St. Elisabeth (Munich)

This article covers the Elisabethspitalkirche in Munich , Mathildenstrasse . See also: Herzogspitalkirche St. Elisabeth (Munich), Herzogspitalstrasse .

The Elisabeth Church in Munich's clinic district

The Catholic Church of St. Elisabeth in Munich served as the Elisabethinen hospital church and was built in the late Rococo period . It belongs to the parish of St. Peter .

location

inner space

St. Elisabeth is located in Ludwigsvorstadt at Mathildenstrasse 10. Today, the eye clinic of the Ludwig Maximilians University is located around the church .

history

High altar

In 1754, the former Empress Maria Amalia founded a religious house with a hospital for the Elisabethines, who settled in Munich on her initiative. This first modern hospital in Munich, which no longer saw itself as an infirmary, was dedicated to nursing and training lay helpers. The monastery dedicated to the Holy Five Wounds was dissolved in 1809. The monastery buildings were demolished and the polyclinic was built in their place in 1907/10. From 1823 the church was used by the Hlg. Geist Hospital and, after its relocation at the beginning of the 20th century, by the eye and polyclinic as a hospital church.

architecture

Orthodox pieces of equipment

The construction of the church was probably started in 1758 by the Bavarian court mason Leonhard Matthäus Giessl (1707–1785), although the assumption that it was built according to plans by Johann Michael Fischer is no longer valid today. The church was built in the late Rococo and shows early classical influences. The floor plan shows a rectangular main room, to which the transverse rectangular entrance room adjoins in the east and the similar chancel in the west. Only in 1790 was St. Elisabeth completed by Franz Kirchgrabner with the completion of the facade decorated with double pilasters.

During the Second World War , the church was badly damaged and then simply restored by Erwin Schleich . The high altar by Joseph Heringer (1776) based on a design by Ignaz Günther was reconstructed in a simplified manner in 1947, as his sculptures could be recovered from the rubble, as was the pulpit. The remaining two altars and the stucco as well as the painting by Matthäus Günther were no longer reconstructed. The church was last renovated in 2007.

organ

The St. Elisabeth organ was built around 1964 by the Munich organ builder Carl Schuster. The slider chest instrument with mechanical play and stop action has 12 stops. The disposition is:

I Hauptwerk C – g 3 Gedacktpommer 8th' Principal 4 ' Forest flute 2 ' Mixture III 1'

II Positive C-g 3 Silent 8th' Reed flute 4 ' Minor principal 2 '  Siffflute fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ' Zimbel II 1 ⁄ 3 '

Pedal Cd 1 Sub bass 16 ' Violon octave 8th' Dolkanpiffaro II 4 '

• Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P

Web links

Commons : St. Elisabeth (Munich)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• History of the Eye Clinic, St. Elisabeth
• St. Elisabeth, facade

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Information about the organ on organ index

Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 5.5 ″  N , 11 ° 33 ′ 47.5 ″  E