All Saints Church (Sulzbach / Saar)

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The parish church of All Saints in Sulzbach / Saar

The Church of All Saints is a Catholic parish church in the Saarland city ​​of Sulzbach , Saarbrücken regional association . It is dedicated to All Saints' Day . In the list of monuments of the Saarland, the church is a single monument listed.

history

In 1576, with the introduction of the Reformation in the county of Saarbrücken, the Catholic parish Sulzbach was dissolved.

In the 18th century the few Catholics belonged to the parish of Saarbrücken , after the French Revolution to St. Ingbert , then again to Saarbrücken and finally to Dudweiler . Together with Altenwald and Hühnerfeld , a parish vicarie was formed in 1868 and in 1885 Sulzbach became an independent parish again after its own church building, the Church of St. Joseph , had been built in Sulzbach from 1871 to 1872 . Due to mining damage to St. Joseph , planning of a new building according to plans by Peter Marx ( Trier ) began in 1892 , but due to the First World War and inflation, it could only be started in 1927. On 20 October 1929, the completed church was inaugurated by the then on July 28, 1930 Trier Bishop Franz Rudolf Bornewasser consecrated . During the consecration, relics of Pope Sixtus I and a martyr from Trier were walled up in the high altar .

Between 1989 and 1997 the church was restored . During the same period, renovations took place, which affected the altar island. In addition, the existing Marienkapelle was redesigned into a separate liturgical room (“weekday church”).

A fire in the church in 1996 made another restoration necessary.

The exterior of the church

Church and rectory (right)
West facade

The exterior of the church is dominated by a mighty bell tower , which was erected above the rectangular choir and, together with the Marienkapelle attached to the north and the rectory to the south, forms a monumental east facade and an impressive face. The west facade with three entrance portals is completely structured by three large arched niches . The block-like facade is completed over a strongly stepped cornice with a very low floor on which a small tower sits. The brick masonry , which was left raw, is also noticeable on the exterior .

The inside of the church

View inside the church

The interior of the church is subdivided into a wide central nave above which a cross-ribbed barrel vault rises, which merges into a flat ceiling towards the outer walls, and into two narrower and lower aisles . The aisles are separated from the central nave by arcades . Adjacent to the central nave is a rectangular choir room which , viewed from the nave , rises like a stage and has a complex spatial structure of three-sided galleries .

The church windows , which underwent restoration in 1996–97, date from the time the church was built in 1927–29 and show 22 depictions of saints from many epochs with the name given . In the chancel there is a multi-tiered, richly designed high altar with a cross throne. A way of the cross is attached to the pillars of the arcades of the side aisles . The high altar and the Way of the Cross were restored in 1996–97.

organ

Organ loft

The organ of the church was built in 1958 by Hugo Mayer Orgelbau ( Heusweiler ) and has 43 registers and 1 transmission on three manuals and pedal . The cone shop instrument is set up on a gallery . The game and stop action is electro-pneumatic. The disposition is as follows:

I main work
1. Bourdon 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Gemshorn 8th'
4th Wooden flute 8th'
5. Octave 4 ′
6th Reed flute 4 ′
7th Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
8th. Schwegel 2 ′
9. Mixture V 2 ′
10. Bombard 16 ′
11. Trumpet 8th'
II upper structure
12. Dumped 8th'
13. Quintatön 8th'
14th Prefix 4 ′
15th recorder 4 ′
16. Principal 2 ′
17th Terzian II
18th Scharff IV
19th Krummhorn 8th'
20th shelf 4 ′
Tremulant
III swell
21st Dumped 16 ′
22nd Principal 8th'
23. Reed flute 8th'
24. Salicional 8th'
25th Principal 4 ′
26th Night horn 4 ′
27. Pointed flute 4 ′
28. Forest flute 2 ′
29 Sifflute 1'
30th Sesquialter II
31. Cymbel IV
32. Dulcian 16 ′
33. Schalmey 8th'
34. Klarion 4 ′
Tremulant
pedal
35. Principal 16 ′
36. Sub bass 16 ′
Gedacktbass (No. 21) 16 ′
37. Octave bass 8th'
38. Dacked bass 8th'
39. Choral bass 4 ′
40. Peasant flute 2 ′
41. Back set IV
42. trombone 16 ′
43. Trumpet 8th'
  • Coupling : II / I, III / I, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P
  • Playing aids : setting system for saving 64 register combinations, sill for 3rd manual

literature

  • Marschall, Kristine: Sacred buildings of classicism and historicism in Saarland . Institute for Regional Studies in Saarland, Saarbrücken 2002, ISBN 978-3-923877-40-9 , p. 666 .

Web links

Commons : Allerheiligenkirche (Sulzbach / Saar)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the Saarland, partial list of monuments Regional Association Saarbrücken (PDF; 9.74 MB), accessed on August 31, 2012
  2. ↑ a b c The Catholic parish church On: stadt-sulzbach.de ( Memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  3. ↑ a b Information on the parish church of All Saints at: www.kunstlexikonsaar.de, accessed on August 31, 2012
  4. ↑ Information on the organ of the cath. All Saints Church in Sulzbach on Organindex.de, accessed on April 5, 2014

Coordinates: 49 ° 17  '56.7 " N , 7 ° 3' 29.7"  E