St. Elisabeth (Freiburg im Breisgau)

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The former main entrance
The tower
The former interior
Today's house

St. Elisabeth was the Catholic church in the Brühl district in Freiburg .

history

After the parish of St. Elisabeth merged with the parish of St. Konrad in 1997 and now uses the St. Konrad church, the church was profaned on October 1, 2006 and had been empty since 2007. Several unsuccessful attempts have been made to put the building into a new use. The church building was intended as the Freiburg Ensemble House for the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra and the ensemble recherche , but this was not done for cost reasons.

Another use of the cultural monument was open for a long time. Then a real estate company decided to convert it into condominiums. The architectural construction of the church building designed by the architect Disse was retained. The portal with the stained glass window was preserved and the ordinariate also had an influence on other points, for example a ban on gambling halls and appointment apartments was entered in the land register.

The listed exterior walls of the church were largely preserved, including the west facade with the entrance portal and almost all of the east facade. Larger elements were broken out of the concrete shell from the long sides in the north and south. The building was raised by two floors. The renovation project had since been given the name Church-Chill . The planned apartments were sold from January 2013, and the first residents moved in in the summer of 2015, including the son Gregor of the architect Rainer Disse. In some apartments there are still elements of the earlier church.

In the meantime, the 22 m high bell tower has also been bought by a designer from Oberbergen and rebuilt by her in cooperation with the monument protection authorities .

architecture

The church was designed in 1965 by the architect Rainer Disse from Karlsruhe . The building itself was designed as a cuboid with a flat roof and has a free-standing tower. The parsonage belonging to the complex stood on the church grounds in the rear area. The massive building is made of exposed concrete . The main entrance with the large cast iron portals is on the west side. The portals come from Franz Gutmann . In the interior, the coffered ceiling was supported by four concrete columns, the skylight band around the church illuminated the interior. This was laid out very symmetrically, the choir was only slightly separated by steps.

The main altar , a monolithic stone block, is by the artist Rainer Disse and could be viewed freely from the entire interior. The sacrament chapel was illuminated by glass windows by the artist Emil Wachter - who also created the baptismal window and the west window. It housed Peter Gautel's tabernacle and the eternal light. The Way of the Cross and the candlesticks were also designed by Franz Gutmann .

The preserved earlier confessionals , which did not protrude into the church interior, but are flush with the inner wall and thus the northern outer facade protrude from the outer wall, are striking.

organ

The organ had 20 registers with a total of 1404 pipes , divided into 2 manuals and pedal . It was built in 1976 by the organ building workshop Mönch Orgelbau ( Überlingen ) on the gallery above the entrance. In 2008 she was transferred to the Catholic parish church of St. Michael in Sprendlingen .

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Principal 8th'
2. Reed flute 8th'
3. Octave 4 ′
4th Forest flute 2 ′
5. Sesquialter 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
6th Mixture IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
7th Trumpet 8th'
Tremulant
II Swell C – g 3
8th. Wooden dacked 8th'
9. Harp pipe 8th'
10. Principal 4 ′
11. Coupling flute 4 ′
12. Super octave 2 ′
13. Larigot 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
14th Scharff III 2 ⁄ 3 ′
15th Dulcian 8th'
Tremulant
Pedals C – f 1
16. Sub bass 16 ′
17th Praestant 8th'
18th Dumped 4 ′
19th Chorale mixture 4 ′
20th bassoon 16 ′

Bell jar

Since the church was profaned and converted into a residential building, the bell has not been used since 2006. On August 5, 2014, the 600 kg Cecilia bell was removed with a crane because it could not be brought down through the tower. In the future it will hit Tanzania, where it will replace an old car wheel. Before being transported there, it was exhibited in the Jesuit Church in Mannheim until Christmas 2014 in order to collect donations for the eight-week transport. This action was initiated by Lothar Kuhnimhof, the chairman of the deanery council in Neustadt .

literature

  • Johannes Baumgartner, Wolfgang Kaiser, Dagmar Zimdars: Concrete, but not made for eternity? St. Elisabeth in Freiburg: a candidate for demolition. In: Preservation of monuments in Baden-Württemberg , 39th year 2010, issue 1, p. 48 f. ( PDF )

Web links

Commons : St. Elisabeth (Freiburg)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerhard M. Kirk: Freiburg: Last call for help for the cultural monument. In: Badische Zeitung. March 25, 2010, accessed July 20, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Holger Schindler: Zähringen. "Church-Chill" real estate project: living in the church. In: Badische Zeitung. January 31, 2013, accessed July 20, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Wulf Rüskamp: Housing instead of praying: Freiburg Church of St. Elisabeth will be rebuilt. In: Badische Zeitung. March 18, 2013, accessed July 20, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Great historic church , Landesschau Baden-Wuerttemberg, SWR . 17th July 2015.
  5. ↑ Holger Schindler: Freiburg: Offenburger Straße: First residents move into the church: St. Elisabeth is now "Church-Chill". In: Badische Zeitung. July 7, 2015, accessed July 20, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Theresa Steudel: Bonsai trees instead of cross: Kaiserstuhl woman rebuilds old church tower. In: Badische Zeitung. July 17, 2019, accessed July 20, 2020 .
  7. ^ Freiburg, Catholic parish church St. Elisabeth. Mönch Organ Building , accessed on July 20, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Julia Wadle: Disused bell from Zähringen is brought to Africa. In: Badische Zeitung. August 6, 2014, accessed July 20, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Julia Wadle: The old bell should sound in Africa. In: Südkurier . August 8, 2014, accessed July 20, 2020 .
  10. ^ Eva Korinth: Titisee-Neustadt. Dean's Council with a new chairman. In: Badische Zeitung. June 26, 2015, accessed July 20, 2020 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 1 ′ 3.8 ″  N , 7 ° 51 ′ 16.3 ″  E