Canisianum (Saarlouis)

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Chapel of the Canisianum before the exterior renovation (2011)

The Canisianum is a former branch of the Jesuits and is now the church of the St. Petrus Society in Saarlouis .

Location, surroundings and name

The Canisianum can be found on Stiftstrasse in Saarlouis, next to the St. Augustin nursing home. It is named after the Jesuit Petrus Canisius (1521–1597), who was canonized in 1925 .

History of the building

St. Petrus Canisius (Saarlouis), interior with a view of the apse
Wallerfangen Augustinian Monastery (Conventus Walderfingensis Ord. Erem. S. Augustini Provinciae Coloniensis), engraving by Johann Matthias Steidlin (also Steudlin), 1731, Today the Wallerfang parish church of St. Catherine is located on the site of the monastery church
Wallerfangen, St. Katharina Church, location of the former Augustinian monastery church
Former Augustinian monastery in Saarlouis around 1720, later college, then the site of the Canisianum; The path shown in front of the monastery is today's Augustinerstraße, the left lateral boundary of the monastery area next to the monastery church is today's Stiftsstraße, in the area of ​​the apse of the monastery church is now the Canisianum chapel
Johann Claudius von Lassaulx : Former hospital building on the site of the former Augustinian monastery in Saarlouiser Stiftstrasse

The history of the Canisianum goes back to 1691. A few years after the city was founded, Augustinian hermits from the Wallerfang convent, founded in 1306, settled in the new fortress. Here they built a church and monastery on the site of today's Canisianum. As a result of the French Revolution , the monastic community was dissolved in 1792. At the beginning of the 19th century, parts of the building were torn down. A new hospital was built here in Prussian times. The inauguration took place in September 1841. The inscription above the entrance "Hospice house, built in 1840" reminds of the purpose at that time. The Koblenz architect Johann Claudius von Lassaulx , who worked closely with Karl Friedrich Schinkel , created the design for the "Hospitienhaus" . The building is two-story and has a high pitched roof. The alternation of a frieze of wide triangles and narrower round arches visually divides the building into two areas. Today's chapel with the patronage of the Assumption of Mary was built in 1901 according to plans by Wilhelm Schmitz .

After the municipal hospital was moved, the Jesuit order bought the property in 1929 . A comprehensive restoration took place in 1979/80. As a result, the other parts of the building were also renovated. A part served the Jesuit fathers living there as living and working area, the rest consisted of offices and medical practice rooms.

In 2007 the Jesuits gave up the branch in Saarlouis and the church was profaned . The building became the property of the City of Saarlouis again, which sold the church and monastery buildings to an architect in 2010.

In 2010 he sold the church building to a funeral home who wanted to convert it into an urn burial place (columbarium) . The Old Catholic Church should be the sponsor because , according to the Saarland Funeral Act , only religious communities that are corporations under public law (KdöR) are allowed to set up cemeteries . The plans also envisaged the simultaneous use of the church by the Old Catholic community in Saarbrücken. The Saarbrücker Zeitung reported in May 2011 that the agreement required by the Saarland Funeral Act with the City of Saarlouis for the approval of a cemetery apparently could not be established at that time. Among other things, there was fear of an oversupply of grave sites. In May 2012 the Saarbrücker Zeitung reported that the project had been abandoned.

In 2012 the Society of St. Peter bought the vacant church building in order to celebrate Holy Mass there daily according to the Tridentine rite . The reopening and benediction of the church took place on June 10, 2012. In the same year, the Peter Brotherhood was also able to buy the former Jesuit house adjoining the church in order to set up a priestly apartment and community rooms there.

In 2014 the inside of the church of the Canisianum was cleaned and occasionally missing parts of the historic painting were replaced. From 2016, with the support of a specially founded association (Förderverein Canisianum Saarlouis e.V., founded in 2014) and the German Foundation for Monument Protection , the roof beams and the facade were renovated. The brotherhood had massive moisture damage with pest infestation in the roof construction, masonry and vault cracks as well as plaster chipping and often desolate windows repaired as part of a comprehensive roof and facade renovation. In a second construction phase, the reconstruction of the apse and the opening of the walled up blind windows were to take place. The German Foundation for Monument Protection (DSD) contributed an amount of 30,000 euros.

architecture

  • Renovation of the Saarlouis Canisianum (2017), view from the northwest

  • Renovation of the Saarlouis Canisianum (2017), view from the north-northeast

The Church of St. Petrus Canisius is a single-nave, neo-Romanesque building with a turret. The nave has three bays with a ribbed vault. This is followed by a drawn-in, short polygonal choir. The appearance of the interior is determined by the historicist painting from the time it was built.

literature

  • Jörg Schmitz: Life and work of the architect Wilhelm Peter Schmitz (1864-1944), cathedral builder, monument conservator, art writer and Lorraine curator, a Rhenish architect of late historicism (Aachen, Cologne, Trier, Metz), Volume 1: Biography and illustration, Volume 2 : Catalog raisonné, Tönning u. a. 2005.
  • Hans Jörg Schu: Article “History of the Canisianum”, in: Information sheet of the Priestly Society of St. Peter June 2012, p. 7.
  • Father André Hahn (FSSP): Article “We renovate”, in: Information sheet of the Priestly Society of St. Peter , April 2016, p. 3.

Web links

Commons : Canisianum (Saarlouis)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johannes Kistenich: Spiritual orders and public schools in the Rhineland 1250–1750 , in: The Rhineland as a school and educational landscape (1250–1750) , ed. by Andreas Rutz, Cologne 2010, pp. 119–151.
  2. ↑ Oranna Elisabeth Dimmig: Saarlouis Stadt und Stern / Sarrelouis - Ville et Étoile, translation into French: Anne-Marie Werner, ed. v. Roland Henz and Jo Enzweiler Saarbrücken 2011, p. 118.
  3. ↑ Jörg Schmitz: Life and work of the architect Wilhelm Peter Schmitz (1864–1944), cathedral builder, monument conservator, art writer and Lorraine conservator, a Rhenish architect of late historicism (Aachen, Cologne, Trier, Metz), Volume 1: Biography and illustration, p 313, Volume 2: Catalog raisonné, Tönning u. a. 2005.
  4. ↑ Saarland Law on Cemetery, Funeral and Corpses, Section 2 .
  5. ↑ Johannes Werres: A house of worship for the last rest ( Memento from February 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Saarbrücker Zeitung, November 8, 2010.
  6. ↑ Saarland Law on Cemetery, Funeral and Corpses, Section 4 .
  7. ↑ Johannes Werres: Does diversity make cemeteries more expensive? , Saarbrücker Zeitung, May 21, 2011.
  8. ↑ Johannes Werres: Daily masses in the old rite , Saarbrücker Zeitung, May 4, 2012.
  9. ↑ Information sheet of the Society of St. Peter June 2012, pp. 4-6.
  10. ^ Father André Hahn FSSP: Article "We renovate", in: Information sheet of the Priestly Society of St. Peter, April 2016, p. 3.
  11. ↑ https://www.denkmalschutz.de/presse/archiv/artikel/dsd-foerdert-die-kapelle-canisianum-in-saarlouis.html , accessed on August 22, 2017.

Coordinates: 49 ° 18 '56.1 "  N , 6 ° 45' 14.3"  E