All Saints Church (Wadern)

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The Catholic Church of All Saints in Wadern
Another view of the church

The Church of All Saints is a Catholic parish church in the Saarland city ​​of Wadern , Merzig-Wadern district . It is dedicated to All Saints' Day . In the list of monuments of the Saarland, the church is a single monument listed.

history

The church was built in 1817 on the site of a dilapidated previous building. The tower of the previous church remained standing and was included in the new building.

During the Second World War, several bombs hit the church and caused serious damage.

In 1983 the church underwent a restoration . a. Concerned the roof , masonry and flat ceiling . The chancel was redesigned in 1994, for which the sculptor Theo Heiermann ( Cologne ) was responsible.

As part of an exterior renovation on the entire nave and tower in 2013, the church was given a new coat of paint, which was adapted to the original color scheme at the time of construction.

As part of an interior renovation in 2016, the church received a new interior painting

Architecture and equipment

Interior painting after the renovation in 2016
View to the organ gallery

The church building was erected as a rectangular hall with a three-sided choir closure and seven window axes with arched windows in the classical style. The tower, which has a pointed helmet , is in front of the nave in the south. The tower is structured by cornices and has a total of twelve pilasters in the uppermost part . Four of these pilasters are at the corners, while two more pilasters flank an arched window on each side. Below the section, which is structured with pilasters, there are small twin windows on the west and east sides of the tower with inserted columns , which are still part of the Romanesque building fabric. The tower portal is designed in the baroque style.

The church's furnishings include twelve large apostle figures that are placed on consoles in front of the wall templates. With the exception of the figure of the apostle Matthias, these are all made of limewood . These figures used to stand in the Benedictine Abbey of Mettlach and are probably made by a monk at the abbey. They were last restored in 1959.

In niches on the right side wall there are further statues: a figure of St. Laurentius and a figure of St. Sebastian , both of which date from the Baroque period.

Another piece of equipment is the altar cross , which has been attached to the front wall of the sanctuary since 1994 and previously hung above the altar. It is entwined with a stucco depiction of the tree of life with ornaments bearing the symbolism of the seven sacraments .

There is also a baptismal font from the Renaissance period and a baroque pieta in the church . Also noticeable in the church are the two chandeliers , which were re-attached after a long time. The candlesticks were partially restored in Georgia .

  • Church interior before renovation

organ

Organ prospectus
brochure

After the new nave was completed in 1817, there was still no organ in it. It was not until November 12, 1826, that the Wadern parish council submitted an application to the Trier bishop Joseph von Hommer with the request to be able to commission the construction of an organ. After the bishop had agreed to the proposal, a year later a new proposal was sent to the bishop, in which the organ builder Jean-Frédéric Verschneider ( Puttelange / Lorraine ) was asked to agree. This happened in October 1827. The space on the gallery originally intended for the installation of the organ could not be used at first, as part of the roof structure collapsed in July 1828 due to inadequate carpentry work . Since the organ had not yet been set up at this point, it remained undamaged. At the beginning of the 1830s, the organ is likely to have been in place. In 1869 the instrument had to undergo an initial repair , carried out by organ builder Johann Schaad ( Waldlaubersheim ). Up until this repair work, the Rückpositiv built into the gallery balustrade had an organ function, after that it was only a dummy . The pipes of the Rückpositiv were installed in the main work , which was moved 1.20 meters to the rear to create additional space on the gallery for the choir and organists . In addition, the bellows for the wind supply were moved into the tower, which created more space.

Another repair was necessary in 1887, for which organ builder Johann Josef Müller ( Niederehe ) was commissioned. This renewed the wind supply and built in a new fan , so that the air supply to the organ pipes could take place without interference. In 1909 an electric organ fan was installed, which replaced the organ fan that had been operated by human power up until then.

The organ building company Brandt und Sebald ( Trier ) carried out the next repair in 1935, during which the instrument was also supplemented with a few new registers .

On the afternoon of February 23, 1945, a bomb hit the church roof and exploded on the gallery, causing serious damage to the organ. After the roof had been repaired, a harmonium was installed in the church as a temporary measure, before the French organ building company Haerpfer & Erman ( Boulay ) built a new organ with 21 registers in 1950 . When the organ was built, the original late baroque case was restored and reused. The ceremonial inauguration of the Haerpfer organ took place on July 15, 1950. In December 1982 the church had to be closed because of the rotten roof and the roof had to be completely torn off, which resulted in the dismantling of the instrument. Instead of rebuilding the organ, Hugo Mayer ( Heusweiler ) was commissioned to build a new organ, which is currently in service.

The 1983-built slider chests -instrument has 24 stops on two manuals and pedal . The action mechanism is mechanical, the stop action is electric. The disposition is as follows:

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Bourdon 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Wooden flute 8th'
4th Salizional 8th'
5. octave 4 ′
6th Pointed flute 4 ′
7th Principal 2 ′
8th. Mixture IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
9. Trumpet 8th'
II Swell C – g 3
10. diapason 8th'
11. Harmony flute 8th'
12. Lovely covered 8th'
13. Reed flute 4 ′
14th Nazard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
15th Schwegel 2 ′
16. third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
17th Scharff III 1'
18th Cromorne 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
19th Sub-bass 16 ′
20th Octave bass 8th'
21st Covered bass 8th'
22nd Chorale bass 4 ′
23. Rauschpfeife III 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
24. bassoon 16 ′
  • Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
  • Playing aids : 2 free combinations, tutti, individual tongue storage

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 : All Saints Church  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the Saarland, partial list of monuments in the district of Merzig-Wadern ( Memento from May 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF)
  2. ↑ a b c d Information on the parish church of Allerheiligen Wadern at: www.kunstlexikonsaar.de, accessed on April 11, 2014
  3. ↑ a b c d e Ruth Wagner: Apostles in colorful robes - The Catholic parish church of All Saints in Wadern . In: Saarbrücker Zeitung , 22./23. March 2014.
  4. ↑ a b c d e Ebert, Friedrich: History about the organ of the parish church of Allerheiligen Wadern. On: pfarramt-wadern.de ( Memento from April 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Organ of the parish church of Allerheiligen Wadern On: www.organindex.de, accessed on April 11, 2014.

Coordinates: 49 ° 32 '19.9 "  N , 6 ° 53' 24.8"  E