Evangelical Church (Werschweiler)

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Evangelical Church Werschweiler
Inscription above the entrance portal
View of the interior
View to the organ gallery

The Evangelical Church Werschweiler is a sacred building in Werschweiler in the Saarland , a district of the district town of St. Wendel . Werschweiler is assigned to the parish Dörrenbach in the parish Saar Ost of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland . In the list of monuments of the Saarland, the church is a single monument listed.

History and architecture

The church was built between 1838 and 1842 and replaced a chapel in the same place. The foundation stone was laid on June 29, 1838. The construction work was mainly carried out by do-it-yourselfers from St. Wendel.

The church was built as a hall church in the classicism style. It is divided into a long house in the form of a rectangular hall and a square tower in the west with a pointed helmet . The side walls of the nave have three axes in the middle with arched windows and are structured by a horizontal, reddish cornice .

organ

The organ of the church was built in 1886 by the Oberlinger company ( Windesheim ). The Kegelladen instrument has 10 registers , divided between a manual and a pedal . The pitch is 441 Hz at 9 ° C. The playing and stop action is mechanical. The disposition is as follows:

I main work C – f 3
1. Principal 8th'
2. Hollow flute 8th'
3. Salicional 8th'
4th Octave 4 ′
5. flute 4 ′
6th Fifth 3 ′
7th Octave 2 ′
8th. mixture 2 ′
Pedal C – g 0
9. Sub bass 16 ′
10. Octavbass 8th'

Bells

The bell in the tower consists of two bells and is one of the few monument bells in Saarland that comes from two different casting epochs. The older of the two bells was cast by bell caster Otto von Speyer in 1415 and is one of three still preserved in the Ostertal area that came from this caster. It weighs 120 kg and has a diameter of 58 cm.
In 1838 the church in Werschweiler received two more historic bells, but they were melted down for war purposes during the First World War . In 1921, a bell belonging to the Protestant parish of Werlau near Sankt Goar was acquired, which was cast around 1900 by bell casting master Franz Schilling ( Apolda ). Both bells survived the Second World War without major damage and are still in use today.

No. volume Foundry, casting location Casting year inscription
1 a ′ Franz Schilling / Apolda 1900 CAST FOR THE GOSPEL. COMMUNITY WERLAU BY
FRANZ SCHILLING-APOLDA IN THUER. 1900 GLORY TO GOD ON THE HEIGHT
2 fis ′ ′ Otto von Speyer 1415 o.rex.glorie.xpe.veni.cvm.pace.

Web links

Commons : Evangelical Church  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Church districts of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland On: www.ekir.de, accessed on May 25, 2014
  2. ↑ Kirchenkreis Saar-Ost on: www.evangelisch-im-saarland.de, accessed on May 25, 2014
  3. ↑ List of monuments of the Saarland, sub-monuments list of the district of St. Wendel ( Memento of the original from April 8, 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. (PDF), accessed on May 25, 2014  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.saarland.de
  4. ↑ Heimatbuch des Kreis St. Wendel, 1st edition 1948 (PDF) at: www.landkreis-st-wendel.de, accessed on March 1, 2016.
  5. ^ The organ of the Evangelical Church in Werschweiler at: www.organindex.de, accessed on May 25, 2014
  6. ↑ Description of Turbofreak89 on: www.youtube.com, accessed on May 25, 2014

Coordinates: 49 ° 27 ′ 2.5 ″  N , 7 ° 13 ′ 52.5 ″  E