St. Elizabeth's is named after a woman in Hungary, who was known in the 13th century for helping the ill and who died at the age of 24. The original chapel on the site was named after her a few years after her death.
This became the last Catholic church in a Protestant region once the Reformation took place, and the group needed a bigger building. Construction started in 1795 and lasted more than a decade, but it was open for business by 1803. One hundred years later, the church was officially finished.
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