St. Elisabeth (Hanover)
St. Elisabeth is a Catholic church in Hanover in the Zoo district (Gellertstraße 38). It is the third oldest Catholic church in the city after St. Clemens and St. Marien and belongs to the parish of St. Heinrich in the Hanover deanery of the Diocese of Hildesheim .
history
St. Elisabeth was built in 1894/95 according to plans by Christoph Hehl on the property of the then St. Vincent Hospital of the Order of the Sisters of Mercy of St. Vincent von Paul (today: Lower Saxony State Office for Monument Preservation ), on November 20, 1895 it was consecrated by Bishop Daniel Wilhelm Sommerwerck . From 1898 to 1905 it was painted by Oscar Wichtendahl . On March 1, 1908, the parish of St. Elisabeth was established.
During the Second World War , air raids on Hanover on October 9, 1943 and October 25, 1944 caused fragmentation and air pressure damage to the organ, windows and roof, but the church could always be used for services, as the damage could be repaired quickly every time. The frescoes and furnishings have been completely preserved; the last restoration took place in 1992–94. From 1962 to 1965, the later Auxiliary Bishop Hans-Georg Koitz worked as a chaplain at the St. Elisabeth Church. Since September 1st 2010 the church belongs to the parish of St. Heinrich.
building
The neo-Romanesque church follows the proportions of a small early Romanesque basilica . The facade with blind arcades and pilaster strips is tripartite with a pronounced central axis. In front of the slightly set back portal is an entrance hall with three arched openings. The tower rises above the roof ridge by only one storey and has a flat roof.
The side aisles are narrow, and the transept is little more than a widened and raised continuation of the side aisles with apsidal closures in which the statues of Our Lady and St. Elisabeth of Thuringia , the namesake of the church.
The two choir - yokes have the width of the nave, but in turn consist of the sanctuary with the large central apse and two narrow aisles, its completion Mary Heart windows make two small apses with Sacred Heart and.
The painting of all wall surfaces with ornaments and pictures in the historicist taste of the late 19th century by Oskar Wichtendahl, who u. a. had also painted the Hanoverian Markuskirche. The Elisabeth legend is depicted under the upper clad windows. In the transept are the eight Beatitudes as guidelines for St. Elisabeth depicted. The center in the vault of the main apse forms a large picture of Our Lady with the child, in which Saints Elisabeth, Franz von Assisi , Vincent von Paul and Bernward von Hildesheim are included.
organ
The organ was built in 1981 by the Emil Hammer Orgelbau workshop in a neo-Romanesque organ case. The abrasive loading -instrument has 35 registers on two manuals and pedal , including a transmission from the swell in the pedal mechanism. The playing and stop actions are mechanical.
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- Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
See also
- List of architectural monuments in Hanover Zoo
- List of sacred buildings in Hanover
- List of churches in the Diocese of Hildesheim
- Elisabeth Church
literature
- Episcopal General Vicariate Hildesheim (ed.): Handbook of the Diocese of Hildesheim. Part 2 - Region Hannover , Hildesheim 1995, pp. 37-42
- Wolfgang Puschmann : St. Elisabethkirche , in: Hanover's churches. 140 churches in and around town . Edited by Wolfgang Puschmann. Hermannsburg: Ludwig-Harms-Haus 2005, pp. 12–15. ISBN 3-937301-35-6 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hermann Seeland: The churches in Hanover destroyed in World War II , in: Our diocese in past and present, p. 104. Hanover 1952.
- ↑ More information about the organ
Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 29 ″ N , 9 ° 45 ′ 14 ″ E