St. Elisabeth (Saarbrücken-St. Johann)

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View of the altar and the Klais organ

The St. Elisabeth Church is a Roman Catholic branch and youth church of the Trier diocese in Saarbrücken . It is located on Hellwigstrasse in the St. Johann an der Saar district . Patronium Day is the church day of remembrance of Elisabeth of Thuringia on November 19th.

history

The Elisabeth Church in the Saarbrücken district of St. Johann an der Saar continues the patronage of the Catholic Commander St. Elisabeth of the Teutonic Order in Old Saarbrücken (formerly Malstatter district) as well as that of the Metz St. Elisabeth Commander. While the story of the Metzer St. Elisabeth-Kommende came to an end in 1552, the possessions of the Teutonic Order in the Saarbrücker St. Elisabeth-Kommende remained untouched as a direct imperial institution, although the county of Saarbrücken in 1575 due to the order of Count Philipp III . from Nassau-Saarbrücken had become Protestant . The in the year 1227 by Count Simons III. Saarbrücker St. Elisabeth-Kommende, donated by Saarbrücken, was only dissolved in 1793 in the course of the anti-religious turmoil of the French Revolution .

The plans for the construction of a new St. Elisabeth church for the eastern part of the then large parish of St. Johann go back to the time before the Second World War . Between 1931 and 1937, a riding hall in the former Uhlan barracks served as an emergency church. Not quite two years after the Saar area was re- annexed to the German Reich in 1935 , in 1937, the police authorities of the new Nazi rulers claimed the former riding hall used by the parish. In disregard of the agreements made with the government commission of the Saar region , the Catholics were disputed the right to continue using the church service room, which had been set up at great expense. Financial compensation for the investments made was refused by the Nazi authorities. So the church had to look around for an alternative.

The first part of what would later become the church site on Halbergstrasse was acquired in 1936. Due to the Second World War and its consequences, the church was not built until the early 1950s as the tenth subsidiary of the parish of St. Johann. The architect of today's St. Elisabeth Church, whose floor plan with a large nave and two projecting side aisles is modeled on the contours of the sacred skirt , was the representative of the Episcopal Building Commission of the Diocese of Trier Fritz Thoma (1901–1977). The construction of today's St. Elisabeth Church began on June 28, 1953 with the laying of the foundation stone and was completed with the consecration on September 19, 1954. Initially, the church was a parish vicarie of the central parish of St. Johann . A few years later, in November 1960, he was raised to his own parish.

Since 2005 St. Elisabeth is again a branch church of St. Johann and since 2007 also home to the youth church eli.ja.

Building description

St. Elisabeth was designed by the Trier architect Fritz Thoma. The cross-shaped floor plan of the reinforced concrete church is characterized by the large width of the central nave and an expansive transept. The church is east . To the west of the church is a free-standing hexagonal campanile . Above the crossing, the ceiling is significantly raised to allow plenty of light into the room through surrounding windows. The church has a crypt , is lit by large windows and has 600 seats. The window glazing was designed in 1954 by the painter Reinhard Heß , the production was carried out by the Trier glass manufacturer Kaschenbach. The tower cross, which fell in a storm in 2013 and was damaged, was recovered and is currently hanging in the apse as an altar cross from the ceiling in a deliberately unrestored condition. Since then, a new tower cross has adorned the campanile.

The design of the outside area of ​​the church is inspired by the ancient idea of ​​the Holy Grove or the Garden of Eden and is now also used as a kitchen garden. Since 2007, the sacred building has also been used as the so-called “Church of Youth”.

organ

Main work and positive of the Klais organ
Pedals and swell of the Klais organ
Gaming table

The St. Elisabeth Church has an organ made by Johannes Klais ( Bonn ), which was built in 1960. It is located in a prominent position in the church interior, divided into two parts behind the altar on two raised platforms on the side. The gaming table is set up at ground level behind the altar and is mobile. In the top view, the pedal mechanism is on the left and the swell mechanism behind it. Opposite to the right is the main plant and behind it the positive. The manual works have electric wind chests, the pedal electropneumatic cone chests. The instrument has 35 registers, distributed over three manuals and a pedal. In 1979 the Klais organ building company installed a tremulant for the positive. Octave couplings followed in 1995 by Werner Rohe from Eschringen .

I Positive C – a 3
1. Dumped 8th'
2. Venetian flute 4 ′
3. Principal 2 ′
4th third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
5. Sifflet 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
6th Cymbel IV
7th Krummhorn 8th'
tremolo
II main work C – a 3
8th. Quintadena 16 ′
9. Principal 8th'
10. Reed flute 8th'
11. octave 4 ′
12. Singing dumped 4 ′
13. Pointed fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
14th Super octave 2 ′
15th Mixture V
16. Trumpet 8th'
III Swell C – a 3
17th Wooden flute 8th'
18th Salicional 8th'
19th Principal 4 ′
20th recorder 4 ′
21st Hollow flute 2 ′
22nd Sesquialter II 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
23. Scharff IV
24. Schalmey oboe 8th'
25th Head trumpet 4 ′
tremolo
Pedal C – g 1
26th Principal 16 ′
27. Sub bass 16 ′
Quintadena 16 ′
28. Octave bass 8th'
29 Tube bare 8th'
30th Choral bass 4 ′
31. Night horn 2 ′
32. Pedal mixture IV
33. trombone 16 ′
34. Trumpet 8th'
  • Pairing :
    • Normal coupling: I / II, III / I, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P
    • Sub-octave coupling (1995): III / I, III / II, III / III
  • Playing aids : 2 free combinations, 1 free pedal combination, tutti, crescendo roller, roller off, individual tongue storage
Annotation:
  1. ↑ Transmission from No. 8

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Saarbrücker Regesten Online 1227 . Latin text in: Mittelrheinisches Urkundenbuch, Volume III, Koblenz 1874, pp. 268 f., No. 334. Online .
  2. ↑ a b Detailed chronicle of the parish of St. Elisabeth
  3. ^ Walter Faas: Modern Church - especially for the youth, Saarbrücker Zeitung, SZ-Extra Momente, E 1, 23./24. June 2018.
  4. ↑ Paul Peters: From the emergency church to the modern sacred building, in: Festschrift "40 Years of St. Elisabeth", Saarbrücken 1994, pp. 8-16.
  5. ↑ http://www.pfarrei-st-johann.de/st-elisabeth.html , accessed on January 1, 2018.
  6. ↑ http://institut-aktuelle-kunst.de/kunstlexikon/saarbruecken- Bezirk- mitte- st- arnual- st- johann-universitaetscampus-katholische-kirchen- 1866 , accessed on January 1, 2018.
  7. ^ Description of the Klais organ

Coordinates: 49 ° 13 '53.7 "  N , 7 ° 0' 46.1"  E