Aschbach Church
The Aschbachkirche (also Aschbacher Kirche and Eulenburg ) is the ruin of a church in the Saarbrücken district of Gersweiler . The remains of the building are listed as a historical monument.
history
The Aschbach farm was mentioned for the first time as early as 900, and in 1200 it passed into the possession of the Counts of Nassau-Saarbrücken . In 1312 the monastery of St. Arnual acquired the estate. The church was first mentioned at this time. At that time it was located next to the manor house of the farm near a brick factory and the hamlet of Aschbach. For a long time the church was the only church in the vicinity, so that the residents of Gersweiler and Ottenhausen also came to the church for services. At the beginning of the 17th century, Achbach was probably destroyed in a fire and abandoned. The bell from 1608 was moved to the new church in Gersweiler, and the Aschbachkirche was left to decay from then on.
In the Thirty Years' War gave Count Louis church cities Saarbrücken and St. Johann as a plague hospital . The building was rebuilt and expanded for this purpose in 1624, but destroyed in 1635 after the end of the plague epidemic. In 1666, Count Gustav von Nassau-Saarbrücken acquired the property and had a new farm built, which was now called "Ziegelhof" after the brick factory that had operated there for many centuries. The former church was converted into a manor house. In 1739 the community of Gersweiler bought the run-down farm. After the auction during the French Revolution, the farm was then privatized in 1813 as the Aschbacherhof. He survived several changes of ownership, but the land belonging to it was gradually sold.
In 1897 the community of Gersweiler-Ottenhausen acquired the property, which had been damaged in the war years of 1870/71 , and used it as a residential building. 1920–30 the courtyard was rebuilt according to plans by R. Blankenheim and expanded to the east. It was used as a residential building until 1957. In 1966 the community finally had the building demolished.
The ruins have been examined several times since then. It was last dug here in 1990.
architecture
The medieval hall church with retracted choir was built in the first half of the 12th century and changed in the 14th century. Little remains of the building. The walls were removed to a height of about 0.5 meters. The former entrance to the choir can be seen in the east wall. Large parts of the west wall with the entrance door and windows have also been preserved. The portal was spanned by a round arch and flanked by pilasters on short pedestals. At the beginning of the 1930s there was also a report in the literature of a pointed arch window in the north, which was faced with a nun's head in the arched field . A corner cuboid can also be seen on the quarry stone building.
literature
- Josef Baulig, Hans Mildenberger, Gabriele Scherer: Saarbrücken architecture guide. Historical association for the Saar region, Saarbrücken 1998, ISBN 3-921870-05-4 , p. 96
- Walter Zimmermann: The art monuments of the city and the district of Saarbrücken . Unchanged reprint of the original edition from 1932, Verein für Denkmalpflege im Saarland, Saarbrücken 1975, pp. 241f
Web links
- The Aschbachkirche , City of Saarbrücken
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sub-monument list of the LHS Saarbrücken ( Memento of the original from January 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , State monument list of the Saarland, Landesdenkmalamt Saar, 2013, p. 64
- ↑ Zimmermann (1975), p. 242
Coordinates: 49 ° 13 '30.3 " N , 6 ° 54' 50.3" E