Evangelical Church of Heiligenwald
The Evangelical Church in Heiligenwald is a church building in the Heiligenwald district of the Saarland community of Schiffweiler . It is a listed monument as a single monument.
history
With the growing workforce of the Itzenplitz and Reden pits, more and more miners settled in the surrounding villages in the second half of the 19th century, which grew by leaps and bounds. This also gave the once small parishes a larger increase. But the miners often had to walk a long way to attend a church service. In Heiligenwald, too, there was a call in the 1860s that a separate church should be created for the miners. From 1866 to 1868 the Prussian Mining Authority therefore had a simple prayer room built for the Evangelical Vicarie , which Evangelical and Roman Catholic Christians shared until the Catholics got their own church in 1887. In 1906 the church was transferred to the Protestant parish. In the same year, the building was given a tower on the narrow western side. In 1958/59 the interior was modernized, a gallery was built in and a glass window was installed on the rear wall of the choir. The Neunkirchen architect Rupprecht C. Walz took over the management. Around 1980 the external plaster was removed and the old condition restored. In 1992 the church received warm air heating, in 2013 the roof structure and roof were renewed.
architecture
The neo-Romanesque church is a seven-axis rectangular hall without an architecturally designed choir. In order to create the impression of a retracted rectangular choir, wooden structures were added to the left and right in the eastern corners. The flat hall is closed off by a slightly arched ceiling.
The original main entrance is in the central axis of the western long side. You enter the hall through a small anteroom. Since 1906, however, the church has been entered via the new portal in the tower on the west side. This was built later and overlaps two twin windows here. The church was built from ashlar. The building is structured by pilaster strips that mesh flush with the wall. Bracket and stair friezes delimit the building from the roof stop. The ocher-colored sandstone of the jewelry stands out in color from the red sandstone of the walls. The windows close in round arches.
Furnishing
The glass painter Ferdinand Selgrad created the five-part concrete glass window on the back wall of the chancel in 1958. It depicts the revelation of ( Rev 4,1-11 EU ) and was executed by the Parisian studio Jean Barillet.
literature
- Heinrich Otto Vogel: Protestant church building today . In: The Evangelical Church on the Saar. Yesterday and today . Church districts Ottweiler, Saarbrücken and Völklingen of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland, Saarbrücken 1975, pp. 352–357
- Hans Caspary, Wolfgang Götz, Ekkart Klinge (arrangement): Rhineland-Palatinate / Saarland . (= Georg Dehio (†): Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1984, p. 358
- Kristine Marschall: Sacred buildings of classicism and historicism in Saarland . Institute for regional studies in Saarland. Saarbrücken 2002, p. 246f
Web links
- Evangelical churches in Schiffweiler , Saar art dictionary
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of monuments in the district of Neunkirchen ( memento of the original from September 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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 Saarland, State Monument Authority, p. 24
Coordinates: 49 ° 21 '10.5 " N , 7 ° 5' 44.7" E