St Elisabeth's Church is a Protestant church in Marburg in the Hessian district of Marburg-Biedenkopf. The three-nave hall church with a three-conch choir and western two-tower complex is considered to be the oldest purely Gothic church in Germany. It was built from 1235 at the foot of Marburg Castle Hill and consecrated in 1283. The Teutonic Order built it in honour of St. Elisabeth of Thuringia with significant support from the Landgraves of Thuringia. It was built over Elisabeth's tomb, making the church one of the most important pilgrimage sites in the West in the late Middle Ages. St Elisabeth's Church was modelled on French Gothic cathedrals and served as a model for several churches in Germany and abroad. Its furnishings are of supra-regional importance. The Elisabethkirche, also known colloquially as the E-Kirche, is now the parish church of the Evangelical Lutheran Elisabethkirche parish, which belongs to the Marburg church district in the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck in the Evangelical Church in Germany. The church building is a cultural monument.
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Germany
Netherlands
Germany
Germany
Netherlands
Germany
Netherlands
Germany
Germany
Germany
Germany
Netherlands