St. Francis and St. Elisabeth (Hall)
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St. Franziskus und St. Elisabeth is the Catholic provost church in the southern inner city district, Mitte district, of Halle (Saale) . It was built from 1894 to 1896 according to plans by the architect Arnold Güldenpfennig as a brick building in the neo-Gothic style and is recorded in the monument register of the city of Halle under registration number 094 04870.
history
After the last Catholic priests left Halle in 1564 as a result of the Reformation , the first Catholics to return were students from the university founded in 1694 as well as soldiers and their families from the Anhalt Regiment, which was relocated to Halle in 1717. Prince Leopold I of Anhalt-Dessau decreed that from 1723 Catholic services could be held in public. By decree of Frederick II of June 11, 1755, the so-called “picture hall” of the New Residence was given to the Catholics as a church. On January 1, 1808, the Catholic community was elevated to a parish and four years later the chapel of the New Residence was elevated to the parish church of St. Jerome.
With further influx of Catholics from the middle of the 19th century, the number of members increased significantly and made it necessary to build a new Catholic church. In 1883, a plot of land on Mauergasse (today Mauerstraße) between St. Georgen Church and the Francke Foundations was acquired. Due to the culture war between the Prussian state and the Roman Catholic Church (1871-1887), the start of construction was delayed by ten years. The foundation stone was finally laid on May 24, 1894.
The new building was designed by Arnold Güldenpfennig, who, as the diocesan and cathedral master builder of the Diocese of Paderborn , to which Halle belonged at the time, built numerous churches. On 20 May 1896, was the consecration of the church by Bishop Hubert Theophilus Simar completed. For the patron saint was Francis of Assisi and Elizabeth of Hungary selected. On November 15, 1942, she was appointed provost church.
Due to war damage, the church had to be extensively renovated in the 1950s and 1960s, with part of the neo-Gothic furnishings being lost.
Architecture and equipment
Güldenpfennig designed the church as a three-aisled cruciform pillar basilica with a transept and a high tower that characterizes the cityscape and stands asymmetrically at the northeast corner of the nave .
The location of the church was originally chosen very effectively on the new promenade laid out in 1847, which was created when the city fortifications were laid down. The four-lane elevated road that runs directly in front of the church today has a significant impact on the appearance of the church.
The interior is characterized by glare triforias in the nave and a hall-like elevation of the side chapels in the area of the choir . The vaults were repainted in 1964 by the Halle painter Fritz Leweke (1901–2001).
The high altar, a carved and polychromed winged altar, was created by Wiedenbrück artists based on Gothic models. There is a Marien altar in the eastern side choir and a Joseph altar in the western side choir .
The original three windows in the chancel were badly damaged in the Second World War and were redesigned by the Quedlinburg glass workshop Ferdinand Müller from 1949 to 1951 based on designs by the Magdeburg painter Walter Schneider. The 14 Stations of the Cross on the side walls were created in 1965 by the artist Bernhard Langer from Stolberg .
In 1922, a memorial designed by the architect Otto Glaw for the fallen soldiers of the First World War was inaugurated in the tower vestibule with an expressionist Pietà , which is said to come from the Halle sculptor Richard Horn , but is assigned to his father Paul Horn in another source .
organ
The organ was built in 1975 by the organ building workshop A. Schuster & Sohn (Zittau) as a two manual instrument. It was extensively reorganized and restored in 2008–2009, with a third manual (breastwork, swellable) being formed from the existing pipe inventory, which was equipped with an additional crumhorn . Corresponding coupling points were added in the course of the reorganization . In addition, the main plant was equipped with a tremulant , the sub-octave coupling was added and a setting system was installed. Today the instrument has 41 registers . The Spieltrakturen are mechanically, the Registertrakturen electrically.
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- Coupling II / I, II 16 '/ I, III / I, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P
Bells
In the tower of St. Francis and St. Elisabeth hang four bronze - bells from the renowned bell foundry Otto in Hemelingen near Bremen. In 1930 the foundry delivered four bronze bells with a total weight of 2,816 kg and a dis-fis-gis strike tone series. Two of the bells (dis -gis) were confiscated and melted down during the Second World War , only the F sharp bell survived the war.
| No. | Surname | Casting year | Foundry, casting location | Diameter (mm) |
Weight (kg) |
Nominal |
| 1 | Mauritius | 1962 | ( F. Otto , Bremen-Hemelingen) | 1500 | 2071 | cis 1 |
| 2 | Liborius | 1962 | (F. Otto, Bremen-Hemelingen) | 1245 | 1189 | e 1 |
| 3 | Elisabeth | 1930 | Ernst Karl Otto, Bremen-Hemelingen | 1090 | 800 | f sharp 1 |
| 4th | Francis | 1962 | (F. Otto, Bremen-Hemelingen) | 920 | 459 | a 1 |
literature
- State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Saxony-Anhalt (Ed.): List of monuments Saxony-Anhalt / City of Halle. Fly Head Publishing, Halle 1996, ISBN 3-910147-62-3 , p. 320.
- Holger Brülls, Thomas Dietzsch: Architectural Guide Halle on the Saale. Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-496-01202-1 . P. 162.
- Peggy Grötschel, Matthias Behne: The churches in the city of Halle. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 2006, ISBN 3-89812-352-9 , pp. 74-77.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Otto Brattskoven : Horn, Paul . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 17 : Heubel – Hubard . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1924, p. 514 .
- ↑ Information on the organ of the Provost Church
- ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto bells. Family and company history of the Otto bell foundry dynasty . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, here in particular p. 70 f., p. 535, p. 558 .
- ^ Gerhard Reinhold: church bells. Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen 2019, p. 556, here in particular p. 495, p. 513 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).
Coordinates: 51 ° 28 ′ 41.7 ″ N , 11 ° 58 ′ 1.3 ″ E