Holy Spirit (St. Wendel)

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Filial church Heilig Geist on the Tholeyer mountain

The Church of the Holy Spirit was a Roman Catholic branch church of the Trier diocese in St. Wendel in the Saarland . She belonged to the parish of St. Anna .

history

With the expansion of the city of St. Wendel after the Second World War with new settlements also on the Tholeyer Berg, the need for a church as a pastoral center on site grew strongly. The branch church Heilig Geist on Coburger Strasse on Tholeyer Berg was built between 1965 and 1967 according to the plans of the architect Hanns Schönecker and consecrated on December 10, 1967 by Auxiliary Bishop Carl Schmidt.

After the necessary renovation work on the building could no longer be carried out by the parish in the early 2000s, the decision was made to give up the branch church. The last divine service in the Holy Spirit took place on June 29, 2003, during which the church was profaned. In 2006 the church building was demolished. Today there are private houses on the property.

Building description

Exterior

The concrete tower, visible from afar, reached a height of 28 m and was free-standing to the side of the church building. The octagonal tower cage , divided into four segments, protruded from the upper third . The church building itself was designed in a simple, rectangular shape from the outside, with the end walls slightly sloping outwards.

Interior

The interior of the church offered 350 seats and reached a maximum height of 9 m in the gable.

Furnishing

Church inventory

The entire church inventory could be given to churches in the vicinity. The altar, ambo and tabernacle are now in the Catholic branch church of the Assumption of Mary in Bosen . The pews were given to the parish church of St. Marien in Grügelborn .

organ

The Weise organ in 2005 shortly before its dismantling.

The organ was located on the back wall of the church and was built in 1981 by the Lower Bavarian company Reinhard Weise from Plattling and is now unchanged in the Catholic parish church of St. Lambertus in Noviand on the Moselle. The instrument has 15 stops on two manuals and a pedal. The action mechanism is mechanical, the stop action is electrical. The arrangement of the organ is as follows:

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Principal 8th'
2. Wooden flute 8th'
3. octave 4 ′
4th Jubilee flute 2 ′
5. Mixture IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
II swell positive C – g 3
6th Wooden dacked 8th'
7th Coupling flute 4 ′
8th. Principal 2 ′
9. Quint 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
10. Sharp IV 1'
11. oboe 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
12. Sub bass 16 ′
13. Open bass 8th'
14th Choral bass 4 ′
15th Rauschpfeife II 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ + 2 ′

See also

Web links

Commons : Heilig Geist (St. Wendel)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Chronicle on the website of the parish of St. Anna
  2. ↑ a b newspaper report by PAULINUS on the profaning of the Holy Spirit
  3. ↑ Holy Spirit on Institut-Aktuelle-Kunst.de
  4. ^ Description of the church building on the basis of the photos from the linked PAULINUS article
  5. ↑ Information on the organ

Coordinates: 49 ° 27 '56.4 "  N , 7 ° 9' 33.7"  E