Sankt Elisabeth (Kassel)

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Saint Elisabeth

Sankt Elisabeth is a Roman Catholic church in Kassel , which belongs to the diocese of Fulda . The church building is on Kassel Friedrichsplatz .

history

Today's St. Elisabeth Church in Kassel was built in 1959/60 according to the plans of the Munich architect Armin Dietrich . The building replaced the Elizabeth Church built by Simon Louis du Ry in 1770–1777 , which was destroyed in World War II and demolished after the war. During the reconstruction of Kassel , the State Theater was built on its place , so that the new church had to move to the other side of Friedrichplatz. The church was consecrated on November 19 and 20, 1960 by the then Fulda Bishop Adolf Bolte .

Sankt Elisabeth belongs to the Kassel-Mitte Pastoral Association. The former parish merged into the large inner city parish of St. Elisabeth on January 1st, 2016.

Furnishing

Interior towards the altar
Modern sarcophagus of the landgrave

In the front wall of the building three representations in the style of rock crystals characterize the facade to the outside, in the interior the motif is recorded in the bronze tabernacle .

The cross above the altar table and the thirteen relief panels of Jesus' Way of the Cross on the concrete columns of the church were created by Alfred Schöpffe .

From the interior of the previous building five pictures by the Kassel court painter Johann Heinrich Tischbein the Elder were created. Ä. taken from his Passion and Ascension cycle, the other cycle pictures are in the Fulda Cathedral Museum . The hollow clay crosses come from the documenta artist Thomas Virnich , who created them in 2002 for the exhibition “Mensch-Himmelwärts” on the occasion of the “225 Years of Saint Elisabeth” anniversary: ​​wooden crosses were pressed into clay and then the clay was fired, the wood burned, the print remained.

The church space is also used for exhibitions.

The coffin of the Hessian Landgrave Friedrich II , who converted to Catholicism in 1749, stands on the staircase to the gallery . He was buried in the previous building in 1785 and later reburied.

organ

The first organ from 1965 came from the workshop of the organ builder family of Balthasar Conrad Euler . Today's instrument was built in 1964 by the organ building workshop Werner Bosch (Kassel) for the Martinskirche . Helmut Bornefeld designed the disposition and the scales . The organ has 57 sounding registers , which are distributed over three manuals and pedal . In 2015, it was implemented in the Sankt Elisabeth Church and equipped with a new typesetting system while retaining the original register tableau with the switches for the free combinations.

The Bosch Bornefeld organ has the following disposition:

I Rückpositiv C – c 4
01. Dumped 08th'
02. Quintad 08th'
03. Principal 04 ′
04th Flutdacked 04 ′
05. Rohrnasat 02 2 ⁄ 3  ′
06th Hollow flute 02 ′
07th Third note 01 3 ⁄ 5  ′
08th. Seven quarters 01 1 ⁄ 7  ′
09. Sharp V 01'
10. Balance III 02 ⁄ 9 ′
11. Dulcian 16 ′
12. Vox Humana 08th'
13. Brass shawming 04 ′
Tremulant
II main work C – c 4
14th Gedacktpommer 16 ′
15th Principal 08th'
16. Gemshorn 08th'
17th octave 04 ′
18th Night horn 04 ′
19th Fifth 02 2 ⁄ 3  ′
20th Italian principal 02 ′
21st Larigot 01 1 ⁄ 3  ′
22nd Rauschharp II 04 ′
23. Cornet III 02 2 ⁄ 3  ′
24. Mixture IV-VI 02 ′
25th Mixture IV 01'
26th Trumpet 16 ′
27. Spanish trumpet 08th'
28. Spanish trumpet 04 ′
Tremulant
III Swell C – c 4
29 Pipe pommer 08th'
30th Pointed 08th'
31. Principal 04 ′
32. Reed flute 04 ′
33. Sesquialter II 02 2 ⁄ 3  ′
34. Italian principal 02 ′
35. Gemshorn 02 ′
36. recorder 01'
37. Sif flute 01 1 ⁄ 3  ′
38. Overtones III 01 1 ⁄ 7  ′
39. Coarse mix VI – VIII 01 1 ⁄ 3  ′
40. Quintzimbel IV 01 ⁄ 3 ′
41. bassoon 16 ′
42. Hautbois 08th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – g 1
43. Principal 16 ′
44. Pedestal 16 ′
45. Bass zinc 10 2 ⁄ 3  ′
46. Octave bass 08th'
47. Covered bass 08th'
48. Back set IV 05 1 ⁄ 3  ′
49. Intoxication III 05 1 ⁄ 3  ′
50. Choral bass IV 04 ′
51. Pipe whistle 04 ′
52. Glöckleinton II 02 ′
53. Contrabassoon 32 ′
54. trombone 16 ′
55. Head trumpet 08th'
56. Clairon 04 ′
57. Cornett 02 ′
Tremulant
  1. ↑ + 8 ⁄ 9 ′.
  2. ↑ + 16 ⁄ 19 ′.
  3. ↑ + 6 2 ⁄ 5  ′.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g On a separate solo tray.

dOCUMENTA (13)

The sculpture in the tower of Sankt Elisabeth Kassel during dOCUMENTA (13)

In the run-up to dOCUMENTA (13) in 2012, there was a dispute between the artistic director Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev and the diocese of Fulda. At the same time as the documenta , the church organized an exhibition of works by the sculptor Stephan Balkenhol in Sankt Elisabeth, whereby a two-meter high sculpture of a male person was placed on a gold-plated ball in the church tower.

documenta managing director Bernd Leifeld explained that the figure was considerably disturbing because it dominated Friedrichsplatz in such a prominent place, directly opposite the Fridericianum . Christov-Bakargiev feels “threatened” by the work, which has nothing to do with dOCUMENTA (13), in which the representation of the human body is not supposed to play a special role. Balkenhol rejected a proposal by Christov-Bakargiev to postpone the exhibition to a point in time after the end of dOCUMENTA (13).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The big organ exchange ( Memento of the original from December 22nd, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , seen April 28, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / stadtsite.de
  2. ↑ More details about the Bosch organ , seen May 22, 2015.
  3. ↑ Timo Lindemann: documenta director feels “threatened” ( memento of the original from June 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: art - Das Kunstmagazin , May 9, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.art-magazin.de
  4. ↑ Adrienne Braun: Single-handed sailors versus tankers ( Memento of the original from July 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: art - Das Kunstmagazin , June 1, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.art-magazin.de

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Coordinates: 51 ° 18 ′ 48 ″  N , 9 ° 29 ′ 48 ″  E