St. Elisabeth (Hamburg-Harvestehude)
St. Elisabeth in Hamburg is a church in the Harvestehude district , near the Hochallee at the level of the Innocentiapark . It is the main church of the Roman Catholic parish of St. Elisabeth Hamburg . The church building was built in 1926 according to plans by Heinrich Renard and Jos. van Geisten and is a listed building.
history
In 1927 the catholic primary school belonging to the parish of St. Elisabeth was founded in a villa, in 1958 the new building was built at Hochallee 9. The catholic school Hochallee still exists, today as a state-recognized private school sponsored by the Catholic School Association Hamburg .
In 2001, the Hamburg Monument Protection Office placed the St. Elisabeth Church in Oberstraße 67 together with the adjacent parish hall in Hochallee 61 as an ensemble under monument protection .
To implement restructuring and austerity measures in the Archdiocese of Hamburg , the community sold the neighboring rectory on the corner of Hochallee and Oberstrasse. The community rooms in it, including the kindergarten, were combined in a single-storey new building that was built in 2006 in the front garden of the rectory.
Architecture and equipment
The church is built on two narrow parcels of townhouses and connects to the left and right of the neighboring houses. The eaves height also blends in with the development. Apart from the asymmetrical tower and the cladding with ashlar , the church building is not very conspicuous from the outside. The facade is adorned with "restrained expressionist" decor, including the legend of the rose miracle of Elisabeth of Thuringia .
Above the altar, a triptych attached to the wall shows scenes of the crucifixion, executed in monochrome and semi-plastic.
Gebhard Fugel created three paintings in the church: the picture above the former high altar is now on the left. Two other paintings by Fugel show Mary after Revelation and St. Joseph as the patron saint of the church.
St. Elisabeth owns an organ by Rudolf von Beckerath , built in 1951.
Bells
In 1935 the renowned Otto bell foundry from Hemelingen / Bremen cast three bronze bells for St. Elisabeth in Harvestehude. The bells are tuned to: f sharp '- a' - h '. They have the following diameters: 1150 mm, 933 mm, 831 mm. The three bells survived the destruction of the bells by the Nazis.
literature
- Holger Wilken: The Catholic community in Hamburg from the end of the 18th century to 1963 . Phil. Diss., University of Hamburg 1998.
- Festschrift Church Community St. Elisabeth, Harvestehude , Hamburg 1976.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Andrea Tapper: Catholic School Hochallee: 75 years of values education . In: Hamburger Abendblatt from June 13, 2002.
- ↑ Katholische Schule Hochallee on the website of the Catholic School Association Hamburg
- ↑ Hamburg Cultural Authority: List of monuments, excerpt for the Eimsbüttel district ( Memento of the original from November 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. as of September 1, 2016, monument no. 20014, p. 367.
- ^ Parish hall St. Elisabeth on the website of the architects Roloff • Ruffing
- ^ Ralf Lange : Architectural Guide Hamburg . Edition Axel Menges, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-930698-58-7 , p. 136.
- ^ Klaus K. Alefelder: On the 150th birthday of Gebhard Fugel . In: With us , parish letter of the Catholic. Parish St. Elisabeth Hamburg-Harvestehude, born 52, May-Aug. 2013.
- ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto Glocken - family and company history of the Otto bell foundry dynasty, self-published, Essen 2019, 588 pages, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , here in particular p. 539.
- ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen. Nijmegen 2019, 556 pages, Diss.Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770, here in particular p. 498.
Coordinates: 53 ° 34 ′ 40 ″ N , 9 ° 59 ′ 7 ″ E