St. Elisabeth (Hanau)
St. Elisabeth at Kastanienallee 68 in Hanau is a Roman Catholic church and parish.
history
History of the parish of St. Elisabeth Hanau The history of the parish begins in 1909 with the establishment of an initially non-independent curate. A year later, a piece of land was purchased on which a "mission house" with a chapel and other ancillary rooms was built. The chapel was consecrated in 1911 . As early as 1925, the Kuratiegemeinde had around 850 members. The rulers were harassed during the Nazi and war times. The efforts of Pastor Auth at the time to provide pastoral care for the Catholic Polish prisoners of war and the church life in times of war-related shortages were hindered. After the end of the war, an attempt was made in 1946 by the diocese of Fulda to obtain permission to establish a parish, but at that time still without success. The following years were marked by an immense influx of displaced persons, so that the number of parishioners quickly doubled. 1955 began the planning of the magistrate for a new "Weststadt", so with the emerging new buildings with further influxes could be expected. The building of a parish church became more and more urgent. When parish curate Karl Schönhals took office in 1962, he pushed the church building project forward with support from Fulda. The foundation stone was laid on September 15, 1963. On August 30, 1964, the bishop from Fulda consecrated Dr. Adolf Bolte took over the St. Elisabeth Church and raised the parish curate to an independent parish.
The building was the ecclesiastical reaction to the Hanauer Weststadt, a large, adjacent new development area that was built in the 1960s and 1970s. Today it is a cultural monument due to the Hessian Monument Protection Act for artistic, historical and urban planning reasons.
Since 2006 the building has been renovated in several sections and redesigned inside.
building
The church building was designed by Johannes Reuter , Kassel , and erected in 1963/64. It consists of a reinforced concrete skeleton with brick infill . The outside is clad with sandstone . The gable roof is only slightly inclined. On the outside, the building presents itself as a solitary cube, which is accentuated by concrete bands with strong reliefs below the roof approach. These also allow light to enter via colored window strips . The church tower made of exposed concrete stands out like a " campanile " and was added a few years later.
The interior tapers slightly towards the chancel. It is closed by a folding roof cover. Most of the furnishings come from the blacksmith Manfred Berger, such as the stations of the cross or the hanging cross above the altar. In addition, some historical furnishings were brought in: They come from 1938 by Rudolf Schwarz from a chapel in Fulda that was abandoned in 1952 . A figure of St. Elisabeth decorates the entrance.
Parish
The parish of St. Elisabeth was founded in 1909 as a curate with a chapel in Kastanienallee 68 (today the parish hall). While the Kuratie still had 850 members in 1924, the number doubled after the Second World War due to the influx of expellees . The planning for the Weststadt finally made the need for its own parish urgent and so in 1964, at the same time as the church was built, the curate was elevated to the parish of St. Elisabeth. In 1967 a branch was established in the Hohe Tanne housing estate, which has its seat in a parish hall built in 1970 with its own church service room (Amselstrasse 1).
Today the parish has 5000 members. The parish includes the Hanau districts of Kesselstadt with Wilhelmsbad and Hohe Tanne as well as the villages of Mittelbuchen and Wachenbuchen .
literature
- Jürgen Krieg: Kesselstadt (Hanau-Kesselstadt). Parish Church of St. Elisabeth. Interior and exterior renovation . In: Archive for Middle Rhine Church History , Volume 64 (2012), pp. 429–431.
- Caroline Krumm (arrangement): City of Hanau. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , cultural monuments in Hesse .) Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 3-8062-2054-9 , p. 471 f.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Krumm, p. 471.
- ^ Structures, numbers, information - St. Elisabeth Hanau
Web links
Coordinates: 50 ° 8 ′ 1.5 ″ N , 8 ° 53 ′ 38 ″ E