St. Elisabeth (Hann. Münden)
St. Elisabeth is the Catholic parish church in Hann. Münden in the district of Göttingen . The neo-Romanesque church with the patronage of St. Elisabeth of Thuringia was built from 1887 to 1889.
history
Hannoversch Münden with the medieval parish church of St. Blasius has been Lutheran since the introduction of the Reformation by Duchess Elisabeth and Antonius Corvinus in the 1540s . Only at the turn of the 19th century did Catholics return to the city, the number of whom grew through the local garrison and later through the settlement of industrial companies. In 1854 a mission congregation was established, to which around 230 believers belonged until 1870. The Holy Mass was celebrated in different provisionally converted rooms.
The population and parish growth of the Wilhelminian era allowed 500 parishioners to mature plans for a church building around 1880. In 1883, donations were used to buy a piece of land east of the green belt of the historic city fortifications. Construction work began in 1887. The design and construction management was the responsibility of the master builder Johannes Achenbach, who obtained the building material from Lindau , among others . In Achenbach's account on December 14, 1890, the construction costs were given as 72,851 marks.
The church consecration was carried out by Bishop Wilhelm Sommerwerck on November 26, 1889. In 1890 the parish was established , to which, in addition to the city of Hann. Münden belong to more than 20 villages in the surrounding area. The church suffered considerable bomb damage during World War II . In 1948 the Corpus Christi procession was carried out for the first time from St. Elisabeth .
After the Second World War, the number of parishioners increased by leaps and bounds due to the expulsion from the east . In 1967/68 the branch church of St. Judas Thaddäus was built in Landwehrhagen . Today the parish of St. Elisabeth has 3,381 Catholics.
Architecture and equipment
The Elizabeth Church is a three-aisled basilica made of irregularly hewn stone in classical proportions with a round apse in the east and a square bell tower above the portal in the west. Arched windows , arched friezes and pilaster strips structure the wall surfaces. Two half stair towers are attached to the side of the tower , its upper floor below the cone tip is designed with triple arched openings and gables.
The interior is plastered white. Columns, arches, cornices and soffits are partly reddish, partly stone-visible. Each of the three nave - yokes has two side and two clerestory windows and two columns separate arches from the Central to the aisle. Half-columns are placed in front of the pillars that separate the yokes , which extend into the upper aisle and continue in the girdle arches of the groin vault .
Most of the furnishings - altar, ambo and tabernacle, as well as the expressive windows of saints on the side aisles - date from the late 20th century.
See also
- List of architectural monuments in Hann. Münden
- List of churches in the Diocese of Hildesheim
- Elisabeth Church
literature
- Thomas Scharf-Wrede: The Diocese of Hildesheim 1866-1914. Hannover 1995, p. 127; 531-533
- Erwin May: Münden - the forest city on the three rivers. Münden 1980
Web links
- History (web presence of the parish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Erwin May: Münden and surroundings . Erwin May, Hann. Münden 1980, p. 146 .
- ↑ Schematism of the Diocese of Hildesheim, as of April 12, 2013
Coordinates: 51 ° 24 ′ 54.3 " N , 9 ° 39 ′ 26" E