Elisabethen Church
Elisabethenkirche, Elizabethenstrasse 10-14, Basel 4051
Phone: +41 (0)61 272 03 43 - Fax: +41 (0)61 272 04 01
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Located adjacent to the Basel Theatre, the Elisabethenkirche, built between 1857 and 1865, is Switzerland’s most important Neo-Gothic church; it is also the first entirely new Protestant church to be built in Basel after the Reformation. It was designed by Ferdinand Stadler (1813-70) and built under the direction of Christoph Riggenbach (1810-63) and Carl Wartner (1817-91); it replaced a chapel erected in 1516. The church was endowed by Christoph Merian (1800-56) and his wife Margaretha Merian-Burckhardt (1806-86).The roof gargoyles, gable relief, the pulpit and other sculptures are by Jacques-Ange Corbel and the stained glass windows by Heinrich and Christian Burkhardt.
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