekan: Frohnhausen and St. Elisabeth. Stories and stories of a village and a parish. Essen 1986.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Description of the St. Elisabeth Church by Pastor Bernhard Alshut in June 2006 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; last viewed on December 17th, 2010 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / georg.georg-jochheim.de
  2. ↑ Erwin Dickhoff: Essen street names. City history as reflected in the street names. Richard Bacht publishing house, Essen 1979, ISBN 3-87034-030-4 .
  3. ↑ More information on the organ (PDF; 8.4 MB) p. 284
  4. ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto bells. Family and company history of the Otto bell foundry dynasty . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, in particular pages 186, 187, 503, 505 .
  5. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, especially pp. 179, 180, 470, 472 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at the Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).

Coordinates: 51 ° 26 ′ 55.6 ″  N , 6 ° 57 ′ 39.6 ″  E